(Išleidimo metai: 25-Sep-2014, Leidėjas: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780198077442)
This book presents an interpretative ecological history of the Indian subcontinent. Using a general theory of ecological history, the authors provide a fresh interpretation of Indias history, including an ecological account of the caste system and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Sep-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199919802)
Susan B. Levin argues that Platos engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognized and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. Levin shows further that Platos work, particularly the Laws, holds...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 24-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198716044)
Science and religious faith are two of the most important and influential forces in human life, yet there is widespread confusion about how, or indeed whether, they link together. This book describes this combination from the perspective of one who...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198713302)
Only by classifying things into kinds can we gain knowledge beyond memory and perception. Eric Funkhouser uncovers a logical structure that is common to many, if not all, classificatory systems, given by the determination dimensions of kinds. His ac...Daugiau...
Serija: Financial Management Association Survey & Synthesis Series
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199998166)
Valuation of mortgage-backed securities requires blending empirical analysis of borrower behavior and mathematical modeling of interest rates and home prices, with recognition of various prices of risk and uncertainty. This book offers a detailed de...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jul-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199656066)
A team of experts explore the ethics of making families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. They examine the moral choices involved, and the social norms that can distort decision-making, such as the norm in favour of having b...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198712695)
Hud Hudson shows that apparently irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion often turn out to be misdescribed battles about negotiable philosophical assumptions. He defends an original Hypertime Hypothesis which reconciles the Christian d...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199337095)
This is the first volume of original commissioned papers on the subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a leading team of both established and younger international scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newtons relations...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198712237)
Visual control of our actions can be unconscious as well as conscious. The book explores unconscious and conscious vision, investigated using psychophysical and brain-recording methods. The book sheds new light on and advances experimental, philosop...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199657148)
This book provides a synthesis of the latest theoretical and empirical research on the evolution of sex determination mechanisms, the first for 30 years....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jun-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199661992)
The book describes how society is being shaped by the diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work. It introduces students and those interested in the factors shaping the Internet and its impact on society to a core...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199602605)
The book focuses on molecular evolution and phylogenetics, dealing with the statistical methods of data analysis implemented in commonly-used computer software....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198705413)
This book describes the theory of thermoelectric effects, both from a practical and a fundamental perspective, and presents many examples of applications of the theory to real materials....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198712886)
This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes geometric construction of the world, and finishing with recent derivations of quantum mechanics from natural axioms....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199564668)
Vision science has grown hugely in the past decades, but there have been few books showing readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain. This book explains the comp...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199652822)
Brian Skyrms applies adaptive dynamics (of cultural evolution and individual learning) to social theory, investigating altruism, spite, fairness, trust, division of labor, and signaling. Correlation is seen to be fundamental. Spontaneous emergence o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199671427)
This volume explores the foundations of ontogeny by asking how the development of living things should be understood. It explores key concepts of developmental biology, asks whether general principles of development can be discovered, and what the r...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199671441)
This book describes the natural history of leaf defence against both invertebrate and vertebrate attack, incorporating insights from the field and laboratory....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199665488)
This book discusses theoretical and practical aspects for generating and manipulating laser radiation. The second edition includes a new complete chapter on fiber lasers, as well as new coverage of mode locked fiber lasers, comb generation in a micr...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-May-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199681730)
First volume in a series designed to give a comprehensive and coherent description of Fluid Dynamics. Part 1 starts with chapters on classical theory suitable for an introductory undergraduate lecture course....Daugiau...