The Moon exerted a potent influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination, (PDF) studies the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with an exclusive focus on those accounts of the Moon,
Immunology has surfaced as a key component of the curricula of graduate and postgraduate courses in biotechnology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, microbiology, and other interdisciplinary fields of biology, including veterinary science, zoology, and medicine. As a basic introductory textbook on one of the fastest-moving and most challenging spheres of immunological science, Immunology,
Aesthetic rejuvenation now includes so many subjects that practitioners in one area may feel out of touch with developments in other areas in the same field. With more than 70 chapters, more than 1200 figures (many in full color), more than 80 tables, and more than 20 videos, from an
Taylor’s Power Law: Order and Pattern in Nature (PDF) is a broad synthesis of this ubiquitous property of natural and man-made phenomena. This stimulating and approachable work surveys the non-biological and biological empirical data describes the statistical uses of Taylor’s power law (TPL) and its relationship to statistical distributions, exposes
The diversity, complexity, and random nature of transportation problems necessitates a broad analytical toolbox. Describing tools commonly used in the field, Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis 2nd Edition (PDF) provides an understanding of a broad range of analytical tools required to solve problems of transportation. It includes