Chandra: A Biography of S.Chandrasekhar by Kameshwar C. Wali

Sea Legs: Tales Of A Woman Oceanographer

Sea Legs is the tale of Kathleen Crane, one of many first ladies oceanographers out of UCSD's world-renowned Scripps establishment of Oceanography. by means of turns autobiographical and goal, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the ocean and her learn of deep-sea underwater volcanoes. due to the trouble of operating within the U.

The Black Digital Elite: African American Leaders of the Information Revolution

So much discussions of the electronic divide specialise in the space among African americans and others by way of utilizing, and making the most of, the technological and enterprise possibilities of the data age. even if many African american citizens are locked out of the knowledge revolution, others are an essential component of its improvement and growth.

A word for nature: four pioneering environmental advocates, 1845-1913

The careers and concepts of 4 figures of huge value within the background of yankee conservation—George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell—are explored in A note for Nature. Robert Dorman bargains energetic pix of every of those early environmental advocates, who witnessed firsthand the effect of financial enlargement and commercial revolution on fragile landscapes from the forests of latest England to the mountains of the West.

Game Theory: Lectures for Economists and Systems Scientists

This e-book, translated following a advice from prime online game
theorists within the usa, relies on lectures given by way of the writer to
economics scholars on the college of Leningrad. Formal mathe-
matical necessities are just easy linear algebra and research;
the booklet presents the scholar with a comparatively uncomplicated introductory textual content
which includes the fundamental mathematical equipment used in the idea
of video games. sensible examples, lots of them from economics, serve
mainly as an interpretation of the mathematical foundations of the
theory instead of as a sign of its real or power applicability.
This smooth textual content fills a niche within the present textbook literature on online game
theory.

An appendix to the interpretation of the Russian unique incorporates a col-
lection of chosen difficulties and a bibliography either one of that have been
prepared via the translator.