Product Description: For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the population-3.3 billion people-is now living in cities. City is the ultimate guidebook to our urban centers-the signature unit of human civilization. With erudite prose and carefully chosen illustrations, this unique work of metatourism explores what cities are and how they work...read more

Product Description: Tales of mystery and imagination exploring the intricacies of relationships both strange and unexpected. Bizarre and intriguing. Set in nine different locales around the world.

An illuminating portrait of an American icon shines light on the life and career of Albert Einstein, an unlikely revolutionary who changed science, mathematics, cosmology, and astronomy forever while managing, despite his aversion to such things, to become an internationally recognized example of the possiblities of the human intellect.

Product Description: Although the analysis of scattering for closed bodies of simple geometric shape is well developed, structures with edges, cavities, or inclusions have seemed, until now, intractable to analytical methods. This two-volume set describes a breakthrough in analytical techniques for accurately determining diffraction from classes of canonical scatterers with comprising edges and other complex cavity features...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: These conference proceedings include papers by a number of experts with a common interest in differential equations and their application in physical and biological systems. Topics covered include direct and inverse electromagnetic scattering techniques, spatial epidemic models, wound healing, chemotaxis and reaction-diffusion equations, dynamics and stability of thin liquid films, and a contemporary formulation of symmetric linear differential equations...read more

Product Description: This book brings together, in a concise format, the key elements of the loads produced from explosive sources, and how they interact with structures. Explosive sources include gas, high explosives, dust and nuclear materials.It presents quantitative information and design methods in a useable form without recourse to extensive mathematical analysis...read more