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  • Geological Line Selection for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Engineering

    by Wenwu Chen, Jincheng Li, Zhengping Liu ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the second phase of the Qinghai–Tibetan railway construction project and is the first technological book discussing the geological routing of the Qinghai–Tibetan railway project on the “roof of the world.” Based on practical experience of railway construction work, it provides a substantial number of examples with detailed descriptions and conclusions. The complex geological ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Distributed Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems

    by Wenwu Yu, Guanghui Wen, Guanrong Chen, Jinde Cao ...
    A detailed and systematic introduction to the distributed cooperative control of multi-agent systems from a theoretical, network perspectiveFeatures detailed analysis and discussions on the distributed cooperative control and dynamics of multi-agent systemsCovers comprehensively first order, second order and higher order systems, swarming and flocking behaviorsProvides a broad theoretical ... Read more

    $122.00 USD

  • Complex Systems and Networks

    Dynamics, Controls and Applications

    Edited by Xinghuo Yu, Guanrong Chen, Wenwu Yu, Jinhu Lü ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This elementary book provides some state-of-the-art research results on broad disciplinary sciences on complex networks. It presents an in-depth study with detailed description of dynamics, controls and applications of complex networks. The contents of this book can be summarized as follows. First, the dynamics of complex networks, for example, the cluster dynamic analysis by using kernel spectral ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering - Vol. 3

    Edited by Santo Banerjee, Lamberto Rondoni ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics. The highly generic, interdisciplinary quality of the insights gained in the last few decades has spawned myriad applications in almost all branches of science and technology—and even well beyond. Wherever quantitative modeling and analysis of complex, nonlinear phenomena ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    by Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Simplexity

    Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)

    by Jeffrey Kluger ...
    Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible?Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's?How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the world's disease?Why do bad teams win so many games?Complexity, as any scientist will tell you, is a slippery idea. Things that seem complicated can be astoundingly simple; things that seem simple can be dizzyingly complex. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Book of Extremes

    Why the 21st Century Isn’t Like the 20th Century

    by Ted G. Lewis ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency and severity. Book of Extremes is a tour of the current reality as seen through the lens of complexity theory – the only theory capable of explaining why the Arab Spring happened and why it will happen ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Revolutions that Made the Earth

    by Tim Lenton, Andrew Watson ...
    The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in complexity, energy utilization, and information processing by life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Crude Look at the Whole

    The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society

    by John H. Miller ...
    A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challengesImagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably learn a lot about each piece, you would have no idea about what the entire picture looks like. This is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Seneca Effect

    Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid

    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is typically sudden and often unexpected, like the proverbial "house of cards." But why are such collapses so common, and what generates them? ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Storm-triggered Landslides in Warmer Climates

    by Diandong Ren ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach – as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach. In addition, this volume will systematically unify the concepts of vadose zone hydrology and geotechnical engineering, with special emphasis ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems

    A Primer

    by Claudius Gros ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This primer offers readers an introduction to the central concepts that form our modern understanding of complex and emergent behavior, together with detailed coverage of accompanying mathematical methods. All calculations are presented step by step and are easy to follow.This new fourth edition has been fully reorganized and includes new chapters, figures and exercises. The core aspects of modern ... Read more

    $71.99 USD