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This revised new edition explains optoelectronic devices and their use in integrated optics and fiber optic systems. It emphasizes the physics of how devices work and how they are used in various applications as the field of optoelectronics has progressed.

The more that science advances, such as with stem cells, GMOs, or nuclear energy, the more society seems to resist. This book fully explores the various frictions between science and democracy across a broad range of technological controversies.

Acknowledged risk authority Tony Cox shows all risk practitioners how Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) can improve risk management decisions and policies. It illustrates QRA methods for complex and uncertain biological, engineering, and social systems.

In the past decade there have been significant advances in treating neurodevelopmental disorders. This second edition brings readers up to speed, offering the latest information on neuroimaging technologies, individual disorders, and effective treatment.

As a complete summary of the author's twenty five years of experience in telescope design, this book provides a general introduction as well as discussing the theory in depth, and covering Radio, Infrared, Optical, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray wavelengths.

As many as one in four children experiences problems with reading and many of those suffer from dyslexia. This book equips education practitioners with in-depth understanding of the disorder and a wealth of practical information for meeting student needs.

Building on their previous book on the subject, the authors provide an expanded introduction to using Regression to analyze ecological data. As with the earlier book, real data sets from postgraduate ecological studies or research projects are used throughout.

Unconventional and challenging viewpoints are presented in this book that will be of interest to researchers in AI, psychology, cybernetics and systems science. The book systematically advances an alternative approach to analyze and model intelligence.

Focuses on the communications aspects of dealing with a crisis. This book offers advice ranging from preparing for the unthinkable to the dramatic expansion of the Internet, avoiding being caught off-guard by a situation, the ramifications of product tampering and managing an actual crisis.

* CBT is a new, increasingly popular method of treatment that provides measurable results and is therefore reimbursed by insurance companies * Title is ahead of the curve, there's no competition* Concise, practical manual * Contains reader-friendly, role-playing exercises to apply to daily practice

These Lucky Few became the first American generation smaller than the one before them, and the luckiest generation of Americans ever.

Genetics and Genomics for the Cardiologist is a concise, but comprehensive volume for the clinical cardiologist or medical student interested in learning how molecular genetics is now being applied to prevention and treatment of heart diseases, from DNA tests to pharmacogenomics and gene-based therapeutics.

In this original book cultural anthropologist Dina Siegel follows the route of a diamond from the mines of Africa to the shops of Europe and the United States. The book is about the diamond business itself as well as about the people involved in it.

Local law enforcement is key to the war on terror, but there's a limit to how far citizens want their police to go. This book covers law enforcement training and techniques that are both effective against terror and amenable to citizens.

Quasi-Monte Carlo methods have become an increasingly popular alternative to Monte Carlo methods over the last two decades. This book presents all of the essential tools for using quasi-Monte Carlo sampling on practical problems, especially in finance.

A presentation of the most elementary form of pulsatile flow as an important prerequisite for the study of other flow applications in biological systems.

Complete with encyclopedic coverage of sapphire's growth and fabrication and numerous practical applications, this book also covers many unusual physical and chemical properties of sapphire, as well as the main trends in the evolution of growth methods.

A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences.

This book provides a rigorous mathematical treatment of the non-linear stochastic filtering problem using modern methods. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical analysis of numerical methods for the solution of the filtering problem via particle methods.

This book traces of the history of American environmental and resource policy as well as offers a careful analysis of its current state. It places a strong emphasis on comparisons with more cooperative paths of environmental management in other nations.

This book is intended to serve as an overview of the ADDIE concept. Its primary rationale is to respond to the need for an instruction design primer that addresses the current proliferation of complex educational development models.

This book has taken form over several years as a result of a number of courses taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia University and a series of lectures I have given at the International Monetary Fund.

Since the discovery of HIV, there has been a concerted effort to spread misinformation about AIDS. This book exposes that effort, from its origins in the epidemic's earliest days to the psychology and politics of the current denial movement.

Dipping into this diverse collection of essays is like rummaging around in the mind of a genius who has a potpourri of interests. The author has not only has rubbed elbows with some of the finest minds in world, he has worked with them and played with them.

This book employs materials science concepts and tools to describe the critical features that control the behavior of advanced electrochemical storage systems. This approach offers a fresh, fundamental and tutorial perspective of advanced battery systems.

This is a practical introduction to MEMS for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It describes sensors, actuators, and microfluidics, and their relationship with MEMS. The book has a tested pedagogical structure and an accessible writing style.

In 1996, the supposedly uncrackable US federal encryption system was broken. In this captivating and intriguing book, Matt Curtin charts the rise and fall of DES and chronicles the efforts of those who were determined to master it.

The theory of elliptic curves is distinguished by the diversity of the methods used in its study. This book treats the arithmetic theory of elliptic curves in its modern formulation, through the use of basic algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.

This book describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe. It is a story of expanding horizons and the discovery of invisible worlds. The book includes line drawings, and the perceptions of artists, poets and writers.

This book will assist the clinician in the initial response to the needs of a child or adult exposed to a poisonous or injurious plant. The second edition has been methodically enhanced to make it a truly comprehensive source.