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Digital Systems Engineering
What makes some computers slow? Why do some digital systems operate reliably for years while others fail mysteriously every few hours? How can some systems dissipate kilowatts …
Boom and Bust
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these …
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of …
Observations of Comets from BC 611 to AD 1640
Long before their western counterparts, Chinese astronomers developed remarkably accurate methods for making their measurements, recording detailed observations since ancient …
Romeo and Juliet
John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since …
William of Ockham: 'A Letter to the Friars Minor' and Other Writings
More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285–1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should …
William of Ockham: A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government
William of Ockham (c. 1285–c. 1347) was the most eminent and influential theologian and philosopher of his day, a giant in the history of political thought. He was a Franciscan …
Context in Language Learning and Language Understanding
The papers in this volume represent the views of a range of experts in a variety of language-related disciplines on the role which context plays in language learning and language …
Select Discourses
Originally published in 1859, as the fourth edition of a 1660 original, this book contains the text of the Select Discourses of the theologian John Smith. Smith covers a variety of …
International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity
The end of the Cold War and subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a new unipolar international system that presented fresh challenges to international relations …
Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin
The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the most prolific hydrocarbon-producing basins in the world, with an estimated endowment of 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This book …
The Book of the Court
A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, William John Thoms (1803–85) pursued literary and bibliographical interests and conversed with the likes of Thomas Macaulay and Charles …