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    • Introduction to Digital Systems Design 

      Donzellini, Giuliano; Oneto, Luca; Ponta, Domenico; Anguita, Davide (Springer, 2019)
      The large and ever-growing complexity of today’s digital systems places heavy demands on educational systems that are in charge of training the new generations of designers or just providing a solid understanding of the ...
    • Systems Programming in Unix/Linux 

      Wang, K. C. (Springer, 2018)
      Systems programming is an indispensable part of Computer Science and Computer Engineering education. System programming courses in Computer Science/Engineering curriculums play two important roles. First, it provides students ...
    • Fraud and Corruption 

      Kratcoski, Peter C.; Edelbacher, Maximilian (Springer, 2018)
      The concepts fraud and corruption can be defined in several ways, depending on the contexts in which the terms are being applied. One needs only to look at the history of civilizations, both those in the past and the ...
    • A First Introduction to Quantum Physics 

      Kok, Pieter (Springer, 2018)
      Quantum mechanics is one of the crowning achievements of human thought. There is no theory that is more successful in predicting phenomena over such a wide range of situations—and with such accuracy—than quantum mechanics. ...
    • Analysis for Computer Scientists 

      Oberguggenberger, Michael; Ostermann, Alexander (Springer, 2018)
      We are happy that Springer Verlag asked us to prepare the second edition of our textbook Analysis for Computer Scientists. We are still convinced that the algorithmic approach developed in the first edition is an appropriate ...
    • Entertainment Science 

      Hennig-Thurau, Thorsten; Houston, Mark B. (Springer, 2019)
      The entertainment industry, enlightening billions of people with movies, games, books, and music, is often characterized by its “Nobody-Knows-Anything” mantra. This mantra, coined more than 30 years ago by screenwriter ...
    • Introduction to Formal Philosophy 

      Hansson, Sven Ove; Hendricks, Vincent F. (Springer, 2018)
      In 1974, a wonderful little book came out entitled Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague, edited by Richmond H. Thomason. The book was a beautiful testimony to the fact that formal methods may indeed ...
    • Automatic Control with Experiments 

      Hernández-Guzmán, Victor Manuel; Silva-Ortigoza, Ramón (Springer, 2019)
      Automatic control is one of the disciplines that support the technologically advanced lifestyle that we know today. Its applications are present in almost all the activities performed by humans in the twenty-first century. ...
    • Introduction to Programming with Fortran 

      Chivers, Ian; Sleightholme, Jane (Springer, 2018)
      The book aims to provide coverage of a reasonable working subset of the Fortran programming language. The subset chosen should enable you to solve quite a wide range of frequently occurring problems. This book has been ...
    • Astronautics 

      Walter, Ulrich (Springer, 2019)
      This textbook is about all basic physical aspects of spaceflight. Not all have been covered in the past editions. So, what is new in this third edition? First, there are new sections covering new topics, such as – ...
    • Introduction to Deep Learning 

      Skansi, Sandro (Springer, 2018)
      This textbook contains no new scientific results, and my only contribution was to compile existing knowledge and explain it with my examples and intuition. I have made a great effort to cover everything with citations ...
    • Perspectives on Elderly Crime and Victimization 

      Kratcoski, Peter C.; Edelbacher, Maximilian (Springer, 2018)
      The populations of nations throughout the world, especially those economically developed countries of North America, Europe, and Asia, have become older. In the United States and Europe, the “baby boomer” generation born ...
    • Guide to Competitive Programming 

      Laaksonen, Antti (Springer, 2017)
      The purpose of this book is to give you a comprehensive introduction to modern competitive programming. It is assumed that you already know the basics of programming, but previous background in algorithm design or ...
    • Data Science and Predictive Analytics 

      Dinov, Ivo D. (Springer, 2018)
      Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the evidence overwhelming reveals that the rate of increase for the amount of data we collect doubles each 12–14 months (Kryder’s law). The growth momentum of the volume and ...
    • Physics of Oscillations and Waves 

      Vistnes, Arnt Inge (Springer, 2018)
      The University of Oslo in Norway is one of the first universities to introduce numerical methods as an integral part of almost all mathematically oriented courses for science students (first attempts started in 1997). ...
    • Media and Digital Management 

      Noam, Eli M. (Springer, 2019)
      This book is a college-level version of a longer volume aimed at graduate courses and the professional market. The basics are shared because the subject matter and its significance are the same. Everybody understands ...
    • Managing Media and Digital Organizations 

      Noam, Eli M. (Springer, 2019)
      This book is aimed at graduate courses and the professional market. A shorter version is available for the college level. The basics are shared because the subject matter and its importance are the same. Everybody ...
    • System Dynamics 

      Bala, Bilash Kanti; Arshad, Fatimah Mohamed; Noh, Kusairi Mohd (Springer, 2017)
      This book System Dynamics: Modelling and Simulation is a totally new book with numerous examples and case studies for better understanding the complex systems and their changes through modelling and simulation to aid in ...
    • Managing Sustainable Business 

      Lenssen, Gilbert G.; Smith, N. Craig (Springer, 2019)
      This book provides an excellent framework for managers to pursue sustainable business in a strategic way. At the same time, it is a learning model, starting with the foundations of risk management and stakeholder management ...
    • The Gastrointestinal System 

      Leung, Po Sing (Springer, 2014)
      Human gastrointestinal (GI) physiology is a study of our GI system that addresses the regulation and integration ofmajor physiological functions of motility, secretion, digestion, absorption and blood flow, as well as ...