Civic Astronomy: Albany's Dudley Observatory, 1852-2002 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

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The founding of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, N.Y., in 1852 was a milestone in humanity's age-old quest to understand the heavens. As the best equipped astronomical observatory in the U.S. led by the first American to hold a Ph.D. in astronomy, Benjamin Apthorp Gould Jr., the observatory helped pioneer world-class astronomy in America. It also proclaimed Albany's status as a major national center of culture, knowledge and affluence. This book explores the story of the Dudley Observatory as a 150 year long episode in civic astronomy. The story ranges from a bitter civic controversy to a venture into space, from the banks of the Hudson River to the highlands of Argentina. It is a unique glimpse at a path not taken, a way of doing science once promising, now vanished. As discoveries by the Dudley Observatory's astronomers, especially its second director Lewis Boss, made significant contributions to the modern vision of our Milky Way galaxy as a rotating spiral of more than a million stars, the advance of astronomy left that little observatory behind.

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Perhaps more people would read this book if the electronic edition didn't cost twice as much as my e-reader. While I understand the author/publisher/etc need to be paid for their work, I find incomprehensible that someone would find it adequate to even offer the book at such a price in today's day and age.

Good luck with that business model.

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Climate, Change and Risk

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Climate, Change and Risk presents an overview of 'extreme' weather related events and our ability to cope with them. It focuses on society's responses, insurance matters and methodologies for the analysis of climatic hazards. Drawing on worldwide research from the leading names in the field this volume explores the changes in weather hazards that might be expected as the global climate changes.

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This book is one of the first, serious attempts to look at the implication of climate change for weather-related natural disasters and, particularly, how society would, could, and should react to that.

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Clinical Bioethics: A Search for the Foundations (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

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A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice ("internal morality") and the larger social concerns and processes ("external morality")

Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation.

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Codes and Algebraic Curves (Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications)

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A fascinating branch of mathematics since antiquity, the geometry of curves has been extensively developed and become highly abstract. Recently links have been made with the subject of error correction, leading to the creation of geometric Goppa codes, a new and important area of coding theory. This book is an expanded and updated version of one part of the author's successful book Error-Correcting Codes and Finite Fields. Here he gives an elementary introduction to Goppa codes and includes many examples, calculations, and applications. The first part of the book emphasizes motivations, giving precedence to applications over proofs. The second part then provides the formal theory, with some concepts and proofs simplified without sacrificing rigor.

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This is the best book I've seen explaining Goppa codes and their mathematical background. The explanation of algebraic curves is much easier to follow than the other two books I know of on this topic, "Algebraic Function Fields and Codes" by Stichtenoth and "Algebraic Curves over Finite Fields" by Moreno. In fact, even if you aren't especially interested in Goppa codes, this would be a good book from which to learn the basics of algebraic curves.The book has one of the few treatments of algebraic curves that explains them first concretely as zeros of a polynomial f(x,y), and then more abstractly as a function field, a finite extension of K(x). Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you?�Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment�Comment

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Commencement of Insolvency Proceedings (Oxford International & Comparative Insolvency Law)

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This is the first volume in the new Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law Series. The series will provide a comparative analysis of all important aspects of insolvency proceedings and domestic insolvency laws in the main economically developed and emerging countries, starting with the opening of proceedings.

This volume addresses the commencement of insolvency proceedings over business debtors and the conditions in which they may arise. It explains the types of proceedings available and the participants involved. The book also analyses the effect of such action on the various players, assets and liabilities concerned.

The detail and uniform nature of the treatment of topics helps practitioners to understand specific features of a foreign legal system and effectively brief foreign counsel. For all readers, the book provides access, through analysis in the detailed commentary, to material that was previously only available in a foreign language. Most major legal families (including various mixed legal systems) are covered to reflect the needs of the international insolvency community and intergovernmental
organizations.

This is the only book that offers a thorough comparative analysis of existing domestic insolvency laws concerning the opening of insolvency proceedings in the main economically developed and emerging countries.

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FROM 20 COUNTRIES, INCLUDING OTHERWISE INACCESSIBLE MATERIALS IN ENGLISH

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

Ideal for international insolvency practitioners, this book is the first of a new -- and certainly a pioneering -- series from the Oxford University Press, namely the Oxford International and Comparative Insolvency Law Series.

The aim of the series, as the publishers have aptly put it, is to provide practitioners with `a working background on the specific features of a foreign legal system when advising clients and engaging foreign counsel'. There are 20 legal systems examined in this book.

Such is the practical value of the series and, specifically of this book, which offers in one convenient volume, a learned and wide-ranging overview, (termed a `National Report') on commencement of insolvency procedures in each of 20 countries worldwide and there is quite a cross section -- from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon and Canada, to Sweden, Tanzania and the United States (oh yes, and England too - `England', we take it, refers to England and Wales).

Some of the selected countries are economically developed; others are emerging - some with common law jurisdictions, others with civil, or mixed legal systems.

Two of the editors, Dennis Faber and Niels Vermunt (who are also the series editors) express the view that `this is the foundation of any future harmonization of insolvency law that would have a chance of widespread acceptance, and the series thus complements pending international projects on insolvency matters initiated elsewhere.'

Note that much of the previously inaccessible material provided in this volume now emerges conveniently in English The hoped for result, in the words of the editors, is that this book and those which follow will `(demystify) national perspectives on insolvency-related subjects... by illuminating divergences and common elements of national laws,' as well as inspiring innovative ideas and analysis and ultimately, criticism wherever appropriate.

For the sake of consistency and clarity, each article is similarly structured to facilitate - in the words of the preface --- meaningful comparisons without stripping national narratives of their richness.

We infer from another statement by the four editors that their approach is descriptive, rather than prescriptive and for the most part, non-judgmental. `We do not venture into the troubled waters of judicial independence,' they say, `or worse, corruption, even though lack of the former (and the presence of the latter) may obviously have massive influence'.

This research, they add, is better left to comparative legal sociologists, `hoping that they might perhaps find our conclusions of use in delineating the agenda for their work.'

Distinguished by its usability, as well as readability, this copiously footnoted book is a mine of scholarly information, not to mention numerous tools for further research.

It provides a detailed table of contents, extensive reading lists and massive tables of cases and legislation, plus a lengthy index at the back.

Practitioners, as well as academics involved in global business, would do well to add this useful and enlightening book to their professional libraries. The publication date is 2012.

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Communicating Embedded Systems: Networks Applications (ISTE)

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Embedded systems become more and more complex and require having some knowledge in various disciplines such as electronics, data processing, telecommunications and networks. Without detailing all the aspects related to the design of embedded systems, this book, which was written by specialists in electronics, data processing and telecommunications and networks, gives an interesting point of view of communication techniques and problems in embedded systems. This choice is easily justified by the fact that embedded systems are today massively communicating and that telecommunications and networks constitute the main sector of embedded systems.

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This book's subject overlaps with the cases of a MANET [Mobile Ad Hoc Network] and a sensor network, where the latter might typically be composed of static nodes. The embedded systems of the book often have no graphical user interface like those of personal computers or cellphones.

The nodes comprising an embedded system have to talk to each other wirelessly; there seems to be no practical case where the nodes are wired to each other. So the book delves into issues like how might the nodes authenticate each other. This is a hard problem given that the obvious PKI approach consumes a lot of clock cycles and hence precious power. Often the nodes are severely power constrained. But a symmetric encryption entails that nodes know a common key. How is this distributed? Perhaps before deployment, when the network owner has physical possession of all the nodes. But after deployment, if a node is then taken over by an adversary, she might be able to get the common key and hence break the encryption.

For efficiency in communications, one chapter suggests a cross layer approach to developing new protocols. A very promising idea, as suggested from early simulations.

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