The Chinese are fond of using four-character phrases, known as cheng yu, to improve their writing style. The Chinese characters on the cover spell out one such idiom: pao zhuan yin yu. Translated literally, this would be "throw bricks...

Probability theory is nowadays applied in a huge variety of fields including physics, engineering, biology, economics and the social sciences. This book is a modern, lively and rigorous account which has Doob's theory of martingales in...

Cairns: Messengers in Stone von Williams, David

The acclaimed sweeping history of a nation at war with itself, told here for the first time by the people who lived it. Bottom-up history at its very best, "A People's History of the Civil War" "does for the Civil War period what Howard...

This groundbreaking single-authored textbook equips students with everything they need to know to truly understand the hugely topical field of biomaterials science, including essential background on the clinical necessity of...

"Cladistics: The Theory and Practice of Parsimony Analysis" von David Williams ist ein grundlegendes Werk, das sich mit der Methode der Kladistik befasst, einem Ansatz zur Klassifikation von Organismen basierend auf gemeinsamen...