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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back by Andrew Zolli Publisher Comments Discover a powerful new lens for viewing the world with fascinating implications for our companies, economies, societies, and planet as a whole. In this time of turbulence, people are asking the same basic question: What causes one system to break down... (read more) Available July 9, 2013 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan J Watts Publisher Comments In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers,... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows Publisher Comments In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth--the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet-- Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear 2ND Edition by Yousef Saad Publisher Comments Tremendous progress has been made in the scientific and engineering disciplines regarding the use of iterative methods for linear systems. The size and complexity of linear and nonlinear systems arising in typical applications has grown, meaning that... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price: $80.00 Short Discount Markdown - Trade Paper
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Automating with Simatic S7-300 Inside Tia Portal by Hans Berger Publisher Comments This book presents a comprehensive description of the configuration of devices and network for the S7-300 components inside the new engineering framework TIA Portal. You learn how to formulate and test a control program with the respective languages LAD... (read more) Your price: $99.95 New - Hardcover
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General System Theory by Ludwig Von Bartalanffy Publisher Comments An attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, psychology, and demography.... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back by Andrew Zolli Publisher Comments IN THIS TIME OF TURBULENCE, scientists, economists, social innovators, corporate and civic leaders, and citizens alike are asking the same basic questions: What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A Practical Introduction by Steven F. Railsback Publisher Comments "Knitting together ecology, economics, and social systems, this wonderful book will encourage and enlighten novices and experienced modelers alike. It highlights the importance of patterns at every level of the modeling process, the need for clear... (read more) Your price: $54.95 New - Trade Paper
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X-Events: Complexity Overload and the Collapse of Everything by John Casti Publisher Comments A page-turning exploration of eleven scenarios that may trigger the collapse of the modern world. A renowned systems theorist, John Casti shows how our world has become impossibly complicated, relying on ever more advanced technology that is developing... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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SYNC: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven Strogatz Publisher Comments The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (Helix Books) by John H Holland Publisher Comments Explains how scientists who study complexity are convinced that certain constant processes are at work in all kinds of unrelated complex systems.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen by Mark Buchanan Publisher Comments Why do catastrophes happen? What sets off earthquakes, for example? What about mass extinctions of species? The outbreak of major wars? Massive traffic jams that seem to appear out of nowhere? Why does the stock market periodically suffer dramatic... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Control of Synchronous Actuators by Jean-paul (edt) Louis Publisher Comments Synchronous motors are indubitably the most effective device to drive industrial production systems and robots with precision and rapidity. Their control law is thus critical for combining at the same time high productivity to reduced energy consummation.... (read more) Your price: $197.00 New - Hardcover
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An Introduction to Identification by J P Norton Publisher Comments Advanced undergraduates and graduate students of electrical, chemical, mechanical, and environmental engineering will appreciate this text for a course in systems identification. In addition to the theoretical basis for mathematical modeling, it covers a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Eng #55: Viability of Hybrid Systems: A Controllability Operator Approach by G. Labinaz Publisher Comments The problem of viability of hybrid systems is considered in this work. A model for a hybrid system is developed including a means of including three forms of uncertainty: transition dynamics, structural uncertainty, and parametric uncertainty. A... (read more) Your price: $129.00 New - Hardcover
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Cime Summer Schools #46: Controllability and Observability: Lectures Given at the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.) Held in Pontecchio (Bologna), Italy, July by E Evangelisti Publisher Comments R.E. Kalman: Lectures on controllability and observability.- E. Kulikowski: Controllability and optimum contro.- A. Straszak: Supervisory controllabilityl.- L. Weiss: Lectures on controllability and observability.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Applied Mathematical Sciences #0072: Mutiphase Averaging for Classical Systems: With Applications to Adiabatic Theorems by P Lochak Publisher Comments In the past several decades many significant results in averaging for systems of ODE's have been obtained. These results have not attracted a tention in proportion to their importance, partly because they have been overshadowed by KAM theory, and partly... (read more) List Price $158.25 Your price: $45.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell Publisher Comments What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of individual neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? What is it that guides self-organizing structures... (read more) Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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Multidimensional Systems Theory and Applications by N. K. (edt) Bose Publisher Comments The Second Edition of this book includes an abundance of examples to illustrate advanced concepts and brings out in a text book setting the algorithms for bivariate polynomial matrix factorization results that form the basis of two-dimensional systems... (read more) Your price: $168.75 New - Hardcover
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