Today's leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman's objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences.

"The nervous system is made up of a large number of interacting elements. To understand how such a complex system functions requires the construction and analysis of computational models at many different levels. This book provides a step-by-step account of how to model the neuron and neural circuitry to understand the nervous system at all levels, from ion channels to networks. Starting with a simple model of the neuron as an electrical circuit, gradually more details are added to include the effects of neuronal morphology, synapses, ion channels and intracellular signaling. The principle of abstraction is explained through chapters on simplifying models, and how simplified models can be used in networks. This theme is continued in a final chapter on modeling the development of the nervous system. Requiring an elementary background in neuroscience and some high school mathematics, this textbook is an ideal basis for a course on computational neuroscience." (Amazon)
"This is a wonderful, clear and compelling text on mathematically-minded computational modelling in neuroscience. It is beautifully aimed at those engaged in capturing quantitatively, and thus simulating, complex neural phenomena at multiple spatial and temporal scales, from intracellular calcium dynamics and stochastic ion channels, through compartmental modelling, all the way to aspects of development. It takes particular care to define the processes, potential outputs and even some pitfalls of modelling; and can be recommended for containing the key lessons and pointers for people seeking to build their own computational models. By eschewing issues of coding and information processing, it largely hews to concrete biological data, and it nicely avoids sacrificing depth for breadth. It is very suitably pitched as a Master's level text, and its two appendices, on mathematical methods and software resources, will rapidly become dog-eared."
Peter Dayan, University College London

In "Distributed Algorithms", Nancy Lynch provides a blueprint for designing, implementing, and analyzing distributed algorithms. She directs her book at a wide audience, including students, programmers, system designers, and researchers. "Distributed Algorithms" contains the most significant algorithms and impossibility results in the area, all in a simple automata-theoretic setting. The algorithms are proved correct, and their complexity is analyzed according to precisely defined complexity measures. The problems covered include resource allocation, communication, consensus among distributed processes, data consistency, deadlock detection, leader election, global snapshots, and many others. The material is organized according to the system model-first by the timing model and then by the interprocess communication mechanism. The material on system models is isolated in separate chapters for easy reference. The presentation is completely rigorous, yet is intuitive enough for immediate comprehension. This book familiarizes readers with important problems, algorithms, and impossibility results in the area: readers can then recognize the problems when they arise in practice, apply the algorithms to solve them, and use the impossibility results to determine whether problems are unsolvable. The book also provides readers with the basic mathematical tools for designing new algorithms and proving new impossibility results. In addition, it teaches readers how to reason carefully about distributed algorithms - to model them formally, devise precise specifications for their required behavior, prove their correctness, and evaluate their performance with realistic measures.

《分子细胞生物学(第4版)(影印版)》英文原版是国际上颇受欢迎的教科书之一，国内不少重点高校已将其第3版作为专业教材。《分子细胞生物学(第4版)(影印版)》依然保持上一版简明扼要的特点，在内容上强调基础性，包括基本概念、基础知识和基础训练。内容取舍适当，篇幅适宜，系统性较好，知识更新及时。《分子细胞生物学(第4版)(影印版)》各章几乎对上一版的每一个论题都进行了修订。《分子细胞生物学(第4版)(影印版)》中对于一些重要知识点的内容介绍了来龙去脉，在每一章后面都介绍了相关的“实验途径”；有些章节后面还有“人类视角”，介绍与人类自身相关的知识，这对于训练学生的科学思维能力大有补益。

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The third edition of the landmark text Recombinant DNA offers an authoritative, accessible, and engaging introduction to modern, genome centered biology from its foremost practitioners. The new edition explores core concepts in molecular biology in a contemporary inquiry based context, building its coverage around the most relevant and exciting examples of current research and landmark experiments that redefined our understanding of DNA. As a result, students learn in a compelling way how working scientists make real high impact discoveries. The first chapters provide an introduction to the fundamental concepts of genetics and genomics, an inside look at the Human Genome Project, bioinformatic and experimental techniques for large scale genomic studies, and a survey of epigenetics and RNA interference. The final chapters cover the quest to identify disease causing genes, the genetic basis of cancer, and DNA fingerprinting and forensics. In these chapters the authors provide examples of practical applications in human medicine, and discuss the future of human genetics and genomics projects.
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This book will serve as an excellent source in college-level classrooms where professors and students will enjoy the straightforward approach taken by the authors to describe the basics of molecular biology. The volume is also recommended for anyone else with an interest in genes, genomes, and their applications in biotechnology, who will find the book s focused approach on the facts, experiments, and procedural outcomes very simple to follow and understand...
The authors have done a remarkable job of presenting enough information so that readers will understand a particular concept, technique, or tool without tedious discussions that may draw them away from the main points. With such a focused and highly illustrative text, readers will find this first section and the remainder of the book (which highlights specific issues in whole-genome analyses and human genomics) to be not only educational and informative, but also a pleasure to read.
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According to Roger Caillois, play is "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this classic study, Caillois defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life. Play is uncertain, since the outcome may not be foreseen, and it is governed by rules that provide a level playing field for all participants. In its most basic form, play consists of finding a response to the opponent's action - or to the play situation - that is free within the limits set by the rules. Caillois qualifies types of games - according to whether competition, chance, simulation, or vertigo (being physically out of control) is dominant - and ways of playing, ranging from the unrestricted improvisation characteristic of children's play to the disciplined pursuit of solutions to gratuitously difficult puzzles. Caillois also examines the means by which games become part of daily life and ultimately contribute to various cultures their most characteristic customs and institutions. Presented here in Meyer Barash's superb English translation, "Man, Play and Games" is a companion volume to Caillois' "Man and the Sacred".

Leo Kadanoff is a theoretical physicist who has done research on chaos theory, superconductivity, phase transitions, fluid flow, the sociology of urban areas, heat transfer in missiles and elementary particle physics, During the last twenty-five years, he has devoted considerable effort to the development of teaching programs for underaduates based upon the use of small computers. Much of this teaching program has been an outgrowth of his interest in the description of chaos in physical systems.
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Molecular Biology of the Cell is the classic in-depth text reference in cell biology. By extracting the fundamental concepts from this enormous and ever-growing field, the authors tell the story of cell biology, and create a coherent framework through which non-expert readers may approach the subject. Written in clear and concise language, and beautifully illustrated, the book is enjoyable to read, and it provides a clear sense of the excitement of modern biology. Molecular Biology of the Cell sets forth the current understanding of cell biology (completely updated as of Autumn 2001), and it explores the intriguing implications and possibilities of the great deal that remains unknown.
The hallmark features of previous editions continue in the Fourth Edition. The book is designed with a clean and open, single-column layout. The art program maintains a completely consistent format and style, and includes over 1,600 photographs, electron micrographs, and original drawings by the authors. Clear and concise concept headings introduce each section. Every chapter contains extensive references. Most important, every chapter has been subjected to a rigorous, collaborative revision process where, in addition to incorporating comments from expert reviewers, each co-author reads and reviews the other authors' prose. The result is a truly integrated work with a single authorial voice.</P>

This is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes--but it is a history with a difference. Firstly, it is history of economic theory, not of economic doctrines. Secondly, it includes detailed Reader's Guides to nine of the major texts of economics in the effort to encourage students to become acquainted at first hand with the writings of all the great economists. This fifth edition adds new Reader's Guides to Walras' Elements of Pure Economics and Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money as well as major additions to the chapters on marginal productivity theory, general equilibrium theory and welfare economics.

This popular book is written by the award-winning teacher, Dr. Leon Gordis of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He introduces the basic principles and concepts of epidemiology in clear, concise writing and his inimitable style. This book provides an understanding of the key concepts in the following 3 fully updated sections: Section I: The Epidemiologic Approach to Disease and Intervention; Section II: Using Epidemiology to Identify the Causes of Disease; Section III: Applying Epidemiology to Evaluation and Policy. Clear, practical graphs and charts, cartoons, and review questions with answers reinforce the text and aid in comprehension.
Utilizes new full-color format to enhance readability and clarity.
Provides new and updated figures, references and concept examples to keep you absolutely current - new information has been added on Registration of Clinical Trials, Case-Cohort Design, Case-Crossover Design, and Sources and Impact of Uncertainty ( disease topics include: Obesity, Asthma, Thyroid Cancer, Helicobacter Pylori and gastric/duodenal ulcer and gastric cancer, Mammography for women in their forties) - expanded topics include Person-time.
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Introduces both the underlying concepts as well as the practical uses of epidemiology in public health and in clinical practice.
Systemizes learning and review with study questions in each section and an answer key and index.
Illustrates textual information with clear and informative full-color illustrations, many created by the author and tested in the classroom.

This text provides a unified treatment of modern econometric theory and practical econometric methods. The geometrical approach to least squares is emphasized, as is the method of moments, which is used to motivate a wide variety of estimators and tests. Simulation methods, including the bootstrap, are introduced early and used extensively. The book deals with a large number of modern topics. In addition to bootstrap and Monte Carlo tests, these include sandwich covariance matrix estimators, artificial regressions, estimating functions and the generalized method of moments, indirect inference, and kernel estimation. Every chapter incorporates numerous exercises, some theoretical, some empirical, and many involving simulation. Econometric Theory and Methods is designed for beginning graduate courses. The book is suitable for both one- and two-term courses at the Masters or Ph.D. level. It can also be used in a final-year undergraduate course for students with sufficient backgrounds in mathematics and statistics.

Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they operate. This text introduces the basic mathematical and computational methods of theoretical neuroscience and presents applications in a variety of areas including vision, sensory-motor integration, development, learning, and memory.The book is divided into three parts. Part I discusses the relationship between sensory stimuli and neural responses, focusing on the representation of information by the spiking activity of neurons. Part II discusses the modeling of neurons and neural circuits on the basis of cellular and synaptic biophysics. Part III analyzes the role of plasticity in development and learning. An appendix covers the mathematical methods used, and exercises are available on the book's Web site.

为了能够正确地阅读与写作，必须了解词汇，它们的意义和语法，也就是了解语言的 规律，要会正确地创作、弹奏和演唱音乐，必须了解音乐理论，因此，教授音乐理论的目的，道德是为创作乐曲或演奏乐曲作准备。
因为音乐是由许多各式各样的要素组织而成，音乐理论也就分为若干部分（课目） ：基本理论、和声、复调音乐、乐器法和曲式学。
基本理论是初级的音乐语法，它应当告诉学生有关许多极重要的音乐要素的有系统的知识，基本理论和苏联所有的音乐理论一样，是以在民间音乐和古典现实主义音乐中所形成的规律为基础的。

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For nearly a quarter century "Molecular Biology of the Cell" has been the leading cell biology textbook. This tradition continues with the new Fifth Edition, which has been completely revised and updated to describe our current, rapidly advancing understanding of cell biology. To list but a few examples, a large amount of new material is presented on epigenetics; stem cells; RNAi; comparative genomics; the latest cancer therapies; apoptosis (now its own separate chapter); and cell cycle control and the mechanics of M phase (now integrated into one chapter). The hallmark features of "Molecular Biology of the Cell" have been retained, such as its consistent and comprehensive art program, clear concept headings, and succinct section summaries.Additionally, in response to extensive feedback from readers, the Fifth Edition now includes several new features. It is now more portable. Chapters 1-20 are printed and Chapters 21-25, covering multicellular systems, are provided as pdf files on the free Media DVD-ROM which accompanies the book. And for the first time, "Molecular Biology of the Cell" now contains end-of-chapter questions. These problems, written by John Wilson and Tim Hunt, emphasize a quantitative approach and the art of reasoning from experiments, and - they will help students review and extend their knowledge derived from reading the textbook.The Media DVD-ROM, which is packaged with every copy of the book, contains PowerPoint[registered] presentations with all of the figures, tables and micrographs from the text (available as JPEGs too). Also included is the Media Player, which plays over 125 movies -animations, videos, and molecular models - all with voiceover narration. A new reader-friendly feature is the integration of media codes throughout the text that link directly to relevant videos and animations. The Media DVD-ROM holds the multicellular systems chapters (21-25) of the text as well. By skillfully extracting the fundamental concepts from this enormous and ever-growing field, the authors tell the story of cell biology, and thereby create a coherent framework through which readers may approach and enjoy this subject that is so central to all of biology. There is also a reference edition of "Molecular Biology of the Cell, Fifth Edition" (ISBN 978-0-8153-4111-6) that contains Chapters 1-25 entirely in printed format.

There can be few textbooks of mathematics as well-known as Hardy's Pure Mathematics. Since its publication in 1908, it has been a classic work to which successive generations of budding mathematicians have turned at the beginning of their undergraduate courses. In its pages, Hardy combines the enthusiasm of a missionary with the rigor of a purist in his exposition of the fundamental ideas of the differential and integral calculus, of the properties of infinite series and of other topics involving the notion of limit.

分子生物学与分子遗传学领域正经历着日新月异的变化，每天都会出现新的数据，那些热门的研究进程，过去每隔数年才会出现新的见解和看法，现在只要几周或几个月。在过去几十年里，对广大教学者来说，Lewin的《基因》是一本十分优秀的教材，该书对分子生物学和分子遗传学进行了精彩的论述，内容涵盖了基因的结构、序列、组织和表达。最新版的Lewin《基因X》，拥有一支崭新的作者队伍，21位科学家根据各自的专业研究特长，对书中内容进行了修订和更新，以保证《基因X》是本领域最新颖全面的教材。《基因X》在内容上增加了一些新的章节，结构也进行了一些调整，使得全书各个主题在排列上更加富有逻辑性。另外许多章节也重新命名，和内容更加相符。新版中还包含了一些新的教学特色，便于学生在阅读本书过程中更好地学习；增加了在线学习导航，学生可以使用它对关键内容进行自我测试。
新版特色
 全新的第3章——分子生物学和基因工程方法，详细介绍了分子生物学实验技术的概念和实践。
 新加入的第8章——基因组进化，对于早期版本分散在各章节中的相关材料做了整合、扩展和更新，并介绍了一些新进展。
 第22章——mRNA的稳定性和定位，完全更新并重写，以包含更多的前沿内容。
 第30章——调控RNA和小RNA，特别引入了RNAi通路的相关内容。
 大量崭新的精美插图反映了相关领域的新进展，尤其是基因组结构和功能、表观遗传学，以及原核生物中非编码和小RNA的调控。

《介质为各向异性的电磁场》从麦克斯韦方程组和各向异性介质的电磁性质方程出发，运用纯逻辑推理，系统地研究了各向异性介质中的静电场、稳恒电流磁场和不稳定辐射电磁场的特点及其各种关系。
《介质为各向异性的电磁场》共有三章，大部分取材于作者已发表或尚未发表的论文，叙述简明、推理详尽、便于自学，可作为理科电动力学和工科电磁场的补充教材或有关专业的选修课教材，也可供相关研究人员、教师及研究生参考。

《傅里叶光学导论》(第3版)讨论傅里叶分析在光学领域的应用，尤其是在衍射、成像、光学数据处理以及全息术方面的应用，内容涉及二维信号与系统的分析、标量衍射理论基础、菲涅耳衍射与夫琅禾费衍射、相干光学系统的波动光学分析、光学成像系统的频谱分析、波前调制、模拟光学信息处理、全息术、光通信中的傅里叶光学等。