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ENZYMES: Catalysis, Kinetics and Mechanisms
(Springer, 2018)Enzymes are the lead actors in the drama of life. Without these molecular machines the genetic information stored in DNA is worthless. With rising attention to the fashionable fields like molecular biology, genetic ... -
Empathetic Space on Screen
(Springer, 2018)In cinema and television empathetic settings stand out above all others.1 Think of the now iconic gooey dripping tunnels that Ripley stumbles through in Aliens (1986; see Fig. 1.2), or the delightful melancholic wonderland ... -
Electronic Commerce 2018
(Springer, 2018)Electronic commerce, the topic of this book, has grown rapidly, with companies like Facebook, Google, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Uber, Alibaba Group, and Amazon.com setting new levels of performance every year. Electronic ... -
Customer Relationship Management
(Springer, 2018)Customer relationship management (CRM) as a strategy and as a technology has gone through an amazing evolutionary journey. After the initial technological approaches, this process has matured considerably – both from ... -
Business Ethics - A Philosophical and Behavioral Approach
(Springer, 2018)The question of whether or not there is a need for ethics in business is still a scientific discussion. However, in the context of the 2000 Enron crisis, the first doubts arose as to whether a business enterprise without ... -
Building Energy Modeling with OpenStudio
(Springer, 2018)This book is intended to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an introduction to the topic of building energy modeling, simulation, analysis, and optimization. It is assumed that the reader has a ... -
Argumentation Theory: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective
(Springer, 2018)Argumentation theory is a prospering discipline, with book series, academic journals and worldwide big general conferences and more focused smaller conferences, symposiums and research colloquiums. There is also a ... -
A Pythagorean Introduction to Number Theory
(Springer, 2018)This book came out of an attempt to explain to a class of motivated students at the University of Illinois at Chicago what sorts of problems I thought about in my research. In the course, we had just talked about the ... -
Applied Linear Algebra
(Springer, 2018)Applied mathematics rests on two central pillars: calculus and linear algebra. While calculus has its roots in the universal laws of Newtonian physics, linear algebra arises from a much more mundane issue: the need to ... -
Applied Bioinformatics
(Springer, 2018)Though a relatively young discipline, bioinformatics is finding increasing importance in many life science disciplines, including biology, biochemistry, medicine, and chemistry. Since its beginnings in the late 1980s, ... -
Analytical Corporate Finance
(Springer, 2018)The book offers an innovative view of the most important areas of study for a newcomer in finance. The book aims to be a guide through the most common and interesting topics of corporate finance, supported by a rich ... -
Abstract Algebra
(Springer, 2018)This book is intended for students encountering the beautiful subject of abstract algebra for the first time. My goal here is to provide a text that is suitable for you, whether you plan to take only a single course in ... -
A Beginner’s Guide to Scala, Object Orientation and Functional Programming
(Springer, 2018)This book is intended as an introduction to Scala for computer science students or those actively involved in the software industry. It assumes some familiarity with standard computing concepts, such as the idea of ... -
The Sea Floor
(Springer, 2017)Man’s understanding of how this planet is put together and how it evolved has changed radically during the last 30 years. This great revolution in geology – now usually subsumed under the concept of Plate Tectonics – ... -
Teaching Medicine and Medical Ethics Using Popular Culture
(Springer, 2017)There is an increasing awareness of the role of mass media and popular culture in communicating health information to the general public and medical students.1 Medical television series in particular have been identified ... -
Taxation in European Union
(Springer, 2017)The “European tax law” is a set of regulations issued by the EU institutions and designed to provide the control of tax matters over the tax legislations of the Member States. However, the existence of EU rules aimed ... -
Sustainable Supply Chains
(Springer, 2017)Who is this book for? In this Preface we give a quick introduction to the objectives and intended audience of the book, the guiding principles we adopted in assembling it, and its structure. In the Introduction (Chap. 1 ... -
Strategic Retail Management
(Springer, 2017)The economic importance of retailing is constantly increasing, as can be seen from the development of many countries across Europe, America and Asia. In highly developed countries, retailers are taking an increased ... -
Robotics, Vision and Control
(Springer, 2017)These are exciting times for robotics. Since the fi rst edition of this book was published we have seen much progress: the rise of the self-driving car, the Mars science laboratory rover making profound discoveries on ... -
Problems in Classical Electromagnetism
(Springer, 2017)This book comprises 157 problems in classical electromagnetism, originating from the second-year course given by the authors to the undergraduate students of physics at the University of Pisa in the years from 2002 to ...
