Armin Wachter - Relativistische Quantenmechanik
Springer | 2005 | ISBN: 3540229221 | Pages: 390 | PDF | 5.54 MB

- Welche Probleme tauchen in relativistischen Erweiterungen der Schrödinger-Theorie auf, insbesondere wenn man an der gewohnten Ein-Teilchen-Wahrscheinlichkeitsinterpretation festhält?

- Inwieweit können diese Schwierigkeiten überwunden werden? - Worin besteht die physikalische Notwendigkeit von Quantenfeldtheorien? Viele Bücher geben auf solch fundamentale Verständnisfragen nur unzureichend Antwort, indem sie das relativistisch-quantenmechanische Ein-Teilchenkonzept zugunsten einer möglichst frühen Einführung der Feldquantisierung relativ schnell abhandeln oder ganz weglassen. Im Gegensatz dazu betont das vorliegende Lehrbuch gerade diesen Ein-Teilchenaspekt (relativistische Quantenmechanik ‚im engeren Sinne’), diskutiert die damit einhergehenden Probleme und motiviert somit auf physikalisch verständliche Weise die Notwendigkeit quantisierter Felder. Die ersten beiden Kapitel beschäftigen sich mit der ausführlichen Darlegung und Gegenüberstellung der Klein-Gordon- und Dirac-Theorie - immer mit Blick auf die nichtrelativistische Theorie. Im dritten Kapitel werden relativistische Streuprozesse behandelt und die Feynman-Regeln aus Propagatorverfahren heraus entwickelt. Dabei wird auch hier deutlich, warum man letztlich um eine quantenfeldtheoretische Begründung nicht herumkommt. Dieses Lehrbuch wendet sich an alle Studierenden der Physik, die an einer übersichtlich geordneten Darstellung der relativistischen Quantenmechanik ‚im engeren Sinne’ und deren Abgrenzung zu Quantenfeldtheorien interessiert sind.

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Samuel Yang - CDMA RF System Engineering
Artech House Publishers | 1998 | ISBN: 0890069913 | Pages: 280 | PDF | 5.34 MB
Understand the essentials of CDMA wireless technology and develop the knowledge you need to design and operate either co-located AMPS and CDMA or dedicated CDMA systems with this unique reference. Drawing upon his recent experience in building the first major CDMA network in North America, the author helps you acquire the knowledge you need to engineer and implement an IS-95 based CDMA system.

Examining both the theoretical and practical side of CDMA engineering, this comprehensive guide is an excellent resource for practicing RF and system engineers who will find the modular-oriented chapters on spread-spectrum multiple access technique, design and performance engineering, CDMA traffic engineering, and regulatory implications especially useful. Engineering managers and directors seeking proficiency in CDMA technology will appreciate the author’s ability to supply a “big picture” perspective where only the most important and relevant information to designing and optimizing a CDMA system is presented. A systemic approach makes this an ideal book for use in technical training and academic classes.

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Lynne Truss - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!
Profile Books | 2006 | ISBN: 1861978162 | Pages: 32 | PDF | 9.82 MB
You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. “Children Drive Slowly” on a road-sign doesn’t quite sum up what kids do in their spare time. And we all know now that the comma in “Eats shoots and leaves” is a crucial one. Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons illuminate the hilarious confusion that one mere dot with a tail can cause, in this follow-up to the number one best-seller “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” - which this time features lively and subversive pictures by one of America’s leading illustrators.

This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughter and better punctuation from all who read it.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves’ illuminates the absurd confusion that the dot with a tail can cause. Illustrations show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely.

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Lynne Truss - The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage without Apostrophes
Putnam Juvenile | 2007 | ASIN: B0013L4DDK | Pages: 32 | PDF | 15.88 MB
Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes. Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to make a word plural or possessive (Are those sticky things your brother’s or your brothers?) and leaving one out of a contraction can give someone the completely wrong impression (Were here to help you).

Full of silly scenes that show how apostrophes make a difference, too, this is another picture book that will elicit bales of laughter and better punctuation from all who read it.

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Bill Moore - Write Rite Right: An imperative sentence
Universe | 2005 | ISBN: 0595363075 | Pages: 112 | PDF | 5.74 MB

Why a compendium of homonyms, homophones, and frequently misapplied words?

To paraphrase Mr. Twain:

Sometimes, the difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between going down in history and going down in flames.

Who can benefit from keeping this book within easy reach?

Everyone who writes for others to read! When you write, for whatever reason, your written words represent you to clients, superiors, peers, employees, and, perhaps, the world at large. What you write and how you write it represents you in the minds of your readers. You shouldn’t be satisfied to appear in public in linguistic disarray any more than you would in sartorial slovenliness.

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Steven J. Matthiesen - Essential Words for the TOEFL
Barron’s Educational Series | 2003 | ISBN: 0764120255 | Pages: 184 | PDF | 5.44 MB

Students of English as a Second Language will find vital help as they build a large English vocabulary. Nearly 500 words are listed with definitions and pronunciation help. There is also detailed advice for dramatically expanding one’s vocabulary
with help from a standard dictionary and a thesaurus. Practice tests with answer keys help students measure their progress as they develop increased fluency in English.

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Noam Chomsky - Language and Mind
Cambridge University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 052167493X | Pages: 208 | PDF | 5.13 MB
This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky’s outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky’s influential approach into the twenty-first century.

Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky’s early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the ‘biolinguistic’ approach that has guided Chomsky’s work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mind.

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Veerle Van Geenhoven - Semantics in Acquisition
Springer | 2006 | ISBN: 1402044844 | Pages: 355 | PDF | 5.53 MB

This volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is substantial: temporal aspect and tense, specificity, quantification, scope, finiteness, focus structure, and focus particles.

The number of languages in which these phenomena are investigated is very large as well: Dutch, English, German, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, and Polish, to name a few. The volume creates a theoretical as well as an empirical bridge between semantic research on the one hand and psycholinguistic acquisition studies on the other.

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Bill Walsh - The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas
of Contemporary American English
McGraw-Hill | 2004 | ISBN: 0071422684 | Pages: 238 | PDF | 5.05 MB
Advice on good writing from everybody’s favorite editorial curmudgeon

Persnickety, cantankerous, opinionated, entertaining, hilarious, wise…these are a few of the adjectives reviewers used to describe good-writing maven Bill Walsh’s previous book, Lapsing Into a Comma. Now, picking up where he left off in Lapsing, Walsh addresses the dozen or so biggest issues that every writer or editor must master.

He also offers a trunkload of good advice on the many little things that add up to good writing. Featuring all the elements that made Lapsing such a fun read, including Walsh’s trademark acerbic wit and fascinating digressions on language and its discontents, The Elephants of Style provides:

* Tips on how to tame the “elephants of style”–the most important, frequently confused elements of good writing
* More of Walsh’s popular “Curmudgeon’s Stylebook”–includes entries such as Snarky Specificity, Metaphors, Near and Far, Actually is the New Like, and other uses and misuses of language
* Expert advice for writers and editors on how to work together for best results

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Paul Ricoeur - On Translation
Routledge | 2006 | ISBN: 0415357780 | Pages: 72 | PDF | 5.03 MB
Paul Ricoeur is described in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy as “one of the leading French philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.” This little book collects his thoughts on the subject of translation, and is vintage Ricoeur. He uses the topic to reflect on some of the perennial problems posed by translation, including the transmission of early Greek philosophy to the Renaissance, interpretations of the Bible amongst diverse religious traditions (no small issue at the moment), and the way translations of the same text reflect important cultural dynamics at work across different periods, leading to quite different meanings springing from the same book.

There are also discussions of some contemporary figures, such as Umberto Eco, and the whole underscored by Ricoeur’s point that there is a paradox at the hear of translation: impossible in theory but effective in practice.

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Brian K. Nunnally - Analytical Techniques In DNA Sequencing
CRC | 2005 | ISBN: 0824753429 | Pages: 256 | PDF | 5.32 MB

Since the early days of radioisotope sequencing, a wide variety of new DNA sequencing techniques have emerged. New methods are aimed at reducing the amount of sample needed, improving the accuracy, and reducing the amount of time needed to generate a sequence. This text discusses the different analytical DNA sequencing techniques and the exciting applications of DNA sequencing in areas such as forensics, the sequencing of ancient DNA, and genome sequencing. Advances in DNA separations using advanced capillary electrophoresis and microchip sequencing are presented.

Chapters cover improvements in the detection of DNA sequencing fragments, the use of mass spectrometry, and single molecule detection.

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Riitta Jaatinen - Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills
Springer | 2006 | ISBN: 0387370633 | Pages: 230 | PDF | 5.23 MB

Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills offers an autobiographical reflexive approach to foreign language education. The orientation of the book is practical, containing rich descriptions of language learning situations including authentic language use and student stories.

Teaching, including planning, methods, classroom work and evaluation, and case studies of “good” language learning and how dialogue based on reminiscing can be used to promote students’ well-being in the language classroom are described in detail. Many practical examples of how to develop autobiographical reflexive approach, based on the phenomenological philosophy, and methodology, are presented. Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills significantly enhances the communicative approach and going beyond it into a new paradigm, whereby foreign language teaching and learning are seen as foreign language education.

The book offers unique ways of developing vocational language teaching as an integrated holistic approach combining language contents with vocationally relevant topics and the interactive, dialogical processes of working in language classes. Presented in a “common sense” way and accessible to non-native English readers, Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills will be of interest to teachers as well as researchers in the areas of applied and educational linguistics.

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Amala Soumyanath - Traditional Medicines for Modern Times: Antidiabetic Plants
CRC | 2005 | ISBN: 0415334640 | Pages: 336 | PDF | 5.30 MB

There has been a steady scientific interest in the role of plants in treating diabetes mellitus. This volume presents an ethnopharmacological perspective of the role of plants in the treatment of diabetes and associated complications. The text provides guidance on methodology for those interested in carrying out research, and highlights those plants and phytochemical groups that are of particular significance or potential in this context.

Chapters provide an overview of the features prevalence, and conventional treatment of diabetes mellitus, , give both a database summary and detailed descriptions of scientific studies carried out worldwide on anti-diabetic plants, and offer insight into methods for the discovery of new anti-diabetic agents.

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Steve Awodey - Category Theory
Oxford University Press | 2006 | ISBN: 0198568614 | Pages: 272 | PDF | 5.21 MB
This text and reference book on Category Theory, a branch of abstract algebra, is aimed not only at students of Mathematics, but also researchers and students of Computer Science, Logic, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and any of the other fields that now make use of it. Containing clear definitions of the essential concepts, illuminated with numerous accessible examples, and providing full proofs of all important propositions and theorems, this book aims to make the basic ideas, theorems, and methods of Category Theory understandable to this broad readership.

Although it assumes few mathematical pre-requisites, the standard of mathematical rigour is not compromised. The material covered includes the standard core of categories; functors; natural transformations; equivalence; limits and colimits; functor categories; representables; Yoneda’s lemma; adjoints; monads. An extra topic of cartesian closed categories and the lambda-calculus is also provided; a must for computer scientists, logicians and linguists!

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