Buffets and Receptions

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Small, Michael

Cooking Education & Reference

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

Dozens of today's hottest rap stars--including L. L. Cool J., Public Enemy, NWA, KRS-One, and Salt-n-Pepa--discuss their private lives and their music, offering their opinion on rap music today. Original.

Break It Down: The Inside Story from the New Leaders of Rap

Arts & Photography

Music

Citadel Pr

Explores the emerging subject of epidemic dynamics on complex networks, including theories, methods, and real-world applications Throughout history epidemic diseases have presented a serious threat to human life, and in recent years the spread of infectious diseases such as dengue, malaria, HIV, and SARS has captured global attention; and in the modern technological age, the proliferation of virus attacks on the Internet highlights the emergent need for knowledge about modeling, analysis, and control in epidemic dynamics on complex networks. For advancement of techniques, it has become clear that more fundamental knowledge will be needed in mathematical and numerical context about how epidemic dynamical networks can be modelled, analyzed, and controlled. This book explores recent progress in these topics and looks at issues relating to various epidemic systems. Propagation Dynamics on Complex Networks covers most key topics in the field, and will provide a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers interested in network science and dynamical systems, and related interdisciplinary fields. Key Features: <ul>
<li>Includes a brief history of mathematical epidemiology and epidemic modeling on complex networks.</li> <li>Explores how information, opinion, and rumor spread via the Internet and social networks.</li> <li>Presents plausible models for propagation of SARS and avian influenza outbreaks, providing a reality check for otherwise abstract mathematical modeling.</li> <li>Considers various infectivity functions, including constant, piecewise-linear, saturated, and nonlinear cases.</li> </ul>
Examines information transmission on complex networks, and investigates the difference between information and epidemic spreading.

Propagation Dynamics on Complex Networks: Models, Methods and Stability Analysis

Science & Math

Chen, Guanrong

Fu, Xinchu

Mathematics

wiley

From the spontaneous rapid firing of cortical neurons to the spatial diffusion of disease epidemics, biological systems exhibit rich dynamic behaviour over a vast range of time and space scales. Unifying many of these diverse phenomena, Dynamics of Biological Systems provides the computational and mathematical platform from which to understand the underlying processes of the phenomena. Through an extensive tour of various biological systems, the text introduces computational methods for simulating spatial diffusion processes in excitable media, such as the human heart, as well as mathematical tools for dealing with systems of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations, such as neuronal activation and disease diffusion. The mathematical models and computer simulations offer insight into the dynamics of temporal and spatial biological systems, including cardiac pacemakers, artificial electrical defibrillation, pandemics, pattern formation, flocking behaviour, the interaction of autonomous agents, and hierarchical and structured network topologies. Tools from complex systems and complex networks are also presented for dealing with real phenomenological systems. With exercises and projects in each chapter, this classroom-tested text shows students how to apply a variety of mathematical and computational techniques to model and analyze the temporal and spatial phenomena of biological systems. MATLAB® implementations of algorithms and case studies are available on the author’s website.

Dynamics of Biological Systems (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series)

Biological Sciences

Chapman and Hall/CRC

“A soul healing experience”...”inspirational” (Dr. Jeanette's Radio Show)”It would make an intriguing movie” (Mary Kenny in 'Catholic Herald')“An engaging, solidly entertaining, and deftly crafted novel” (Midwest Book Review) Wade, a sixty-nine-year-old retired teacher, is desperately searching for meaning to the rest of his life. As he sets off to walk the famous Camino de Santiago de Compostela, he hopes to rekindle his faith in God and come to terms with a dark secret he has kept hidden at the back of his mind for nearly forty years.
Although his pilgrim journey of self-discovery, walking 500 miles across northern Spain, is physically demanding enough for a senior citizen, it also brings him face to face with yet more challenges. He encounters enigmatic characters, obsessions, temptations, and emotional conflicts. And when he meets a mysterious old man, Diego, who delivers some cold, hard truths about his life, Wade remains in denial.
Wade's pursuit of female company, regardless of Diego's warning, hinders his spiritual progress. But who cares, when Angelina, a fascinating young Swedish woman less than half his age, stumbles into his life?
Will Angelina reciprocate his feelings of love?
Will Wade continue to live in a way that hampers his personal growth and spiritual development?
Will he ever make the psychological breakthrough he needs to move forward with his life? Or will fate step in and open the floodgates for his past to finally catch up with him?
Find out in this profound, memorable and inspiring novel which will capture your heart, soul and mind in equal measure.

WAITING FOR AMY: A Pilgrimage Into The Mind

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Michael Small

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