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 Social Solidarity and the GiftThis book is the result of more than ten years of research and teaching about the themes of the gift and solidarity. It all started in 1992 when, in conversations with anthropologist Willy Jansen, I was put on the track of the gift literature. This was followed by an invitation from the Dutch newspaper Trouw on the occasion of its fiftieth... | | Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms"...a valuable reference...enjoyable and highly useful." American Scientist
"...an impressive book, intended as a class text on the subject of the title but having the character and robustness of a focused encyclopedia. The presentation is finely detailed, well documented, and stocked with artistic flourishes."... | | Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia'... will occupy and entertain specialists for some time to come ...' Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies
'Thomas Allsen's book is a very compact and informative account of the cultural changes which took place during the supremacy of the Mongols. Allsen is able to share with the reader his impressive knowledge of... |
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| | Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises With keyhis book of supplementary grammar exercises for elementary and lower intermediate students of English accompanies the second edition of Essential Grammar in Use. It contains a wealth of additional exercises which provide students with further practice of the grammar they have studied.
* Provides challenging contrastive practice of the... | | A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra"This is an outstanding and well-written book whose aim is to introduce the reader to a broad range of material -- ranging from basic to relatively advanced -- without requiring any prior knowledge on the part of the reader other than calculus and mathematical maturity. That the book succeeds at this goal is quite an accomplishment! ...this... |
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The Rise and Decline of the StateThe state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all moderninstitutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, either voluntarily or involuntarily, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Regardless of whether they fall apart or... | | The Economics of Mobile TelecommunicationsThis book distils years of work on the mobile telecommunications industry.
I became interested in this industry for professional reasons during the
mid-1990s, a period when the industry was making the jump from a
premium service industry for mostly professional users to a truly mass
market. In my capacity as an applied... | | Space-Time Coding: Theory and PracticeThe use of multiple antennas in most future wireless communication systems seems
to be inevitable. Today, the main question is how to include multiple antennas and
what are the appropriate methods for specific applications. The academic interest in
space-time coding and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been... |
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Performance Analysis of Communications Networks and SystemsPerformance analysis belongs to the domain of applied mathematics. The
major domain of application in this book concerns telecommunications systems
and networks. We will mainly use stochastic analysis and probability
theory to address problems in the performance evaluation of telecommunications
systems and networks. The first... | | Codes and Ciphers: Julius Caesar, the Enigma, and the InternetFor at least two thousand years there have been people who wanted to
send messages which could only be read by the people for whom they
were intended. When a message is sent by hand, carried from the sender
to the recipient, whether by a slave, as in ancient Greece or Rome, or by
the Post Office today, there is a risk of it... | | Fundamentals of Wireless CommunicationWireless communication is one of the most vibrant areas in the communication
field today. While it has been a topic of study since the 1960s,
the past decade has seen a surge of research activities in the area. This is
due to a confluence of several factors. First, there has been an explosive
increase in demand for tetherless... |
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