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The business of America the cultural production of a post-war nation / by Thompson, Graham, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…White male literary culture -- Errands in the post-war/cold war jungle -- Entropy, postmodernism and global systems -- Postnational recovery narratives and beyond -- The difference of gender, race and sexuality -- Objectivist fantasies and the industry of writing and piracy -- Assimilation, citizenship and post-ethnicity -- Queer profits and losses.…”
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Greedy approximation by Temlyakov, Vladimir, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Greedy approximation with respect to dictionaries: Hilbert spaces; 3. The entropy; 4. Approximation in learning theory; 5. Approximation in compressed sensing; 6. …”
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Existence, meaning, excellence : Aristotelian reflections on the meaning of life / by Bielskis, Andrius

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 European modernity in the light of the history of the entropy of meaning: a philosophical analysis -- chapter 2 A philosophical critique of existentialism -- chapter 3 A revival of Aristotelian practical philosophy: the case of Alasdair MacIntyre – practice, unity of life, and tradition -- chapter 4 Existence, meaning, excellence -- chapter 5 Art as a structure of meaning.…”
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Lectures on statistical physics and protein folding by Huang, Kerson, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Entropy. -- Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. -- Free energy. -- Chemical potential. -- Phase transitions. -- Kinetics of phase transitions. -- The order parameter. -- Correlation function. -- Stochastic processes. -- Langevin equation. -- The life process. -- Self-assembly. -- Kinetics of protein folding. -- Power laws in protein folding. -- Power laws in protein folding. -- Self-avoiding walk and turbulence. -- Convergent evolution in protein folding. -- Model of energy cascade in a protein molecule.…”
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The uses of failure in Mexican literature and identity by Ochoa, John A. (John Andres), 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Education and entropy in Bernal Díaz del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- José Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo Gómez-Peña : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.…”
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Thermodynamics in bioenergetics by Burgot, Jean-Louis

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Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality Russell's republic revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Norton -- What Russell got right / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation with a human face / Jim Woodward -- Isolation and folk physics / Adam Elga -- Agency and causation / Arif Ahmed -- Pragmatic causation / Antony Eagle -- Causation in context / Peter Menzies -- Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretation / Helen Beebee -- Causal perspectivalism / Huw Price -- Counterfactuals and the Second Law / Barry Loewer -- The physical foundations of causation / Douglas Kutach -- Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy / Mathias Frisch.…”
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Geochemistry by White, William M., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Energy, Entropy and Fundamental Thermodynamic Concepts Chapter 3: Solutions and Thermodynamics of Multicomponent Systems Chapter 4: Applications of Thermodynamics to the Earth Chapter 5: Kinetics: The Pace of Things Chapter 6: Aquatic Chemistry Chapter 7. …”
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Heat transfer applications for the practicing engineer by Theodore, Louis

Table of Contents: “…Operation, Maintenance, and Inspection (OMI).21. Entropy Consideration and Analysis.22. Design Principles and Industrial Applications.Part Four. …”
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Introduction to renewable power systems and the environment with R / by Acevedo, Miguel F.

Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Environmental Systems, the Carbon Cycle, and Fossil Fuels -- chapter 3 Fundamentals of Direct Current Electric Circuits -- chapter 4 Thermodynamics -- chapter 5 Electrical Storage Elements, Basics of AC Circuits, and AC-DC Conversion -- chapter 6 More Thermodynamics State Functions: Entropy, Enthalpy, and Free Energy -- chapter 7 Coal- and Steam-Based Processes -- chapter 8 Alternating Current (AC) Circuits and Power -- chapter 9 Gas and Liquid Fuels: Gas Turbines and Combustion Engines -- chapter 10 Transformers and Three-Phase Circuits -- chapter 11 Power Systems and the Electric Power Grid -- chapter 12 Hydroelectric Power Generation -- chapter 13 Wind Resources and Wind Power -- chapter 14 Solar Power.…”
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Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Modeling and Simulation, plus Econophysics Colloquium 2014

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Financial Market -- Influence Networks in the Foreign Exchange Market -- Entropy and Transfer Entropy: The Dow Jones and the build up to the 1997 Asian Crisis -- Execution and Cancellation Lifetimes in Foreign Currency Market -- Signs of market orders and human dynamics -- Damped oscillatory behaviors in the ratios of stock market indices -- Exploring Market Making Strategy for High Frequency Trading: an Agent-based Approach -- Effect of Cancel Order on Simple Stochastic Order-Book Model -- Chapter 2 Robustness and Fragility -- Cascading failures in interdependent economic networks -- Do connections make systems robust?…”
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Thermodynamics and the destruction of natural resources

Table of Contents: “…Material separation and recycling Timothy Gutowski; 5. Entropy based metric for transformational technologies development Dusan Sekulic; 6. …”
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Information theory / by Alencar, Marcelo S., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Information transmission -- 4.1 The concept of information theory -- 4.2 Joint information measurement -- 4.3 Conditional entropy -- 4.4 Model for a communication channel -- 4.5 Noiseless channel -- 4.6 Channel with independent output and input -- 4.7 Relations between the entropies -- 4.8 Mutual information -- 4.9 Channel capacity --…”
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Physical chemistry : how chemistry works / by Kolasinski, Kurt W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Statistical mechanics -- Ideal gases -- Non-ideal gases and intermolecular interactions -- Liquids, liquid crystals, and ionic liquids -- Solids, nanoparticles, and interfaces -- First law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Third law of thermodynamics and temperature dependence of heat capacity, enthalpy, and entropy -- Thermochemistry : the role of heat in chemical and physical changes -- Chemical equilibrium -- Phase stability and phase transitions -- Solutions and mixtures : nonelectrolytes -- Solutions of electrolytes -- Electrochemistry : the chemistry of free charge exchange -- Empirical chemical kinetics -- Reaction dynamics : mechanisms and rates -- Complex reactions mechanisms : catalysis, photochemistry and charge transfer -- Developing quantum mechanical intuition -- The quantum mechanical description of nature -- Model quantum systems -- Atomic structure -- Introduction to spectroscopy and atomic spectroscopy -- Molecular bonding and structure -- Molecular spectroscopy & excited state dynamics : diatomics -- Polyatomic molecules and group theory -- Light-matter interactions : lasers, laser spectroscopy, and photodynamics.…”
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Life in space astrobiology for everyone / by Mix, Lucas John

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Chemical thermodynamics : theory and applications / by Rankin, W. J.

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Dystopian fiction east and west universe of terror and trial / by Gottlieb, Erika

Table of Contents: “…The answers of utopia, tragedy, and dystopia -- Nineteenth-century precursors of the dystopian vision -- The dictator behind the mask : Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave new world, and Orwell's Ninteenth eighty-four -- Dictatorship without a mask : Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player piano, and Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- The writer on trial: socialist realism and the exile of speculative fiction -- The dystopia of revolutionary justice : Serge's Conquered city, Zazubrin's "The chip," and Rodionov's Chocolate -- The legalization of terror: Platonov's The foundation pit, Ribakov's Children of the Arbat, and Koestler's Darkness at noon -- Terror in war, terror in peace: Grossman's Life and fate, Tertz Sinyavski's The trial begins, and Daniel's This is Moscow speaking -- Collective paranoia: the persecutor and the persecuted: Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek -- Kafka's ghost: The trial as theatre: Klima's The castle, Karvas's The big wig, and Havel''s Memorandum -- From terror to entropy : the downward spiral: Konwicki's A minor apocalypse, Déry's Mr G.A. in X and Zinoviev's The radiant future -- Speculative fiction returns from exile : Dystopian vision with a sneer: Voinovich's Moscow 2042, Aksyonov's The island of Crimea, Dalos's 1985, and Moldova's Hitler in Hungary -- Dystopia East and West: conclusion.…”
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Nursing, caring, and complexity science for human-environment well-being /

Table of Contents: “…Turkel, Jeffrey Cohn -- Why Six-Sigma health care is oxymoronic in hospitals / Bruce J. West -- Entropy as information content in medical research / Nikhil S. …”
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