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  • Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems (Public Administration and Public Policy)


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    Neural Network Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems (Public Administration and Public Policy)
    Intelligent systems are a hallmark of modern feedback control systems. But as these systems mature, we have come to expect higher levels of performance in speed and accuracy in the face of severe nonlinearities, disturbances, unforeseen dynamics, and unstructured uncertainties. Artificial neural networks offer a combination of adaptability, parallel processing, and learning capabilities that outperform other intelligent control methods in more co...

  • Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor


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    Too Close to the Sun: Growing Up in the Shadow of my Grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor
    Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfather’s inauguration. The country’s ?First Grandchildren,” a pint-sized double act, they were known to the media as ?Sistie and Buzzie.” In this rich memoir, Roosevelt brings us into ?the goldfish bowl,” as his family called it?that glare of public scrutiny to which all presidential households must submit. He recounts his misadventures as...

  • How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules For Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients


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    How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules For Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
    Filled with smart tips given in the Fox signature style, counter- intuitive, controversial, and practiced, this hard-hitting collection of sales advice shows readers how to woo, pursue, and finally win any customer. In witty, succinct chapters, Fox offers surprising, daring, and totally practical wisdom that will help readers rise above the competition in any company in any field. A terrific resource for CEOs, as well as anyone looking to disting...

  • A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change


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    A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change
    One of the most shocking realizations of all time has slowly been dawning on us: the earth's climate does great flip-flops every few thousand years, and with breathtaking speed. In just a few years, the climate suddenly cools worldwide. With only half the rainfall, severe dust storms whirl across vast areas. Lightning strikes ignite giant forest fires. For most mammals, including our ancestors, populations crash. Our ancestors lived through hundr...

  • Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded (Pure and Applied Mathematics)


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    Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded (Pure and Applied Mathematics)
    Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses. DLC: Set theory....

  • Computers, Chess, and Cognition


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    Computers, Chess, and Cognition
    Computers, Chess, and Cognition presents an excellent up-to-date description of developments in computer chess, a rapidly advancing area in artificial intelligence research. This book is intended for an upper undergraduate and above level audience in the computer science (artificial intelligence) community. The chapters have been edited to present a uniform terminology and balanced writing style, to make the material understandable to a wider, le...

  • Green's Functions for Solid State Physicists


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    Green's Functions for Solid State Physicists
    Introduces the ideas of quantum many body theory & some of their applications, particularly those in the physics of itinerant magnetism & superconductivity....


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