New Additions to E-Books Directory

Statistical Mechanifesto
by Eric L. Michelsen - UCSD
This work is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate physics students. It contains a better entropy discussion, the Carnot conspiracy, Boltzmann distribution, entropy, free energy, meet Mr. Mole, chemical potential, and much more...
(submitted on 2013-05-22)

Lectures on Integrable Probability
by Alexei Borodin, Vadim Gorin - arXiv
Topics include integrable models of random growth, determinantal point processes, Schur processes and Markov dynamics on them, Macdonald processes and their application to asymptotics of directed polymers in random media.
(submitted on 2013-05-22)

Basic Home Security
by Jacobus Kotze - Smashwords
This is a short article on the different ways to protect your house against armed robbers. Written for the South African market it may sound extreme to the rest of the world but gives valuable guidance which is applicable everywhere.
(submitted on 2013-05-22)

Leukemia
by Margarita Guenova, Gueorgui Balatzenko (eds) - InTech
The primary objective of this book is to provide the specialists involved in the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic leukemias with a comprehensive and concise information on some important theoretical and practical issues...
(submitted on 2013-05-22)

A Source Book for Mediaeval History
by E.H. McNeal, O.J. Thatcher - Charles Scribner's Sons
Our purpose in general has been to present material touching only the most important matters of the whole medieval period. We have tried to offer in usable form illustrative material which may be of service to both teacher and student.
(submitted on 2013-05-22)

Funky Electromagnetic Concepts
by Eric L. Michelsen - UCSD
Funky Electromagnetic Concepts will help you develop an accurate physical, conceptual, geometric, and pictorial understanding of important physics topics: Circuits; Classical Electromagnetics; Relativistic Electromagnetics; etc.
(submitted on 2013-05-21)

Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research
by Kurtis Toppert, Walter Seager (eds) - Penny Hill Press
The Internet -- in all its glory of information and misinformation -- is for all practical purposes limitless, which of course means we can never know it all, see it all, understand it all, or even imagine all it is and will be.
(submitted on 2013-05-21)

Elliptic Functions and Elliptic Curves
by Jan Nekovar - Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
Contents: Introduction; Abel's Method; A Crash Course on Riemann Surfaces; Cubic curves; Elliptic functions; Theta functions; Construction of elliptic functions; Lemniscatology or Complex Multiplication by Z[i]; Group law on smooth cubic curves.
(submitted on 2013-05-21)

Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example
by Peter Flach - John Wiley
An introduction to Prolog programming for artificial intelligence covering both basic and advanced AI material. A unique advantage to this work is the combination of AI, Prolog and Logic. Each technique is accompanied by a program implementing it.
(submitted on 2013-05-21)

Twilight in Italy
by D. H. Lawrence - Duckworth and Co.
A brilliantly written travelogue. Lawrence embarked South, to Italy on foot with his German wife Frieda, and has described all his thrilling and interesting experiences. Leaving out the famous and the historical, he visits the suburbs...
(submitted on 2013-05-21)

Quirky Quantum Concepts
by Eric L. Michelsen - UCSD
Wave mechanics, 1D scattering, matrix mechanics, angular momentum, spin-1/2, updated quantum electromagnetic interactions. This work is meant to be used with a standard text, to help emphasize those things that are most confusing for new students.
(submitted on 2013-05-20)

Introduction to Soft Computing
by Eva Volna - Bookboon
This book gives an introduction to Soft Computing, which aims to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, approximate reasoning, and partial truth in order to achieve close resemblance with human like decision making.
(submitted on 2013-05-20)

Ergodic Optimization, Zero Temperature Limits and the Max-plus Algebra
by A. T. Baraviera, R. Leplaideur, A. O. Lopes - arXiv
We review some basic notions in ergodic theory and thermodynamic formalism, as well as introductory results in the context of max-plus algebra, in order to exhibit some properties of equilibrium measures when temperature goes to zero.
(submitted on 2013-05-20)

Monster in the Mirror
by Nicholas Antinozzi - Smashwords
Eddie and Charles Drummond are mirror twins, identical, yet opposite. Both men are married with families of their own. Sensitive, politically charged issues arise, which drive the families apart. Sparks fly as the far right meets the radical left.
(submitted on 2013-05-20)

Neurodegenerative Diseases
by Uday Kishore (ed.) - InTech
This book highlights the pathophysiological complexities of the mechanisms and factors that are likely to be involved in a range of neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease, other Dementia, Parkinson Diseases.
(submitted on 2013-05-20)

Funky Mathematical Physics Concepts
by Eric L. Michelsen - UCSD
This text covers some of the unusual or challenging concepts in graduate mathematical physics. This work is meant to be used with any standard text, to help emphasize those things that are most confusing for new students.
(submitted on 2013-05-18)

Java Enterprise Performance
by Alois Reitbauer, et al. - Compuware Corporation
Performance is a topic of increasing importance for anyone who uses applications to support their business. Today performance engineers have to ensure that complex application landscapes work seamlessly and problems are resolved fast.
(submitted on 2013-05-18)

Organic Chemistry
by W.H. Perkin, F.S. Kipping - Chambers
One of the principal objects throughout has been to treat the subject from a practical point of view, because, unless a thorough course of practical work accompanies the theoretical, no really satisfactory progress can be made...
(submitted on 2013-05-18)

Pompeii, Its Life and Art
by August Mau - The Macmillan Company
For twenty-five years Professor Mau has devoted himself to the study of Pompeii, spending his summers among the ruins and his winters in Rome. He holds a unique place among the scholars who have given attention to Pompeian antiquities...
(submitted on 2013-05-18)

Border and Bastille
by George A. Lawrence - W.I. Pooley & Co.
This is the story of the author's adventurous trip from England to the Southern states during the War Between the States to serve in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was taken prisoner and only released on promising to return to England.
(submitted on 2013-05-18)