Product Description: Epitaxial growth is a critical technology in numerous areas ranging from elemental semiconductors to optoelectronic materials, from magnetic multilayers to inorganic insulators, from protein crystals to quantum dots. This book brings together an international mix of researchers and scientists to address common themes in epitaxial growth...read more

An exploration of the science of networks and their impact on nature, business, medicine, and everyday life identifies the simple laws of networks, identifying similarities between social, corporate, and cellular networks while explaining the importance of network mapping as part of understanding network behavior and structure. 75,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Can we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudoscientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, amazing new research is revealing that patterns in human behavior, previously thought to be purely random, follow predictable laws...read more

Product Description: A Networked Self examines self presentation and social connection in the digital age. This collection brings together new work on online social networks by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. The focus of the volume rests on the construction of the self, and what happens to self-identity when it is presented through networks of social connections in new media environments...read more