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Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
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Title: The elements of feedback and control
Publisher: Oxford U.O
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Acceptable
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # wbs8105033547
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Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages. Seller Inventory # M03319883615-V
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Seller: Homeless Books, Berlin, Germany
Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. privately owned book. new from the publisher. remains wrapped in plastic. - This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization. It is divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with energy (definition, history, energy types, energy sources, environmental impact); thermodynamics (laws, entropy definitions, energy, branches of thermodynamics, entropy interpretations, arrow of time); information (communication and transmission, modulation-demodulation, coding-decoding, information theory, information technology, information science, information systems); feedback control (history, classical methodologies, modern methodologies); adaptation (definition, mechanisms, measurement, complex adaptive systems, complexity, emergence); and self-organization (definitions/opinions, self-organized criticality, cybernetics, self-organization in complex adaptive systems, examples in nature). In turn, Part II studies the roles, impacts, and applications of the five above-mentioned elements in life and society, namely energy (biochemical energy pathways, energy flows through food chains, evolution of energy resources, energy and economy); information (information in biology, biocomputation, information technology in office automation, power generation/distribution, manufacturing, business, transportation), feedback (temperature, water, sugar and hydrogen ion regulation, autocatalysis, biological modeling, control of hard/technological and soft/managerial systems), adaptation and self-organization (ecosystems, climate change, stock market, knowledge management, man-made self-organized controllers, traffic lights control). 692 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # ABE-1691057608812
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Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: New. New. book. Seller Inventory # D8F0-0-M-3319883615-6
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Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 26375407584
Quantity: 4 available
Seller: Majestic Books, Hounslow, United Kingdom
Condition: New. Print on Demand. Seller Inventory # 370670655
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Seller: Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Germany
Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND. Seller Inventory # 18375407594
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