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…….a thriller that opens along the lines of Robin Cook, but with more social and psychological issues, which are explored in greater, more satisfying detail. Its progression from a seemingly singular experience to humanity's greatest catastrophe creates a fine cross-genre experience between medical novel, thriller, and sci-fi that keeps readers on their toes……" - D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review Gabriel, Rachel, Lester, Adonis and Charlotte, fi...

This book is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The main topics of this book are the nature of models, the practice of modeling, and the nature of the relationship between models and real-world phenomena. In order to elucidate the model/world relationship, Weisberg develops a novel account of similarity called weighted feature matching.

…….a thriller that opens along the lines of Robin Cook, but with more social and psychological issues, which are explored in greater, more satisfying detail. Its progression from a seemingly singular experience to humanity's greatest catastrophe creates a fine cross-genre experience between medical novel, thriller, and sci-fi that keeps readers on their toes……" - D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review Gabriel, Rachel, Lester, Adonis and Charlotte, fi...

What happens when you are admitted to the hospital as a patient, and the physician assigned to be your doctor has never seen you before and knows absolutely nothing about you? Welcome to Medicine in the 21st century, where the results of having a Hospitalist instead of your own doctor can be disastrous. Specialist Dr. Aaron Bernstein enters the world of the Hospitalist firsthand when he confronts a schizophrenic patient who-literally-is a tick...

Simulation and Similarity is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models.

Mit einer Handvoll gut ausgebildeter Offiziere hat sich Brigadegeneral Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) in den Besitz von einigen - mit dem hochgiftigen Gas V.X. bestückten - Raketen gebracht. Damit verschanzt er sich auf der legendären Gefängnisinsel Alcatraz, wo er 81 Touristen als Geiseln nimmt. Seine Forderung ist unmissverständlich. Wenn die US-Regierung nicht 100 Millionen Dollar für die 83 Familien seiner toten Marines bereitstellt, dann w...

Mit einer Handvoll gut ausgebildeter Offiziere hat sich Brigadegeneral Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) in den Besitz von einigen - mit dem hochgiftigen Gas V.X. bestückten - Raketen gebracht. Damit verschanzt er sich auf der legendären Gefängnisinsel Alcatraz, wo er 81 Touristen als Geiseln nimmt. Seine Forderung ist unmissverständlich. Wenn die US-Regierung nicht 100 Millionen Dollar für die 83 Familien seiner toten Marines bereitstellt, dann w...