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  A Practical Handbook for Software Development
  

  by Martyn A. Ould, N.D. Birrell

  ISBN 0521347920 (0-521-34792-0)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  This handbook offers the implementer of software systems a guide to 25 different techniques for the complete development process, from system definition through design and into production. The techniques are described against a common background of the traditional development path, its activities, and deliverable items. In addition, the concepts of metrics and indicators are introduced as tools for both technical and managerial monitoring and control of progress and quality. This book will enable system developers and their managers to widen their knowledge of this process, and will also introduce students of computer science to the practical side of software development. [via]

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  • A Practical Handbook for Software Development: ISBN 0521254620 (0-521-25462-0)
    Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
  • A Practical Handbook for Software Development: ISBN 0521347920 (0-521-34792-0)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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  Quantum Fields in Curved Space
  

  by N.D. Birrell , P. C. W. Davies

  ISBN 0521278589 (0-521-27858-9)
  Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

  
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  This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in this subject. This is the first attempt to collect and unify the vast literature that has contributed to this development. All the major technical results are presented, and the theory is developed carefully from first principles. Here is everything that students or researchers will need to embark upon calculations involving quantum effects of gravity at the so-called one-loop approximation level. [via]

  More editions of Quantum Fields in Curved Space:

  • Quantum Fields in Curved Space: ISBN 0521233852 (0-521-23385-2)
    Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
  • Quantum Fields in Curved Space: ISBN 0521278589 (0-521-27858-9)
    Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr