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Take a learning journey through billions of years of Earth history This indispensable guide to the fundamentals of geology is the ideal way to introduce yourself to all the basics, from rocks, minerals, and fossil fuels to earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonics... Read more
Expert advice in a back-to-basics handbook on how to beat the market-the classic way In Investment Psychology Explained Martin J... Read more
The all-in-one reference to all aspects of Microsoft Access 2010If you want to learn Microsoft Access inside and out, the nine minibooks in this easy-access reference are exactly what you need... Read more
The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South... Read more
READ ALL ABOUT IT! David Spiegelhalter has recently joined the ranks of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking by becoming a fellow of the Royal Society... Read more
The unifying approach of functional analysis is to view functions as points in abstract vector space and the differential and integral operators as linear transformations on these spaces... Read more
Walter M. Fitch, a pioneer in the study of molecular evolution, has written this cogent overview of why creationism fails with respect to all the fundamentals of scientific inquiry... Read more
In Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative, Will Eisner-one of the most influential comic artists of the twentieth century-lays out the fundamentals of storytelling and their application in the comic book and graphic novel... Read more
Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences... Read more
This textbook on the calculus of variations leads the reader from the basics to modern aspects of the theory... Read more
Covering the fundamentals of electrical transients, this book should equip readers with the skills to recognise and solve transient problems in power networks and components... Read more
A detailed look at the fast-growing field of Islamic banking and finance The global Islamic finance market is now worth about $700 billion worldwide... Read more
Random signals and noise are present in many engineering systems and networks. Signal processing techniques allow engineers to distinguish between useful signals in audio, video or communication equipment, and interference, which disturbs the desired signal... Read more
The importance of facilities management to the effective operation of all businesses is now widely accepted... Read more
Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance - for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power... Read more
The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation... Read more
* All aspects of genetic engineering in the post-genomic era are covered, beginning with the basics of DNA structure and DNA metabolism... Read more
The Third Edition of Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science treats earth science from a systems perspective, showing how the four spheres (lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere) are interrelated... Read more
With contributions from an internationally-renowned group of experts, this book uses a multidisciplinary approach to review recent developments in the field of smart sensor systems, covering important system and design aspects... Read more
Crime Mapping Case Studies: From Research to Practice provides a series of key examples from practice and research that demonstrate applications of crime mapping and its effect in many areas of policing and crime reduction... Read more