New edition, thoroughly updated, and incorporating important new linguistic study developments involving apes, brain scans, speech understanding, and other major topical issues.[...]

Writing is the principal means by which doctoral candidature is monitored and measured; this, combined with the growing tendency to use publications as proxy measures of individual and institutional productivity, underlines the centrality of writing in academia. One of the central questions for scho[...]

This book gives a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change, discussing where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes that occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. This substantially revis[...]

This book gives a synoptic description of the practical details of how to carry out the common procedures in imaging on which a trainee in radiology will be expected to be familiar. It does not attempt to cover rarer techniques beyond the scope of the exam or to show the resulting images. Every tech[...]

Provides an introduction to the three gauge theories of the 'standard model' of particle physics: quantum electrodynamics (QED), quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the electroweak theory. This book provide a discussion of the main conceptual points. Its emphasis is placed on developing realistic calcu[...]

How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of [...]

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces new geography and geometry spatial datatypes that enable the storage of structured data describing the shape and position of objects in space. This is an interesting and exciting new feature, with many potentially useful applications. Beginning Spatial with SQL S[...]

Microsoft SQL Server implements extensive support for location-based data. Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012 introduces SQL Server's spatial feature set, and covers everything you'll need to know to store, manipulate, and analyze information about the physical location of objects in space. You'll lea[...]

"The first volume of this updated fourth edition includes self-contained presentations of electromagnetism as a gauge theory as well as relativistic quantum mechanics. It provides a unique elementary introduction to quantum field theory, establishing theessentials of the formal and conceptual framew[...]

DNS provides incredible convenience in calling system resources via an easily recognizable name instead of a cryptic number. It is critical that this technology ensures smooth operation of Internet-based resources like the Web and mail servers. Specifically, BIND is the world's most popular DNS impl[...]

A gripping account of the worst single fishing disaster where 189 men were lost in a single afternoon. Told as a gripping narrative of survival when Eyemouth was the centre of a massive smuggling ring. Told through the fishermen and their families who waited for them, Black Friday provides adventure[...]