Helps students gain an understanding of basic tools of economics that are used to solve various business problems. This book focuses on decision-making and managerial applications within the structure of an organization. It presents an analysis of firm and corporate governance.[...]

Provides laboratory exercises in plant tissue culture that demonstrate major educational concepts. This book covers tissue culture laboratory setup, supplies, media, and explant preparation, and measurements. It includes supplementary sections and scheduling and interrelationships of exercises suita[...]

Winner of the 2010 Richard Asher Prize for best undergraduate textbook Oxford Cases in Medicine and Surgery teaches students a hypothesis-driven, logical step-by-step diagnostic approach to common patient presentations. This approach mirrors that used by successful clinicians on the wards, challengi[...]

The first African American to receive a medical degree, this invaluable collection brings together the writings of James McCune Smith, one of the foremost intellectuals in antebellum America. The Selected Writings of James McCune Smith is one of the first anthologies featuring the works of this ill[...]

In an ageing population, geriatric medicine has become central to general practice, and to emergency and general internal medicine in the hospital setting. Diseases are more common in the older person, and can be particularly difficult to assess and to treat effectively in a field that has limited e[...]

NATO is the perennial survivor. Crises come and go, yet still it persists. Two decades since the watershed of the Cold War, this book investigates NATO's staying power. From the collapse of the Soviet Union through wars in the Balkans, and interventions in Afghanistan and Libya, the Alliance has ada[...]

A professional handbook of techniques and applications for academics and practitioners who use geomorphological mapping within their work. It brings together material on digital mapping (GIS and remote sensing), cartography an data sources with a focus on modern technologies (including GIS, remote s[...]

"Prefab Architecture . . . is beyond theory, and beyond most of what we think we know about pods, containers, mods, and joints. This book is more than 'Prefabrication 101.' It is the Joy of Cooking writ large for the architecture and construction industries."--From the Foreword by James Timberlake, [...]

This work provides an update of an award-winning classic, which introduced the major competing theories in human evolution. The coverage now features new fossil and molecular evidence, such as the genetic evidence including evolutionary inferences drawn from assesments of modern humans and large seg[...]