A series of twenty non-fiction science readers which engages children in the world around them.
How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? This is an introduction to the interdisciplinary debates.[...]
Recent experience with interventions designed to promote the well-being of children and to prevent mental health problems has identified particular challenges in families with disordered parents. These families are often very difficult to engage in mental health promotion and prevention programs, an[...]
Have you ever wondered if there is there life after death? If so, where do people go when they die? Whether it's possible to keep in contact with your loved ones after they die? And are they able to help you? Will you meet them again? There Are No Goodbyes provides answers and comfort for all of the[...]
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Returning to her small home town in Vermont to care for her Alzheimer's patient mother, reserved forty-one-year-old nurse Kate finds herself inadvertently drawn into the murder investigation of a young girl, a case that reminds her of the death of an impoverished childhood friend years earlier. Orig[...]
While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But th[...]
When Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz form the Compassionate Dismantlers in college, the first rule of their manifesto is, "To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart." But their penchant for acts of meaningful vandalism and elaborate, often dangerous pranks results in Suz's death in th[...]
On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen.Fifteen years la[...]
The summer of 1985 changes Reggie's life. An awkward thirteen-year-old, she finds herself mixed up with the school outcasts. That same summer, a serial killer called Neptune begins kidnapping women. He leaves their severed hands on the police department steps and, five days later, displays their bod[...]
This book helps readers learn relativity at the speed of light! Now anyone can grasp Einstein's great theory of relativity - without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In "Relativity Demystified", theoretical physicists (and student-savvy authors) David McMahon and Paul Ansing provide [...]
Presents a way to learn the essentials of quantum mechanics. This book shows how to do quantum mechanics using worked examples. It helps reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses with questions. It explains spin and angular momentum, vector spaces, matrix mechanics, the harmonic oscillator, and the[...]
The fast and easy way to learn signals and systems Get a working knowledge of signal processing and systems--even if you don't have formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. Signals and Systems Demystified offers an effective, illuminating, and entertaining way to learn this essential electri[...]
Finally a DeMYSTiFied title for the hundred thousand mechanical and civil engineering students who take the enormous and rather difficult Statics and Dynamics course.[...]
Need to Learn MATLAB? Problem SOLVED! Get started using MATLAB right away with help from this hands-on guide. MATLAB Demystified offers an effective and enlightening method for learning how to get the most out this powerful computational mathematics tool. Using an easy-to-follow format, this book e[...]
The sure cure for "circuit paralysis," or fear of taking the dreaded sophomore Circuit Analysis class.[...]
UNRAVEL the mystery of STRING THEORY Trying to understand string theory but ending up with your brain in knots? Here's your lifeline! This straightforward guide explains the fundamental principles behind this cutting-edge concept. String Theory Demystified elucidates the goal of the theory--to com[...]
An introductory resource on complex physics outlines key principles and mathematical concepts using easy-to-follow explanations and sample equations, in a guide that also provides complementary information on such topics as string theory, supersymmetry, and quantum gravity. Original.[...]
Complex variables is a mathematical and engineering field playing a crucial role in signal processing, electromagnetics, image analysis, and differential equations. Written in the "Demystified" format, this guide offers a way for you to comprehend this topic. It includes examples and worked equation[...]
Now you can be certain you'll learn quantum mechanics with relative ease! Completely revised and updated, Quantum Mechanics DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition offers full coverage of the essentials of quantum mechanics. This new edition features four new chapters: identical particles; time-independent pert[...]
The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope and intensity of the Cold War. But why did it last so long? And what impact did it have on the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and the Third World? Finally, how did it affect the broader[...]
Critics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history - the Enlightenment - as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major c[...]