This up-to-the-minute edition provides the latest in Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Digital Mapping, Spatial Information Systems, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), as well as comprehensive coverage of the surveying techniques, operations, and information professionals of every stripe need[...]

Fox babysits for his sister Louise, learns to climb a tree for some grapes, and wins a shopping cart race[...]

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[...]

Writing News for Broadcast is the Strunk and White of broadcast newswriting books. Long considered the gold standard of broadcast journalism textbooks, this guide for the student and the professional has inspired generations of newscasters through its eloquent examples and emphasis on the writer's r[...]

For introductory courses in Meteorology and Weather & Climate.

A first-rate textbook and inspired technology tutorials work together to engage students in the process of learning about atmospheric behavior. The authors use everyday occurrences to illustrate meteorology and climatology. Dynami[...]

With comprehensive descriptions of the basic oral surgery procedures performed in the general practitioner's office, "Contemporary and Maxillofacial Surgery, Fifth Edition" is a valuable reference for any dental office. This book covers the basic concepts of evaluation, diagnosis, and patient manage[...]

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With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful "Routledge Worlds" series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and[...]

'Barbarians' is the name the Romans gave to those who lived beyond the frontiers of the Roman Empire - the peoples they considered 'uncivilised'. Most of the written sources concerning the barbarians come from the Romans too, and as such, need to be treated with caution. Only archaeology allows us t[...]

A landmark in comparative history and a challenge to scholars of all lands who are trying to learn how we arrived at where we are now. "-New York Times Book Review"[...]