This profusely illustrated text on Transmission Electron Microscopy provides the necessary instructions for successful hands-on application of this versatile materials characterization technique. The new edition also includes an extensive collection of questions for the student, providing approximat[...]
An in-depth look at the internals of the WordPress system. As the most popular blogging and content management platform available today, WordPress is a powerful tool. This exciting book goes beyond the basics and delves into the heart of the WordPress system, offering overviews of the functional asp[...]
Learn everything you need to know about music-related technology with EXPERIENCING MUSIC TECHNOLOGY. This updated version of the third edition by David Brian Williams and Peter Richard Webster -- the foremost educators in today's music technology field -- presents cutting-edge music technology and i[...]
How did prehistoric peoples those living before written records think? Were their modes of thought fundamentally different from ours today? Researchers over the years have certainly believed so. Along with the Aborigines of Australia, the indigenous San people of southern Africa among the last hunte[...]
The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe in the late Ice Age provokes awe and wonder in equal measure. What do these animals and symbols, depicted on the walls of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the ancestral mind? How [...]
What do animals and symbols, depicted on the walls of such caves as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, tell us about the nature of the atavistic mind? This book interweaves anthropological research with neurological insights to offer an account of how we became human and, in the process, began to make a[...]
Rousseau's 'Social Contract': An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text.[...]
Rousseau's 'Social Contract': An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text.[...]
Probability theory is nowadays applied in a huge variety of fields including physics, engineering, biology, economics and the social sciences. This book is a modern, lively and rigorous account which has Doobâs theory of martingales in discrete time as its main theme. It proves important result[...]
Now available in paperback, this celebrated book has been prepared with readersâ needs in mind, remaining a systematic treatment of the subject whilst retaining its vitality. The second volume follows on from the first, concentrating on stochastic integrals, stochastic differential equations, e[...]
Now available in paperback, this celebrated book has been prepared with readers? needs in mind, remaining a systematic guide to a large part of the modern theory of Probability, whilst retaining its vitality. The authors? aim is to present the subject of Brownian motion not as a dry part of mathemat[...]
This groundbreaking single-authored textbook equips students with everything they need to know about biomaterials science.[...]
Demonstrates how statistical results provide insights into business decisions, and presents solutions to contemporary business problems. This title includes coverage of the statistical and business software to manage statistical information.[...]
Introduce your students to management science techniques with the thorough, applications-oriented coverage you can trust from the definitive leader in traditional management science texts. The best-selling Anderson/Sweeney/Williams/Martin's INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH[...]
Illus. in full color. The timeless story of a toy rabbit that becomes real through the love of a child appears for the first time in an elegantly slipcased picture book and audio-cassette format.
Cassette running time: 25 minutes.
"Well done. A good read-aloud for [...]
Until recently, scientific and literary cultures have existed side-by-side but most often in parallel universes, without connection. The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Nature by David Williams addresses the premise that humans are a biological species stemming from the long process of[...]
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of technical methods of interpreting rock paintings of t[...]
At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations-from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in perfect harmony with nature by recent New[...]
There is a long tradition of telling the story of the life and death of a saint in a written biographical account known as a hagiography; such accounts have often been seen as providing the basis for what we know about saints. "Saints Alive" advances the discussion of conceptions of sainthood by arg[...]
The Sixth Edition of this well-known text has been fully revised and updated to meet the changing curricula of medicinal chemistry courses. Emphasis is on patient-focused pharmaceutical care and on the pharmacist as a therapeutic consultant, rather than a chemist. A new disease state management sect[...]
The Final Execution kicks into high gear, as what's left of the battered and beaten X-Force goes up against the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants...for the last time. Can the team come together in time to rally themselves and survive this brutal assault, or will dissension in the ranks lead to the dea[...]
Paul's writings are laced with vivid images from the bustling New Testament world. To understand these metaphors, David J. Williams delves into that Greco-Roman world and uses ancient sources to explore a wide variety of topics such as architecture, law, commerce, health care, and education. William[...]