Helps policymakers to integrate the objectives of sustainability into policy actions in a given socio-political environment. This book outlines the elements and considerations of community aspects of policy evaluation in an effort to reduce the future consequences on resources and environmental sust[...]

This textbook is intended for a graduate-level course and assumes familiarity with basic concepts from matrix theory, linear algebra, and linear system theory. Six appendices at the end of the book provide the reader with enough background and review material in all these areas. This original work [...]

The AVR Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and Cfeatures a step-by-step approach in covering both Assembly and C language programming of the AVR family of Microcontrollers. It offers a systematic approach in programming and interfacing of the AVR with LCD, keyboard, ADC, DAC, Senso[...]

This is a brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. It presents stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out and don't want it to. How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning wh[...]

Other Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith. Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching [...]

How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. Winner of the GoldSmiths Prize 2014 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Winner of the 2014 Costa Novel Award Winner of the Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award 2014 Nominated for the Folio Prize 2015. Passionate, compassionate, [...]

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peo[...]

Real love. Real lives. The real thing ..."Girl Heart Boy" is the irresistible new romantic series for teens, combining the romance of "The OC" with the realism of "Skins" and the sexiness of E L James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" - for a teen audience. "Girl Heart Boy" is perfect for fans of "Twilight" a[...]

It's launch time for the hotly anticipated video game Alien Liberator 2, and who better to invite along than top gamer Ali-A? Ali is promised the biggest game launch ever - but what he doesn't count on is just how real the action is about to get! When a merciless band of aliens turns up to spoil[...]

Winner of Blue Peter's Book That I Couldn't Put Down and Book of the Year Award 2010 .