'New Frontiers in Marine Tourism' is the first book of this kind to address and analyse this burgeoning tourism sector comprehensively. By integrating aspects such as the sustainability, safety, education, experiences and management of diving tourism the text highlights a variety of pressing topics [...]

The Bach Remedies Workbook is a complete self-contained guide in the selection and use of the Bach Flower Remedies. Written by a consultant at the Dr Edward Bach Centre, the course starts from first principles and in seven progressive sections covers all 38 of the Bach Flower Remedies and the states[...]

A highly perceptive manifesto for entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers from the vice president of digital sport at Nike and the founder of legendary innovation agency AKQA. With an exclusive introduction by Sir Richard BransonHow can you win when the only certainty is change? Highly accessible, live[...]

Credit risk is one of the most studied topics in quantitative finance. This book provides an introduction and overview on rating based modeling of credit risk focusing on the theory and application of credit migration matrices. It provides an up-to-date reference to the central problems of the field[...]

A one-stop desk reference for R&D engineers involved in communications engineering, this book will not gather dust on the shelf. It brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the field. Material covers a wide scope of topics, including v[...]

LTE/LTE Advanced Release 10 is the 3GPP's (3rd Generation Partnership Project) new standard, just finalized in November 2010, that embodies The International Telecommunications Union's requirements for 4G mobile systems, enabling faster networks for mobile multimedia applications. This new edition b[...]

Ever-changing business needs have prompted large companies to rethink their enterprise IT. Today, businesses must allow interaction with their customers, partners, and employees at more touch points and at a depth never thought previously. At the same time, rapid advances in information technologies[...]

For graduate-/research-level students and professors, this book integrates machine learning with knowledge acquisition to overcome the problems of building models for knowledge-based systems to maintain them successfully. It also reports on BLIP and MOBAL systems developed over the last decade.[...]

For both undergraduate and graduate courses in Control System Design.Using a â how to do itâ approach with a strong emphasis on real-world design, this text provides comprehensive, single-source coverage of the full spectrum of control system design. Each of the text's 8 parts covers an area in[...]

Why are there morning people and night people? How come time flies when you're having fun and three minutes can sometimes seem an eternity? Would time exist if we didn't measure it - and why is there never enough of it? Our modern lives are ruled by minutes and hours. We race from one thing to the n[...]