Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our 'throwaway society' by developing powerful design tools, methods and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design field's established focus on energy and materia[...]
The hunter becomes the hunted. . . .
West Grayer is done killing. She defeated her Alternate, a twin raised by another family, and proved she's worthy of a future. She's ready to move on with her life.
The Board has other plans. They want her to kill one last time, and offer her a deal worth[...]
High-density lipoprotein, HDL, is one of the hottest topics in lipid research and cardiovascular disease prevention today.[...]
The third edition of The Midwife's Labour and Birth Handbook offers an essential guide for both student midwives and experienced practising midwives. This well-regarded text promotes normality and woman-centred care, using research, evidence-based guidelines and anecdotal accounts from women.[...]
Since I wrote the Foreword for the second edition of this book, risk management processes have become much more widely used, but controversy about what should be done and how best to do it has grown. Managing risk is a risky business. Chapman and Ward provide an in-depth explanation of why it is imp[...]
One of the finest, most extensive sources of royalty-free illustrations of the world's plants and flowers, chosen for scientific accuracy, artistic style and suitability for reproduction. Common and botanical Latin names specified. 1,761 black-and-white illustrations. 2 indexes.
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Emphasizing problem-solving skills throughout this very successful book, Stephen Chapman introduces the MATLAB(R) language and shows how to use it to solve typical technical problems. The book teaches MATLAB(R) as a technical programming language showing students how to write clean, efficient, and [...]
Stephen Chapman's Essentials of MATLAB Programming is a successful freshman-level text that is useable in a wide range of courses. This brief text serves two purposes -- it teaches how to program using MATLAB as a technical programming language as well as teaching students the basics of computer pro[...]
International Edition.