"Ship Construction" is the market leading text for the professional shipbuilding and naval architecture sector. Acting as both a reference on the latest developments in construction techniques, safety and shipyard practice for professionals and a comprehensive text for students of naval architecture[...]

Integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. This book provides a rational basis for complex decisions and begins the process of defining the emergi[...]

Revised and updated to include the many developments that have taken place in bioenergetics since the second edition, this text covers the structures of key membrane proteins involved in bioenergetics, mitochondrial physiology and the role of mitochondria in apoptosis (programmed cell death).[...]

For senior undergraduate and beginning graduate-level courses in Soil Microbiology, Microbial Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, and Soil Ecology. A useful reference for professionals such as environmental scientists, resource managers, and agriculturalists. Written by leading experts in the field[...]

This book is certainly about software development management, but it is also a book about business. Managers can no longer afford to discuss these two topics independently. This book is meant to eliminate the seat-of-the-pants intuition and rough approximations that have been far too prevalent in so[...]

Computer Networks, 5/e is appropriate for Computer Networking or Introduction to Networking courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, CIS, MIS, and Business Departments. Tanenbaum takes a structured approach to explaining how networks work fro[...]

Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ, 5e, is ideal for introductory courses in Java/Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Programming and for beginning programmers. This is the only introductory programming textbook that uses the BlueJ integrated development enviro[...]

Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ, 5e, is ideal for introductory courses in Java/Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Programming and for beginning programmers.

This is the only introductory programming textbook that uses the BlueJ integrated development[...]

"The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader" brings together the most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement.
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Sudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British obsession. Here is Penguin's volume of Sudoku puzzles: the logic game that has taken the world by storm. "Pocket Penguin Sudoku" contains 201 fiendish brainteasers, ranging [...]

From the "New York Times" bestselling author comes a "hugely entertaining" (NPR.org) look at vice and virtue through cutting-edge scienceAs he did in his award-winning book "The Accidental Mind," David J. Linden--highly regarded neuroscientist, professor, and writer--weaves empirical science with en[...]