Offers an introduction to the concepts and methods of valuing real estate. This book provides information for students to progress from basic principles to a better understanding of the subject. It demonstrates how the principles can be applied in professional practice.[...]

Scattering theory has a long history and underpins a range of information and communications technologies. This book provides readers with an overview of methods connecting formal processes associated with solutions of homogeneous and inhomogeneous Helmholtz equations, for example, to statistical me[...]

A decade after Francis Fukuyama announced the 'End of History', anti-capitalist demonstrators at Seattle and elsewhere have helped reinvigorate the Left with the reply 'another world is possible'. More than anyone else it was Marx who showed that slogans such as this were no utopian fantasies, and t[...]

This title examines the role of nationalism, heritage, culture, identity negotiation, ideology and power in multilingualism. What does it mean to young people to be multilingual? What do multilingual speakers' linguistic resources mean to them? Are they happy to discard their languages, and assimila[...]

This is a must-have book for anyone who practices, or is interested in, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Most people in the psychological community are familiar with the concept of cognitive defusion. This important practice rests on the premise that many of our thoughts, particularly self-e[...]

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of second language learning, multilingualism and gender. An impressive array of papers situated within a feminist poststructuralist framework demonstrates how this framework allows for a deeper understanding of second language learning, [...]

The subject of partial differential equations holds an exciting place in mathematics. Inevitably, the subject falls into several areas of mathematics. At one extreme the interest lies in the existence and uniqueness of solutions, and the functional analysis of the proofs of these properties. At the [...]