The standard textbook for courses in electrochemical engineering for nearly three decades, Electrochemical Systems rigorously lays out the fundamentals of mass transport, thermodynamics, electrochemical kinetics, and fluid dynamics necessary for the understanding of their interactions in electrochem[...]
This book provides an introduction to Monte Carlo simulations in classical statistical physics and is aimed both at students beginning work in the field and at more experienced researchers who wish to learn more about Monte Carlo methods. The material covered includes methods for both equilibrium an[...]
This volume charts the history of Twelver Shi'ism and the processes underlying the development of its key distinctive doctrines and practices which ensured its survival in the face of repeated internal and external challenges.[...]
London, 2012: It arrives and with that the world is changed into an unending graveyard littered with the bones, wreckage, and memories of a dead past, gone forever. London, 2032: Twenty years later, out of the ashes, a new world begins to rise, a place ruled by both loyalty and fear, and where the q[...]
This unusually lively textbook introduces the theory of analytic functions, explores its diverse applications and shows the reader how to harness its powerful techniques. The book offers new and interesting motivations for classical results and introduces related topics that do not appear in this fo[...]
Praise for this book:[Five stars] Provid[es] succinct and easy to understand information with excellent illustrations...the wealth of color illustrations [are] invaluable to students learning about these disorders. - Doody's Review With nearly 900 illustrations and the combined 40-year experience o[...]
The Safavid dynasty, which reigned from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth century, links medieval with modern Iran. The Safavids witnessed wide-ranging developments in politics, warfare, science, philosophy, religion, art and architecture. But how did this dynasty manage to produce the longest la[...]
The Church's Bible series serves to bring the rich classical tradition of biblical interpretation to life. Compiled, translated, and edited by leading scholars, these volumes draw extensively from early and medieval commentators, illuminating Holy Scripture as it was understood during the first mill[...]
Marine Hydrodynamics was specifically designed to meet the need for an ocean hydrodynamics text that is up-to-date in terms of both content and approach. The book is solidly based on fundamentals, but it also guides the student to an understanding of their engineering applications through its consid[...]
Three views on creation and evolution are presented in this popular format whereby the contributors provide their own articles and respond to those of their peers.[...]
From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the concept - and the reality - of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what exactly is a network? What different types of networks are there? Why are they interesting, and what can they tell us? In re[...]
This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within[...]
This book offers the latest scholarship on this influential series of essays. Taking advantage of the insights provided by such critical perspectives as new historicism, feminism, postcolonialism, psychology, postmodernism, and cultural studies, the scholars represented here take a fresh look at The[...]
Climate change has moved from a contested phenomenon to the top of the agenda at global summits. "Climate Change Biology" is the first major textbook to address the critical issue of how climate change may affect life on the planet, and particularly its impact on human populations. Presented in thre[...]