Genetic epidemiology is a rapidly developing field, and has continued to grow enormously in international importance over the last ten years. This book provides a unified text that draws together material genetics, epidemiology, public health and statistics.[...]

Presents an innovative, unified, and easily applied approach to designing and developing language assessments. Language Assessment in Practice is a follow-up to the bestselling Language Testing in Practice. It allows readers to become competent in the design, development, and use of language assessm[...]

In describing the technical experiences of one company from the beginning of the computer era, this book unfolds the challenges that IBM's research and development laboratories faced, the technological paths they chose, and how these choices affected the company and the computer industry. It chronic[...]