Few American lives have been as celebrated - or as closely scrutinized - as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In "Benjamin Franklin's Numbers", [...]

Includes exercises that helps in mastering German verbs. This book with CD-ROM includes more than 180 exercises with visual feedback on verb conjugation skills, with frequent cross-referencing to the accompanying book. It helps to review usage examples and test your knowledge of common verbal phrase[...]

Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the organisational, national and international level. This book focuses on these dynamics, and gives disaster scholars and practitioners useful lessons f[...]