The only textbook to provide a wide-ranging analysis of war and organised violence from a sociological perspective. Zobraziť viac
Deals with areas at interface between finance and mathematics. Zobraziť viac
The challenges of living in space are multiple: without the Earths atmosphere, gravity and rotation, essential activities including breathing, exercising and sleeping require technology. This illustrated space travel manual describes all aspects of... Zobraziť viac
Praise for The Art & Science of Technology Transfer... Zobraziť viac
The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides a comparative assessment of public diplomacy and strategic communication initiatives, in order to portray how Joseph Nye's notion of "soft power" has translated into context-... Zobraziť viac
Drawing on a rich diversity of theoretical approaches and practical strategies, urban geographers are at the forefront of understanding the global and local processes shaping cities, and of making sense of the urban experiences of a wide variety of... Zobraziť viac
Carnivores such as wolves and weasels, jackals and jaguars are loved by us for their beauty and their prowess as hunters, and simultaneously despised as stock-killers, man-eaters and competitors for food and space. This readable account by a renowned... Zobraziť viac
The Craft of Scientific Writing is designed to help scientists and engineers - both professionals already active in the disciplines as well as students preparing to enter the professions - write about their work clearly and effectively. Written for use... Zobraziť viac
In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of... Zobraziť viac
A bestselling classic reference, now expanded and updated to cover the latest instrumentation, methods, and applications The Second Edition of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry brings this core reference up to date on the uses of FT-IR... Zobraziť viac
Special functions, which include the trigonometric functions, have been used for centuries. Their role in the solution of differential equations was exploited by Newton and Leibniz, and the subject of special functions has been in continuous... Zobraziť viac
"Boyle's study is essential reading for all students, teachers and researchers of sports journalism... Zobraziť viac
Dies ist ein weiterer Band in der erfolgreichen "Speaks"-Reihe, in der schon Warren Buffet, Jack Welch, Bill Gates und Oprah Winfrey zu Wort kamen. "Ted Turner Speaks" ist eine Chronik von Aussagen und Visionen Ted Turners, dem Medienmogul und... Zobraziť viac
With over 30,000 terms, this book provides comprehensive coverage of four allied but separate industrial sectors: construction, forestry, surface mining, and public works. It offers definitions from a wide variety of fields such as architecture,... Zobraziť viac
Argues against the conceptions of individual autonomy which are widely relied on in bioethics. Zobraziť viac
"Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World "is a collection of specially written papers by world-class metaphysicians. Its focus are the problems facing the 'reductionist' approach to causation. Zobraziť viac
An analysis of human and non-human animals' spatial cognitive, perceptual, and behavioural processes through mapping internal and external spatial knowledge. Zobraziť viac
A knowledge of matrix algebra is a prerequisite for the study of much of modern statistics, especially the areas of linear statistical models and multivariate statistics. This reference book provides the background in matrix algebra necessary to do... Zobraziť viac
