Media critics remain captivated by the modernist myth of the new: they assume that digital technologies such as the World Wide Web, virtual reality, and computer graphics must divorce themselves from earlier media for a new set of aesthetic and cultural principles. In this richly illustrated study, [...]
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy inno[...]
The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (the Diners Club card) into today's complex, sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars in transaction volume each year. Paying with Plastic is the definitive source [...]
Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous value [...]
Gandhara, the ancient name for the region around modern Peshawar in northern Pakistan, was of pivotal importance in the production of Buddhist texts and art in the first centuries CE. Since the mid-nineteenth century, excavations of Gandharan monastery sites have revolutionized the study of early Bu[...]
In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International, and Keisaburo[...]
The scientific evidence behind why maintaining a lifestyle more like that of our ancestors will restore our health and well-being. In GO WILD, Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey, MD, and journalist Richard Manning reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies have not ke[...]
Stats: Data and Models, Third Edition, will intrigue and challenge students by encouraging them to think statistically and by emphasizing how statistics helps us understand the world. Praised by students and instructors alike for its readability and ease of comprehension, this text focuses on statis[...]
Stats: Data and Models, Third Edition, will intrigue and challenge students by encouraging them to think statistically and by emphasizing how statistics helps us understand the world. Praised by students and instructors alike for its readability and ease of comprehension, this text focuses on statis[...]
This package consists of the textbook plus an access kit for MyMathLab/MyStatLab. Stats: Data and Models, Third Edition, will intrigue and challenge students by encouraging them to think statistically and by emphasizing how statistics helps us understand the world. Praised by students and instructor[...]
Stats: Data and Models, Third Edition, will intrigue and challenge students by encouraging them to think statistically and by emphasizing how statistics helps us understand the world. Praised by students and instructors alike for its readability and ease of comprehension, this text focuses on statis[...]
A revised and updated edition of this popular A level General Studies text to meet the requirements of the 2008 AQA A General Studies specification.[...]
This provocative work by the bestselling author of "The Right Man" and the former assistant secretary of defense--two of Washington's most influential insiders--charts the agenda for what's next in the war on terrorism. "Intelligent and worthwhile."--"The New York Times Book Review."[...]
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What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, "the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction book" ("Tagesanzeiger Zurich"), has traveled the globe searching f[...]
A complete resource for Apollo program information covers the technological and managerial setbacks, tracks the development of the Saturn rocket, and details each Apollo mission.[...]
Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman and What DoYou Care What Other People Think? But not always obvious in those stories[...]
Provides an introduction to the tourism-development process. This book questions assumptions about the role of tourism in development and highlights the dilemmas faced by destinations seeking to achieve development through tourism. It is intended for those investigating tourism issues in developing [...]
The second edition of Instant Notes in Bioinformatics has been restructured to provide material for informatics students irrespective of their chosen field and shows how these generic informatics skills are being applied to most aspects of the life sciences, and not simply molecular biology wher[...]
Divided into four sections, this book covers clinical approaches to the patient; syndromes of disorder; disorders related to stages of the life cycle; and, services, ethics and the law. It is useful for medical students and doctors in training who are involved with psychiatry. It is also a useful fo[...]
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a comprehensive reference text which covers all areas of cardiac care that nurses need to know about. As well as the clinical conditions and syndromes, it covers health promotion and rehabilitation[...]