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In the last half-century, the number of Catholic priests has plummeted by 40% while the number of Catholics has skyrocketed, up 65%. The specter of a faith defined by full pews and empty altars hangs ...

In this book, Lydia Goehr describes how the concept of a musical work fully crystallized around 1800, and subsequently defined the norms, expectations, and behavioral patterns that have come to charac...

This book has grown out of half a century of experience of teaching undergraduate econometrics at the Econometric Institute in Rotterdam. It combines a solid exposition of econometric methods with the...

This dictionary, sponsored by the International Neuropsychological Society, is a practical resource for neuropsychologists, neurologists, speech pathologists, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, an...

HAND ON INTRODUCTION TO LABVIEW FOR SCIENTISTS

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MEMORY

Written in accordance with EAE aims and goals, and reflecting the EAE Core Syllabus; Evidence-based and corresponds to the latest EAE; Recommendations, with the emphasis on providing sound management...

Authoritative and up to date, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary offers unsurpassed coverage of English, perfect for anyone who needs a handy, reliable resource for home, school, or office. The Co...

Written by an experienced team of experts, this new reference work offers the most up-to-date coverage available of building, surveying, and civil engineering terms. It boasts more than 9,800 alphabet...

Slang is language with its sleeves rolled up, colorful, pointed, brash, bristling with humor and sometimes with hostility. Now, in Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang, John Ayto and John Simpson have ga...

The 40% drop in crime that occurred across the U.S. from 1991 to 2000 largely remains an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling then is the crime rate drop in New York City, which lasted twice long and ...

Random fluctuations in population dynamics are fundamentally important in pure and applied ecology. This book introduces demographic and environmental stochasticity, and illustrates statistical meth...

Downes and Rock's popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, provides the reader with an indispensable guide to criminological theory. It sympathetically outlines the principal theories of crime and ...

The importance and the beauty of modern quantum field theory resides in the power and variety of its methods and ideas, which find application in domains as different as particle physics, cosmology, c...

Offering a truly global approach to international relations, Introduction to Global Politics, Brief Edition, brings together an expert team of international scholars to provide students with a current...

This book gives an introduction to probability and its many practical application by providing a thorough, entertaining account of basic probability and important random processes, covering a range of...

Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy ...

Mary Jo Hatch and Ann L. Cunliffe Comprehensive coverage of the most relevant topics in the field of organization theory provides a thorough grounding that will immerse students in the subject The onl...

Thirty-five new international case studies on such topics as BRICs, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the Sudanese civil war, drones, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the rise of China, the Occupy mov...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for ...

Argues that ignorance, not knowledge, is what drives science Provides a fascinating inside-view of the way every-day science is actually done Features intriguing case histories of how individual scien...

Contains more than 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, with coverage of language from the entire English-speaking world, from North America and the UK to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, ...

More than 4,700 clear, jargon-free entries Defines all the major legal terms, concepts, processes, and the organization of the English legal system, and provides a useful source of information for the...

An ideal primary text for any introductory epidemiology course, including those in public health and medicine Intuitive, easy-to-follow explanations of core concepts-no getting bogged down in overly t...

Topics presented in the order that scales are constructed Assumes minimal knowledge of statistics Written in a conversational tone Readers can use these steps to construct their own scales.

The only reference work that offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of international criminal justice The beginning of the first trials at the International Criminal Court give this book real pr...

Now updated to include cases from a greater range of domestic jurisdicutions, a new chapter on criticism, themes, and issues, and an account of the completed work of the International Law Commission L...

Best for content - over 4000 age-appropriate entries on difficult Shakespearean words and meanings help to build extensive Shakespearean vocabulary Best for context - carefully levelled example senten...

Fowler´s Dictionary of Modern English Usage is a classic, an unsurpassed resource on the correct use of English in matters of style, grammar, and syntax. Leading language expert David Crystal now re-e...

First to present a comprehensive approach to investment management focusing on factor risk premiums.

Cross-disciplinary approach that brings together both leading historians and management/ organization scholars. The first attempt to articulate a historical research methodology that can be used in bu...

Developed with the IB so you can trust in the most comprehensive and accurate match to IB specifications Written by experienced IB Examiners to exactly match the latest syllabus Current, international...

Quick and easy to use Up-to-date coverage of over 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions Comes in a bendyback binding - a hard-wearing cover that protects the book from daily wear and tear

Contributors from foremost scholars in the field of organization studies, identity scholarship, and process thinking. Theoretically comprehensive to enable better understanding of theories underlying ...

Covers and critiques all the key approaches to public policy from the detached observer to the engaged practitioner Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors.

A comprehensive book on methods for mediation and interaction. The only book to approach this topic from the perspective of causal inference. Easy to read and accessible. Examples drawn from diverse f...

A complete revision of the classic text Provides an accessible, top-to-bottom evaluation of how social and economic conditions become biologically embedded to influence health and functioning The firs...

This is an English-language adaptation of the author´s successful Une simple flute. The book is a practical, common-sense reference guide for flutists. It is extremely comprehensive in its coverage of...

Features contributors at the forefront of music education from around the world Recognizes that music education occurs in many contexts, both formal and informal Updates and redefines music education ...

Fresh approach to music education attuned to the realities of twenty-first century globalization Author has deeply immersed himself in study of music from other cultures Challenges hegemony of western...

Critical Issues in Music Education: Contemporary Theory and Practice examines the rich and challenging complexities of music teaching and learning from a variety of perspectives. With individual exper...

Over 5000 entries on all aspects of chemistry--from physical chemistry to biochemistry Greater breadth of content, increasing appeal to students interested in nuclear magnetic resonance, polymer chemi...

CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the richness, diversity, and continuity of Britain´s literary heritage. Under the general editorship of Pat Rogers, some of Britain´s foremost literary schola...

Intelligent control schemes have been designed for benchmark nonlinear systems across disciplines Comprehensively covers fuzzy and neural control schemes and introduces quantum neural networks using a...

John J. Uicker, Jr., Gordon R. Pennock, and Joseph E. Shigley Offers balanced coverage of all topics by both graphic and analytic methods Covers all major analytic approaches Provides high-accuracy gr...

This book gives a detailed mathematical and statistical analysis of the cointegrated vector autoregresive model. This model had gained popularity because it can at the same time capture the short-run ...

A thorough and expanded version of a classic text Important reference for professional statisticians as well as for graduate students.

The importance of mathematics competitions has been widely recognized for three reasons: they help to develop imaginative capacity and thinking skills whose value far transcends mathematics; they cons...

SCIENTIFIC WRITING

The most comprehensive and scholarly history of English Literature on the market. Explores the full range of English literature from Anglo-Saxon through to the present day Now revised and updated fo...

For the practicing neuropsychologist or researcher, keeping up with the sheer number of newly published or updated neuropsychological tests is a challenge, as is evaluating the utility and psychometri...

The publication of this fully updated edition of A Dictionary of Genetics coincides with the hundredth anniversary of the introduction of the term genetics by William Bateson in 1906 at the Third Inte...

When the late Spiro Kostof´s A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books on architecture ever written. Now, updated and expanded, th...

Now updated to address recent developments in the post-9/11 world, A World of Nations, Second Edition, provides an analytical narrative of the origins, evolution, and end of the Cold War. Much more th...

Provides a survey of solar geometry and meteorological data, the optics of various kinds of solar collectors, the mechanics of heat transfer, and private elements of system deign, optimization, and ec...

Controlled drug delivery technology bridges the advances in medicine and genomics to the development of effective and innovative therapeutic products. This volume will examine recent research in this ...

" The first history of the African diaspora in Latin America from emancipation to the present; " Spans two centuries.

Air Pollution Meteorology and Dispersion provides a concise yet thorough review of the basic theories, models, experiments, and observations of pollutant dispersal in the atmosphere. It offers the the...

In Applied Geostatistics the authors demonstrate how simple statistical methods can be used to analyse earth science data. In clear language, they explain how various forms of the estimation method ca...

This classic was the first to fill the need for an undergraduate text in analog filters for electrical engineering. Intended for juniors and seniors with a background in introductory circuits, includi...

ARBITRARY JUSTICE

Oxford University Press has partnered with Sapling Learning to produce an online homework and instructional solution for the McKee & McKee Biochemistry: The Molecular Basis of Life textbook. The text ...

Clinical Neuropsychology comprehensively reviews the major neurobehavioral disorders associated with brain dysfunction. Since the third edition appeared in 1993 there have been many advances in the...

This book describes the development of the scientific article from its modest beginnings to the global phenomenon that it has become today. Their analysis of a large sample of texts in French, English...

As companies are coming to realize they can´t compete successfully in the 21st century with organizations based on 19th century ideas, Competing by Design shows clearly and persuasively why--and, most...

Highly acclaimed in its first two editions, Ian R. McWhinney´s Textbook of Family Medicine is one of the seminal texts in the field. While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a pract...

A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of co...

Computer simulation is an essential tool in studying the chemistry and physics of liquids. Simulations allow us to develop models and to test them against experimental data. They can be used to evalua...

COMPUTABILITY AND RANDOMNESS

Edited by Miquel Porta The new edition of this classic text remains the definitive dictionary in epidemiology. In fact, it is more than a dictionary, with some reviewers remarking that if they had to ...

Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this book covers the theory and applications of digital control systems, assuming a knowledge of matrix algebra, differential equations. Lap...

Doing Grammar is a practical and lively guide to discovering how the English language works. Author Max Morenberg uses modern linguistic theories to build upon traditional frameworks and provide acces...

In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules that he had extracted from ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll--presumably from plants that had lived and died mil...

This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive t...

Electroencephalography (EEG) is practiced by neurologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and others interested in functional brain imaging. Whether for clinical or experimental purposes, all studies shar...

This classic text of elementary dislocation theory has been reprinted to fulfill persistent demand. Because it approaches elementary dislocation theory from its most basic level, the material containe...

Elements of Electromagnetics, Fifth Edition, uses a vectors-first approach to explain electrostatics, magnetostatics, fields, waves, and applications like transmission lines, waveguides, and antennas....

ENABLING KNOWLEDGE CREATION

Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials, 2/e analyzes the behavior and properties of composite materials--rigid, high-strength, lightweight components that can be used in infrastructure, aircraft...

English Syntax: From Word to Discourse is a clear and highly accessible descriptive grammar of English with a strong semantic and discourse/functional focus. Designed for beginning graduate students a...

Featuring sixty-two accessible selections--from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research--Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works addresses both of the princ...

The rise of the New Judicial Federalism movement in the 1970s marked a sea-change in the history of state constitutional law by shifting the focus of power away from the central government in ways tha...

This book compares the three most prominent representatives of evolutionary algorithms - genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming - computational methods at the border be...

Understanding of animal social and sexual evolution has seen a renaissance in recent years with discoveries of frequent infidelity in apparently monogamous species, the importance of sperm competit...

The authors defend the ´basic needs´ approach to economic development which has been the subject of controversy and suspicion among many groups. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title...

Organized along the same lines as Three Sociological Traditions, Four Sociological Traditions is Randall Collins´ updated guide to the development of modern sociology. Explaining in a brief, readable ...

This text fulfills a need for an advanced-level work covering both the theory and application of geostatistics. It covers the most important areas of geostatistical methodology, introducing tools for ...

HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND HEALTH

An internationally renowned economist joins the bitter debate over globalization as he refutes critics to describe the potential social benefits of a properly governed form of globalization, including...

Insects and fungi have a shared history of association in common habitats where together they endure similar environmental conditions, but only recently have mycologists and entomologists recognized a...

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of Intuitive Biostatistics retains and refines the core perspectives of the previous edition: a focus on how to interpret statistical results rather ...

Fueled in part by some extraordinary theoretical developments in finance, an explosive growth of information and computing technology, and the global expansion of investment activity, investment theor...

Although Jane Austen famously referred to Emma as a heroine "whom no one but myself will much like," the irony of her remark has been obvious since the first appearance of her novel in December 1815. ...

Lignocellulose Biodegradation will be useful for chemists, biochemists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, and biochemical engineers. This book describes advances in lignocellulose biodegradation ...

This text is an extensive revision of the author´s highly successful text, "Linear Systems Theory and Design". In the third edition, the author is revising his formerly more theoretical approach to th...

Incorporating new problems and examples, the second edition of Linear Systems and Signals features MATLABRG material in each chapter and at the back of the book. It gives clear descriptions of linear ...

Making Mockery explores the dynamics of comic mockery and satire in Greek and Roman poetry, and argues that poets working with such material composed in accordance with shared generic principles and l...

The revolution in psychiatry that began in the 1950s led to dramatic advances in the understanding and treatment of manic-depressive illness also known as bipolar disorder. No other mental illness h...

This market-leading textbook continues its standard of excellence and innovation built on the solid pedagogical foundation that instructors expect from Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith. All material...

An ideal first text on communication systems in electrical engineering, Modern Digital and Analog Communication Systems is now in its fourth edition. Retaining the superb pedagogical style of the firs...

Nuclear cardiac imaging refers to cardiac radiological diagnostic techniques performed with the aid of radiopharmaceuticals, which are perfused into the myocardium as markers. These imaging studies pr...

This guide is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and the major diseases of western civilization, such as cancer and atherosclerosis. It is aimed both at r...

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions t...

Written by leading American practitioners, the Oxford American Handbooks of Medicine each offer a pocket-sized overview of an entire specialty, featuring instant access to guidance on the conditions t...

In Plato´s cratylus, which dates to 360 B.C., Socrates alludes to the use of signs by deaf people. In hisNatural History, completed in 79 A.D., Pliny the Elder alludes to Quintus Pedius, the deaf son ...

OXFORD TEXTBOOK OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Werner Jaeger´s classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, ...

Werner Jaeger´s classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, ...

Werner Jaeger´s classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, ...

PHARMACEUTICAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY

Updated and expanded in this third edition, Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications presents the most recent literature, empirical work, issues, and events in the field and t...

This is a graduate textbook on the theory of contracting under asymmetric information, a key part of modern microeconomic theory. It examines the characteristics of optimal contracts when one party ha...

Developed and written by those who use it, this one hundredth anniversary edition is the fulfillment of the authors´ desire to produce one book that met all their needs for information on analytical r...

Han (polymer engineering, U. of Akron) has written a two-volume opus (the volumes are sold individually) laying out the rheological behaviour of polymer materials in v.1 and their applications in poly...

An insightful and thorough account of the Arab-Israeli conflict ranges from the birth of Israel to the present day, told from firsthand knowledge of the major characters and events, written by a forme...

This work seeks to explain the historical process by which in the 17th and 18th centuries scientific knowledge became an integral part of the culture of Europe and how this in turn led to the Indus...

The first thorough and comprehensive treatment of low male voices Authored by renowned writer in the field of vocal pedagogy, Richard Miller

Emphasis on intuitive and heuristic understanding of concepts Extensive applications in the areas of communication, controls, and filtering Large number of MATLAB® examples. Background chapter to reac...

The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 4/e , examines the critical role of economic analysis in recent antitrust case decisions and policy.

Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learned, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers and consumers outside the university system might al...

This classic book offers a broad sweep of economic history from prehistoric times to the present and explores the disparity of wealth among nations.

Econometric Theory and Methods provides a unified treatment of modern econometric theory and practical econometric methods. The geometrical approach to least squares is emphasized, as is the method of...

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people´s poetry, and...

Warrick (his affiliation is not noted, though he thanks his students in his acknowledgments) has written a clearly organized text in advanced soil physics or vadose zone hydrology for use by students,...

Easy to read, Q&A format Addresses specific, recurring questions rather than generalities

SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis) has become the industry standard for computer-aided circuit analysis for microelectronic circuits, and is used by the majority of IC designe...

This book links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioral ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods. Craig´s book draws together studies from biochemistry thr...

STATISTICAL METHODS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

This is the most authoritative is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all asp...

In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. This authoritative and compelling work tells the story of the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages...

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians´ prehistoric origins to their conquest by the P...

The Earth´s biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate. And while many books have focused on the expected ecological consequences, or on the aesthetic, eth...

When used in tandem, systematic reviews and meta-analysis-- two distinct but highly compatible approaches to research synthesis-- form a powerful, scientific approach to analyzing previous studies. Bu...

Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity."Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin´s...

The Baroque Clarinet is a sourcebook for the historical study of the European clarinet during the first half of the eighteenth century. The book is based on a comprehensive study of the theoretical, m...

Aimed at chemists who teach at the high school and introductory college level, this valuable resource provides the reader with a wealth of knowledge and insight into Dr. Herron´s experiences in teachi...

There have been many advances in soil chemistry since Oxford published the first edition of The Chemistry of Soils in 1989. The physical-chemistry approach to soil chemistry taken in the book, groundb...

First detailed study of the clarinet in the Classical period.

When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Saf...

For nearly half a century, James D. Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has offered a matchless guided tour through American literary culture, both past and present. Hart now presents the f...

Ever since Newton created dynamics, there has been controversy about its foundations. Are space and time absolute? Do they form a rigid but invisible framework and container of the universe? Or are sp...

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While t...

How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not ...

This collection of previously unpublished, cutting-edge research discusses the conversation analysis (CA) approach to understanding language use. CA is the dominant theory for analyzing the social use...

A historical overview of technology charts the ebb and flow of technological creativity throughout civilization, from ancient Greece to modern Japan, identifying the economic factors behind creativity...

How do brand names differ from other names, and what goes into making a good name great and a bad name ghastly? Knowing this can spell the difference between bankruptcy and marketplace triumph. In thi...

What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture capital play? I...

THE OXFORD AMERICAN DESK DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS

Medieval English Literature is the first volume of the comprehensive Oxford Anthology of English Literature to be published in a second, expanded, and fully revised edition. It provides an authoritati...

A completely revised edition of a standard reference work covers the movements, authors, genres, critics, awards, and many other aspects of American literature, and includes nearly two hundred new ent...

The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature was first published in 1983 to great acclaim. In the fourteen years since its publication Canadian literature has enjoyed an explosion of creative talent. T...

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of Septem...

The Outlines of Pyrrhonism by the 2nd century A.D. Greek physician Sextus Empiricus was immensely influential in the history of Western philosophy. The rediscovery and publication of this work in the ...

This is a narrative account of twentieth-century world history, with extensive coverage given to the U.S., Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The book´s unique analytical framew...

Like a good teacher, journalist Tim Hartford make sense of economics by showing how it works in the real world--and making it all interesting. Through case studies of recognizable companies such as St...

Now fully revised in its fourth edition, this text is ideal for senior undergraduate or graduate students in mechanical engineering who are taking a course in kinematics and/or machine dynamics. 4ed. ...

Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and access...

Designed as a practical program for singers, teachers, and voice professionals Authored by renowned singing teacher Richard Miller.

Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighbourhood design? The tremendous popularity of the "new urbanism" and "livable communities" initiatives suggests that many people think so. As a s...

In the seven years since the publication of the first edition of "Wall Street", America´s financial industry has undergone a series of wrenching events that have dramatically changed the nation´s e...

Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Funct...

In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues th...

This is the third volume in Alvin Plantinga´s trilogy on the notion of warrant, which he defines as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. In this volume, Plantinga examines warrant´s ro...

The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These roles dictate their language practices. "Why Do You Ask?" is the fi...

"Theory of mind" is the phrase researchers use to refer to children´s understanding of people as mental beings, who have beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions, and whose actions and interactions ...

Written in 1857 by a free-born Jamaican Creole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands presents a special kind of success story. With delightful urbanity and wit, Mary Seacole recounts her...

This new volume in the Counterpoints series compares and contrasts different conceptions of working memory, generally recognized as the mechanism within the human cognitive system that is responsible ...

Updated to include the very latest vocabulary, including bioterrorism, e-shopping, WAP phone, domain name, and SARS.

The distinctive feature of this book is that it provides a unified framework for the analysis of short- and medium-run macroeconomics. This gives students a model that they can use themselves to under...

Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate marketing students, Strategic Marketing examines the key aspects of traditional marketing strategy topics and presents an assessment and synthesis of r...

Complex analysis is a classic and central area of mathematics, which is studied and exploited in a range of important fields, from number theory to engineering. Introduction to Complex Analysis was ...

- International coverage of today´s English for school, for home , and for business - The clearest definitions written in simple, straightforward English - Hundreds of extra notes to help improve your...

Air pollution, water contamination, persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, metals, and radiofrequencies are just some examples of environmental factors that have been linked to adverse health effe...

This volume discusses the challenges faced by South Asia at the dawn of the new century. It seeks to discover why, despite having an enormous potential for development, the region has lagged behind ot...

There is little doubt that Einstein´s theory of relativity captures the imagination. It is unrivalled in forming the basis of the way we view the universe and the many surprises that the theory has in...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEOLIBERALISM

The Strategy of Preventive Medicine by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993, remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose´s insights into the inextricable relationship between...

The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the foremost international textbook of medicine. Unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialti...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is a cutting-edge reference work to philosophical issues in the practice of economics. It is motivated by the view that there is more to economics than g...

While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, The Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, ...

This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill´s great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary chapters on socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to ...

Proteins are an integral part of molecular and cellular structure and function and are probably the most purified type of biological molecule. In order to elucidate the structure and function of any p...

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics offers a critical survey of the field of empirical political science through the collection of a set of chapters written by 47 top scholars in the disciplin...

Providing a practical introduction to state space methods as applied to unobserved components time series models, also known as structural time series models, this book introduces time series analys...

Rethinking Music offers a comprehensive re-evalution of current thinking about music. In this book, 24 distinguished musicologists, music theorists, and ethnomusicologists review different dimension...

Students of particle physics often find it difficult to locate resources to learn calculational techniques as intermediate steps are usually not given in the research literature. To a certain extent, ...

CLINICAL TESTS OF REPIRATORY FUNCTION

Aimed at a single-semester course on antennas at the undergraduate level, "Antennas and Wave Propagation" provides a lucid explanation of the fundamentals of antennas and propagation. This student-...

The 2nd edition of a comprehensive guide to the modern production and research of one of the oldest cultivated fruit crops. CABI

This is the long-awaited second edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively updated to reflect profound changes in corporate law. It no...

NONEQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Quantum information- the subject- is a new and exciting area of science, which brings together physics, information theory, computer science and mathematics. Quantum Information- the book- is based on...

In Particles: A Very Short Introduction, best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling and lively introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe. The book begins with a gu...

The book provides a basic introduction to one of the most innovative areas in condensed matter physics today. This book includes ample tutorial material, including illustrations, chapter summaries, gr...

Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most active and exciting branches of research, often considered to be today where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discover...

INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL RELATIVITY

HRM is central to management teaching and research, and has emerged in the last decade as a significant field from its earlier roots in Personnel Management, Industrial Relations, and Industrial Psych...

Written by one of the leading exponents of the resource-based view of the firm Reviews the resource-based view´s influence and applications in research, teaching, and practice Provides a holistic and ...

This classic text covers over 700 different genetic syndromes affecting body structures, and has established itself as the definitive, comprehensive work on the subject. The discussion covers the phen...

In this introduction to the social analysis of music, the author argues that musical meaning must be understood as socially constructed, rather than inherent, and that the notion of a correspondance b...

Robert Louis Stevenson´s short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in th...

Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed by the billions in stars and pass through us constantly, unseen, at almost the speed of l...

If you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up and you get heavier. Travel fast enough and you could weigh as much as a jumbo jet, be flattened thinner than a CD without feeling a thing...

The book is an introductory text to the physics of Bose-Einstein condensation. This phenomenon, first predicted by Einstein in 1925, has been realized experimentally in 1995 in a remarkable series of ...

Despite major advances in prevention and treatment, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States. The vast number of patients with cardiovascular disease coupled with...

This concise book is for chemists, material scientists, and physicists who deal with description of crystalline matter and the determination of its structure, and would like to gain more understanding...

Atomic force microscopy is an amazing technique that allies a versatile methodology (that allows measurement of samples in liquid, vacuum or air) to imaging with unprecedented resolution. But it goes ...

This book is the long-awaited companion volume to the highly acclaimed Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property, published by Oxford University Press in 2001. That book argued for strong priv...

From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti-colonialist movements of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the in...

As an introductory account of the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena reflects lectures given by the authors to graduate students...

The Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime represents a major step forward in the internationally co-operative fight against transnational organized crime. This book offers a comprehensive, ...

The Mayo Clinic Atlas of Regional Anesthesia and Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blockade is a practical guide that provides a detailed and systematic approach to regional anesthesia of the upper and lower ex...