Science and Technology

Part of the Drugs in series, this book provides an easily accessible pocket-sized guide to the use of medications when treating patients with neuro...

The Handbook of Benign Proctological Disorders, part of the Oxford Clinical Practice Series, is a multidisciplinary, handy, clinical reference for ...

Physics World's 'Book of the Year' for 2016 An Entertaining and Enlightening Guide to the Who, What, and Why of String Theory, now also available ...

An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stres...

This textbook covers the general theory of Lie groups. By first considering the case of linear groups (following von Neumann's method) before proce...

This accessible and engaging textbook presents a concise introduction to the exciting field of artificial intelligence (AI). The broad-ranging disc...

This established reference work continues to provide its readers with a gateway to some of the most interesting developments in contemporary geomet...

Unlock the power of the MEAN stack by creating attractive and real-world projects About This Book * Learn about the different components that compr...

This book takes the reader on a journey through the world of college mathematics, focusing on some of the most important concepts and results in th...

Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Sh...

Algebra marked the beginning of modern mathematics, moving it beyond arithmetic, which involves calculations featuring given numbers, to problems w...

The twentieth century saw a remarkable upsurge of research on drugs, with major advances in the treatment of bacterial and viral infections, heart ...

Fungi perform a variety of essential functions in ecosystems, and are important to both agriculture and biotechnology. Their importance is now beco...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of p...

Wireless networks represent an inexpensive and convenient way to connect to the Internet. However, despite their applications across several techno...

The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the 'biocode' - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell...

This 6th edition of “Tools of Radio Astronomy”, the most used introductory text in radio astronomy, has been revised to reflect the current state o...

Readers will experience how mathematical models and their numerical simulations can provide explanations that guide biological and biomedical resea...

Students of Earth Sciences and the physical sciences, as well as interested general and popular science readers.

This Very Short Introduction explores the science of sound and its nature, hearing and harmony. Considering sound we can't hear, the author also co...

Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly and s...

A vast subject that includes a strange vocabulary and an apparent mass of facts, human anatomy can at first appear confusing and off-putting. But t...

Popular science readers and students of the physical sciences, engineering, and associated fields of study.

‘her smile … a saga of womanhood.’ abhirami ... a courageous village girl seeks vengeance for being raped. devaki ... weakened and afraid, a mother...

Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate ...

This book emphasises both experimental and theoretical aspects of surface, interface and thin-film physics. As in previous editions the preparation...

Essentials of Environmental Science is ideal for a one-semester course. It takes the same non-biased approach as its parent text, teaching students...

This is the textbook only without LaunchPad. Filled with the rich diversity of human life, yet exceptionally concise, World Regional Geography Conc...

This book seeks to understand archaeological sites and their relationship with a dynamic alluvial environment in north Bengal, India, between c.600...

This lively introductory text exposes the student to the rewards of a rigorous study of functions of a real variable. In each chapter, informal dis...

The third edition of this concise, popular textbook on elementary differential equations gives instructors an alternative to the many voluminous te...

The study of materials is a major field of research that supports and drives innovation in technology. Using modern scientific techniques, material...

Hormones are vital to the workings of the body, and while many people are aware of what hormones do, few have an appreciation of the nature and imp...

Have you ever wondered how it's possible to build a skyscraper, a big bridge, a jumbo jet, or a cruise liner? Everything has structure. Structure i...

Minerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems that...

In this Very Short Introduction Jamie Woodward examines the environmental shifts that took place during the Great Ice Age of the Quaternary Period....

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history o...

With the development of a variety of exciting new areas of research involving computational chemistry, nano- and smart materials, and applications ...

Ruddiman’s textbook presents an overview of the record of early human effects on landscapes and climate, from the beginnings of agriculture develop...

For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders ...

The only security book to be chosen as a Dr. Dobbs Jolt Award Finalist since Bruce Schneier's Secrets and Lies and Applied Cryptography!Adam Shosta...

In this wide-ranging Very Short Introduction to climate, Mark Maslin considers all aspects of the global climate system, exploring and explaining t...

In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the ...

Astrobiology is the study of the origin and development of life on this and other planets. What fascinates people about astrobiology is that it see...

Medical law is concerned with our bodies, and what happens to them during and after our lives. When things go wrong with our bodies, we want to kno...

How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically describes the development of mathematical thinking from the young child to the sophisticated adult. Profes...

Emphasizing the interconnected nature of environmental geology and the multidimensional processes of the Earth, this new edition of Merritt's class...