Science and Technology

Food webs describe biological communities in terms of feeding interactions. This book integrates the latest work on community dynamics, ecosystems ...

Making good decisions under conditions of uncertainty - which is the norm - requires a sound appreciation of the way random chance works. As analys...

In this Very Short Introduction, Jacqueline Stedall explores the rich historical and cultural diversity of mathematical endeavour from the distant ...

Magnetism is a strange force, mysteriously attracting one object to another apparently through empty space. It has been claimed as a great healer, ...

“Telescopes and Techniques” has proved itself in its first edition, having become probably one of the most widely used astronomy texts, both for nu...

Data Structures Using C++ is designed to serve as a textbook for undergraduate engineering students of computer science and information technology ...

A vital and valid question that concerns many surgeons: how to make surgery safer? Is it by tightening the rules and imposing stricter protocols or...

In this Very Short Introduction Peter M. Higgins presents an overview of the number types featured in modern science and mathematics. Providing a n...

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific ...

From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what t...

Among the many laws of science, there are four laws that direct and constrain everything that happens in the Universe. From the sudden expansion of...

Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some ca...

What is epidemiology? What are the causes of a new disease? How can pandemics be prevented? Epidemiology is the study of the changing patterns of d...

100 years ago, Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics. Our comforting Newtonian ideas of space and time were replaced by bi...

What causes autism? Is it a genetic disorder, or due to some unknown environmental hazard? Are we facing an autism epidemic? What are the main symp...

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition wa...

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from clas...

There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episod...

Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. ...

Editorial Reviews - Integrales Exponentielles

Physical Relativity explores the nature of the distinction at the heart of Einstein's 1905 formulation of his special theory of relativity: that be...

Editorial Reviews - Etude Geometrique des Espaces Vectoriels II

The work of Hermann Weyl has had a lasting influence on areas of mathematics such as topological groups, Lie groups and representation theory, harm...

Presenting papers by researchers in transcendental complex dynamics and complex analysis, this book is written in honour of Noel Baker, a leading e...

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its...

Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to his bestselling The Art of Deception Kevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrate...

For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to re...

Molecules are the building blocks of matter. Using the molecules of life as a springboard, Philip Ball provides a new perspective on modern chemist...

CLINICAL DIETITICS 4th edn

In-situ monitoring is the use of portable analytical instruments. This work evaluates the developments of the 1980s and 1990s which will form the b...

In this book we share our work with those who are faced with the challenging problem of studying the earth's atmosphere and the interactions betwee...

How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving? In this fascinating book, ...

This is the last of Jim Corbett's books on his unique and thrilling hunting experiences in the Indian Himalayas. Concluding the narrative begun in ...

Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this book is an invaluable introductory guide for students studying chemistry, biochemistry and med...

Editorial Reviews - Theorie du Potentiel

The papers in this volume yield a variety of powerful tools for penetrating the structure of Banach spaces, including the following topics: the str...

The articles in this volume are based on talks given in a seminar at Austin during 1986-87. They range from those dealing with fresh research and d...

Editorial Reviews - Harmonic Analysis

The field of nonlinear hyperbolic problems has been expanding very fast over the past few years, and has applications - actual and potential - in a...

Rearrangements And Convexity Of Level Sets In Pde by Bernhard Kawohl, 3540156933, 9783540156932, Springer V

Editorial Reviews - Precise Spectral Asymptotics for Elliptic Operators Acting in Fiberings over Manifolds with Boundary

Editorial Reviews - On Global Univalence Theorems

Editorial Reviews - Recent Developments in the Algebraic, Analytical, and Topological Theory of Semigroups

Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biochemistry, this book provides clear, concise, well-exampled descriptions of the phy...

Editorial Reviews - Differential Systems Involving Impulses

Extremum Problems For Bounded Univalent Function Ii by Olli Tammi, 3540112006, 9783540112006, Springer V