Science and Technology

Many different cognitive research approaches have been generated to explore fields of practice where mutual teamwork is present and emergent. Resul...

This textbook presents the essential tools and core concepts of data science to public officials, policy analysts, and economists among others in o...

Clinical psychology makes a significant contribution to mental health care across the world. The essence of the discipline is the creative applicat...

A humorous attempt at categorising recipes, Indian, Western and Continental, not on the basis of their ingredients or modes of preparation, but acc...

Skills in Neighbourhood Work is a practice textbook. It explains the skills, knowledge and techniques needed by community workers and other practit...

This innovative and thought-provoking text will teach you about the diverse and increasingly expansive sub-discipline of geopolitics. Divided into ...

This unique textbook presents an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of marine studies, exploring the dynamic relationship between people a...

This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diver...

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contr...

This textbook distills the various aspects of international farm animal, wildlife conservation, food safety and environmental protection law in an ...

This book addresses each of the Air Navigation Services' five broad categories of services provided to air traffic during all phases of operation: ...

Not long ago, the Solar System was the only example of a planetary system - a star and the bodies orbiting it - that we knew. Now, we know thousand...

The topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media. We've made important advances in our scientific understanding, but despite this the clinic...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring From frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders, to the lesser-known caecilians, there are over 8,...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Fluid mechanics is an important branch of physics concerned with the way in which fluid...

The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In the last few years global awareness of climate change has grown very rapidly - through th...

Pocket sized and practical, this handbook is the ideal guide to support frontline staff and trainees, as well as all allied professionals in the na...

Master how to implement a repeatable software construction system. This book closely examines how a system is designed to tie a series of activitie...

This book explains compactly, without theoretical superstructure and with as little mathematical formalism as possible, the essential concepts in t...

This primer on mathematics formalisation provides a rapid, hands-on introduction to proof verification in Lean. After a quick introduction to Lean,...

This textbook provides a succinct introduction to algebraic topology. It follows a modern categorical approach from the beginning and gives ample m...

The Big Book of Drones covers everything from drone law to laws on privacy. It also discusses the history and evolution of drones to where we are t...

The book analyzes new methodologies involved in studying swarm intelligence. It brings together computer scientists and cognitive scientists dealin...

This book introduces Participatory Design to researchers and students in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society. With a connected world, we a...

This book helps the reader make use of the mathematical models of biological phenomena starting from the basics of programming and computer simulat...

This book introduces remotely sensed image processing for urban areas using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and assists students, r...

This book gives an introduction to discrete-time Markov chains which evolve on a separable metric space. The focus is on the ergodic properties o...

This textbook provides an in-depth exploration of statistical learning with reproducing kernels, an active area of research that can shed light on ...

Dieses Buch will dem Leser eine Einführung in wichtige Techniken und Methoden der heutigen reellen Algebra und Geometrie vermitteln. An Voraussetzu...

This book is a unique book capturing defects that are frequently encountered during various fabrication phases of electronic packages. These defect...

Bayesian statistical analyses have become increasingly common over the last two decades. The rapid increase in computing power that facilitated the...

This textbook describes selected topics in functional analysis as powerful tools of immediate use in many fields within applied mathematics, physic...

To do this effectively, AI agents need to go beyond planning with their own models of the world, and take into account the mental model of the huma...

The book presents new technologies for easy and economical construction of light concrete structures saving materials and CO2. The new super-light ...

Students and researchers in the health sciences are faced with greater opportunity and challenge than ever before. The opportunity stems from the e...

The textile industry is among the most significant polluters of water owing to the existence of various types of pollution streams generated by pri...

This concise and up-to-date textbook provides an accessible introduction to the core concepts of nonlinear dynamics as well as its existing and pot...

Dyes are versatile compounds that have been successfully used in textile printing, rubber, cosmetics, plastic, pharmaceutical, and leather industri...

This book, based on classroom-tested lecture notes, provides a self-contained one semester undergraduate course on quantum optics, accessible to st...

This book is a complete introduction to vector analysis, especially within the context of computer graphics. The book is divided into eleven chapte...

This open-access textbook's significant contribution is the unified derivation of data-assimilation techniques from a common fundamental and optima...

As the only text on the market for Sport and Exercise Medicine OSCEs, this is an invaluable guide for those studying sport and exercise medicine an...

This textbook explains the fundamentals of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) without assuming advanced knowledge of mathematics and programming. MCM...

This book highlights ways to evaluate circular economy using global standard and footprints the way global firms are using to ensure the measuremen...

This book starts with a discussion of the classical intermediate value theorem and some of its uncommon “topological” consequences as an appetizer ...

This Handbook helps to design and build any kind of force measurement equipment for the use in a wind tunnel. It is of interest to those who want t...