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Concise Guide to Databases
(Springer, 2013)From tablets of stone through to libraries of parchments; from paper-based files to the electronic era, there is not one aspect of modern business that has avoided the need to collect, collate, organize and report upon ... -
Introduction to Smooth Manifolds
(Springer, 2013)Manifolds crop up everywhere in mathematics. These generalizations of curves and surfaces to arbitrarily many dimensions provide the mathematical context for understanding “space” in all of its manifestations. Today, the ... -
Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
(Springer, 2011)Human activities are affecting the global environment in many ways, with numerous direct and indirect effects on ecosystems. The climate and atmospheric composition of Earth are changing rapidly. Humans have directly ... -
Survival Analysis
(Springer, 2012)This is the third edition of this text on survival analysis, originally published in 1996. As in the first and second editions, each chapter contains a presentation of its topic in “lecture-book” format together with ... -
The Joy of Science
(Springer, 2007)Scientists have great passion. What could be more exhilarating than to go to work every day feeling as if you were once again a nine-year-old called up to he stage to help the magician with his trick? To be a researcher ... -
A Beginner’s Guide to R
(Springer, 2009)Since 2000,we have taught statistics to over 5000 life scientists. This sounds a lot, and indeed it is, but with some classes of 200 undergraduate students, numbers accumulate rapidly (although some courses have involved ... -
Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
(Springer, 2009)Over a century ago, psychologists who were fascinated with religion began to study and write about it. Theologians and religious practitioners have responded to this literature, producing a fascinating dialogue that deals ... -
Introductory Statistics with R
(Springer, 2008)R is a statistical computer program made available through the Internet under the General Public License (GPL). That is, it is supplied with a licensethatallowsyoutouseitfreely,distributeit,orevensellit,aslongas the receiver ... -
Handbook of Quantitative Criminology
(Springer, 2010)Quantitative criminology has certainly come a long way since I was first introduced to a largely qualitative criminology some 40 years ago, when I was recruited to lead a task force on science and technology for the President’s ... -
Transmission Electron Microscopy
(Springer, 2009)How is this book different from the many other TEM books? It has several unique features but what we think distinguishes it from all other such books is that it is truly a textbook. We wrote it to be read by, and taught ... -
Acquired Brain Injury
(Springer, 2007)Crimmins (2000) marveled at the greatness of the “three pound-blob” that is our brain and control system.As seasoned clinicians in the field of neuro-rehabilitation, we still marvel each day at the resilience of the brain ... -
Numerical Optimization
(Springer, 2006)This is a book for people interested in solving optimization problems. Because of the wide (and growing) use of optimization in science, engineering, economics, and industry, it is essential for students and practitioners ... -
Handbook of Disaster Research
(Springer, 2007)Disasters create difficulties, even for those who study disasters. Much of that difficulty stems from the necessity to deal with concepts, which have popular meanings, and some of those meanings evoke moral and emotional ... -
A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics
(Springer, 2005)Probability and statistics are fascinating subjects on the interface between mathematics and applied sciences that help us understand and solve practical problems. We believe that you, by learning how stochastic methods ... -
Handbook of Sociological Theory
(Springer, 2001)One of the most obvious trends in sociology over the last 30 years is differentiation of substantive specialties. What is true in the discipline as a whole is particularly evident in sociological theory. Where once there ... -
Composite Materials
(Springer, 2012)Since the publication of the second edition of this book, there has been a spate of activity in the field of composites, in the academia as well as in the industry. The industrial activity, in particular, has been led by ... -
Database Marketing
(Springer, 2008)The confluence of more powerful information technology,advances in methodology, and management’s demand for an approach to marketing that is both effective and accountable, has fueled explosive growth in the application of ... -
International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
(Springer, 2009)‘‘Historical archaeology’’ is one of the most fast-changing and dynamic fields of study in the archaeological discipline.This collection of essays by researchers and practitioners from around the world charts the field’s ... -
Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases
(Springer, 2008)Students, residents, and fellows interested in learning about the rheumatic diseases are faced with the daunting challenge of trying to integrate learning about a multitude of fascinating and diverse clinical disorders ... -
Fundamentals of Biomechanics
(Springer, 2007)This second edition of Fundamentals of Biomechanics was developed primarily to update a well-received text. The uniqueness of integrating biological and mechanical bases in analyzing and improving human movement has been ...
