This book presents the fundamental concepts of the theory, illustrated by numerous examples of astrophysical applications. For this purpose, a number of astrophysical examples are considered in greater detail than what is normally presented in a regular textbook.
Presented in this new, full-color edition, with the first polychrome phase diagrams to be published, this geoscientific atlas is backed by the author's unrivalled dataset, and amounts to the most complete survey yet of phase relations in Earth's chemistry.
As the use of digital technology has grown, so necessarily has the body of research into its effects at the personal, group and organizational levels, but there is no one book that looks at how digital technology has specifically influenced creativity.
?This book is a history of complex function theory from its origins to 1914, when the essential features of the modern theory were in place.
Explorees the cultural origins and psychological aspects of body identity disorders. Draws on author’s professional experience largely dedicated to... Læs mere
This premise, and the historical changes in our landscape, provide the foundation for our overarching research question: how do human activities impact the functioning of aquatic ecosystems and the ecosystem services that they provide, and how can we optimize this relationship?
Taking a developmental perspective, this book discusses caregiving from infancy through early childhood through end of life; midlife and multigenerational bonds and responsibilities; caregiver identity in older adults and family caregiving at the end of life.
This volume examines and gives representational examples of the respective approaches and roles of government, universities and the private sector in meeting the educational and training needs and challenges of practicing archeologists today.
School shootings are a topic of research in a variety of different disciplines—from psychology, to sociology to... Læs mere
Patient specific and disease specific stem cell lines have already introduced groundbreaking advances into the research and practice of... Læs mere
This volume offers an analysis of the scale and nature of the immunological issues facing regenerative medicine, drawing on the expertise of... Læs mere
This volume summarizes the state-of-the-art in the fast growing research area of modeling the influence of information-driven human behavior on the spread and control of infectious diseases.