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This book explores the core ideas and policy recommendations of the major schools of economic thought and analyzes their relevance to current conditions. Each chapter includes a summary, critical remarks, questions and recommendations for further reading.

Lavishly illustrated, this outstanding atlas is designed to provide dermatologists with all necessary tools to diagnose nail disorders by clinical signs. The text is concisely structured, and highlights 'key messages' and 'take home pearls'.

This illustrated book covers the state-of-the art of MRI of rectal cancer. The broad spectrum of high-quality illustrations and the contribution of clinical experts provide substantial insight into the sophisticated field of rectal cancer management.

Tracking and applying the latest techniques in computational intelligence is a major challenge, as they often prove their value before the underlying theories are fully understood. This book shows how to create value from computational intelligence methods.

This book is a systematic introduction to the development of simulation models and the implementation and evaluation of simulation experiments with Plant Simulation. It pays particular attention to SimTalk and includes over 100 examples.

Translation from Russian, author has English language rights and organizes the translation

This book, the third of a three-volume series, delivers a comprehensive and self-contained account of the fundamentals of the physics of solids. It also explains the essential features of various experimental techniques.

After an introduction to cryptography and data security, the authors of this book explain the main techniques in modern cryptography. The book is uniquely designed for students of engineering and applied computer science, and engineering practitioners.

What is the "most uniform" way of distributing n points in the unit square? How big is the "irregularity" necessarily present in any such distribution? This book is an accessible and lively introduction to the area of geometric discrepancy theory.

This publication is designed to provide Master and PhD students with a concise introduction to conducting research in organisations. It aims to impart knowledge for making the appropriate methodological choices and to provide a practical guide to research.

The interpretation of MR images of congenital heart disease can be difficult. This book provides insight into specific, pathologic conditions along with hundreds of MR and CT images. A concise yet clear interpretation of each image is given to aid learning.

This classic text and reference collects the many formulae and methods that can be found in the scientific literature on stochastic methods. This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and restructured, and features a large amount of entirely new material.

This book presents the fundamental principles of thermodynamics for geosciences, based on the author's own courses over a number of years. Many examples help to understand how mineralogical problems can be solved by applying thermodynamic principles.

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The Hipparcos project was hugely important in mapping our Galaxy. Here is a fascinating account of an important episode in astronomy, written by the scientist who played a pivotal role that brought it to fruition, and eventually to a triumphant conclusion.

This book examines and explains the geo-dynamic processes on which the theory of continental drift is based and which have led to the concept of plate tectonics, including the formation of mountains; the volcano and earthquake zones of the Pacific, and more.

This book examines economic and institutional processes in the cybercrime industry, provides insights into the entrepreneurial aspect of firms engaged in cyber-crime, and seeks to understand threats and countermeasures taken by key actors in the industry.

Information behavior has emerged as an important aspect of human life. This book provides a new understanding of information behavior by incorporating related findings, theories and models from social sciences, psychology and cognition.

This book gives an introduction to metaheuristics for students and practitioners. The basic concepts are developed step-by-step from the bottom up using the knapsack problem, allowing readers to concentrate on the main ideas of metaheuristics.

This book examines bioremediation, which involves processes that reduce overall treatment cost through the application of agricultural residues.

This reference tutorial contains modern experimental approaches to analysis of strain-stress distribution based on interference-optical methods of registration of strain or displacement fields. It includes the theory and applications of these techniques.

This book presents contentious rulings by the European Court of Human Rights. It argues that the moral integrity of the Court's rulings supporting and protecting human rights is an essential aspect of promoting the internationalization of the rule of law.

This book presents theoretical methods of chemical engineering for modeling and simulation of industrial processes. It uses mechanics of continuous media approach for modeling the simple processes as hydrodynamic processes, mass and heat transfer processes.

This book examines contemporary issues of fossil vertebrates that includes new insights of tetrapod evolution during Palaeozoic and Mesozoic eras and the discovery of new vertebrate fossils, including dinosaurs from different continents.

This book examines confidentiality in arbitration in the jurisdictions of England, USA, France and Germany. It offers a tool for attaining centralized access to otherwise fragmentary and dispersed material.

This volume presents the latest on the use of whole-body ultrasound on the critically ill. It covers improvements, revised definitions, and updated algorithms, and it clearly presents findings on individual organs with particular emphasis on the lungs.