Product Description This full-color hands-on guide book has been enhanced to make learning even easier by offering more detailed lab setup instructions, expanded chapter summaries, and new practice exams that will reinforce the skills learned. It will empower students to successfully pass the MCSE/M..
“[Urquhart is] an accomplished memoirist whose prose is graceful, often funny, and unfailingly readable. . . . [His] perspective on history is compelling. . . . Full of fascinating anecdotes and asides.” Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times How can peace be encouraged and sustained in a violent world..
AMPL is a language for large-scale optimization and mathematical programming problems in production, distribution, blending, scheduling, and many other applications. Combining familiar algebraic notation and a powerful interactive command environment, AMPL makes it easy to create models, use a wide ..
"The relationship [between Aubrey and Maturin]...is about the best thing afloat....For Conradian power of description and sheer excitement there is nothing in naval fiction to beat the stern chase as the outgunned Leopard staggers through mountain waves in icy latitudes to escape the Dutch seventy-f..
Few American artists are as enduringly popular as Frederic Remington (1861-1909). His bronzes and paintings of the American West have become iconic images, shaping the way Americans view the history of the West. This generously illustrated volume is the first to examine the exceptional collection of..
“A comprehensive political analysis of Dag Hammarskjold’s seven years [1952-1961] as the U.N.’s Secretary-General. . . . Follows Hammarskjold through every major crisis of his day: McCarthyism, the aftermath of Korea, Suez, Hungary, Lebanon, Algeria, the Congo.” Friedel Ungeheuer, Time As the 1990s..
A companion to the man-made landscape that reveals how our industrial environment can be as dazzling as the natural world.Replete with the author's striking photographs, Infrastructure is a unique and spectacular guide, exploring all the major "ecosystems" of our modern industrial world, revealing w..
“Original, highly readable. . . . An extraordinary book.” Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American Author: Hayes, Brian Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0393329593 ISBN-13: 9780393329599..
This well established text provides both a thematic as well as regional look at Latin America and the Caribbean. The thematic approach surveys the physical environment, historical geography, demography, agriculture, communications, industry, urban and political aspects of Latin America. The regional..
Interned in France where he was seeking refuge from creditors when Napoleon broke the Peace of Amiens, Captain Jack Aubrey must escape and return to England Author: O'Brian, Patrick Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0393037029 ISBN-13: 9780393037029..
Since its original publication in 1982, Remington and Russell has become an essential introduction to the work of these artists, and this revision substantially enhances the book's strengths. Every painting in the Sid Richardson Collection has been rephotographed for this edition, including one Russ..
Why is it that the average business captures less than 20 percent of its potential Why is this underperformance so pervasive, and what's keeping these organizations from truly maximizing their shareholder value Based on extensive research and featuring case studies, tools, and practical techniques,..
The Student Solutions Manual to accompany Rogawski's Multivariable Calculus offers worked-out solutions to all odd-numbered exercises in the text. Author: Bradie, Brian Publisher: W. H. Freeman Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0716798808 ISBN-13: 9780716798804..
A new view of the economy as an evolving, complex system has been pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute over the last ten years, This volume is a collection of articles that shape and define this view a view of the economy as emerging from the interactions of individual agents whose behavior constantl..
A new edition of the New York Times bestseller now a three-part Nova special: a fascinating and thought-provoking journey through the mysteries of space, time, and matter. Now with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enormous public reception of the relatively obscure strin..
"A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat." Times Literary Supplement Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-arme..
The design, construction, and careers in history and in fiction of Jack Aubrey’s favorite command. There is no more famous a vessel in naval fiction than HMS Surprise, the principal ship in Patrick O’Brian’s much-celebrated Aubrey-Maturin series of novels. Yet, this 28-gun frigate also had an eventf..
"Fine stuff...[The Letter of Marque] leaves the devotee of naval fiction eager for sequels." Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Matu..
"Jack's assignment: to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Réunion and Mauritius from the French. That campaign forms the narrative thread of this rollicking sea saga. But its substance is more beguiling still..." Elizabeth Peer, Newsweek Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command u..
"[The series shows] a joy in language that jumps from every page....You're in for a wonderful voyage." Cutler Durkee, People Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner fr..
"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor make O'Brian's nautical adventure a splendid treat." Publishers Weekly Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. Bu..
"In length the series is unique; in quality and there is not a weak link in the chain it cannot but be ranked with the best of twentieth century historical novels." T. J. Binyon, Independent Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from ..
The fifteenth installment in Patrick O'Brian's widely claimed series of Aubrey/Maturin novels is in equal parts mystery, adventure, and psychological drama. A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatche..
Product DescriptionVolume I: Virology is now available for single volume purchase.About the AuthorLeslie Collier, Professor of Virology, The London Hospital Medical College (Emeritus). Albert Balows, Professor, Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia State University (Emeritus). Max Sussman,..