Focus on the fundamentals and help students see connections between problem types

Richard Wolfson’s Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life applications in an affordable and streamlined text. The book teaches sound problem-solving strategies and emphasises conceptual understanding, using features such as annotated figures and step-by-step problem-solving strategies. Realising ...

“This is perhaps the best book on negotiating ever written. Roger’s powerful, practical principles will save or make you a fortune in the months and years ahead.” —Brian Tracy, author, Eat That Frog! and Million Dollar Habits

“This is the one negotiating book that really opened my eyes and gave me practical tools I could use immediately.” —Timothy Ferriss, bestselling author of The 4-Hour Work Week

“A fast, entertaining read that should be required reading for anyone who deals...

Adopts a pluralist approach introducing students to both environmental economics and ecological economics highlighting the explanatory power, and complementarity, of both approaches in exploring the economics of environmental and natural resource issues. This edition includes enhanced and updated coverage of topics such as the Green New Deal, post-Paris climate discussions, development in carbon trading systems, and deforestation in the Amazon to ensure the text is up-to-speed with the latest...

This Element takes stock of the current state of the global climate change regime, illuminating scope for policymaking and mobilizing collective action through networked governance at all scales, from the sub-national to the highest global level of political assembly.

Un portrait inédit de notre société.

Plus de 180 cartes et graphiques.

En 2021, les Français sont désormais bien entrés dans le XXIe siècle. À quoi ressemble aujourd’hui notre société ? Les discriminations face à l’emploi s’atténuent-elles pour les enfants de l’immigration ? Quels sont les bastions qui restent à conquérir pour les « petites-filles du baby-boom » ? Quels sont les nouveaux visages de la délinquance, et le sentiment d’insécurité est-il rationnel ? Qu...

Nog te vaak is HR-beleid alleen gericht op werknemers in vaste dienst en niet op álle werkenden in een organisatie. Inmiddels werken bij organisaties veel medewerkers die anders kijken naar werk. Zij zijn tijdelijk in dienst, aan de organisatie verbonden als zzp’er of als externe dienstverlener. Toch worden deze groepen systematisch overgeslagen in het HR-beleid. Met alle gevolgen van dien.

Het is de taak van HR om de uitdagingen van de workforce of the future aan te gaan en zichzelf opni...

"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written" (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidencies

In America, Empire of Liberty, prizewinning historian David Reynolds offers a single-volume account spanning the entire course of US history, from 1776 to today. He demonstrates how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith. Both evangelical Protestantism and the larger belief in the nation's righteousness, he explains, have energ...

* A wide-ranging introduction to the field of industrial microbiology. * Based on years of teaching experience by experienced lecturers with industrial backgrounds. * Explains the underlying microbiology as well as the industrial application. * Content is divided into three sections: 1.

Measures taken by states in the name of countering terrorism constantly give rise to new international legal issues. Helen Duffy brings the law to life via detailed case studies which show what the war on terror means in practice for affected individuals and for the rule of law more broadly.

An insider's view of science reveals why many scientific results cannot be relied upon - and how the system can be reformed.

Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless - or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. A...