Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have made this one of the leading texts in the field. The third edition continues in this tradition, enhancing it with more practical material.

The new edition has been reorganized to allow more flexibility in the way the course is taught. Now, instructors can easily choose whether they would like to teach a course which emphasizes da...

CVRM in de huisartsenpraktijk

CVRM in de huisartsenpraktijk is een praktisch boek specifiek gericht op de uitvoering van het cardiovasculair risicomanagement door de huisarts en de praktijkondersteuner. In het boek komen zowel aspecten rondom de organisatie als de uitvoering van het CVRM-spreekuur aan de orde, maar natuurlijk ook de afzonderlijke interventies. Praktische protocollen en bijlagen bieden hierbij extra ondersteuning. Voor een goed overzicht zijn waar mogelijk tabellen en stroomdi...

This second edition provides a comprehensive and scientific approach to evaluating ship resistance and propulsion. Written by experts in the field, it includes the latest developments in CFD, experimental techniques and guidance for the practical estimation of ship propulsive power. It addresses improvements in energy efficiency and reduced emissions, and the introduction of the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI).

Descriptions have now been included of pump jets, rim driven propulsors, sha...

Studies in religion are flourishing internationally, and one of the central topics discussed in the field today-perhaps the most discussed topic-is religious diversity. With the influx of religious traditions in the West and the growing diversity of religious adherents and practitioners worldwide, people across the globe are currently nterested in exploring issues in religious diversity. The present work is a response to this ubiquitous interest.

It is a substantial volume of thirty-three ori...

By investigating thousands of descriptions of epidemics reaching back before the fifth-century-BCE Plague of Athens to the distrust and violence that erupted with Ebola in 2014, Epidemics challenges a dominant hypothesis in the study of epidemics, that invariably across time and space, epidemics provoked hatred, blaming of the 'other', and victimizing bearers of epidemic diseases, particularly when diseases were mysterious, without known cures or preventivemeasures, as with AIDS during the la...

A re-issued edition of this well-known optics textbook. Designed for intermediate and upper level undergraduates in physics and engineering, the third edition covers the traditional areas of optics whilst including modern applications.

Improve your understanding of the cardiopulmonary system with Essentials of Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy, 5th Edition. Based on American Physical Therapy Association best practices, this new edition provides comprehensive coverage of anatomy, physiology, and cardiopulmonary assessment, along with new chapters on the growing topics of the management of cardiovascular disease in women and pulmonary vascular disease. Using a practical approach, expert author Ellen Hillegass also discusses pa...

Tous les enfants aiment entendre des histoires. Mais l'Histoire, avec un H majuscule, est plus passionnante encore : c'est une suite d'histoires vraies qui sont arrivées à vos parents, aux parents de vos parents et à leurs ancêtres. Dans ce livre, vous allez lire beaucoup de récits et apprendre beaucoup de choses que vous n'oublierez jamais. Quand vous serez adulte à votre tour, vous les raconterez à vos enfants.

Dès 7 ans, les enfants sont en mesure de découvrir l'histoire de France...

Structural proof theory is a branch of logic that studies the general structure and properties of logical and mathematical proofs. This book is both a concise introduction to the central results and methods of structural proof theory, and a work of research that will be of interest to specialists. The book is designed to be used by students of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science. A special feature of the volume is a computerized system for developing proofs interactively, downloadab...