How the basic concepts of economics -- including markets, institutions, and money -- can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods.In the twenty-first-century digital world, virtu
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Ability to learn from errors is an essential aspect of the quest to improve treatment quality and patient safety. This book consists of 33 cases in anesthesiology that is based on real life situations
Reflects changes in the IASB and IFRS whilst maintaining its effective conceptual approach in international reporting standards. This book comes with CourseMate and a companion website including Power
Applied Meteorology on the Grid presents state-of-the-art applications and their implementations on the grid infrastructure platform. These include various prediction models and simulations in meteoro
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The rapid and substantial urbanization in China has led to an increasing urban-rural divide in almost all aspects of institutional life, as well as aggregating environmental degradation. There is an u
A comprehensive guide to sovereign derivatives and their role in the global economySovereign Derivatives is a technical guide for parsing the issues surrounding the sovereign debt market, using a glob
The muscle-bound male body is a perennial feature of classically-inflected action cinema. This book reassesses these films as a cinematic form, focusing on the depiction of heroic masculinity. In part
This book examines British and American women's narratives of cosmetic surgery, exploring what those narratives say about the contemporary status of cosmetic surgery and 'local' ideas about its legiti
This book describes state-of-the-art concepts of cooperative two-way relay technology from theory to practice, from the basics to more advanced theory. The introductory sections of the book illustrate
Metafiction, the practice in fictional texts of displaying an awareness of their fictional status, highlighting it, or even exploring it after the manner of literary criticism, existed in ancient Gree
With its coverage of both inorganic and organic analytes, this book is a truly comprehensive guide and likely to set the standard. As such, it describes the basic principles and peculiarities of estab
This book reports on a four-year project on collaborative learning, technology enhanced learning and cooperative work. It details strategies for and potential pitfalls in group work and takes an innov
An updated classic, this comprehensive textbook introduces electrical engineers to the most relevant concepts and techniques in electric power systems engineering today. With an emphasis on practical
Over the last several years there has been a growing interest in developing computational methodologies for modeling and analyzing movements and behaviors of ‘crowds' of people. This interest spans se
Significant changes in both technology and the marketplace are making it essential for companies to keep a close watch on their competition. Competitive Technical Intelligence, written by a leader in
Along with finite differences and finite elements, spectral methods are one of the three main methodologies for solving partial differential equations on computers. This book provides a detailed prese
In the framework of Digital Signal Processing, the Parametric Modeling of Signals offers as a natural byproduct a class of Spectral tools, namely the so-called Rational Spectra. This class of Spectra
