The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. This book offers a sho…
The Girls' Bicycle Handbook is for women cyclists everywhere who need practical no-nonsense advice and information on cycling, but don't want to dispense with style in the process. Whether you're a committed bike commuter or a complete novice, blogger, entrepreneur and passionat…
The basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field that should be understood by every transportation professional are presented here in a thorough, coherent, and self-contained way. Introductory chapters on "tools" cover topics such as graphical methods, optim…
Presents the basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field. This book contains chapters on'tools', covering topics such as graphical methods, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, statistics and simulation, which are complemented by application cha…
Presents the basic concepts in the transportation and traffic operations field. This book contains chapters on'tools', covering topics such as graphical methods, optimization, probability, stochastic processes, statistics and simulation, which are complemented by application cha…
« Complementary and alternative approaches to health and medicine have become increasingly widespread as the limits of conventional treatments become more apparent. Holistic Anatomy presents an authoritative study of anatomy, physiology, and pathology but expands the discussion …
Now in its Fourth Edition, this richly illustrated guide serves as an introduction to medical terminology. It provides extensive coverage of those terms relating to normal structure and function, disorders, diagnosis and treatment. Numerous illustrations throughout the book -- m…
"For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales.…
The first book of its kind to address the issues of global change from a true Earth systems perspective, The Earth System offers a solid emphasis on lessons from Earth's history that may guide decision-making in the future. The authors' systems theory approach looks holisticall…
The first book of its kind to address the issues of global change from a true Earth systems perspective, The Earth System offers a solid emphasis on lessons from Earth's history that may guide decision-making in the future. The authors' systems theory approach looks holisticall…