The latest edition of a classic Latin textbook offers students forty concise chapters with thorough explanation of Latin grammar and readings, self-tutorial exercises with answer keys, an extensive dictionary of vocabulary, a selection of original Latin readings, etymological aids, and cultural, literary, historical, and mythological maps and backg

The best-selling biology textbook in the world just got better! Neil Campbell and Jane Reece's BIOLOGY is the unsurpassed leader in introductory biology. The text's hallmark values--accuracy, currency, and passion for teaching and learning--have made Campbell/Reece the most successful book for students and instructors for seven consecutive editions. *Campbell/Reece is used in 2 out of 3 ...

For one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence. The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence.

This title covers a broad range of algorithms in depth, yet makes their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers. Each chapter is relatively self-contained and can be used as a unit of study. The algorithms are described in English and in a pseudocode.

American democracy is the world's most beloved form of government, which is why so many other nations are eager for it to be imposed on them. But just what exactly is it? Jon Stewart and his fellow patriots from the Emmy-winning The Daily Show finally deliver the answer. They offer their insights into a unique system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes,

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Suitable for one- or two-term introductory discrete mathematics courses taken by students from a variety of majors. This text gives an introduction to the primary themes in a discrete mathematics course and demonstrates the relevance and practicality of discrete mathematics to a variety of real-world applications.

This volume is a reprint of the Shakespeare Head Press edition, and it presents all the plays in chronological order in which they were written. It also includes Shakespeare's Sonnets, as well as his longer poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece .

Presents a German text based on the Natural Approach, pioneered by Tracy D. Terrell. This book helps to learn German through communicative contexts with an emphasis on the four skills as well as cultural competence, with grammar functioning as an aid to language learning. It also contains activities and readings.

Written from the viewpoint of the applied mathematician, this book focuses both on the theory and the practical applications of Differential Equations as they apply to engineering and the sciences.

Suitable for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction, including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and linguistics.

This title serves as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. The story of art unfolds in its full historical, social, religious, economic and cultural context, deepening students' understanding of art, architecture, painting and sculpture.

Linear algebra is relatively easy for students during the early stages of the course, when the material is presented in a familiar, concrete setting. But when abstract concepts are introduced, students often hit a brick wall. Instructors seem to agree that certain concepts (such as linear independence, spanning, subspace, vector space, and linear transformations), are not easily understood, and ..

Offers an understanding of fundamental physics concepts, and helps readers apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving. This book provides problem-solving tactics to help the reader solve problems and avoid common errors. It features several end of chapter problems aimed to streamline both the presentations and answers.

Explains the software including SPEC CPU2000 suite for processors, SPEC Web99 for web servers, and EEMBC for embedded systems. This book features the developments of the Intel IA-32 architecture as well as the Power PC 604, the AMD Opteron Memory, and the Intrinsity FastMATH processor. It compares MIPs assembler code to both C and Java.

Helps you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems. This text brings you up to speed on core knowledge and skills, including: what operating systems are, what they do, and how they are designed and constructed; process, memory, and storage management; protection and security; distributed systems; and special-purpose systems.

Presents material on epigenetics; stem cells; RNAi; comparative genomics; the latest cancer therapies; apoptosis; and cell cycle control and the mechanics of M phase. This book tells the story of cell biology, and creates a framework through which readers may approach this subject that is so central to all of biology.

A practical guide to the world of cataloging and classification. It incorporates the 2002 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2), MARC 21, the 22nd edition of Dewey Decimal Classification , schedules of the LC Classifications, the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the 18th edition of Sears List of Subject Headings .

Richard Rubin has written a completely revised and updated edition of the first textbook - and most widely-used - specifically written to cover the fundamentals of library and information science.

Intended for junior/senior-level electricity and magnetism courses, this book features a treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetic theory, providing a platform for the exploration of related applications (ac circuits, antennas, transmission lines, plasmas, and optics).