Product Description: World Musics in Context is a wide-ranging survey of musics of the world, in their historical and social contexts, from ancient times to the present day. Ethnomusicologist Peter Fletcher begins by describing aspects of musical style and function in relation to the early developments of civilizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Once you've got a web site up and running it is all too easy to sit back and relax. But how do you know you did a good job? How can you improve the site you have based on real user behaviour? Without getting feedback from your users, how will you find out how it's being used? Web traffic analysis allows you to gain some insight into your site users: where they come from, what pages they like, and how often they come back...read more

Provides information for web professionals on client-side topics, including XHTML, JavaScript, graphics formats, multimedia, HTML color codes, and MIME types.

Examines the issues surrounding Web Services, covering topics including architectures, business strategies, ebXML, enterprise application integration, platforms, and security.

Examines the issues surrounding Web Services, covering topics including architectures, business strategies, ebXML, enterprise application integration, platforms, and security.

Product Description: Constructive mathematics is based on the thesis that the meaning of a mathematical formula is given, not by its truth-conditions, but in terms of what constructions count as a proof of it. However, the meaning of the terms `construction' and `proof' has never been adequately explained (although Kriesel, Goodman and Martin-Löf have attempted axiomatisations)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text introduces students to basic techniques of writing proofs and acquaints them with some fundamental ideas. The authors assume that students using this text have already taken courses in which they developed the skill of using results and arguments that others have conceived...read more

Product Description: Over the last thirty years, the scope and nature of education in British schools has changed dramatically, and music--once only an extracurricular subject--has come to occupy a key role. Education and Music examines the many controversial theories and methods of music education that have been developed, and provides a rationale for the variety of musical activities that play an important part in schools today...read more