Product Description: Governing bodies in the United States are concentrated at three levels: cities, states, and the federal government. The functioning of these levels of government is well-known and oft-studied by scholars. But effective regional governance -- such as counties and those areas that fall between urban government and state government -- has long been ignored...read more

Fields of Reading draws on the major divisions of the curriculum — arts and humanities, social sciences and public affairs, and sciences — to present well-crafted and high-quality writing from these fields. Chosen by six editors who are all distinguished teachers and writers, the selections progress from individual essays to paired texts to casebooks that contain multiple readings on an engaging topic. Students are thus exposed to important readings — and conversations — by key voices in contemporary intellectual life — and asked to engage in the kind of reading, writing, and cross-curricular thinking they encounter in college. An additional emphasis on rhetorical purpose (reflecting, reporting, explaining, and arguing), helps students understand how subject, intent, and audience influence the form and style of their own writing.

Product Description: These are questions we all ask ourselves, but it's hard to get past conjecture or gut feeling to find any definitive answers. Now, in this groundbreaking book, David Hamilton looks at hard scientific evidence to bring us closer to understanding the balance between the forces of destiny and the power of free will...read more

Product Description: Foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. StarzlA History of Organ Transplantation is a comprehensive and ambitious exploration of transplant surgery—which, surprisingly, is one of the longest continuous medical endeavors in history...read more

Product Description: This basic primer covers the nuts and bolts of developing all types of real estate, including multifamily, office, retail, and industrial projects. Thoroughly updated, this new edition includes numerous case studies of actual projects as well as small-scale examples that are ideal for anyone new to real estate development...read more

Advances in signal processing techniques have been fundamental to many technological developments in communications, medicine, consumer electronics and defence. A consequence of this has been a virtual explosion of terminology describing signal processing methods and implementations. This reference gives a comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of signal processing (digital and analogue). Arranged alphabetically, entries include short, dictionary type definitions and longer encyclopaedic articles. A definitive source of accurate and concise information on modern signal processing terminology Comprehensively covers all applications areas - communications, seismic, biomedical, rdar / sonar multimedia, VLSI and industrial technology (including hardware and software issues) Structured to allow rapid access to essential information with extensive cross references, cross-referred blind entries, indexes, literature, software and internet references and bibliography Features contributions from 12 international authorities in signal processing Includes all topics covered in the Editors Information Classification Scheme of the IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing

Product Description: Flowers - their beauty, perfection and fragrance are tantalizing. Star photographer David Hamilton presents pictures of romantic floral arrangements in his inimitable style. These incomparable images emphasize the grace, elegance, and apparent immortality of flowers...read more

Product Description: Manic Verse. A compilation of verse, prose and songs by David Hamilton. While much of the poetry contained within these pages takes a light hearted poke at "the establishment" such as in 'Tradition Lost', 'Green Condoms' and 'My Car Runs on Corn Oil', to name but three, readers should not make the mistake of thinking this is a frivolous book...read more

Comprising free verse lyrics as well as poems in recognizable forms, this work demonstrates a range, including a series of upside down sonnets.

Product Description: Venice is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Cult photographer David Hamilton takes a characteristically romantic view of the lagoon city and reveals a quite different side to his artistic creativity. Music CDs: Classical music highlights Venice's various aspects with works by composers from Antonio Vivaldi, performed by Thomas Zehetmair, to romantic Composers such as Gustav Mahler, conducted by Kurt Masur and others...read more

Product Description: Internationally acclaimed photographer David Hamilton invites the viewer to share delicate moments in ballet. His images of young dancers capture the essence of grace at rest and poetry in motion. These tender photographic impressions are accompanied by musical masterpieces created especially for the art form...read more

Product Description: It is no accident that the doctor on board the pioneering missions of Star Trek was known as Scotty! Scotland has had a distinguished reputation for the quality of its doctors and nurses since earliest times. During the eighteenth century the first broadly-based education for physicians and surgeons was established in Scotland, and throughout the growth of the British Empire, Scottish doctors came to dominate medical practice and teaching, not only in Britain and the Colonies, but in much of the Americas and even Russia...read more

Product Description: The book provides the comprehensive physics information demanded in the clinical practice of diagnostic nuclear medicine. It addresses the clinical requirements of the scientist, physician and technologist by providing an overview of the discipline in four subject areas: radiation; detection and display; clinical procedures; and quality assurances...read more