Get the essence of calculus the easy way. Schaum's Easy Outline of Calculus helps you master calculus with plenty of illustrations, memory joggers, and the newest, rapid-absorption teaching techniques. Backed by Schaum's reputation for academic authority, this is the study guide students turn to and ... more »

Product Info The most comprehensive work currently available on the fundamentally important area of ocupational health and safety at the European Community level. more »

This guidebook, now thoroughly updated and revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of freshwater bodies. It is clearly and concisely written in ... more »

Sick building syndrome is for many of us an enigma. The legislative precedents currently being set in North America underline the need for rational examination of the problem. This collection of expert writing will help unravel the complex issues involved. The book explores sick building syndrome from ... more »

This report examines the current state of power sources technology, organizes key issues and puts them in context, and succinctly explains how the technology works. Power sources drive everything from microscopic machines to electric power grids, and as the pace of technological development continues ... more »

This report examines the current state of computer display technology, organizes key issues and puts them in context, and succinctly explains how the technology works. The relatively small windows we use as our main means of interaction with computers fall far short of the high-contrast, nuanced, three ... more »

Order-Fulfillment and Across-the-Dock Concepts, Design, and Operations Handbook provides insights and tips that warehouse and distribution professionals can use to make their order fulfillment or across-the-dock operations more efficient and cost effective. Each chapter focuses on key aspects of planning ... more »

Not everyone welcomes this scientific progress. Cries of "against nature" arise from skeptics even as scientists break new ground at an astounding pace. Across the political spectrum, the debate roils: Should we embrace the power to alter our minds and bodies, or should we restrict it? Distilling ... more »

This practical, industry-oriented reference starts with the basic concepts and principles behind Total Quality Management. The author then presents examples of Quality Assurance (QA) programs that can be applied to the food industry using simple, proven formats. He provides readers with an overall understanding ... more »

During the seven years which have elapsed since the publication in 1868 of the first edition of this Work, I have continued to attend to the same subjects, as far as lay in my power; and I have thus accumulated a large body of additional facts, chiefly through the kindness of many correspondents. Of ... more »

'Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization--the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating ... more » more »

This work provides an introductory view of the new science of chaos. Lorenz Presents Everyday Examples Of Chaotic Behaviour, Such As The Toss Of A coin, the pinball's path, the fall of a leaf, and explains in elementary Mathematical Terms How Their Essentially Chaotic Nature Can Be Understood. more »