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    • An Introduction to Zooarchaeology 

      Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane (Springer, 2018)
      In 1950, there were few, if any, zooarchaeologists. Today the number of zooarchaeologists in North America is growing toward equal proportions with those specializing in the more traditional fields of lithic and ceramic ...
    • Introductory Computer Forensics 

      Lin, Xiaodong (Springer, 2018)
      Internet technology is advancing at a speed beyond comprehension. With everadvancing Internet technology, we truly are living in a digital age. It will certainly improve our quality of life, as it can offer the speed, ...
    • Introductory Quantum Mechanics 

      Berman, Paul R. (Springer, 2018)
      This book is based on junior and senior level undergraduate courses that I have given at both New York University and the University of Michigan. You might ask, in heavens name, why anyone would want to write yet another ...
    • Introductory Statistics with R 

      Dalgaard, Peter (Springer, 2008)
      R is a statistical computer program made available through the Internet under the General Public License (GPL). That is, it is supplied with a licensethatallowsyoutouseitfreely,distributeit,orevensellit,aslongas the receiver ...
    • Introductory Time Series with R 

      Cowpertwait, Paul S.P.; Metcalfe, Andrew V. (Springer, 2009)
      R has a command line interface that offers considerable advantages over menu systems in terms of efficiency and speed once the commands are known and the language understood. However, the command line system can be ...
    • INTUITIVE PROBABILITY AND RANDOM PROCESSES USING MATLAB® 

      KAY, STEVEN M. (Springer, 2012)
      The subject of probability and random processes is an important one for a variety of disciplines. Yet, in the author's experience, a first exposure to this subject can cause difficulty in assimilating the material and ...
    • Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 

      Waller, Peter; Yitayew, Muluneh (Springer, 2016)
      This book was written for three semester-long classes: Soil and Water Resources Engineering, Irrigation Systems Design, and Agricultural Drainage and Effluent Treatment. Almost all the chapters are accompanied with ...
    • Java in Two Semesters 

      Charatan, Quentin; Kans, Aaron (Springer, 2019)
      As with previous editions, this book is designed for university students taking a first module in software development or programming, followed by a second, more advanced module. This book uses Java as the vehicle for ...
    • The Joy of Science 

      Lockshin, Richard A. (Springer, 2007)
      Scientists have great passion. What could be more exhilarating than to go to work every day feeling as if you were once again a nine-year-old called up to he stage to help the magician with his trick? To be a researcher ...
    • Knowledge Management 

      North, Klaus; Kumta, Gita (Springer, 2018)
      On the path towards a knowledge-based society, organisations – firms, public institutions, non-governmental organisations – increasingly face the challenge to mobilise knowledge resources for creating value in a sustainable ...
    • Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Contexts 

      Lin, Angel M.Y. (Springer, 2016)
      Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) constitute rapidly growing areas of both research and practice in many parts of the world, especially in Asia, Australia and Europe. ...
    • LATEX in 24 Hours 

      Datta, Dilip (Springer, 2017)
      The necessity for writing this book was felt long back, during my Ph.D. work, when I saw students and researchers struggling with LATEX for preparing their articles and theses. A very limited number of books on LATEX are ...
    • Leadership Today 

      Marques, Joan; Dhiman, Satinder (Springer, 2017)
      The story that today’s workforce is looking for different skills and qualities in its leaders has become abundantly clear in the past decade, not only through a major shift in corporate leadership, but also through shifts ...
    • Learning Landscape Ecology 

      Gergel, Sarah E.; Turner, Monica G. (Springer, 2017)
      Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies in its ability to address ...
    • Legal Dynamics of EU External Relations 

      Waele, Henri de (Springer, 2017)
      Harold Wilson famously remarked that a week is a long time in politics. Law would seem to be different, in that developments dating back several years can still be easily tagged as ‘recent’ by la doctrine. Nevertheless, ...
    • Lessons on Synthetic Bioarchitectures 

      Ehmoser-Sinner, Eva-Kathrin; Darren Tan, Cherng-Wen (Springer, 2018)
      The objective of synthetic bioarchitectures as a field of research cannot be confined yet as it belongs to the converging sciences, still emerging; however, let us foresee one of the most relevant objectives of this ...
    • LGBT-Parent Families 

      Goldberg, Abbie E.; Allen, Katherine R. (Springer, 2013)
      In 2003, I began teaching an undergraduate course titled “Sexual Diversity in Society” in what proved to be a turning point year for North American struggles for LGBT family rights. Gay rights plaintiffs in the USA and ...
    • Life Cycle Assessment 

      Hauschild, Michael Z.; Rosenbaum, Ralph K.; Olsen, Stig Irving (Springer, 2018)
      It is an old observation that ‘What gets measured gets managed’, and that what is not measured or measurable runs the risk of being neglected. It is therefore important that we have tools for assessing the sustainability ...
    • Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences 

      Landi, Giovanni; Zampini, Alessandro (Springer, 2018)
      This book originates from a collection of lecture notes that the first author prepared at the University of Trieste with Michela Brundu, over a span of fifteen years, together with the more recent one written by the ...
    • Linear Algebra Done Right 

      Axler, Sheldon (Springer, 2015)
      You are about to teach a course that will probably give students their second exposure to linear algebra. During their first brush with the subject, your students probably worked with Euclidean spaces and matrices. In ...