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This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian n…

To be competitive, service providers cannot customize every installation but must simultaneously offer services that meet a wide range of perceived cu…

Spanning the period from Alexander the Great's accession to the throne in 336 BC to the defeat by Octavian of Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC, this volu…

In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the…

Living with Arthritis provides an overview of arthritis that is grounded in the realities of living with a long-term condition often characterised by …

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and …

This book comprises 11 essays on Stalinism by both eminent historians and younger scholars who have conducted research in the newly opened Russian arc…

This is a celebratory volume in honour of Professor T.R. Miles of the Bangor Dyslexia Unit. Among the papers offered by known specialists in the field…

This book is an introduction to the rudiments of Perl programming. It provides the general reader with an interest in language with the most usable an…

This book is designed for professionals and students in software engineering or information technology who are interested in understanding the dynamic…

Royalty Rates for Licensing Intellectual Property includes critical information on financial theory, rules of thumb, industry guidelines, litigation b…

A unified view of metaheuristics This book provides a complete background on metaheuristics and shows readers how to design and implement efficient al…

Performance Evaluation is a hands-on text for practitioners, researchers, educators, and students in how to use scientifically-based evaluations that …

This book offers a comprehensive overview of Britain's development since the end of the Second World War. It comprises 23 contributions from leading a…

A breakthrough sourcebook to the challenges and solutions for mobile database systems This text enables readers to effectively manage mobile database …

This book provides a modern and up-to-date treatment of the Hilbert transform of distributions and the space of periodic distributions. Taking a simpl…

In this carefully researched, thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Hughes examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impact on public life. …

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transforma…

This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionand looks at its wider…

The Growing Imperative Need for Effective Information Security Governance With monotonous regularity, headlines announce ever more spectacular failure…

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century…

Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situat…

Software Paradigms provides the first complete compilation of software paradigms commonly used to develop large software applications, with coverage r…

Spain, 1157-1300 makes use of a vast body of primary and secondary source material to provide a balanced overview of a crucial period of Spanish as we…

Offers comprehensive coverage of all major modeling viewpoints Provides details of collaboration and class diagrams for filling in the design-level mo…

The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varie…

North Carolina 2nd edition is a single volume, fascinating history of the state that covers political, economic, cultural and social dimensions of the…

Thanks to the Internet, it has never been so easy to become the person of your wildest dreams. Immersive 3D worlds such as Second Life and THERE.com p…

This beautifully illustrated new biography of Cleopatra draws on literary, archaeological, and art historical evidence to paint an intimate and compel…

Digital sound synthesis has long been approached using standard digital filtering techniques. Newer synthesis strategies, however, make use of physica…

With original essays by leading scholars, this book explores the social history of the medieval eastern Roman Empire and offers illuminating new insig…

This sweeping history of the Serbian people starts with the settlement of the Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula in the seventh century and ends with the d…

This concise and practical book shows where code vulnerabilities lie-without delving into the specifics of each system architecture, programming or sc…

This sourcebook presents a wealth of material relating to every aspect of Roman spectacles, especially gladiatorial combat and chariot racing. Draws o…

Object-Oriented scripting with Perl and Python Scripting languages are becoming increasingly important for software development. These higher-level la…

The central thesis of The Web's Awake is that the phenomenal growth and complexity of the web is beginning to outstrip our capability to control it di…

Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region…

The book presents a comprehensive discussion on software quality issues and software quality assurance (SQA) principles and practices, and lays specia…

Pompey the Great gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny.

With topics ranging from language death to sign language, Language, Frogs and Savants offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of linguistics. Writ…

An unparalleled opportunity to learn about an exciting new technology that is revolutionizing network and Internet content delivery Network Query Lang…

The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. A succinct narrative of Iranian …

Ethernet Networks, Fourth Edition, provides everything you need to know to plan, implement, manage and upgrade Ethernet networks. * Improve your skill…

This book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece’s greatest inventions: democratic government. Provid…

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.