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In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Capture…

This fully updated and revised third edition, presents a wide ranging, balanced account of the fundamental issues across the full spectrum of inferenc…

This book gives an introduction to the classical, well-known special functions which play a role in mathematical physics, especially in boundary value…

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

Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative whi…

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

The book is organized around basic principles of software project management: planning and estimating, measuring and controlling, leading and communic…

This book uses a «learn by doing» approach to introduce the concepts and techniques of VHDL and FPGA to designers through a series of hands-on experim…

A new model for task scheduling that dramatically improves the efficiency of parallel systems Task scheduling for parallel systems can become a quagmi…

How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch o…

This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of r…

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…

Fully describes optimization methods that are currently most valuable in solving real-life problems. Since optimization has applications in almost eve…

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…

This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their c…

Rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is one of the leading causes of death. The risk of rupture has been a controversial topic for years and only r…

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

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

Modern Real and Complex Analysis Thorough, well-written, and encyclopedic in its coverage, this text offers a lucid presentation of all the topics ess…

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

John Sturrock’s classic explication of Structuralism represents the most succinct and balanced survey available of a major critical movement associate…

Accessible, succinct, and including numerous student-friendly features, this introductory textbook offers an exceptional foundation to the field for t…

A hands-on approach to the basic principles of empirical model building. Includes a series of real-world statistical problems illustrating modeling sk…

A uniquely accessible book for general measure and integration, emphasizing the real line, Euclidean space, and the underlying role of translation in …

Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magi…

The Reformation Movement in Germany provides readers with a strong narrative overview of the most recent work on the Reformation in the German lands.

Linear Statistical Models Developed and refined over a period of twenty years, the material in this book offers an especially lucid presentation of li…

This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. The first book to focus on war and peace in the ancie…

An introductory perspective on statistical applications in the field of engineering Modern Engineering Statistics presents state-of-the-art statistica…

A comprehensive overview of the most important international events, movements, and controversies of the 20th century. Written by distinguished schola…

A Complete Introduction to probability AND its computer Science Applications USING R Probability with R serves as a comprehensive and introductory boo…

This history of Spain in the period between the end of Roman rule and the time of the Arab conquest challenges many traditional assumptions about the …

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscur…

A novel, practical introduction to functional analysis In the twenty years since the first edition of Applied Functional Analysis was published, there…

For 200 years, industry mastered iron, fire, strength and energy. Today, electronics shapes our everyday objects, integrating chips: computers, phones…

Bayesian methods combine the evidence from the data at hand with previous quantitative knowledge to analyse practical problems in a wide range of area…

A comprehensive text and reference bringing together advances in the theory of probability and statistics and relating them to applications. The three…

The Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics is a collection of topics of current research interests in both pure and applied statistics and probabi…

The first systematic, book-length treatment of the subject. Begins with a general introduction and the formal mathematical background behind qualitati…

A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante’s writing,…

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance …

Many scientific, medical or engineering problems raise the issue of recovering some physical quantities from indirect measurements; for instance, dete…

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 …

This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries. Guides students through four centuries of c…

The first book to focus on the social impact of warfare and the Roman army in Late Antiquity. Explores the implications of war and the army in a broad…