This book explains the ideas and techniques of statistical mechanics-the theory of condensed matter-in a simple and progressive way. The text starts with the laws of thermodynamics and simple ideas of quantum mechanics. The conceptual ideas underlying the subject are explained carefully; themathematical ideas are developed in parallel to give a coherent overall view. The text is illustrated with examples not just from solid state physics, but also from recent theories of radiation from black holes and recent data on the background radiation from the Cosmic background explorer. In thissecond edition, slightly more advanced material on statistical mechanics is introduced, material which students should meet in an undergraduate course. As a result the new edition contains three more chapters on phase transitions at an appropriate level for an undergraduate student. There are plentyof proble
With a madman on the loose and Miss Peregrine in peril, peculiar children Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom stage rescue missions, meet new allies, and face great dangers. Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he's diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children. They'll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil's Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It's a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all. Titel: Library of Souls Genre: Fantasy Forlag: Quirk Books Sammendrag: A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began
Sawa Mitoma, a nervous, skittish girl who prefers minimal human contact, has just started high school, and it's already not going well...until she meets the "it" boys-the "prince-like" Mutsuki and the sharp-tongued Hajime. But little does she know, they're Sohmas!? It's Fruits Basket...again! Titel: Fruits Basket Another, Vol. 1
Forfatteren undersøger, hvorfor vores nuværende fødevaresystem fører til stigende fedme, fejlernæring og klimabelastning. Med afsæt i forskning og politisk erfaring præsenterer han en plan for, hvordan vi kan omlægge landbrug, produktion og forbrug, så vi sikrer sundere befolkninger og en mere bæredygtig planet. Type: Hardcover Ravenous er en fagbog om det moderne fødevaresystem og dets konsekvenser for sundhed, klima og samfund. Henry Dimbleby analyserer, hvordan vores måde at producere og forbruge mad på påvirker fedme, folkesundhed, miljø og biodiversitet, og han fremlægger konkrete forslag til reformer af fødevarepolitik og landbrug. Bogen kombinerer forskning, politiske perspektiver og personlige erfaringer og argumenterer for en gennemgribende madrevolution til gavn for både mennesker og planeten.
A groundbreaking exploration of purchasing behaviour and its essential role in smarter marketing practices to benefit your organization If you understand why people buy, you are already one step ahead in reaching out to them effectively with your products and services. Decoded: The Science Behind Why We Buy offers a groundbreaking exploration into the science of purchasing. The book specifically demonstrates why decision science has proven invaluable to the field of marketing by helping to explain purchasing behaviours. Decoded delivers a practical framework and guidelines for applying science to the marketing practices you use every day. As a marketing professional, you can look to this book for behavioural knowledge, timely case studies, and an understanding of methodologies. You'll gain advice on how to employ knowledge about behaviours for more effective brand management, from strate
The legendary Deep Thoughts and New Yorker humorist Jack Handey is back with his very first novel-a hilarious, absurd, far-flung adventure tale. THE STENCH OF HONOLOLU Are you a fan of books in which famous tourist destinations are repurposed as unlivable hellholes for no particular reason? Read on! Jack Handey's exotic tale is full of laugh-out-loud twists and unforgettable characters whose names escape me right now. A reliably unreliable narrator and his friend, who is some other guy, need to get out of town. They have a taste for adventure, so they pay a visit to a relic of bygone days-a travel agent-and discover an old treasure map. She might have been a witch, by the way. Our heroes soon embark on a quest for the Golden Monkey, which takes them into the mysterious and stinky foreign land of Honolulu. There, they meet untold dangers, confront strange natives, kill and eat Turtle Peop
A view of ITIL that aligns business and IT so that each brings out the best in the other. It ensures that every element of the Service Lifecycle is focused on customer outcomes and relates to all the companion process elements that follow. Subsequent titles in the core set will link deliverables to meeting the business goals, requirements and service management principles described in this publication. Each of the five core titles shares a consistent structure; the various practice elements are easily navigated and extensively cross-referenced. Forlag: Stationery Office Books (TSO) Udgivelsesår: 2007 Sider: 278 Sprog: Engelsk
From the Middle Ages to the Present The first general history of the evolution of European states and nations from medieval times to the present. 'Schulze demonstrates a high level of competence in tracing the growth of the nation and the state from the time of Charlemagne to the reign of Napoleon. But it is in his account of that point in the early nineteenth century when the nation and state fuse that his book achieves brilliance. Choice This book describes the twin evolutions of nation and state from the Middle Ages to the present and links them to stages in European cultural history. The author contrasts the development of the state in different parts of Europe and shows how the concept merged with the idea of the nation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The modern idea of the nation state, he argues, is rooted in the fundamental changes that took place during the industria
