University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, …
Numerosos reportes científicos alrededor del mundo identifican al aprendizaje basado en problemas (PBL) como una práctica educativa efectiva para que los estudiantes desarrollen habilidades y competencias para el ejercicio profesional durante su aprendizaje. En la comunidad académica se han formulado estrategias y modelos para la práctica del PBL en la educación de ingeniería en muchas un…
The edition includes the diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi from 1850 until his death in 1894. Belcredi – who was the brother of Austrian Prime Minister Richard Belcredi (1865-67) – was an outspoken Conservative, with links both to the Bohemian States Rights Party and the early Christian Social movement in Vienna.
This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ‘human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals chang…
The earth's biogeochemical systems involve complex, dynamic processes that depend upon many factors. The three main factors upon which life on the earth depends.
As schools, as well as the workplace, become more automated, and remote or distance learning / working becomes the “new normal,” understanding and leveraging artificial intelligence will become a critical skill.
Biology for AP® Courses covers the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester Advanced Placement® biology course. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts through an evolutionary lens. Biology for AP® Courses was designed to meet and exceed the requirements of the College Board’s AP® Biology framework while allowing signifi…
This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resourc…