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Environmental science (ecology, conservation, and resource management) is an increasingly quantitative field. This accessible textbook introduces quantitative ecology in a manner that aims to confront the limitations of the current literature and thereby appeal to a far wider audience.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of magnetism, magnetic materials and related applications. It covers the physics of magnetism, magnetic phenomena in materials, size and dimensionality effects and applications including information storage, spin electronics, and biomedicine.

Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming disaster. In The Perfect Moral Storm, Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure.

An introduction to the Quran with particular emphasis on parallels with Biblical tradition, this work provides a concise but detailed overview of Muslim prophets from Adam to Muhammad. Each of the chapters is organized around a particular prophet and includes an English translation of the verses.

Offers an understanding of how to learn from data and how to deal with uncertainty while promoting the use of practical computer applications. This title teaches present and future managers how to use and understand statistics without an overdose of technical detail, enabling them to better understand the concepts at hand and to interpret results.

In eleven chapters by leading scholars, The Market Makers provides a detailed but highly readable analysis of how retailers have become the leading drivers of the new global economy. The analytic core is the "market-making perspective," which refocuses economic analysis away from factories and production to markets and market-making.

This book describes statistical techniques for the design and evaluation of research studies on medical diagnostic tests, screening tests, biomarkers and new technologies for classification and prediction in medicine.

Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the world. Departing from the usual practice of considering only a few examples of nationalism drawn from a limited geographical and historical canvas, this book is based on fundamental theoretical ideas about the formation and solidarity of groups.

Deals with the treatment and prevention of the most common STDs - including syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, and HPV. This title includes articles that discusses the research in the field such as antimicrobial resistance in treating gonorrhea and the development/trials of a genital herpes vaccine.