The best-selling "Fundamentals of Corporate Finance" ("FCF") is written with one strongly held principle - that corporate finance should be developed and taught in terms of a few integrated, powerful ideas. As such, there are three basic themes that are the central focus of the book: an emphasis on intuition - underlying ideas are discussed in ...
For one semester courses in International Economics. *Addressing the changing face of economics education, Sawyer and Sprinkle is written at a level that is appropriate for a broader range of students (economics majors, business majors, international relations and other nonbusiness students) than most existing texts. Written for students who need ...
This resource provides early childhood teachers, students, and parents with a understanding of children's literature and how to use it effectively with young children from birth to age eight. It explains the importance of introducing books to young children, how to plan successful literacy experiences, how to get children excited about literature, ...
An introduction to mathematics which starts with simple arithmetic and algebra and proceeds through to graphs, logarithms, trigonometry to calculus and imaginary numbers.
Set in New York City during the 1890s, this is the story of Lucinda, a free-spirited 10-year-old tomboy who is living with a family friend while her parents travel through Europe. Pleased to be living with the relaxed Miss Peters, Lucinda spends her days rollerskating through the city, making friends with the junkman, chatting with friendly police ...
Appropriate for the non-major/allied health student, this authoritative text carefully explains the fundamentals, providing a general overview of the principles, followed by more detailed explanations. With its easy-to-read writing style, "Microbiology: A Human Perspective" offers modern coverage on such topics as genomics, biofilms, and quorum ...
This lively, stimulating account of non-Euclidean geometry by a noted mathematician covers matrices, determinants, group theory, and many other related topics, with an emphasis on the subject's novel, striking aspects.
Wang Chen, a ninth-century military commander, was sickened by the carnage that had plagued the glorious T'ang dynasty for decades. "All within the seas were poisoned," he wrote, "and pain and disaster was rife throughout the land. " Wang Chen wondered, how can we end conflicts before they begin? How can we explain and understand the dynamics of ...
Biogeography is about the geographical distribution, both past and present, of plants, animals and other organisms. In this undergraduate textbook Spellerberg and Sawyer bring a modern and new approach to a developing subject, writing in a lively and sometimes provocative manner. Throughout the text the applications of biogeography in conservation ...
Wang Chen was a 9th-century commander in Tang dynasty China who turned to the "Tao Teh Ching" in his search for a true pacifism, one that could end conflicts before they began. This text is Wang Chen's own rendering of, and commentary on, the "Tao Teh Ching."
A guide for English-speaking readers to the mythology behind Richard Wagner's operas - myths brought from the Orient to the shores of the Baltic. The legends which have Siegfried for their central figure are found in their earlier written forms in the Eddas and the Sagas, as preserved in Iceland. They appear again in changed forms in the great ...
The only self-contained modern laboratory manual for advanced undergraduate courses in instrumental analysis. Consists of over 50 experiments demonstrating the theory and practice of electrochemical methods, methods based on electromagnetic radiation, and separation methods. Experiments are introduced with a review of the physical principles on ...
Professor Sawyer's book is based on a course given to the majority of engineering students in their first year at Toronto University. Its aim is to present the important ideas in linear algebra to students of average ability whose principal interests lie outside the field of mathematics; as such it will be of interest to students in other ...
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