Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for th...

Tomorrow's nanoscientist will have a truly interdisciplinary and nano-centric education, rather than, for example, a degree in chemistry with a specialization in nanoscience. For this to happen, the field needs a truly focused and dedicated textbook. This full-color masterwork is such a textbook.

It introduces the nanoscale along with the societal impacts of nanoscience, then presents an overview of characterization and fabrication methods. The authors systematically discuss the chemistry, ph...

For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the “perfect” market of classical economics. This blend of sophisticated logistics and larger than life entrepreneurs makes it a unique case study of classical economics in a modern setting.

The enlarged and substantially rewritten Maritime Economics u...

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and offers a new, comprehensive and detailed history of its subject.

This 18-volume, authoritative s...

Divided into seven parts, the text is organised so that the main focus progresses across chapters from primary prevention (parts 1 to 3), through secondary prevention (parts 4 and 5), to tertiary prevention and care (part 6).

In het begin van deze eeuw ontstond onder de wiskundigen een heftig debat over de verzamelingenleer van Cantor. Zijn theorie leek de basistheorie van de gehele wiskunde te worden, maar bleek te leiden tot antinomieën.

Michel Combès stelt het probleem en beschrijft de belangrijkste voorgestelde oplossingen en de belangrijkste discussianten: Russel, Brouwer, Zermelo en Hilbert.

Sinds het verschijnen van het eerste grote werk van Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy Invisible Loyalties (1973) is loyaliteit een centraal begrip in de contextuele benadering. Het boek werd vertaald in het Duits, Spaans en Italiaans, maar niet in het Frans of Nederlands. Daarom schreef Catherine Ducommun-Nagy Les Loyautés qui nous libèrent. Zij volgt hierin de ideeën van de originele tekst van Invisible Loyalties en verbindt deze verder met elementen van recenter verschenen andere werken zoals Betwee...