The Astrophotography Manual's Third Edition is the most up to date and authoritative guide for photographers who want to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the stars with the latest professional tools and techniques.

Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. Focusing on urban political and cultural dynamics in 24 global cities, the book shows that urban environments are thematized in literature and art, but are also entities that are shaped, ...

Global Healthcare Management looks at international perspectives in healthcare management and the way regional priorities, national income and social factors are crucial to effective healthcare service. Readers are provided skills to address issues and solve problems by understanding the complex interrelationships of global health provision.

Use advanced cultural insights to transform your marketing strategy and discover what you can do to make your process culturally intelligent and genuinely inclusive.

Fundamentals of Risk Management provides a comprehensive introduction to enterprise risk for students and risk professionals, with tools and tips, expert insights and coverage of key developments in an ever-evolving field. Effective enterprise risk management allows organizations to maximize opportunities and minimize uncertainty. Aligned with ISO 31000, the COSO ERM Framework and the UK's Orange Book, this guide covers the key principles of risk management and how to deal with the different ...

This popular textbook introduces students to contemporary brand management and innovation with a focus on how companies and consumers are interacting and co-creating brands today.

Baum and Smith, both professors evolutionary biology and researchers in the field of systematics, present this highly accessible introduction to phylogenetics and its importance in modern biology.

This Rapids book is an analysis of quantum computing, covering everything from its foundational principles to practical applications in the development of quantum services.

The Growth Paradox describes the phenomenon of growing pains. When a business grows rapidly, it tends to slow itself down. How can this be prevented? Is there anything that can be done about it? Absolutely, and this book helps you with that! In eleven chapters, it explains in clear language what the most common growing pains are and how to address them. Assumptions are debunked, myths are busted, problems are explained, and solutions are provided. Every company has the potential to become a g...