A Framework for Managing, Measuring, and Predicting Attributes of Software Development Products and ProcessesReflecting the immense progress in the development and use of software metrics in the past decades, Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Third Edition provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to software metrics. Like its popular predecessors, this third edition discusses important issues, explains essential concepts, and offers new approaches ...

Draws on author's years of experience in the field to provide a practical resource for qualified and trainee counsellors, providing them with the necessary skills to ensure best practice with children and young people.

A long awaited new edition of this now classic human geography textbook. Fully updated throughout, it includes chapters written by some of the leading names in the field.

An enormously accessible account of the key philosophical ideas that have informed geographical research. A complete student guide to the theories, methodologies and histories of both human and physical geography.

An examination of the modern conceptual and methodologic approaches to hydrologic processes, measurements and questions. The global hydrologic cycle and its relation to climate, soils and vegetation is examined. The individual components of the cycle are explained.

Authorized by Hanban, HSK Standard Course is developed under the joint efforts of Beijing Language and Culture University Press and Chinese Testing International (CTI). With HSK test papers as its primary source, HSK Standard Course is characterized by a humorous style, familiar topics and a scientific course design. Matching the HSK test in all aspects, from the content, form to the levels, it is a series of new-type course books embodying the idea of ""combining testing and teaching, and pr...

The Girl in the Golden Dress is about Nettie. She’s wearing her very best clothes. Nettie’s mother has spent hours and hours combing her hair, and the lady next door has given her a beautiful golden crown to wear. But why is she dressed up so finely?

This book was created in collaboration with Het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

The mystical relationship between Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec

In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks

to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth

century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec,

the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec's

criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which

were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart's condem...

The only way to understand art is to go to a museum and look at it, French painter Renoir suggests. But once inside, this is easier said than done. What do you do when the label simply reads "Untitled, 1973"? Where to look when a painting offers you a picturesque but undisguised view of a giant vagina? And how to react, when the museum guard stares at you for far too long?

How to Visit an Art Museum offers fresh perspectives on how to behave once inside the museum. Whether first-timer or freq...

Can high-rises make a fruitful contribution to making cities more sustainable? Many argue that high-rises deliver positive environmental effects, such as densification, and reduction of traffic and C02 emissions. But is it really that simple?With ten contributions from international architects and urban designers, this book addresses the key elements when considering the role of high-rise in a sustainable urban future.

Contributions by Peter Bosselmann, Markus Appenzeller, Lora Nicolaou, Meta...