From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now

When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in COVID-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, ...

Business Statistics narrows the gap between theory and practice by focusing on relevant statistical methods, thus empowering business students to make good, data-driven decisions. Using the latest GAISE (Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education) report, which included extensive revisions to reflect both the evolution of technology and new wisdom on statistics education, this edition brings a modern edge to teaching business statistics. This includes a focus on the rep...

Learn everything you need to know about Calculus and practice your reasoning and practical skills with this high-end textbook.

Calculus: A Complete Course, 10th Edition is the ultimate guide in the field with a well-earned reputation for its accuracy and mathematical rigour.

The textbook provides a reader-friendly language and high-end study material, suitable for a standard semester course that will also help you explore some of the unique topics and approaches in the landscape of Mathematics.

Offering a wide range of exercises to practice and test your learning of the topics, this edition will help you develop your reasoning skills and apply techniques you have learned to concrete situation...

Now in its ninth edition, Hogg & Vaughans Social Psychology offers a comprehensive, lively introduction to social psychological theory and research.

It places social psychology in a contemporary, real-world context and explores new, cutting-edge research as well as bringing classic theories to life, making it an essential student resource.

Appropriate for Computer Networking or Introduction to Networking courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, CIS, MIS, and Business Departments.Tanenbaum takes a structured approach to explaining how networks work from the inside out. He starts with an explanation of the physical layer of networking, computer hardware and transmission systems; then works his way up to network applications. Tanenbaum's in-depth application coverage include...

Competition is responsible for much of the prosperity around us. Competitive markets deliver lower prices, better quality, abundance of choice, and increased innovation. But while competition benefits the consumers, it can prove challenging to producers and sellers, who need to constantly improve to stay in business. As a result, sellers may sometimes look for ways to dampen the competitive process.

Our antitrust and competition laws are designed to address these risks and safeguard consumer ...

Help your students master the core subject principles of Business Operations and processes with this market-leading text. Operations and Process Management, 6th Edition provides clear and concise coverage of the nature and principles of the subject, offering the critical and practical tools your students need to embark on a career in the field.

Frank Wood’s Business Accounting, 15th edition, by Alan Sangster and Lewis Gordon is the world’s bestselling textbook on bookkeeping and accounting. It is an uncomplicated introduction to what financial accounting is and does, teaching important accounting ideas and methods and using a straightforward style that is easy to digest whether you are new to accounting or not.

Used by generations of students and professionals across the globe, this book provides clear explanations of essentia...

Thelong-anticipated revision of ArtificialIntelligence: A Modern Approach explores the full breadth and depth of the field of artificialintelligence (AI). The 4th Edition brings readers up to date on the latest technologies,presents concepts in a more unified manner, and offers new or expanded coverageof machine learning, deep learning, transfer learning, multi agent systems,robotics, natural language processing, causality, probabilistic programming,privacy, fairness, and safe AI.

Within architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role both within the design process and its reception. This book explores the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polany...