Best of
Textbooks

1975

Rapid Interpretation of EKGs


Dale Dubin - 1975
    A caption explains the concept illustrated on each page, and a few simple sentences reinforce the concept with interactive (programmed) learning, which links to the following page. Dr Dubin's light and entertaining style, known world-wide, makes learning enjoyable. Practice twelve-lead tracings at the end establish self-confidence, and summarised reference sheets with examples (designed to be copied) provide an excellent review.

Topology


James R. Munkres - 1975
    Includes many examples and figures. GENERAL TOPOLOGY. Set Theory and Logic. Topological Spaces and Continuous Functions. Connectedness and Compactness. Countability and Separation Axioms. The Tychonoff Theorem. Metrization Theorems and paracompactness. Complete Metric Spaces and Function Spaces. Baire Spaces and Dimension Theory. ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY. The Fundamental Group. Separation Theorems. The Seifert-van Kampen Theorem. Classification of Surfaces. Classification of Covering Spaces. Applications to Group Theory. For anyone needing a basic, thorough, introduction to general and algebraic topology and its applications.

Biochemistry


Jeremy M. Berg - 1975
    In the new edition of Biochemistry, instructors will see the all the hallmark features that made this a consistent bestseller for the undergraduate biochemistry course: exceptional clarity and concision, a more biological focus, cutting-edge content, and an elegant, uncluttered design.  Accomplished in both the classroom and the laboratory, coauthors Jeremy Berg and John Tymoczko draw on the field's dynamic research to illustrate its fundamental ideas.

Radiologic Science For Technologists: Physics, Biology, And Protection


Stewart C. Bushong - 1975
    Its unique, full-color design highlights important concepts and makes content easy to understand. User-friendly features, clearly written content, and up-to-date material makes this resource ideal for both practitioners and radiography students preparing for the ARRT certification exam. Instructor resources are available; please contact your Elsevier sales representative for details.Broad coverage of topics in radiologic science includes radiologic physics, imaging, radiobiology, and radiation protection - as well as special topics in imaging such as mammography, fluoroscopy, spiral computed tomography, and cardiovascular interventional procedures.Vibrant, full-color design highlights learning features, math formulas, and key definitions and concepts by focusing attention on important information and making it easy to review content and formulas.Objectives, key terms, outlines, chapter introductions and summaries help students organize and understand information.Quick reference information (formulas, conversion tables, abbreviations, etc.) is printed on colored end sheets for easy access to frequently used information.End-of-chapter questions provide opportunities for students to review and assess what they've learned, using definition exercises, short answer, and calculations.Special icons designate Math Formulas boxes and Important Concepts boxes to highlight and emphasize the most important information or mathematical formulas as they appear in the chapters.The latest advances in radiologic science are included, with significant updates to chapters on Mammography, Interventional, Multislice Spiral CT, Digital Imaging and Radiation Protection.A new chapter on Digital Image Receptors provides an analysis of newer approaches to direct capture radiography and explores the benefits of new modalities, such as lower patient radiation dose.Key terms are bolded and defined when first encountered in the text, and each bolded key term is included in an expanded glossary.

Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain


Warren C. Young - 1975
    The ultimate resource for designers, engineers, and analyst working with calculations of loads and stress.

Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing


John R. Trimble - 1975
    A storehouse of practical writing tips, written in a lively, conversational style.

Escape to Last Man Peak


Jean D'Costa - 1975
    Afraid they will be made to work in the labour camp, they decide to escape to the other side of the island. The perilous journey to Last Man Peak, with only their wits and courage to help them, was to change their lives forever. This tale traces their difficult and dangerous journey to reach Last Man Peak.

The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World


Guido Majno - 1975
    Looking at the civilizations of the ancient world - Greece at the time of Hippocrates, Rome under the Caesars, the Egypt of the Pharohs, the India of Ashoka and China as Mencius knew it - Dr Guido Majno has returned to the orginal sources to unravel history from documents as varied as personal letters, buried artifacts and early treatises. He has reconstructed ancient experiments in a modern laboratory and has evaluated ancient remedies with today's methods.

Personality Theories: Basic Assumption, Research and Applications


Larry A. Hjelle - 1975
    This edition retains a distinctive presentation of theories on the framework of their underlying basic assumptions. This edition has been thoroughly updated mixing research and personal applications in each chapter. Some new theorists have been added and a new chapter covers research methods, assessment techniques and ethical issues. Now available with the third edition, a current research application manual.

Introductory Real Analysis


A.N. Kolmogorov - 1975
    It is self-contained, evenly paced, eminently readable, and readily accessible to those with adequate preparation in advanced calculus.The first four chapters present basic concepts and introductory principles in set theory, metric spaces, topological spaces, and linear spaces. The next two chapters consider linear functionals and linear operators, with detailed discussions of continuous linear functionals, the conjugate space, the weak topology and weak convergence, generalized functions, basic concepts of linear operators, inverse and adjoint operators, and completely continuous operators. The final four chapters cover measure, integration, differentiation, and more on integration. Special attention is here given to the Lebesque integral, Fubini's theorem, and the Stieltjes integral. Each individual section — there are 37 in all — is equipped with a problem set, making a total of some 350 problems, all carefully selected and matched.With these problems and the clear exposition, this book is useful for self-study or for the classroom — it is basic one-year course in real analysis. Dr. Silverman is a former member of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and the Lincoln Library of M.I.T. Along with his translation, he has revised the text with numerous pedagogical and mathematical improvements and restyled the language so that it is even more readable.

A Course in Phonetics


Peter Ladefoged - 1975
    Practicing what you have learned is easy with the CD-ROM that contains more than 4,000 audio files, including recordings of speech from southern and northern U.S. cities, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New Zealand, other forms of English, and scores of other languages.

Applied Mathematics 1


Linda Bostock - 1975
    

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering


John R. Lamarsh - 1975
    All units have been revised to reflect current standards. Includes discussions of new reactor types including the AP600, ABWR, and SBWR as well as an extensive section on non-US design reactors; the nuclear Navy and its impact on the development of nuclear energy; binding energy and such topics as the semi-empirical mass formula and elementary quantum mechanics; and solutions to the diffusion equation and a more general derivation of the point kinetics equation. Topics in reactor safety include a complete discussion of the Chernobyl accident and an updated section on TMI and the use of computer codes in safety analysis. For nuclear engineers.

Elementary Fluid Mechanics


Robert L. Street - 1975
    The first half focuses on fundamental physical and analytical principles. The second half covers applications of those principles to flow in pipes and open channels, lift and drag, fluid machinery, and compressible flow. The final chapter is an introduction to an array of fluid measurements and the instruments for making them.

A First Course in Stochastic Processes


Samuel Karlin - 1975
    The authors continue with their tack of developing simultaneously theory and applications, intertwined so that they refurbish and elucidate each other.The authors have made three main kinds of changes. First, they have enlarged on the topics treated in the first edition. Second, they have added many exercises and problems at the end of each chapter. Third, and most important, they have supplied, in new chapters, broad introductory discussions of several classes of stochastic processes not dealt with in the first edition, notably martingales, renewal and fluctuation phenomena associated with random sums, stationary stochastic processes, and diffusion theory.

Diction: Italian, Latin, French, German . . . the Sounds & 81 Exercises for Singing Them


John Moriarty - 1975
    A comprehensive guide to the diction of Italian, Ecclesiastical Latin, French and German with practical exercises in a comparative approach for American singers.

Mathematics of Choice: Or, How to Count Without Counting


Ivan Niven - 1975
    

Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces


W.A. Sutherland - 1975
    This new edition of Wilson Sutherland's classic text introduces metric and topological spaces by describing someof that influence. The aim is to move gradually from familiar real analysis to abstract topological spaces, using metric spaces as a bridge between the two. The language of metric and topological spaces is established with continuity as the motivating concept. Several concepts are introduced, firstin metric spaces and then repeated for topological spaces, to help convey familiarity. The discussion develops to cover connectedness, compactness and completeness, a trio widely used in the rest of mathematics.Topology also has a more geometric aspect which is familiar in popular expositions of the subject as `rubber-sheet geometry', with pictures of M�bius bands, doughnuts, Klein bottles and the like; this geometric aspect is illustrated by describing some standard surfaces, and it is shown how all thisfits into the same story as the more analytic developments.The book is primarily aimed at second- or third-year mathematics students. There are numerous exercises, many of the more challenging ones accompanied by hints, as well as a companion website, with further explanations and examples as well as material supplementary to that in the book.

What Did I Write?: Beginning Writing Behaviour


Marie M. Clay - 1975
    Clays examines a child's first attempts to write. By tracing patterns of development in actual examples of children's work, she gives invaluable insights for those in a position to assist the learning process. The book graphically illustrates how a child's perception of print relates to early learning and early reading.

Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and Publishers


Judith Butcher - 1975
    This new edition has been revised and redesigned to provide an up-to-date and clearly presented source of information for editors and for all those involved in the process of preparing typescripts and illustrations for printing and publication. The copyeditor is shown as an essential link between the authors and those who work on the actual production of the publication. The copyeditor ensures that the material is well organized, consistent and properly presented and helps remove any features that might cause unnecessary difficulty, expense or delay. From the basics of how to mark a typescript for the designer and the typesetter, through the ground rules of house style and consistency, to how to read and correct proofs, Copy-Editing covers all aspects of the editorial processes involved in converting author's typescript to printed page.

Anatomy: A Regional Atlas of the Human Body


Carmine D. Clemente - 1975
    Almost every plate and accompanying note has been improved. There are 135 additional figures in this Fourth Edition, with the remainder coming from the previous edition of this atlas or the 20th German Edition of Sobotta.

Art In The World


Stella Pandell Russell - 1975
    The text also provides expanded coverage of the arts of the Far East, Mid East, Africa, America (Native) and Oceania, with an increased representation of minorities in American art including Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and African-Americans. Discussions of architecture, painting, sculpture, advertising, graphics, film, photography, printmaking, ceramics, furniture, design. Jewelry and interior design are included to give students a full range of study. This edition with nearly 650 illustrations - more than 300 in color - throughout the text as examples for recognition and learning. Discusses art issues such as art censorship, the art market, and the new role of the museum and public art. "The Artist Sketch", biographies of artists from ancient times to the present, gives students background information and insight into the lives of famous artists. "Art Talk", covers biographies of art dealers, patrons and critics, as well as museum technologies, provides insight into important people and developments in the art world.

Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach


John Alcock - 1975
    Notable is the inclusion, for the first time, of four-colour photographs and illustrations throughout. Like previous editions, the book shows how evolutionary biologists analyze all aspects of behaviour.

Gallipoli


Eric Wheler Bush - 1975
    In 1915 the straits were a coveted prize -- their control, the Allies believed, could sway the course of World War I.Much has been written about Gallipoli, but no one has ever agreed whether hat controversial campaign was justified or how success could have been assured. This look (probably the last from a combatant's point of view) vividly portrays the hopes and fears of the men who fought there and their commanders, and seeks to answer both these crucial questions.Eric Bush was at Gallipoli as a midshipman aged fifteen. Since then he has visited and re-visited the scenes of the landings and has patiently pieced together a meticulously fair and accurate picture of the campaign. Aided by his experience of combined operations in World War II, he is singularly well equipped to assess what was attempted and what was achieved. Moreover, throughout his distinguished career he has made a point of meeting and talking to the men and officers who served at Gallipoli and has also had access to a vast quantity of unpublished reports, letters, and diaries.Captain Bush's account is profoundly moving, though that is hardly surprising, for the beaches of Gallipoli saw man act of valour, of selflessness and of patriotism and those who fought there were always proud to have done so.This book has long been eagerly awaited and, as Lord Mountbatten wrote in a personal letter to the author recently, 'no one is more fitted to write the final story of Gallipoli.'

Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation


Alan Lightman - 1975
    The problems are expressed in broad physical terms to enhance their pertinence to readers with diverse backgrounds.In their solutions, the authors have attempted to convey a mode of approach to these kinds of problems, revealing procedures that can reduce the labor of calculations while avoiding the pitfall of too much or too powerful formalism. Although well suited for individual use, the volume may also be used with one of the modem textbooks in general relativity.

Practical Haematology


John V. Dacie - 1975
    Each test that is described is accompanied by an explanation of the principle involved, the reliability and causes of error, interpretation of results and clinical significance. The use of standards, reference reagents and quality control is stressed, and recommendations of the International Council for Standardization in Haematology are described where these are available.

Structural Inorganic Chemistry


Alexander Frank Wells - 1975
    The book includes a clear exposition of general topics concerning the structures of solids, and a systematic description of the structural chemistry of elements and their compounds.The book is divided into two parts. Part I deals with a number of general topics, including the properties of polyhedra, the nature and symmetry of repeating patterns, and the ways in which spheres, of the same or different sizes, can be packed together. In Part II the structural chemistry of theelements is described systematically, arranged according to the groups of the Periodic Table.

Applied Optimal Control: Optimization, Estimation and Control


Arthur E. Bryson Jr. - 1975
    CHOICE called it "a high-level, concise book that could well be used as a reference by engineers, applied mathematicians, and undergraduates. The format is good, the presentation clear, the diagrams instructive, the examples and problems helpful...References and a multiple-choice examination are included."

Pump Handbook


Igor J. Karassik - 1975
    It deals with various types of pumps, materials of construction, drivers, controls and valves, systems, and services to which they are applied, intakes and suction piping, selecting and purchasing.

Optical Processes in Semiconductors


Jacques I. Pankove - 1975
    The author has combined, for the graduate student and researcher, a great variety of source material, journal research, and many years of experimental research, adding new insights published for the first time in this book.Coverage includes energy states in semiconductors and their perturbation by external parameters, absorption, relationships between optical constants, spectroscopy, radiative transitions, nonradiative recombination, processes in pn junctions, semiconductor lasers, interactions involving coherent radiation, photoelectric emission, photovoltaic effects, polarization effects, photochemical effects, effect of traps on luminescence, and reflective modulation.The author has presented the subject in a manner which couples readily to physical intuition. He introduces new techniques and concepts, including nonradiative recombination, effects of doping on optical properties, Franz-Keldysh effect in absorption and emission, reflectance modulation, and many others. Dr. Pankove emphasizes the underlying principle that can be applied to the analysis and design of a wide variety of functional devices and systems. Many valuable references, illustrative problems, and tables are also provided here.

The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications


Harold Linstone - 1975