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A Concise Course in Advanced Level Statistics: With Worked Examples
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A Concise Course in Advanced Level Statistics: With Worked ExamplesA Concise Course in Advanced Level Statistics: With Worked Examples

This title is fully revised and updated for complete coverage of statistics at Advanced Level. The use of a second color highlights key areas and formula. Summaries are included to provide consolidation of learning and understanding. Further practice sections of questions are offered for thorough exam preparation and practice. New ICT support for this key area is provided throughout
 
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Nonlinear Ocean Waves & the Inverse Scattering Transform
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Nonlinear Ocean Waves & the Inverse Scattering TransformNonlinear Ocean Waves & the Inverse Scattering Transform

For more than 200 years, the Fourier Transform has been one of the most important mathematical tools for understanding the dynamics of linear wave trains. Nonlinear Ocean Waves and the Inverse Scattering Transform presents the development of the nonlinear Fourier analysis of measured space and time series, which can be found in a wide variety of physical settings including surface water waves, internal waves, and equatorial Rossby waves.
 
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Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark
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Depression and Narrative: Telling the DarkDepression and Narrative: Telling the Dark

Depression and Narrative examines stories of depression in the context of recent scholarship on illness and narrative, which up to this point has largely focused on physical illness and disability. Contributors from a number of disciplinary perspectives address these narrative accounts of depression, by both sufferers and those who treat them, as they appear in memoirs, diaries, novels, poems, oral interviews, fact sheets, blogs, films, and television shows.

 
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The Companion to Margaret Atwood
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The Companion to Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. 
 
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On the Heights of Despair
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On the Heights of DespairOn the Heights of Despair

The dark, existential despair of Romanian philosopher Cioran's short meditations is paradoxically bracing and life-affirming. Written in 1934, when he was 22 and desperately insomniac, this feverishly lyrical, at times slyly humorous confessional outpouring reveals Cioran as an angry young man in morally decaying Europe--a far cry from the elegant, curt stylist of his later books. Here Cioran rails at life's irrationality and absurdities; embraces solitude, melancholy and the awareness of death...
 
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