Experiments in Undergraduate Mathematics: A Mathematica-Based Approach

All students need to master a variety of mathematical tools and concepts at the start of their university career. This distinctive book helps students learn these by doing. The approach is interactive, using experiments, performed in the symbolic algebra package Mathematica, to impart the fundamentals of many of the topics students encounter. A clear exposition of the topic accompanies every experiment. 

Asthma At Your Fingertips is a practical, useful guide on the everyday issues of living with asthma. Experienced medical experts have collected the most commonly asked questions they encountered with their patients and answered them in simple, non-medical terms, exploring everything from medical treatments and alternative therapies, to the effects of diet, pollution and pregnancy. This book is essential reading for those with asthma and for their family and friends.

Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension

How many dimensions do you live in? Three? Maybe that's all your commonsense sense perception perceives, but there is growing and compelling evidence to suggest that we actually live in a universe of ten real dimensions. Kaku has written an extraordinarily lucid and thought-provoking exploration of the theoretical and empirical bases of a ten-dimensional universe and even goes so far as to discuss possible practical implications--such as being able to escape the collapse of the universe.

Protestantism And The Spirit Of Capitalism

It is a study of the relationship between the ethics of ascetic Protestantism and the emergence of the spirit of modern capitalism.

Global Economic Prospects 2010: Crisis, Finance, and Growth

This report explores both the short- and medium-term impacts of the financial crisis on developing countries. It presents evidence that the financial boom played a critical role in the growth boom experienced by developing countries between 2003 and 2007, but that tighter conditions in the future are expected to result in weaker growth over the next 5 to 15 years. Although global growth has resumed, the recovery is fragile, and unless business and consumer demand strengthen, the world economy could slow down again.