Quantum Physics: A Fundamental Approach to Modern Physics

This brilliantly innovative textbook is intended as a first introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications. Townsend's new text shuns the historical ordering that characterizes so-called Modern Physics textbooks and applies a truly modern approach to this subject, starting instead with contemporary single-photon and single-atom interference experiments.

The History of China: Volume 11, Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Part 2

This is the second of two volumes in this major history dealing with the gradual decline of the Ch'ing empire in China (the first was volume 10). Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century, and the profound stirring during that period, which led to China's great twentieth-century revolution.

The History of China: Volume 5, The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907-1279, Part 1

This addition to the authoritative multivolume  History of China presents a chronological account broadly focused on the political and military history of a period of vast, deep, and irreversible change...Scholarly footnotes, 32 maps, and a 53-page bibliography offer guidance for further research...

Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day.
This thoroughly revised second edition updates the book with a new co-author, and includes new chapters on language and power, language extinction, and what it is linguists actually do. Language Matters is sure to engage both general readers and students of language and linguistics at any level.

Supporting Mathematical Development in the Early Years

Review of the first edition include: 'All the major areas of early childhood maths teaching and learning are covered in this powerful book! The book is also full of delightful stories! [It] would be eminently suitable for beginning and trainee teachers but would also be helpful to all those concerned in early years settings.