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Engineering Computation with MATLAB® introduces the power of computing to engineering readers with no previous programming experience. By spending time on meaningful engineering examples, professor and trained engineer David Smith places the fundamental tenets of computer programming into the context of MATLAB, a user-friendly language for engineers. Introduction to Computers and Programming; Getting Started with MATLAB; Arrays; Execution Control; Functions; Character Strings; Cell Arrays and Structures; File Input and Output; Recursion; Principles of Problem Solving; Plotting; Matrices; Images; Processing Sound; Numerical Methods; Sorting; Searching Graphs. For all readers interested in MATLAB for engineering computer programming.

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This popular guide to the concepts, term and theories of human geography has now been fully revised to reflect recent changes in the nature and practice of human geography. The Dictionary of Human Geography, Fourth Edition, contains a wealth of new material, to ensure that it remains the definitive resource for a new generation of students and teachers.

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This book is the continuation of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales 940-1216, edited by David Knowles, C. N. L. Brooke and Vera London (1972). It continues the lists from 1216 to 1377, arranged by order: the Benedictine houses; the Cluniacs; the Grandmontines; the Cistercians; the Carthusians; the Augustinian canons; the Premonstratensians; the Gilbertine order; the Trinitarian houses; the Bonhommes; and the nuns. An introduction discusses the nature, use, and history of the lists and examines critically the sources on which they are based.

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