Product Description: This text provides an introduction to the mathematics and computing skills that undergraduates in the social sciences and arts are likely to need in their courses. The first part takes the reader through the basics of arithmatics, algebra and the application of statistical methods to social science and arts subjects...read more

Product Description: The Fire and Life Safety Inspection Manual, Ninth Edition is the most up-to-date inspection reference manual for those interested in fire protection, fire safety, and life safety inspections. It provides step-by-step guidance through the complete fire inspection process, with special emphasis on life safety considerations...read more

Product Description: In recent years, the relentless globalization of capital and production has made global economic integration less than newsworthy. There likewise is little novelty in the evidence that foreign economic polices can and do influence the economic conditions in the United States...read more

Product Description: This revised, extended and updated edition of Robert Solomon's well-received The Transformation of the World Economy assesses the remarkable changes in the world economy in recent decades. The impact of marketization, of "globalization" in both industry and finance and of increased policy co-ordination as a response at regional and global levels are analyzed, as are the changing philosophies of economic policy in the US, Britain, Western Europe, the USSR, Russia and Eastern Europe, China, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America...read more