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For courses covering finite mathematics and/or calculus for students in business, economics, social sciences, or life sciences. Barnett/Ziegler/Byleen is designed to help students help themselves succeed in the course. This text offers more built-in guidance than any other on the market―with special emphasis on prerequisites skills―and a host of student-friendly features to help students catch up or learn on their own. The content is organized into three parts: (1) A Library of Elementary Functions (Chapters 1-2), (2) Finite Mathematics (Chapters 3-9), and (3) Calculus (Chapters 10-15). This program provides a better teaching and learning experience. Here’s how: Personalized learning with MyMathLab®: the accompanying MyMathLab course provides online homework and learning tools that help students help themselves succeed. More than 6,900 exercises in the text help you craft the perfect assignments for your students, with plenty of support for prerequisite skills. Built-in guidance helps students help themselves learn course content. Flexible coverage allows instructors to use this text in a way that suits their syllabus and teaching style.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes.

“This book is too important to miss. It is a vast, sprawling look at who we are as Indigenous people in these United States.”–Tommy Orange (Cheyenne and Arapaho), author of There There

Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal

The definitive guide to painting people and portraits, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations.

Bestselling artist and author Hazel Soan explains how to create beautiful and engaging portraits of your loved ones, with hand

Following her success with Nora Murphy’s Country House Style, Murphy celebrates a selection of homes and their homeowners, each exemplifying a different style.

For Nora Murphy,a country house isn’t so much a place as it i

This book offers introductory-to-advanced material on all major aspects of multimedia, including pointers to current links for information and demos at the most advanced level, to form a complete reference. Topics covered include introduction to multimedia, graphics/image data representations, color models in images and video, basics of digital audio, lossy compression, image compression standards, basic video compression techniques, basic audio compression techniques, multimedia networks, and more. For professionals involved in Computer-Aided Engineering, Computer Systems Organization, Computer-Communication Networks, Computing Methodologies, Coding and Information Theory, or anyone interested in a good reference on current multimedia technologies.

The introduction explains that food studies is a growing interdisciplinary field that examines food not only as a source of nutrition but also as a reflection of culture, identity, history, society, economics, and human behavior. Because food connects many areas of human life, researchers use different methods and perspectives to understand its meaning and impact

International Human Resource Management offers coverage of international, comparative and cross-cultural HRM. Ideal for students taking this subject for the first time or studying in their second language, this title balances theory with cases and examples from across the globe. Its wealth of contributors providing expert knowledge of specific countries and regions makes this a truly international text.

It combines three approaches of study:

International – theme focused (resourcing, talent in an international context), Comparative – country focused (India and HRM, China and HRM) and Cross-cultural – linking HR to wider organisation (leadership in international context).

This text brings together in one volume the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis in organizations.

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Containing simple explanations of complex ideas and written in plain English, this text has been designed with your needs as a student firmly in mind.

Whether you are studying at undergraduate or postgraduate level, our team of expert authors will guide and develop your understanding of each key area of the curriculum, from the fundamentals through to critical evaluation towards the end of each chapter.