Description below is for brand new sealed products & may not represent the item fully Images are for illustration only Contents & item condition may vary All items are sold in working condition Instruction manuals guides downloadable or online accessible content listed on the product are not guaranteed to be included Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories & concepts that make up the field of translation studies Providing an accessible & up-to-date overview it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide This fourth edition has been fully revised & continues to provide a balanced & detailed guide to the theoretical landscape Each theory is applied to a wide range of languages including Bengali Chinese English French German Italian Punjabi Portuguese & Spanish A broad spectrum of texts is analysed including the Bible Buddhist sutras Beowulf the fiction of Garcia Marquez & Proust European Union & UNESCO documents a range of contemporary films a travel brochure a children's cookery book & the translations of Harry Potter Each chapter comprises an introduction outlining the translation theory or theories illustrative texts with translations case studies a chapter summary & discussion points & exercises NEW FEATURES IN THIS FOURTH EDITION INCLUDEnew material to keep up with developments in research & practice including the sociology of translation multilingual cities translation in the digital age & specialized audiovisual & machine translationrevised discussion points & updated figures & tablesnew in-chapter activities with links to online materials & articles to encourage independent researchan extensive updated companion website with video introductions & journal articles to accompany each chapter online exercises an interactive timeline weblinks & powerpoint slides for teacher support This is a practical user-friendly textbook ideal for students & researchers on courses in Translation & Translation Studies ...

This full-color introduction to agronomy & crop science offers both traditional agricultural students & students with nonagricultural backgrounds a timely look at the principles of crop science sustainable agriculture & a host of related societal issues A must-read text for anyone interested in what are arguably the most profoundly important issues of our time INTRODUCTION TO AGRONOMY second edition addresses the basics of safe & sustainable food & fiber production as well as big picture topics such as energy ecology & environmental quality Throughout the text readers will find information & illustrations on the latest agricultural methods regulations & practices--and how each is impacting our society & each individual within it ...

A new edition of the essential text & professional reference with substantial new material on such topics as v EB trees multithreaded algorithms dynamic programming & edge-based flow Some books on algorithms are rigorous but incomplete; others cover masses of material but lack rigor Introduction to Algorithms uniquely combines rigor & comprehensiveness The book covers a broad range of algorithms in depth yet makes their design & analysis accessible to all levels of readers Each chapter is relatively self-contained & can be used as a unit of study The algorithms are described in English & in a pseudocode designed to be readable by anyone who has done a little programming The explanations have been kept elementary without sacrificing depth of coverage or mathematical rigor The first edition became a widely used text in universities worldwide as well as the standard reference for professionals The second edition featured new chapters on the role of algorithms probabilistic analysis & randomized algorithms & linear programming The third edition has been revised & updated throughout It

Includes:: two completely new chapters on van Emde Boas trees & multithreaded algorithms substantial additions to the chapter on recurrence (now called Divide-&-Conquer) & an appendix on matrices It features enhanced treatment of dynamic programming & greedy algorithms & a new notion of edge-based flow in the material on flow networks Many new exercises & problems have been added for this edition The international paperback edition is no longer available; the hardcover is available worldwide

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Written primarily for students in higher education & student affairs graduate programs Introduction to American Higher Education is a groundbreaking textbook that combines classic scholarship pertaining to colleges & universities with the most cutting-edge perspectives in the field The book is divided into five sections & contains 25 essential readings on the following topics Faculty Teaching Learning & Curriculum College Students Organizations Leadership & Governance Higher Education Policy Each section

Includes:: chapters on community colleges & four-year institutions as well as a substantive overview written by an expert scholar in the field Ann E Austin Clifton F Conrad Laura I Rend n Adrianna J Kezar & Edward P St John This impressive volume ensures that faculty members will no longer have to compile their own collections of articles & chapters for use in introductory courses-Introduction to American Higher Education brings together the best scholarship in one comprehensive text

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This book is the first volume of a two-volume textbook for undergraduates & is indeed the crystallization of a course offered by the author at the California Institute of Technology to undergraduates without any previous knowledge of number theory For this reason the book starts with the most elementary properties of the natural integers Nevertheless the text succeeds in presenting an enormous amount of material in little more than 300 pages--MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS ...

This accessible & engaging textbook presents a concise introduction to the exciting field of artificial intelligence (AI) The broad-ranging discussion covers the key subdisciplines within the field describing practical algorithms & concrete applications in the areas of agents logic search reasoning under uncertainty machine learning neural networks & reinforcement learning Fully revised & updated this much-anticipated second edition also

Includes:: new material on deep learning Topics & features presents an application-focused & hands-on approach to learning with supplementary teaching resources provided at an associated website; contains numerous study exercises & solutions highlighted examples definitions theorems & illustrative cartoons;

Includes:: chapters on predicate logic PROLOG heuristic search probabilistic reasoning machine learning & data mining neural networks & reinforcement learning; reports on developments in deep learning including applications of neural networks to generate creative content such as text music & art (NEW); examines performance evaluation of clustering algorithms & presents two practical examples explaining Bayes' theorem & its relevance in everyday life (NEW); discusses search algorithms analyzing the cycle check explaining route planning for car navigation systems & introducing Monte Carlo Tree Search (NEW);

Includes:: a section in the introduction on AI & society discussing the implications of AI on topics such as employment & transportation (NEW) Ideal for foundation courses or modules on AI this easy-to-read textbook offers an excellent overview of the field for students of computer science & other technical disciplines requiring no more than a high-school level of knowledge of mathematics to understand the material





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Thoroughly revised & expanded Introduction to Attic Greek 2nd Edition gives student & instructors the most comprehensive & accessible presentation of ancient Greek available The text features full exposure to the grammar & morphology that students will encounter in actual texts; self-contained instructional chapters with challenging carefully tailored exercises; progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions tenses & constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology & syntax; readings based on actual texts & include unadapted passages from Xenophon Lysias Plato Aristophanes & Thucydides; concise introduction to the history of the Greek language; composite list of verbs with principal parts & an appendix of all paradigms; & Greek-English & English-Greek glossaries Additional Resources Robust online supplements for teaching & learning available at atticgreekorg; & Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (9780520275744) ...

This booklet provides the answers to the exercises in Introduction to Attic Greek 2nd Edition by Donald J Mastronarde (UC Press 2013 9780520275713) It is an invaluable guide for instructors & independent language students Additional teaching resources are available at website ...

This book is designed to cover one year's work in Hebrew leading up to a full understanding of the language It has been used by the author with his students for many years & the published text is the result of testing & refining over these years Every attempt has been made to make the grammar clear & simple For example all Hebrew words are transliterated as well as being given in the original for the first three-quarters of the book The grammatical discussion is made as unsophisticated as possible for it is the author's intention that this book should also be of use to those who study Hebrew without a teacher ...

A vast amount of biological information about a wide range of species has become available in recent years as technological advances have significantly reduced the time it takes to sequence a genome or determine a novel protein structure This text describes how bioinformatics can be used as a powerful set of tools for retrieving & analysing this biological data & how bioinformatics can be applied to a wide range of disciplines such as molecular biology medicine biotechnology forensic science & anthropology Fully revised & updated the fourth edition of Introduction to Bioinformatics contains two new chapters with significantly increased coverage of metabolic pathways & gene expression & regulation This reflects the recent growth of interest in these areas in the field of bioinformatics Written primarily for a biological audience without a detailed prior knowledge of programming this book is the perfect introduction to the field of bioinformatics providing friendly guidance & advice on how to use various methods & techniques Furthermore frequent examples self-test questions problems & exercises are incorporated throughout the text to encourage self-directed learning Online resource centre The Online Resource Centre features the following materials For lecturers (password protected) Figures & tables from the book available to download For students ' Weblems'
- web related problems tied to particular sections of the book Data from the book in computer-readable form Guidance to help students answer problems from the text & answers to end of chapter exercises
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