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'
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Beginning with Buddha's life story this concise guide explains the essential elements of the Buddhist way of life such as understanding the mind rebirth karma & ultimate truth & what it means to be a Buddhist Meditation is explained clearly & simply as a tool for developing qualities such as inner peace love & patience The emphasis throughout is on the practical application of Buddhist ideas & practice to finding solutions to everyday problems Those interested in Buddhism & meditation will find this book a rich source of guidance & inspiration ...

This book is an introduction in the very best sense of the word It provides the beginner with an accurate sophisticated yet accessible account & offers new insights & challenging perspectives to those who have more specialized knowledge Focusing on the period in Chinese philosophy that is surely most easily approachable & perhaps is most important it ranges over of rich set of competing options It also with admirable self-consciousness presents a number of daring attempts to relate those options to philosophical figures & movements from the West I recommend it very highly--Lee H Yearley Walter Y Evans-Wentz Professor Religious Studies Stanford University ...

This textbook covers all the standard introductory topics in classical mechanics including Newton's laws oscillations energy momentum angular momentum planetary motion & special relativity It also explores more advanced topics such as normal modes the Lagrangian method gyroscopic motion fictitious forces 4-vectors & general relativity It contains more than 250 problems with detailed solutions so students can easily check their understanding of the topic There are also over 350 unworked exercises which are ideal for homework assignments Password protected solutions are available to instructors at wwwcambridgeorg 9780521876223 The vast number of problems alone makes it an ideal supplementary text for all levels of undergraduate physics courses in classical mechanics Remarks are scattered throughout the text discussing issues that are often glossed over in other textbooks & it is thoroughly illustrated with more than 600 figures to help demonstrate key concepts ...

David Groome with Nicola Brace Graham Edgar Helen Edgar Michael Eysenck Tom Manly Hayley Ness Graham Pike Sophie Scott & Elizabeth Styles An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology Processes & Disorders is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate students The third edition of this well-established text has been completely revised & updated to cover all the key areas of cognition including perception attention memory thinking & language Uniquely alongside chapters on normal cognitive function there are chapters on related clinical disorders (agnosia amnesia thought disorder & aphasia) which help to provide a thorough insight into the nature of cognition Key features Completely revised & updated throughout to provide a comprehensive overview of current thinking in the field Accessibly written & including new authors including Sophie Scott Tom Manly Hayley Ness & Elizabeth Styles all established experts in their field A new chapter on Emotion & Cognition written by Michael Eysenck the leading authority in the field Greater coverage of neuropsychological disorders with additional material from the latest brain imaging research that has completely revolutionized neuropsychology Specially designed textbook features chapter summaries further reading & a glossary of key terms A companion website featuring an extensive range of online resources for both teachers & students Written to cover all levels of ability using helpful figures & illustrations An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology has sufficient depth to appeal to the most able students while the clear & accessible text written by experienced teachers will help students who find the material difficult It will appeal to any student on an undergraduate psychology degree course as well as to medical students & those studying in related clinical professions such as nursing ...

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The new edition of an introductory text that teaches students the art of computational problem solving covering topics ranging from simple algorithms to information visualization This book introduces students with little or no prior programming experience to the art of computational problem solving using Python & various Python libraries including Py Lab It provides students with skills that will enable them to make productive use of computational techniques including some of the tools & techniques of data science for using computation to model & interpret data The book is based on an MIT course (which became the most popular course offered through MIT's Open Course Ware) & was developed for use not only in a conventional classroom but in in a massive open online course (MOOC) This new edition has been updated for Python 3 reorganized to make it easier to use for courses that cover only a subset of the material & offers additional material including five new chapters Students are introduced to Python & the basics of programming in the context of such computational concepts & techniques as exhaustive enumeration bisection search & efficient approximation algorithms Although it covers such traditional topics as computational complexity & simple algorithms the book focuses on a wide range of topics not found in most introductory texts including information visualization simulations to model randomness computational techniques to understand data & statistical techniques that inform (and misinform) as well as two related but relatively advanced topics optimization problems & dynamic programming This edition offers expanded material on statistics & machine learning & new chapters on Frequentist & Bayesian statistics ...