The geriatric population is expected to double by 2020. The new fourth edition of Practice of Geriatrics will equip you with the knowledge you need to provide effective care for this growing patient population. With revised and up-to-date content throughout, this essential reference will keep you abreast of the latest clinical protocols and...

This third edition includes new sections on Bose-Einstein condensation and degenerate Fermi...

This book presents a unified approach to a rich and rapidly evolving research domain at the interface between statistical physics, theoretical computer science/discrete mathematics, and coding/information theory. It is accessible to graduate students and researchers without a specific training in any of these fields. The selected topics...

In one comprehensive volume, The Center for Creative Leadership provides the accumulated expertise of its faculty cultivated over the past thirty years. This revised edition includes new chapters on leadership in teams, global leadership, and leading through transitions, as well as a  new ancillary website that contains chapters that...

Don't fear taking the leap into a new career with this seven step program from bestselling author and life coach Talane Miedaner. Whatever the situation or economic environment, Coach Yourself to a New Career gives...

• Create and run Cocos2d-x projects on iOS and Android platforms.
• Find practical solutions to many real-world game development problems.
• Learn the essentials of Cocos2d-x by writing code and following...

The first book to tackle the application of smart polymers in bioseparation and bioprocessing, Smart Polymers: Applications in Biotechnology and Biomedicine broke new ground in this challenging field. Completely revised, updated, and following in the footsteps of its predecessor, the second edition is poised to take its place...

• Craft game environments with extreme clarity by adding realism to characters, objects, and props
• Import and set up custom assets such as meshes, textures, and normal maps in Unity
• A step-by-step guide written in a...

• Learn how to go about developing some simple, yet powerful applications with ease using recipes and example code
• Teaches how to use the features of iOS 6 to integrate Facebook, Twitter,...

• Utilize the power of Kivy to develop applications that run on all the major platforms
• Build user interfaces (UI) and control multi-touch events to improve the user...

Reaction-diffusion and excitable media are amongst most intriguing substrates. Despite apparent simplicity of the physical processes involved the media exhibit a wide range of amazing patterns: from target and spiral waves to travelling localisations and stationary breathing patterns. These media are at the heart of most natural processes,...

• Write your game code once and run it on a multitude of platforms using LibGDX
• Learn about the key features of LibGDX that will ease and speed up your development cycles
• An...