The classic acoustics reference! This widely-used book offers a clear treatment of the fundamental principles underlying the generation, transmission,... and reception of acoustic waves and their application to numerous fields. The authors analyze the various types of vibration of solid bodies and the propagation of sound waves through fluid media.

Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular software available for creating animations for the Web. Most people start using Flash to create... vector-based animations that output small file sizes perfect for the Web. Later they want to branch out into creating rich interactive experiences for websites and mobile devices, and for that they need to learn ActionScript.   Doug Winnie draws on the experience he’s gained from his years as an educator to teach not only what ActionScript can do, but also to show how the code works. This gives the reader a deeper understanding of how ActionScript functions, and gives them the power to come up with original solutions when creating their own projects.   Doug’s book dives right into the concepts of manipulating Flash objects and the fundamentals of functions and mathematical operators. After presenting events and using scripts to control the Flash timeline, classes and conditionals are covered in depth.   The final part of the book covers creating desktop applications with Adobe AIR, developing mobile applications, and working with external code libraries. Real-world projects are sprinkled generously throughout the book and Appendices include information on debugging, deciphering documentation, and using Adobe Flash Builder as an ActionScript development environment.   

Actuarial work is the application of mathematics and statistics to the analysis of financial problems in life insurance, pensions, general insurance and... investments. This unique introduction to the topic employs both a deterministic and stochastic treatment of the subject. It combines interest theory and life contingencies in a unified manner as well as covering basic risk theory. Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics presents the concepts in an original, accessible style, assuming a minimal formal background.* Provides a complete review of necessary probability theory.* Covers the Society of Actuaries' syllabus on Actuarial Models.* Orders the topics specifically to facilitate learning, beginning with the simplest case of the deterministic discrete model, and then moving to the more complicated stochastic, continuous models.* Employs modern calculation and computing techniques, such as spreadsheets.* Contains a variety of exercises, both computational and theoretical.* Supported by a website featuring exercises and further examples.* Written by a highly respected academic with over 35 years teaching experience.This book will be invaluable to senior undergraduate and graduate students, as well as actuarial professionals working in the life insurance or pension fields. Applied mathematicians and economists will also benefit greatly from the clear presentation and numerous examples.

Adult education takes many forms – skills training, professional development, personal development, leisure activities, and programs for ethnic... groups, the elderly, and specially targeted groups. There are many organizations involved in providing these services, such as volunteer organizations, universities, colleges, businesses, public school boards and governments. This book is intended as a contribution to the study and practice of adult education in Canada. It is intended mainly for beginning students at universities and colleges, but practitioners and laypersons will find the selections stimulating and useful. The contributors are researchers and practitioners from all walks of life. They provide the reader with current research, stimulating thoughts, and insightful commentary.

Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting, 4/e is ideal for those schools wanting to cover 12 chapters in their advanced accounting course. This brief yet... concise text allows students to think critically about accounting, just as they will do preparing for the CPA exam. With this text, students gain a well-balanced appreciation of the Accounting profession. The text continues to show the development of financial reporting as a product of intense and considered debate that continues today and into the future as it originates from Hoyle’s big text Advanced Accounting. The writing style of the three previous editions has been highly praised. Students easily comprehend chapter concepts because of the conversational tone used throughout the book. The authors have made every effort to ensure that the writing style remains engaging, lively, and consistent which has made Hoyle the market leading franchise in the Advanced Accounting market. The Fourth Edition includes an increase integration of IFRS as well as the updated accounting standards.

Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting, 5th edition, is ideal for those schools wanting to cover 12 chapters in their advanced accounting course. This... brief yet concise text allows students to think critically about accounting, just as they will do preparing for the CPA exam. With this text, students gain a well-balanced appreciation of the Accounting profession. The text continues to show the development of financial reporting as a product of intense and considered debate that continues today and into the future as it originates from Hoyle’s big text Advanced Accounting. The writing style of the four previous editions has been highly praised. Students easily comprehend chapter concepts because of the conversational tone used throughout the book. The authors have made every effort to ensure that the writing style remains engaging, lively, and consistent which has made Hoyle the market leading franchise in the Advanced Accounting market. The 5th edition includes increased integration of IFRS, as well as updated accounting standards.

This history of the Crow Indians links their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. The Crows not only withstood the dislocation... and conquest visited on them after 1805, but acted in the midst of these events to construct a modern Indian community--a nation. Their efforts sustained the pride and strength reflected in Chief Plenty Coups' statement in 1925 that he did "not care at all what historians have to say about Crow Indians," as well as their community's faith in the beauty of its traditions and its inventions. Frederick E. Hoxie demonstrates that contact with outsiders drew the Crows together and tested their ability to adapt their traditions to new conditions. He emphasizes political life, but also describes changes in social relations, religious beliefs, and economic activities. His final chapter discusses the significance of the Crow experience for American history in general.

* Offers a readable, thorough overview of basic aerodynamics, with numerous discussions of aviation history and development * Includes new coverage of... the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and illustrations to help explain the material * More than a dozen "design boxes" draw the reader's attention and illustrate the practical applications

In keeping with its bestselling previous editions, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Fifth Edition by John Anderson, offers the most readable, interesting,... and up-to-date overview of aerodynamics to be found in any text. The classic organization of the text has been preserved, as is its successful pedagogical features: chapter roadmaps, preview boxes, design boxes and summary section. Although fundamentals do not usually change over time, applications do and so various detailed content is modernized, and existing figures are replaced with modern data and illustrations. Historical topics, carefully developed examples, numerous illustrations, and a wide selection of chapter problems are found throughout the text to motivate and challenge students of aerodynamics.

Now in its Fourth Edition with a new editorial team, this comprehensive text addresses all medical and public health issues involved in the care of... crews, passengers, and support personnel of aircraft and space vehicles. Coverage includes human physiology under flight conditions, clinical medicine in the aerospace environment, and the impact of the aviation industry on global public health. This edition features new chapters on radiation, toxicology and microbiology, dental considerations in aerospace medicine, women's health issues, commercial human space flight, space exploration, and unique aircraft including parachuting. Other highlights include significant new information on respiratory diseases, cardiovascular medicine, infectious disease transmission, and human response to acceleration.

This is the seventh book in the Technical Manager's Survival Guides series. In this volume, the authors introduce readers to agile methods for managing... projects. Agile methods have been around for a while, but their prevalence has increased as the result of many successful projects in organizations that have applied them. While some of the agile methods discussed here spring from software development experiences, it is essential to understand that the underlying principles can be applied with appropriate modifications to any industry or organization.

Begins with an overview of domestic and international trends and covers the basics of loans (mortgages and deeds of trust) and time values of money... (interest, discounting, calculations and amortization, refinancing, cash budgeting, and graphing loans). Useful as a guide for practitioners, the the text was actually designed for teaching with outlines at the beginning of chapters, and study questions and problems at each chapter's end.