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Books in Social sciences

The Social Sciences collection forms a definitive resource for those entering, researching, or teaching in any of the many disciplines making up this interdisciplinary area of study. Written by experts and researchers from both Academic and Commercial domains, titles offer global scope and perspectives.

Key subject areas include: Library and Information Science; Transportation; Urban Studies; Geography, Planning, and Development; Security; Emergency Management.

  • Proceedings of COMPSEC INTERNATIONAL 1991

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1991
    • Elsevier Chennai Outsource Office
    • English
    Proceedings of COMPSEC INTERNATIONAL 1991

  • Education and Training in Food Science

    • 1st Edition
    • January 1, 1991
    • I D Morton + 1 more
    • English
    This book reviews the need for increased training in the food industry in order to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western Europe and the USA. Higher education in food science is discussed, including the training of technicians, and European initiatives, including ERASMUS and Network, are also described. Full coverage of the importance of international trade and the consumer protection acts, including a look at the need of various groups, is provided and the book closes with a look towards the future.

  • Cosmetic and Toiletry Formulations, Volume 1

    • 1st Edition
    • December 31, 1990
    • Ernest W. Flick
    • English
    More than 1,800 cosmetics and toiletry formulations are detailed in Volume 1 of the Second Edition of this well-received and useful book. It is based on information obtained from industrial suppliers.If you would like to purchase the ent

  • Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • December 28, 1990
    • John Paul Robinson
    • English
    This volume is sponsored by Division 9 of the American Psychological Association: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.****This is an essential reference book for any social scientist or student who uses measuresof attitude or personality in his or her research. The earlier version, published twenty years ago, was to be found on the shelf of virtually everyone who worked in the field.

  • Emergency Planning for Maximum Protection

    • 1st Edition
    • December 4, 1990
    • Richard Gigliotti + 1 more
    • English
    As a practical reference for anyone entrusted with the lives and property of others, Emergency Planning helps its readers prepare for a variety of situations--from bomb threats to fires to nuclear disasters. The authors of this book recognize the need for updated emergency planning. The "blueprints" in the appendices are useful plans for dealing with such specific emergencies as labor strikes, hurricanes, and terrorist actions.While most large governmental entities are prepared to deal with nearly all types of contingencies and emergencies, many communities and companies have few plans detailing how to respond to and recover from such events. The purpose of this book is to stimulate thought on the part of the reader, provide some practical solutions to problems that could be encountered, and offer a number of considerations for formulating emergency plans. The authors have combined their years of knowledge and experience to create some sample plans for the reader to use as models for developing site-specific plans.

  • Future Demographic Trends in Europe and North America

    What Can We Assume Today?
    • 1st Edition
    • November 14, 1990
    • Wolfgang Lutz
    • English
    This is the latest report on what demographers and scientists in related disciplines think and assume today about the future of human reproduction, longevity, and migration.A quick look at some major errors in past population projections demonstrates that the problem was not with the technical instruments of projection but with the inability to anticipate major changes in human behavior and medical progress. Any population projection that is based exclusively on past trends of demographic rates is bound to miss possible future dicontinuities and surprises. If they can be anticipated at all, it can only be done by considering demographic trends in a broader socioeconomic, cultural, and biological context.Here, the three components of population change--fertility, morality, and migration--are addressed. Introductory chapters describe past trends and assumptions for projections currently made in Europe and North America. Also included are discussions and analyses of some possible demographic discontinuities, together with a description of how assumptions on the three components are merged for population projections on national and international levels. This includes a synthesis where alternative views are translated numerically into ten alternative demographic scenarios for East Europe, West Europe, and North America through the year 2050.

  • Ion Chromatography

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 46
    • July 16, 1990
    • English

  • Finite Element Methods (Part 1)

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 2
    • February 11, 1990
    • P.G. Ciarlet
    • English
    This series of volumes will cover all the major aspects of Numerical Analysis, serving as the basic reference work on the subject. Each volume will concentrate on one, or two, particular topics and will be essentially self-contained. Each article, written by an expert, is an in-depth survey, reflecting the most recent trends in the field. The Handbook will cover the basic methods of Numerical Analysis, under the following general headings: # Solution of Equations in R n # Finite Difference Methods # Finite Element Methods # Techniques of Scientific Computing # Optimization Theory and Systems Science.

  • Finite Difference Methods Solutions of Equations in R HNA 1

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • January 17, 1990
    • P.G. Ciarlet + 1 more
    • English

  • Knowledge Acquisition from Text and Pictures

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 58
    • April 1, 1989
    • H. Mandl + 1 more
    • English
    Media-didactics have recently become more firmly grounded on cognitive theory, with an increasing concern for the internal processes of knowledge representation and acquisition. With this cognitive aspect in mind, an international group of researchers held a meeting in Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany, to present and discuss the theoretical approaches to and empirical investigations of knowledge acquisition from text and pictures. This volume contains the revised contributions resulting from that meeting.

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