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The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource for today's photography students. Photography helps students learn how to make photographs, how to control photographic processes, and how different photographers employ them for their own creative purposes. As with each edition of this hallmark text, authors Barbara London, Jim Stone, and John Upton provide comprehensive yet practical coverage of bot…
Content notes What is corporate finance? -- Setting the stage -- Accounting statements and cash flows -- Common-size, common-base year, and ratio analysis -- Present and future value -- Compounding and interest rate conversion : when what you've got isn't what you need -- Payment composition and amortization schedules -- Valuing bonds -- Valuing stocks -- Valuing projects : the capital-budge…
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Covers the fundamentals of structural steel design with an emphasis on the design of members and their connections, rather than the integrated design of buildings. This book encourages the application of fundamental principles for design procedures as well as for practical design, and provides a theoretical approach to enhance student development
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Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB is written for students who want to learn and apply numerical methods in order to solve problems in engineering and science. As such, the methods are motivated by problems rather than by mathematics. That said, sufficient theory is provided so that students come away with insight into the techniques and their shortcomings. McGraw-Hill Education's Connect, i…
This introduction to the world of statistics draws examples from a broad range of applications, including business, government, medicine, social sciences, biology, and everyday life. The first four chapters present a brief course in exploratory data analysis. The authors place special emphasis on methods for collecting data and offer an elementary treatment of multiple regression. A concluding …