Calculus II: The Integral and Its Applications uniquely addresses all of the rules and applications of Integral Calculus necessary for the AP Calculus AB and BC courses. In addition, units are included on power series and convergence, and the calculus of parametric and polar equations. The material is presented in a modular format that allows …

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In America, 2.3 million people—a population about the size of Houston’s, the country’s fourth-largest city—live behind bars. Sick Justice explores the economic, social, and political forces that hijacked the criminal justice system to create this bizarre situation. Presenting frightening true stories of (sometimes wrongfully) incarcerated individuals, Ivan G. Goldman exposes the inept bureaucracies of America’s …

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H.L. Mencken presents master styling in A Book of Prefaces (1917), Damn! (1918), and The American Credo (1920). Prefaces is a book of literary criticism containing the essays “Joseph Conrad,” “Theodore Dreiser,” “James Huneker,” and “Puritanism as a Literary Force.” He hoped that “they may at least blow a wind through the prevailing fogs, and …

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Tim Price’s Salt, Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, humorous tale of love and family set against a mythical backdrop. Set on the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, identical twins Iola and Anest remain devoted to each other. Ageing fast, and with the time they have together more fragile by the day, they arrive at …

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Tim Price’s Salt, Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, humorous tale of love and family set against a mythical backdrop. Set on the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, identical twins Iola and Anest remain devoted to each other. Ageing fast, and with the time they have together more fragile by the day, they arrive at …

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In a place where everyone knows your name you can’t forget who you are. Life, love and loss in a picture postcard town is laid bare in this heart-breaking but darkly comic new play. Through a series of interweaving accounts For Once cuts to the heart of a family, and a community, turned upside down …

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Dubbed “the cartoon hero of the workplace” by the San Francisco Examiner, Dilbert is the cubicle-bound star of the most photocopied, pinned-up, downloaded, faxed, and e-mailed comic strip in the world. As fresh a look at the inanity of office life as it brought to the comics pages when it first appeared in 1989, this …

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Should you invest in gold?More to the point, can you afford to? This book argues that you cannot NOT afford to, in terms of safety and return, but also that anyone can start investing in gold. Gold is not just ingots. The common response to gold is that it is only for the wealthy: those …

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More than four years after the onset of the global financial crisis, much of the global economy remains mired in low growth and high unemployment. At the same time, economists’ spectacular failure to foresee crucial developments – from the collapse of the US housing market to the duration and depth of the Great Recession – …

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We explore the types of data used to characterize risky subprime lending and consider the geographic dispersion of subprime lending. First, we describe the strengths and weaknesses of three different datasets on subprime mortgages using information from LoanPerformance, HUD, and HMDA. These datasets embody different definitions of subprime mortgages. We show that estimates of the …

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This book describes how computers have influenced various aspects of my life, from the early days when we had a BBC Micro, to the present day, when I have a much more powerful laptop. I am particularly keen to point out that people with mental health issues could and should use computers to enhance their …

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