75571Understanding portrait photography : how to shoot great pictures of people anywhere
Presenting to Understanding people. Working with people. Light. Composing powerful portraits.
75572Understanding poverty
The authors ask how the poor have fared in the market economy, what government programs have and have not accomplished, and what remains to be done. They help us understand how changes in the way the labor market operates, in family structure, and in social welfare, health, and education policies have affected trends in poverty. Most significantly, they offer suggestions for changes in programs and policies that hold real promise for reducing poverty and income inequality.
75573Understanding Psychology: 9th ed.
Understanding Psychology guides students through Introductory Psychology concepts in an accessible manner, bringing comprehension of difficult material into the grasp of all students — because when students understand psychology, they learn psychology. The thoroughly revised Ninth Edition integrates a variety of elements that foster students’ understanding of psychology and its impact on their everyday lives, including a new Neuroscience In Your Life feature, alerts to key topics, and study skills for specific concepts. This text also provides instructors with a fully integrated supplements package to objectively gauge their students’ mastery of psychology’s key principles and concepts and to create dynamic lectures.
75574Understanding solid state physics
After introducing students to solid state physics, the text examines the various ways in which atoms bond together to form crystalline and amorphous solids. It also describes the measurement of mechanical properties and the means by which the mechanical properties of solids can be altered or supplemented for particular applications. The author discusses how electromagnetic radiation interacts with the periodic array of atoms that make up a crystal and how solids react to heat on both atomic and macroscopic scales. She then focuses on conductors, insulators, semiconductors, and superconductors, including some basic semiconductor devices. The final chapter addresses the magnetic properties of solids as well as applications of magnets and magnetism.
75575Understanding style : practical ways to improve your writing
Glaser includes numerous open-ended exercises drawn from such areas as business, history, and popular science to encourage students to practice as they learn. Each chapter concludes with a boxed summary for quick reference and a "Your Writing" prompt, asking to apply these principles directly to their own work. Features a glossary of writing terms, a brief dictionary of usage, a guide to punctuation, and a detailed index...
75576Understanding the hospitality consumer
This book presents a unique perspective on consumer behaviour in the hospitality sector. It seeks to focus on the role of consumption in hospitality and to investigate our understanding of its place in the contemporary industry.
75577Understanding the Internet : a clear guide to internet technologies
This book introduces those technologies and is aimed at the Internet user who wishes to understand the technologies on which much of today's business and recreational computing is based. As such, the intention of this book is to give a succinct overview of 'how it all works' rather than provide a comprehensive reference work.
75578Understanding the world economy
Key areas covered include: the economics of unemployment and inflation free trade agreements, custom unions and common markets, including the recent introduction of the Euro money, banking and international finance development issues environmental issues material on the Asian crisis the impact of globalization Key theories are illustrated using real-world settings and explained in jargon-free non technical language.
75579Understanding type for desktop publishing
Part 1. Understanding type; Part 2. Using typefaces.
75580Unemployment insurance : the American experience 1915-1935
Examines the relevant features of unemployment insurance systems such as hours and earning thresholds and minimum contribution requirements. Empirical analysis shows that non-standard workers are more likely to become unemployed or inactive and are disadvantaged in their entitlements to unemployment benefits.