“jim meyer”

If you really want to see a woodland caribou, you might try going to a place forgotten by time. It should be a hushed place, with perhaps rocky green hills and blue water, home to loons and beaver, lichen and yellow buttercups. With every step, this gentle journey brings us to a deeper and more uniq... More

This state-of-the-art survey is an outcome of the first IFIP TC 2/WG 2.3 working conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments, VSTTE 2005, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in October 2005. This was a historic event gathering many top international experts on systematic methods for speci... More

Design by contract is an underused--but powerful--aspect of the object-oriented software development environment. With roots in the Eiffel programming language, it has withstood the test of time, and found utility with other programming languages. Here, by using both the Eiffel and Java languages as... More

"This rich collection of case studies, including real contemporary and classic cases, illustrates a wide range of clinical and legal issues related to abnormal psychology." Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology brings the field of abnormal psychology to life for readers with its rare combination of re... More

Presents stories about the way DNA is increasingly being used to reveal important, and sometimes quirky facts about unsolved murders, deadly diseases, mysterious disappearances, animals that have long been extinct, and even human origins. ... More

An essential guide for both novice and experienced birdwatchers everywhere. This volume contains six chapters on a wide range of birding fieldcraft, including; bird identification basics, the basics of bird flight and beyond, fieldcraft skills every birdwatcher should know, specialist skills for the... More