Books published by Springer London Ltd

Suitable for senior house officers and residents in general (internal) medicine, health professionals in rheumatology, primary care doctors and medical students, this title features: information about various therapies; essentials of common and uncommon rheumatic diseases listed; and, more.

The first up-to-date book written for the popular enthusiast market which describes the development of modern particle physics and its importance in improving our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe.

A practical guide to the functional investigation of patients with incontinence and voiding disturbances. It is suitable for specialists in geriatrics, pediatrics and neurology.

This updated edition will help IT managers and assets protection professionals to assure the protection and availability of vital digital information and related information systems assets. The book uniquely bridges the gap between information security, information systems security and information warfare.

Commercially-made astronomical telescopes are better and less expensive than ever before, and their optical and mechanical performance can be superb.

The pace of development in knowledge and know-how in the Organisation Sciences, Logistics and Information Technology is rapid. The Delft Systems Approach describes a fundamental approach for analysing industrial systems, which emphasizes a concept that can be used by all disciplines involved.

Over the past 35 years more than 100 individual astronauts and cosmonauts have performed nearly 200 EVAs, (spacewalks), either singularly or in teams in Earth orbit, deep space or on the Moon.

The only practical guide to observing truly spectacular astronomical objects from less than perfect locations. Gives advice on viewing objects, and on making realistic images by drawing or video. Includes extensive catalogs of spectacular objects that can be seen from suburban sites in both hemispheres.

Real Analysis is a comprehensive introduction to this core subject and is ideal for self-study or as a course textbook for first and second-year undergraduates. This book offers a fresh approach to a core subject and manages to provide a gentle and clear introduction without sacrificing rigour or accuracy.

A guide to performing the post mortem. This book covers both the standard evisceration techniques and the many different dissection techniques that may be necessary in a variety of circumstances likely to be encountered by a practicing pathologist. It is suitable for pathologists in training, medical students, and mortuary technicians.

The laser has given manufacturing industry a new tool. Laser cutting leads because it is a direct process substitu tion and the laser can usually do the job with greater flexibility, speed and quality than its competitors. It is a book which managers and technicians in laser job shops and laser processing facilities would be foolish not to read.

Provides examples of the images, and gives readers hints and tips about how to get the best out of this technology. This book illustrates the help and advice with many beautiful colour images. It includes techniques that range from using simple webcams to highly technical aspects such as supernovae patrolling.

Here, the authors' unique focus is on the key issues of networked learning. These include: policy issues, the costs of networked learning, staff development issues, and the student experience.

Offers a comprehensive account of the development of Europe's highly successful space programme. This title explains the politics, science and organisation of the European Space Programme and the many technological achievements of its satellites and rockets. It focuses on Europe placing the various national programmes in a European context.

Observing variable stars is one of the major contributions amateur astronomers make to science. There are 36,000 variable stars listed in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars, so it is clearly impossible for the limited number of professional observatories to target even the majority of them.

Although they are useful to obtain discrete information about specific topics, they are too large to be a user friendly for a general orthopedic surgeon facing common elbow problems. This text would be enough to understand the common elbow practice for a general orthopedic surgeon and a guide to learn basic elbow surgery during training.

'MacLeod's Introduction to Medicine: A Doctor's Memoir' is a collection of stories that gives the reader an insight into the humorous side of a doctor's life. There is a rich source of humor in medicine, and this book aims to share some of this.

David Harland's definitive work on the Space Shuttle explains the scientific contribution the Space Shuttle has made to the international space programme, detailing missions to Mir, Hubble and more recently its role in the assembly of the International Space Station.

This book contains everything an amateur astronomer needs to know to begin observing whilst going relatively deeply into the subject for those who are already involved. Contributions by leading amateurs astronomers from the USA and Europe.

To help practical astronomers, all the photographs are systematically related to an Earth-based view. Organized to make it easy for astronomers to use, enabling ground-based images and views to be compared with the Orbiter photographs.

Detailed case studies illustrate interoperability issues between the two major routing vendors, Cisco Systems and Juniper NetworksHighly pratical: explains why IS-IS works the way it does to how IS-IS behaves in the real world of routers and networks

The second edition of "Model Predictive Control" provides a thorough introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of the most commonly used MPC strategies. It bridges the gap between the powerful but often abstract techniques of control researchers and the more empirical approach of practitioners.

This book meets the need to understand performance metrics for haptic interfaces and their implications on device design, use and application. The authors propose evaluation practices including a combined physical and psychophysical experimental methodology.

This book reviews GPP LTE physical layer and dataflow-based prototyping and programming, focusing on automatic partitioning and scheduling, load balancing and computation latency reduction in systems based on heterogeneous multi-core Digital Signal Processors.

This book analyzes the latest advances in privacy, security and risk technologies within cloud environments. discusses privacy impact assessments for the cloud, and examines the use of cloud audits to attenuate cloud security problems;

This monograph offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of bone marrow lymphoid infiltrates, in the context of their wide spectrum of benign, borderline and malignant expressions.

Industrial energy efficiency is a key element of our efforts to mitigate global warming, and this combination of engineering and social science approaches does much to enhance our understanding in both technical-industrial and policy-making contexts.

Because adult ADHD can be treated effectively but is still not always recognised by professionals, this book, now in its updated, expanded 3rd edition, offers a concise overview of the current state of science and of methods used in diagnosis and treatment.

Presents novel ways for helping HCI designers communicate why they want to promote users' contact with cultural diversity, presenting five cultural viewpoint metaphors supporting reasoning and decision-making in dimensions of intercultural experience.