The second edition of this bestseller emphasizes the practical applications of partial differential equations (PDEs) across various fields, such as physics, finance, and biology. It explores how PDEs can effectively model phenomena like heat flow, sound wave propagation, and stock price fluctuations. The updated text includes numerous exercises, ranging from standard problems to graphical challenges using MATLAB®, enhancing students' understanding and appreciation of the mathematical concepts involved.
Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood. With close attention to the dominant practices through which children encounter animals and mainstream representations of animals in children's culture - whether in terms of the selective exposure of children to animals as pets or as food in the home or in school, or the representation of animals in mass media and social media - Our Children and Other Animals reveals the interconnectedness of studies of childhood, culture and human-animal relations. In doing so it establishes the importance of human-animal relations in sociology, by describing the sociological importance of animals in children's lives and children in animals' lives. Presenting a new typology of the various kinds of human-animal relationship, this conceptually innovative book constitutes a clear demonstration of the relevance of sociology to the interdisciplinary field of human-animal relations and will appeal to readers across the social sciences with interests in sociology, childhood studies, cultural and media studies and human-animal interaction.
No body speaks in strictly formal address anymore. Not even in China, where
the common expressions tossed around in the newly metropolitan cities are far
from text book China. This all-new, totally-up-to-date book fills the gap
between how people really talk in China and what Chinese language students are
taught.
