New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009

This handbook aims to provide an introduction to scientific research in the field of Psychology and Education: it provides the basics of scientific methodology, presents the specific research methods used in these areas and teaches how to build and, especially, how to assess the quality of the instruments to measure psychological and educational characteristics or variables.

From Stevenson’s pirates and treasures to King Kong and his amour fou for a blonde; from Edgar Allan Poe’s nineteenth-century terror to the claustrophobic horror of Alien; from Sherlock Holme’s cold analytical skills to James Bond’s powers of seduction; from the worlds dreamed up by Jules Verne to the nightmare world of reborn dinosaurs in Jurassic Park; from William Tel

Technological advances gained ground among creatives of the fashion design industry throughout the 20th century. Several factors are the cause of this rapid expansion, one being the phenomenon of subcontracting or outsourcing – when a company passes certain tasks over to a service company.

This book deals extensively with the PL/SQL programming language (Procedural Language/SQL) that is used to access and work with Oracle databases from different environments.