Andrew Leach s Rome is the first book in Polity s exciting new Cities in World
History series, which aims to provide the general reader and traveller with
historically informed companions to the world s greatest cities.
Introductory overview of the discipline of architectural history, in the What
is History? series. Provides students with an entry point to the major
theories, concepts, and debates around the study of the history of
architecture.
This book aims to provide an introduction to the major techniques of chemoinformatics. It is the first text written specifically for this field. The first part of the book deals with the representation of 2D and 3D molecular structures, the calculation of molecular descriptors and the construction of mathematical models. The second part describes other important topics including molecular similarity and diversity, the analysis of large data sets, virtual screening, and library design. Simple illustrative examples are used throughout to illustrate key concepts, supplemented with case studies from the literature.