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Changing Images in Mathematics
Author Amy Dahan Dalmedico , Umberto Bottazini
This book focuses on some of the major developments in the history of contemporary (19th and 20th century) mathematics as seen in the broader context of the development of science and culture. Avoiding technicalities, it displays the breadth of contrasting imag....
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Author Michael I. Brown
It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon. As a result, public and private initiatives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradati....
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The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations
Author Michael R. Greenberg
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the H....
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Wind Tunnel Testing of High-Rise Buildings
Author David Scott , Roy Denoon , Peter Irwin
Since the 1960s, wind tunnel testing has become a commonly used tool in the design of tall buildings. It was pioneered, in large part, during the design of the World Trade Center Towers in New York. Since those early days of wind engineering, wind tunnel testing tec....
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Environmental Politics in Egypt
Author Jeannie Sowers
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These include; industria....
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Author Anthony Easthope
What is masculinity? Drawing on psychoanalysis and an understanding of ideology, Easthope shows how the masculine myth forces men to try to be masculine and only masculine, denying their feminine side. In an original contribution to the understanding of gender,....
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Author Andrew Orton
This book examines the structural and construction design of buildings. The first part presents an overview of materials and structural forms taking the point of view of the designer, architect and engineer. The second part is an extensive examination of over 7....
Release Date 2013/06 -
1001 Algebra II Practice Problems For Dummies
Author Mary Jane Sterling
Practice makes perfect—and helps deepen your understanding of algebra II by solving problems1001 Algebra II Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction and guidance offered in Algebra II For Dummies, giving you 1001 opportunities to practice solvi....
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Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition
Author Christos Kassapoglou
New edition updated with additional exercises and two new chapters.Design and Analysis of Composite Structures: With Applications to Aerospace Structures, 2nd Edition builds on the first edition and includes two new chapters on composite fittings and the design of a....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Helping College Students Succeed
Author Glenn Hirsch
Glenn Hirsch offers professionals a user-friendly, comprehensive resource book of theories and specific techniques that can be used to enhance college student success. Dr. Hirsch offers readers an integrated model for change that includes both holistic assessme....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Introduction to SNG and ENG Microwave
Author Jonathan Higgins
An excellent primer on the subject, this book gives beginning professionals in satellite newsgathering an introduction to the technologies and processes involved. It will also suit journalists, editors and producers needing to understand this important element....
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The Ultimate Book of Influence: 10 Tools of Persuasion to Connect, Communicate, and Win in Business
Author Chris Helder
Master the power of influence and persuasion to achieve more in work and lifeFor business leaders and managers, as well as those who work in sales, the power of influence can be a potent advantage. The ability to persuade others based on what you know about them is ....
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CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action
Author Florian Müller , Jay Brown , and Jeff Potts
SummaryCMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action is a comprehensive guide to the CMIS standard and related ECM concepts, written by the authors of the standard. In it, you'll tackle hands-on examples for building applications on CMIS repositories from both the client and....
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The Finite Element Method, 2nd Edition
Author S. Quek , G.R. Liu
Written for practicing engineers and students alike, this book emphasizes the role of finite element modeling and simulation in the engineering design process. It provides the necessary theories and techniques of the FEM in a concise and easy-to-understand format an....
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Academic Press Library in Signal Processing
Author Rama Chellappa , Sergios Theodoridis
This third volume of a five volume set, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in array and statistical signal processing.With this reference s....
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Author Edmund S. Phelps
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations betw....
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Author O Tan , R Jaaniso
Semiconductor gas sensors have a wide range of applications in safety, process control, environmental monitoring, indoor or cabin air quality and medical diagnosis. This important book summarises recent research on basic principles, new materials and emerging techno....
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Influence for Nonprofit Leaders
Author Deborah Friedman
Influence is an essential component of leadership, especially in a nonprofit environment. Since relationships are vital for a nonprofit's success, a leader needs to be able to influence employees, volunteers, and stakeholders in order to meet the challenges ahead. ....
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Academic Press Library in Signal Processing
Author Rama Chellappa , Sergios Theodoridis
This second volume of a five volume set, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in communications and radar engineering.With this reference sou....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Academic Press Library in Signal Processing
Author Rama Chellappa , Sergios Theodoridis
This first volume, edited and authored by world leading experts, gives a review of the principles, methods and techniques of important and emerging research topics and technologies in machine learning and advanced signal processing theory.With this reference source ....
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General Aviation Aircraft Design
Author Snorri Gudmundsson
Find the right answer the first time with this useful handbook of preliminary aircraft design. Written by an engineer with close to 20 years of design experience, General Aviation Aircraft Design: Applied Methods and Procedures provides the practicing engineer with ....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Next Generation Knowledge Machines
Author Syed V. Ahamed
This book delivers the scientific and mathematical basis to treat and process knowledge as a quantifiable and dimensioned entity. It provides the units and measures for the value of information contained in a "body of knowledge" that can be measured, processed, enha....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Paul Macmillan , William D. Eggers
Government Alone Can’t Solve Society’s Biggest ProblemsWorld hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle these and other towering s....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author SAS Institute
JMP 11 Fitting Linear Models focuses on the Fit Model platform and many of its personalities. Linear and logistic regression, analysis of variance and covariance, and stepwise procedures are covered. Also included are multivariate analysis of variance, mixed models,....
Release Date 2013/09 -
Author Daniel M Rice
Calculus of Thought: Neuromorphic Logistic Regression in Cognitive Machines is a must-read for all scientists about a very simple computation method designed to simulate big-data neural processing. This book is inspired by the Calculus Ratiocinator idea of Gottfried....
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Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists
Author Steven Smith
In addition to its thorough coverage of DSP design and programming techniques, Smith also covers the operation and usage of DSP chips. He uses Analog Devices' popular DSP chip family as design examples.Covers all major DSP topicsFull of insider information an....
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The Coal Handbook: Towards Cleaner Production
Author Dave Osborne
Coal is an important fossil fuel resource for many nations due to its large remaining resources, relatively low production and processing cost and potential high energy intensity. Certain issues surround its utilisation, however, including emissions of polluta....
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An Introduction to Numerical Methods and Analysis, 2nd Edition
Author James F. Epperson
Praise for the First Edition". . . outstandingly appealing with regard to its style, contents, considerations of requirements of practice, choice of examples, and exercises."—Zentralblatt MATH". . . carefully structured with many detailed worked examples."—The Mathe....
Release Date 2013/10 -
The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning, 2nd Edition
Author Ho Law
The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring, and Learning addresses the psychological principles upon which coaching and mentoring is based, and integrates them in a universal framework for the theory and practice of individual and organizational development. The second e....
Release Date 2013/10