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Objectivity in Journalism
Steven Maras
Objectivity in journalism is a key topic for debate in media, communication and journalism studies, and has been the subject of intensive historical and sociological research. In the first study of its kind, Steven Maras surveys the different...
Cultures of Mediatization
Andreas Hepp
What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times? What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via television? How are our political, religious and...
The Interface Effect
Александр Гэллоуэй
Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and...
Ullmann's Fine Chemicals
Wiley-VCH
A compilation of 76 articles from the ULLMANN's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, this three-volume handbook contains a wealth of information on the production and industrial use of more than 2,000 of the most important fine chemicals, from...
NMR in Organometallic Chemistry
Paul Pregosin S.
The first and ultimate guide for anyone working in transition organometallic chemistry and related fields, providing the background and practical guidance on how to efficiently work with routine research problems in NMR. The book adopts a...
Einf?hrung in die Kernphysik
Harry Friedmann
Das Buch deckt einen sehr gro?en Bereich der Kernphysik ab, d.h. es werden sowohl experimentelle als auch theoretische Aspekte beleuchtet sowie Anwendungen (Kernspaltung, Kernfusion, medizinischen Anwendungen, Strahlenschutz) ausfuhrlich...
Einf?hrung in die Festk?rperphysik
Philip Hofmann
Solch eine kurze, und knappe Einfuhrung in die Festkorperphysik gab es noch nicht: In kompakter und leicht verstandlicher Form fuhrt der Autor den Leser and Phanomene und Konzepte heran, wobei trotz der Kurze mit Kapiteln zu Magnetismus,...
Epigenetic Regulation and Epigenomics
Robert A. Meyers
Epigenetics is a term in biology referring to heritable traits that do not involve changes in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism. Epigenetic traits exist on top of or in addition to the traditional molecular basis for inheritance. The...
Physics for Radiation Protection
James Martin E.
A practical guide to the basic physics that radiation protection professionals need A much-needed working resource for health physicists and other radiation protection professionals, this volume presents clear, thorough, up-to-date explanations...
Fundamentals of Enzyme Kinetics
Athel Cornish-Bowden
Now in its fourth edition, this textbook is one of the few titles worldwide to cover enzyme kinetics in its entire scope and the only one to include its implications for bioinformatics and systems biology. Multi-enzyme complexes and...
Handbuch der Mechanischen Verfahrenstechnik
Heinrich Schubert
Nahezu samtliche Verfahren in der stoffwandelnden Industrie werden unter wesentlicher Mitwirkung mechanischer Prozesse gestaltet: Dies gilt u.a. fur die Aufbereitung mineralischer Rohstoffe, die Erzeugung von Primarbaustoffen, weite Bereiche der...
Emulsion Formation and Stability
Tharwat Tadros F.
The importance of emulsification techniques, their use in the production of nanoparticles for biomedical applications as well as application of rheological techniques for studying the interaction between the emulsion droplets is gathered in this...
Modeling of Molecular Properties
Peter Comba
Molecular modeling encompasses applied theoretical approaches and computational techniques to model structures and properties of molecular compounds and materials in order to predict and / or interpret their properties. The modeling covered in...
Die Chemie des Lebens
Prof. Georg Schwedt
Nichts geht ohne Chemie! Wenn Sie Georg Schwedt noch nicht kennen sollten: freuen Sie sich, dass ihn gerade entdeckt haben. Alle, die ihn kennen und schatzen wissen, was Sie erwartet: ein vergnuglich zu lesendes «Chemiebuch». Aber eines im...
Handbook of Plastic Optics
Stefan B?umer
A coherent overview of the current status of injection molded optics, describing in detail all aspects of plastic optics, from design issues to production technology and quality control. This updated second edition is supplemented by a chapter...
Surface Modes in Physics
Bo Sernelius E.
Electromagnetic surface modes are present at all surfaces and interfaces between material of different dielectric properties. These modes have very important effects on numerous physical quantities: adhesion, capillary force, step formation and...
Self-Organized Surfactant Structures
Tharwat Tadros F.
Highlighting recent developments as well as future challenges, this series of volumes covers such topics as emulsions, nano-emulsions, nano-dispersions and novel techniques for their investigation. It also considers the fundamental approach in...
Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography
Leonid Blumberg M.
This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of temperature-programmed gas chromatography (GC). The first part of the book introduces the reader to the basics concepts of GC, as well as the key properties of GC columns. The second part...
Catalytic Asymmetric Conjugate Reactions
Armando Cordova
This unique and long-awaited handbook on this important topic in the hot field of stereoselective organic synthesis covers several types of nucleophiles. Top international authors deal with modern forms of achieving stereoselective conjugate...
Transitions in Molecular Systems
Hans Kupka J.
Filling the gap for a book covering vibronic, nonadiabatic and diabatic couplings as well as radiationless processes in context, this monograph compiles classic and cutting-edge work from numerous researchers into one handy source. Alongside a...
Functional Fillers for Plastics
Marino Xanthos
A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the major mineral and organic fillers for plastics, their production, structure and properties, as well as their applications in terms of primary and secondary functions. Edited and co-authored by...
Globalization and Contemporary Art
Jonathan Harris
In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary...
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Ronald Wardhaugh
This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh’s textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with...
How Food Made History
B. Higman W.
Covering 5,000 years of global history, How Food Made History traces the changing patterns of food production and consumption that have molded economic and social life and contributed fundamentally to the development of government and complex...
Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
Keith Johnson
Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics maintains a balance of accessibility and scholarly rigor to provide students with a complete introduction to the physics of speech. Newly updated to reflect the...
Annual Plant Reviews, Plastids
Simon Moller Geir
Annual Plant Reviews, Volume 13 Plastids are essential plant organelles, vital for life on earth. They are important not just as photosynthetic organelles (chloroplasts) but also as sites involved in many fundamental intermediary metabolic...
Characterisation of Bulk Solids
Don McGlinchey
Handling of powders and bulk solids is a critical industrial technology across a broad spectrum of industries, from minerals processing to bulk and fine chemicals, and the food and pharmaceutical industries, yet is rarely found in the curricula...
Simply Photoshop Elements 9
Mike Wooldridge
If you want to get up to speed with Photoshop Elements 9, this clear, concise guide is the ideal companion for fast and efficient learning. Simply Photoshop Elements 9 contains examples of all the newest features of Photoshop Elements,...
Handbook of Biomedical Telemetry
Konstantina Nikita S.
A must-have compendium on biomedical telemetry for all biomedical professional engineers, researchers, and graduate students in the field Handbook of Biomedical Telemetry describes the main components of a typical biomedical telemetry system, as...
Iodine Chemistry and Applications
Tatsuo Kaiho
This book comprehensively covers iodine, its chemistry, and its role in functional materials, reagents, and compounds. • Provides an up-to-date, detailed overview of iodine chemistry with discussion on elemental aspects: characteristics,...
Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis
Robert Blankenship E.
The classic and authoritative textbook, Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis,is now fully revised and updated in this much-anticipated second edition. Whilst retaining the first edition’s clear writing style and accessible description of this...
Magnetic Actuators and Sensors
John Brauer R.
A fully updated, easy-to-read guide on magnetic actuators and sensors The Second Edition of this must-have book for today's engineers includes the latest updates and advances in the field of magnetic actuators and sensors. Magnetic Actuators and...
Metamaterials and Wave Control
Eric Lheurette
Since the concept was first proposed at the end of the 20th Century, metamaterials have been the subject of much research and discussion throughout the wave community. More than 10 years later, the number of related published articles is...
Radionuclides in the Environment
David Atwood A.
Nuclear energy is the one energy source that could meet the world's growing energy needs and provide a smooth transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in the coming decades and centuries. It is becoming abundantly clear that an increase...
Mechanics of Unsaturated Geomaterials
Lyesse Laloui
This book provides a sound basis in the challenging area of the mechanics of unsaturated geomaterials. The objective is to supply the reader with an exhaustive overview starting from the basics and covering the most recent theories and...
Fundamentals of Software Testing
Bernard Hom?s
The testing market is growing at a fast pace and ISTQB certifications are being increasingly requested, with more than 180,000 persons currently certified throughout the world. The ISTQB Foundations level syllabus was updated in 2011, and this...
Control of Synchronous Motors
Jean-Paul Louis
Synchronous motors are indubitably the most effective device to drive industrial production systems and robots with precision and rapidity. Their control law is thus critical for combining at the same time high productivity to reduced energy...
Photon-based Medical Imagery
Herv? Fanet
This book describes the different principles and equipments used in medical imaging. Importance of medical imaging for diagnostic is strongly increasing and it is now necessary to have a good knowledge of the different physical possible...
Geographical Information and Climatology
Pierre Carrega
This book includes two parts. The first part is more theoretical and general, and it covers fundamental principles: geospatial climate data measurement; spatial analysis, mapping and climate; geographical information, remote sensing and...
Chemical Sensors and Biosensors
Rene Lalauze
Technological needs for chemical, ionic and biological species detection are giving rise to continuous research and development in physico-chemistry and biology. The constant progress being made in the theoretical and technological aspects...
Practical Applications in Engineering
Jean-Michel Tanguy
This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main...
Dictionary of Scientific Principles
Stephen Marvin
Dictionary of Scientific Principles presents a unique and timeless collection of (almost) all known rules or laws commonly called principles, identified throughout the history of scientific development, their definition, and use. Exploring a...
Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems
Jean-Yves Dufour
Belonging to the wider academic field of computer vision, video analytics has aroused a phenomenal surge of interest since the current millennium. Video analytics is intended to solve the problem of the incapability of exploiting video streams...
Galatians Through the Centuries
John Riches
This commentary on Paul’s highly autobiographical letter to the Galations traces the history of the book’s reception through the ages. Explores the influence and history of this important New Testament book Demonstrates the crucial role that...
Molecular Markers in Plants
Robert Henry J.
Molecular Markers in Plants surveys an array of technologies used in the molecular analysis of plants. The role molecular markers play in plant improvement has grown significantly as DNA sequencing and high-throughput technologies have matured....
Mobile Video with Mobile IPv6
Daniel Minoli
Increased reliance on mobile devices and streaming of video content are two of the most recent changes that have led those in the video distribution industry to be concerned about the shifting or erosion of traditional advertising revenues....
The Magic of Ceramics
David Richerson W.
Most people would be surprised at how ceramics are used, from creating cellular phones, radio, television, and lasers to its role in medicine for cancer treatments and restoring hearing. The Magic of Ceramics introduces the nontechnical reader...
The Toxicology of Methanol
John Clary J.
The Toxicology of Methanol presents a single source of information and an understanding of the toxicity of methanol from animal data, potential environmental effects as well as human effects. The animal data, which goes to making up the majority...
Horticultural Reviews, Volume 40
Jules Janick
Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. These...
Advances in Water Desalination
Noam Lior
Desalination is a dynamically growing field with more research, more engineering, more applications, more countries, more people, and with more training programs. This book provides high quality invited reviews on progress in various aspects of...
