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Merchants of Culture. The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
John Thompson B.
These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with...
Environmental Trace Analysis. Techniques and Applications
John Dean R.
This book covers all aspects of environmental trace analysis from sampling through to preparation of the sample to the analytical techniques used to quantify the level of trace metals or organic compounds. The book is divided into two areas:...
Thermal Energy Storage. Systems and Applications
Ibrahim Dincer
The ability of thermal energy storage (TES) systems to facilitate energy savings, renewable energy use and reduce environmental impact has led to a recent resurgence in their interest. The second edition of this book offers up-to-date coverage...
Handbook of Biological Dyes and Stains. Synthesis and Industrial Applications
R. Sabnis W.
A complete, up-to-date resource of information on more than 200 dyes and stains Handbook of Biological Dyes and Stains is the most comprehensive volume available on the subject, covering all the available dyes and stains known to date in the...
Europe's Uncertain Path 1814-1914. State Formation and Civil Society
R. Alexander S.
Europe’s Uncertain Path is an introduction to Europe’s turbulent history from 1814 to 1914. It presents a clear narrative of the major political events, set against the backdrop of social, economic, and cultural change. An introduction to...
Generalizations of Cyclostationary Signal Processing. Spectral Analysis and Applications
Antonio Napolitano
The relative motion between the transmitter and the receiver modifies the nonstationarity properties of the transmitted signal. In particular, the almost-cyclostationarity property exhibited by almost all modulated signals adopted in...
Ionic Liquids in Biotransformations and Organocatalysis. Solvents and Beyond
Pablo Dom?nguez de Mar?a
This book addresses the use of ionic liquids in biotransformation and organocatalysis. Its major parts include: an overview of the fundamentals of ionic liquids and their interactions with proteins and enzymes; the use of ILs in...
Solid-Phase Organic Syntheses, Volume 2. Solid-Phase Palladium Chemistry
Peter J. H. Scott
Integrates solid-phase organic synthesis with palladium chemistry The Wiley Series on Solid-Phase Organic Syntheses keeps researchers current with major accomplishments in solid-phase organic synthesis, providing full experimental details....
Ammonium Nitrate Explosives for Civil Applications. Slurries, Emulsions and Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oils
Erode Mahadevan G.
The book describes the science and technology of formulation and manufacturing of non-nitroglycerine explosives with ammonium nitrate as the main ingredient. Based on the author's industry experience of more than thirty years, it provides an...
A Bird's-Eye View of Assessment. Selections from Editor's Notes
Trudy Banta W.
Here, pioneer Trudy Banta illuminates the many facets of assessment in colleges and universities during the past two decades. Addressing the principles of good assessment practice, she gives an insider?s perspective and shares the larger...
Introduction to Plasma Technology. Science, Engineering, and Applications
John Harry Ernest
Written by a university lecturer with more than forty years experience in plasma technology, this book adopts a didactic approach in its coverage of the theory, engineering and applications of technological plasmas. The theory is developed in a...
Ullmann's Energy. Resources, Processes, Products
Wiley-VCH
This three-volume handbook contains a wealth of information on energy sources, energy generation and storage, fossil and renewable fuels as well as the associated processing technology. Fossil as well as renewable fuels, nuclear technology,...
Molecular Orbitals and Organic Chemical Reactions. Reference Edition
Ян Флеминг
Winner of the PROSE Award for Chemistry & Physics 2010 Acknowledging the very best in professional and scholarly publishing, the annual PROSE Awards recognise publishers' and authors' commitment to pioneering works of research and for...
Global Trade Policy. Questions and Answers
Pamela Smith J.
Using a unique, question-based format, Global Trade Policy offers accessible coverage of the key questions in trade and policy; it charts the changing policy landscape and evolving institutional arrangements for trade policies, examines trade...
Spin-Crossover Materials. Properties and Applications
Malcolm Halcrow A.
The phenomenon of spin-crossover has a large impact on the physical properties of a solid material, including its colour, magnetic moment, and electrical resistance. Some materials also show a structural phase change during the transition....
Contemporary Health Physics. Problems and Solutions
Joseph Bevelacqua John
This is the first text specifically designed to train potential health physicists to think and respond like professionals. Written by a former chairman of the American Board of Health Physics Comprehensive Panel of Examiners with more than 20...
Wireless Communications. Principles, Theory and Methodology
Keith Q. T. Zhang
Understand the mechanics of wireless communication Wireless Communications: Principles, Theory and Methodology offers a detailed introduction to the technology. Comprehensive and well-rounded coverage includes signaling, transmission, and...
Colloid Science. Principles, Methods and Applications
Terence Cosgrove
Colloidal systems are important across a range of industries, such as the food, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, cosmetics, polymer, paint and oil industries, and form the basis of a wide range of products (eg cosmetics & toiletries, processed...
Mindfulness-integrated CBT. Principles and Practice
Bruno Cayoun A.
Mindfulness-integrated CBT: Principles and Practice represents the first set of general principles and practical guidelines for the integration of mindfulness meditation with well-documented and newly developed CBT techniques to address a broad...
Vibrational Optical Activity. Principles and Applications
Laurence Nafie A.
This unique book stands as the only comprehensive introduction to vibrational optical activity (VOA) and is the first single book that serves as a complete reference for this relatively new, but increasingly important area of molecular...
Biophysical Bone Behaviour. Principles and Applications
Jitendra Behari
Biophysical Bone Behaviour: Principles and Applications is the culmination of efforts to relate the biophysical phenomena in bone to bone growth and electrical behavior. Behari develops a bridge between physics and biology of bone leading to its...
Semiconductor Disk Lasers. Physics and Technology
Oleg Okhotnikov G.
This timely publication presents a review of the most recent developments in the field of Semiconductor Disk Lasers. Covering a wide range of key topics, such as operating principles, thermal management, nonlinear frequency conversion,...
A Grammar of Old English, Volume 1. Phonology
Richard Hogg M.
First published in 1992, A Grammar of Old English, Volume 1: Phonology was a landmark publication that in the intervening years has not been surpassed in its depth of scholarship and usefulness to the field. With the 2011 posthumous publication...
Innovative Catalysis in Organic Synthesis. Oxidation, Hydrogenation, and C-X Bond Forming Reactions
Pher Andersson G.
C-H, C-O, C-C, and C-Heteroatom bond forming processes by using metal-ligand approaches for the synthesis of organic compounds of biological, pharmacological and organic nanotechnological utility are the key areas addressed in this book....
Adolescent Emotions: Development, Morality, and Adaptation. New Directions for Youth Development, Number 136
Tina Malti
Take an in depth look at how emotions relate to adolescents’ decision making, reasoning, and behavior in morally relevant situations. It provides a summary of current research on emotions, morality, and adaptive behaviors. Furthermore, it...
Framing Youth Development for Public Support. New Directions for Youth Development, Number 124
Lynn Davey
Since 1999, the nonprofit FrameWorks Institute has investigated how Americans think about social issues–from children and youth to education and race–and how scientists, policy experts, and advocates can do a better job of engaging the public in...
Strategic Directions for Career Services Within the University Setting. New Directions for Student Services, Number 148
Kelli Smith K.
Filled with strategic directions, practical advice and best practices, this volume delivers an overview of emerging trends for the career services profession. Hot topics include: a blend of research, case studies, and personal experiences that...
Selected Contemporary Assessment Issues. New Directions for Student Services, Number 142
John Schuh H.
As demands for accountability escalate, assessment continues to evolve as a central aspect of student affairs administration. Experience clearly indicates that without a robust portfolio of assessment activities, the services, programs, and...
Strategic Planning in Student Affairs. New Directions for Student Services, Number 132
Shannon Ellis E.
Here, finally, is a publication completely dedicated to strategic planning in student affairs. This volume applies business and nonprofit techniques to higher education, bringing the topic of strategic thinking, planning, and acting to the daily...
Strengthening Community Colleges Through Institutional Collaborations. New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 165
Michael Roggow J.
This issue illustrates examples of effective collaborations written by community college presidents, administrators, faculty, and leaders of state governments and national organizations. Each has contributed a story illustrating a successful...
Technology Management. New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 154
Tod Treat
Gain a greater understanding of technology management and what it means to the community college campus today. Effective planning, directing, control, and coordination of technological capabilities can shape and help accomplish your...
Biohybrid Systems. Nerves, Interfaces and Machines
Ranu Jung
The discipline of neurodesign is a highly interdisciplinary one, while at the same time in the process of maturing towards real-life applications. The breakthrough about to be achieved is to close the loop in communication between neural systems...
Immunology. Mucosal and Body Surface Defences
Andrew Williams E.
2012 PROSE Award, Clinical Medicine: Honorable Mention The vast majority of medically important pathogens infect their host across a body surface such as the skin, or across a mucosal tissue such as the respiratory tract or intestines, as these...
Chemische Reaktionstechnik. mit MATLAB und SIMULINK
Arno L?we
Kein typisches Buch uber Chemische Reaktionstechnik: Der Losungsweg ist das Ziel, die Hauptstationen dabei sind Modellierung, Simulation und Interpretation. Anhand reprasentativer Beispiele gibt das vorliegende Buch Anleitung zu...
Computational Spectroscopy. Methods, Experiments and Applications
J?rg Grunenberg
Unique in its comprehensive coverage of not only theoretical methods but also applications in computational spectroscopy, this ready reference and handbook compiles the developments made over the last few years, from single molecule studies to...
Extractive Metallurgy 2. Metallurgical Reaction Processes
Alain Vignes
The Extractive Metallurgy series is devoted to the extraction of metals from ores and other sources, their refining to the state of either liquid or solid metal, and the various processes needed to carry out these operations. Using the...
Lipids and Essential Oils as Antimicrobial Agents
Halldor Thormar
Lipids and essential oils have strong antimicrobial properties – they kill or inhibit the growth of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, or viruses. They are being studied for use in the prevention and treatment of infections, as potential...
Acid Gas Injection and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
John Carroll J.
Provides a complete treatment on two of the hottest topics in the energy sector – acid gas injection and carbon dioxide sequestration This book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of two techniques that are rapidly increasing...
An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation
Mark Levene
This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become ubiquitous in our day to day use of the web as an information source, a...
Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems
Nemai Karmakar Chandra
The Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems is a single comprehensive reference on the smart antenna technologies applied to RFID. This book will provide a timely reference book for researchers and students in the areas of both smart...
Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction
Saeed Vaseghi V.
Digital signal processing plays a central role in the development of modern communication and information processing systems. The theory and application of signal processing is concerned with the identification, modelling and utilisation of...
The ComSoc Guide to Managing Telecommunications Projects
Celia Desmond
This pocket guide provides an overview of the telecommunications environment as it has evolved over the past few years, illustrating the need for project management, the significance of project success to the companies, and the application of...
Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project
Bruce Friesen K.
Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project Using a clear, easily followed approach, Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project helps anyone new to the process develop the skills to conduct the most essential part of social...
MALDI Mass Spectrometry for Synthetic Polymer Analysis
Liang Li
Principles and Practices of Polymer Mass Spectrometry helps readers acquire the skills necessary for selecting the optimal methods, handling samples, analyzing the data, and interpreting the results of the mass spectrometry of polymers. This...
Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies
Sandor Fliszar
The first book to cover conceptual quantum chemistry, Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies deftly explores chemical bonds, their intrinsic energies, and the corresponding dissociation energies, which are relevant in reactivity...
Anlagenplanung. Von der Anfrage bis zur Abnahme
Frank Helmus Peter
Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der faszinierenden Vielfalt an Aktivitaten, chronologisch beschrieben, die bei der Planung, Errichtung und Inbetriebsetzung verfahrenstechnischer Anlagen anfallen und verdeutlicht die prinzipiellen Vorgehensweisen...
The Learning Self. Understanding the Potential for Transformation
Mark Tennant
Praise for The Learning Self «In this age of self-help, the 'self' is a term thrown around with abandon. For educators, the notion of self-directed learning is a key concept. Yet the notion of self is deeply problematic, even contentious. The...
Multifrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. Theory and Applications
Sushil Misra K.
Filling the gap for a systematic, authoritative, and up-to-date review of this cutting-edge technique, this book covers both low and high frequency EPR, emphasizing the importance of adopting the multifrequency approach to study paramagnetic...
Mediated Cosmopolitanism. The World of Television News
Alexa Robertson
Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is the work of cosmopolitan imagination, which...
Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. The TLM Method
Pierre Saguet
The aim of this book is to give a broad overview of the TLM (Transmission Line Matrix) method, which is one of the “time-domain numerical methods”. These methods are reputed for their significant reliance on computer resources. However, they...
