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Energy Storage. A New Approach
Ralph Zito
Energy Storage: A New Approach presents practical solutions to the problem of energy storage on a massive scale. This revolutionary book describes technologies that include basic chemical concepts that engineers have been practicing for years,...
Biofilm Eradication and Prevention. A Pharmaceutical Approach to Medical Device Infections
Tamilvanan Shunmugaperumal
Biofilm Eradication and Preventions presents the basics of biofilm formation on medical devices, diseases related to this formation, and approaches pharmaceutical researchers need to take to limit this problem. Split into three parts, the first...
The Atmosphere and Ocean. A Physical Introduction
Neil Wells C.
The Atmosphere and Ocean is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction to the atmosphere and ocean. Now in its Third Edition, the book continues to provide students with an accessible description of the atmosphere and...
Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems. A Practical Approach
Shoab Khan Ahmed
Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems discusses a spectrum of architectures and methods for effective implementation of algorithms in hardware (HW). Encompassing all facets of the subject this book includes conversion of algorithms from...
Vegetation Description and Data Analysis. A Practical Approach
Martin Kent
Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach, Second Edition is a fully revised and up-dated edition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advances in the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly...
Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments. A Practical Consulting Guide
Marvin McMaster C.
A time-tested, systematic approach to the buying and selling of complex research instruments Searching for the best laboratory instruments and systems can be a daunting and expensive task. A poorly selected instrument can dramatically affect...
Sedimentary Rocks in the Field. A Practical Guide
Maurice Tucker E.
This fourth edition builds on the success of previous editions and for the first time is produced in full colour throughout with improved photos and diagrams. It retains its popular pocket size and is an essential buy for all students working in...
Biostatistical Design and Analysis Using R. A Practical Guide
Dr Logan Murray
R – the statistical and graphical environment is rapidly emerging as an important set of teaching and research tools for biologists. This book draws upon the popularity and free availability of R to couple the theory and practice of...
Research Methods in Child Language. A Practical Guide
Erika Hoff
This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development. Presents a comprehensive survey of laboratory and naturalistic techniques...
Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation. A Practical Guide for Academic Leaders
Jeffrey L. Buller
Praise for Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation «Jeffrey Buller, a leading and respected voice in higher education, has written a truly practical and highly useful book on the increasingly important topic of faculty evaluation. This highly...
Teaching Adults. A Practical Guide for New Teachers
Ralph Brockett G.
A highly practical guide for new instructors teaching in any setting Regardless of the context, teaching is a tall task—and for those teaching adults, unique challenges await. Teaching Adults: A Practical Guide for New Teachers is chock-full of...
The Essential College Professor. A Practical Guide to an Academic Career
Jeffrey L. Buller
The Essential College Professor is about the «how» and «why» of being a faculty member today. Based on the author's series of highly successful faculty development workshops, each chapter deals concisely with the most important information...
Driven by Data. A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
Driven by Data offers valuable tips and general guidelines about data-based methods and the difficulties surrounding the implementation of data-driven instruction. Through a CD-ROM, this guidebook provides all the tools needed to launch...
Supporting Online Students. A Practical Guide to Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Services
Anita Crawley
Supporting Online Students shows how effective and efficiently delivered support services improve academic success and course retention for online learners. Drawing on a decade's worth of research, Anita Crawley describes the scope of services...
The Peak Performing Professor. A Practical Guide to Productivity and Happiness
Susan Robison
Drawing on research from the fields of neuroscience, faculty development, work productivity, positive psychology, and resilience, The Peak Performing Professor is filled with techniques, strategies, and practical tools for managing the...
Dyslexia. A Practitioner's Handbook
Gavin Reid
The main purpose of this new edition is to incorporate the most recent theoretical and practical research in the field of dyslexia and literacy and present it in a user friendly format for Practitioners. It refers to the most recent government...
Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook. A Problem Solving Approach
Joseph Gallant
The goal of this book is to teach undergraduate students how to use Scientific Notebook (SNB) to solve physics problems. SNB software combines word processing and mathematics in standard notation with the power of symbolic computation. As its...
Optimizing Organization Design. A Proven Approach to Enhance Financial Performance, Customer Satisfaction and Employee Engagement
Ronald Capelle G.
Optimizing Organization Design offers a comprehensive resource and valued guide for anyone interested in improving organization performance. The book presents an approach to optimizing organization design that is based on over 100 large scale...
The Weather Almanac. A Reference Guide to Weather, Climate, and Related Issues in the United States and Its Key Cities
Steven Horstmeyer L.
The Weather Almanac, 12th Edition is a resource for a variety of climate and meteorological data including both domestic and international weather trends, historical weather patterns dating back 1000 years, natural disasters, and a 20 page...
Working with Problem Faculty. A Six-Step Guide for Department Chairs
R. Crookston Kent
Working with Problem Faculty When asked to name their number one concern and problem, department leaders overwhelmingly said that it was dealing with difficult people. Now R. Kent Crookston draws on the wisdom of seasoned department chairs, the...
Technology Platforms for 3D Cell Culture. A User's Guide
Stefan Przyborski
Technology Platforms for 3D Cell Culture: A Users Guide points to the options available to perform 3D culture, shows where such technology is available, explains how it works, and reveals how it can be used by scientists working in their own...
Ideas in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Advances in Synthetic Chemistry
Bruno Pignataro
Written by some of the most talented young chemists in Europe, this text covers most of the groundbreaking issues in chemistry. It provides an account of the latest research results in European chemistry based on a selection of leading young...
Future Earth. Advancing Civic Understanding of the Anthropocene
Diana Dalbotten
Earth now is dominated by both biogeophysical and anthropogenic processes, as represented in these two images from a simulation of aerosols. Dust (red) from the Sahara sweeps west across the Atlantic Ocean. Sea salt (blue) rises into the...
Realizing General Education: Reconsidering Conceptions and Renewing Practice. AEHE Volume 42, Number 2
Cynthia Wells A.
General education is widely touted as an enduring distinctive of higher education, but what do we actually mean by general education? Differing perspectives not only make it challenging to consider its significance, but also open it up to a wide...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2006. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2006
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2006 is the 42nd volume in this classical series. Every year, an experienced team of authors compiles these reviews, so that the reader can rely on a continuing quality of selection and presentation. Detailed author...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2007. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2007
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2007, the 43rd annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2007. The following classes of organic reaction...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2008. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2008
A. Knipe C.
This volume is the 44th in this classical series. In every volume relevant reaction mechanisms are featured in chapters entitled: Reaction of Aldehydes and Ketones and their Derivatives Reactions of Carboxylic, Phosphoric, and Sulfonic Acids and...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2009. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2009
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2009, the 45th annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2009. The following classes of organic reaction...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2010. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2010
A. Knipe C.
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2010, the 46th annual volume in this highly successful and unique series, surveys research on organic reaction mechanisms described in the available literature dated 2010. It details the latest progress in a wide...
Organic Reaction Mechanisms 2011. An annual survey covering the literature dated January to December 2011
A. Knipe C.
The only book series to summarize the latest progress on organic reaction mechanisms, Organic Reaction Mechanisms, 2011 surveys the development in understanding of the main classes of organic reaction mechanisms reported in the primary...
Television and the Meaning of 'Live'. An Enquiry into the Human Situation
Paddy Scannell
This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are...
Statistical Physics. An Entropic Approach
Ian Ford
This undergraduate textbook provides a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics via a comprehensive treatment of the basics of classical thermodynamics, equilibrium statistical mechanics, irreversible...
The Good Life of Teaching. An Ethics of Professional Practice
Chris Higgins
The Good Life of Teaching extends the recent revival of virtue ethics to professional ethics and the philosophy of teaching. It connects long-standing philosophical questions about work and human growth to questions about teacher motivation,...
Combining CBT and Medication. An Evidence-Based Approach
Donna M. Sudak
Combining medication and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be challenging but can also enhance patient care. This book reviews the existing literature about the neurobiological and clinical basis in combining CBT and medication for...
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. An Evidence-Based Approach to Enhancing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Mindfulness and Hypnotherapy
Assen Alladin
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders applies a systematic integrative approach, Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), to the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders; it demonstrates how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context...
The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011. An Explanation and Guide for Busy Practitioners and Students
David Chappell
Books about construction contracts tend to be dense and wordy, but what most architects, quantity surveyors, project managers, builders and employers are looking for is an easily navigable, simple guide to using a contract, written in plain...
Fire Phenomena and the Earth System. An Interdisciplinary Guide to Fire Science
Claire Belcher M.
Fire plays a key role in Earth system processes. Wildfires influence the carbon cycle and the nutrient balance of our planet, and may even play a role in regulating the oxygen content of our atmosphere. The evolutionary history of plants has...
English Phonetics and Phonology. An Introduction
Philip Carr
The second edition of the popular English Phonetics and Phonology textbook has been extensively updated and expanded to offer greater flexibility for teachers and increased support for non-native speakers studying the sound systems of English....
Practical Raman Spectroscopy. An Introduction
Peter Vandenabeele
This text offers an open-learning approach to Raman spectroscopy providing detail on instrumentation, applications and discussions questions throughout the book. It provides a valuable guide to assist with teaching Raman spectroscopy which is...
Crystallography and Surface Structure. An Introduction for Surface Scientists and Nanoscientists
Klaus Hermann
A valuable learning tool as well as a reference, this book provides students and researchers in surface science and nanoscience with the theoretical crystallographic foundations, which are necessary to understand local geometries and symmetries...
Methods of Molecular Quantum Mechanics. An Introduction to Electronic Molecular Structure
Valerio Magnasco
This advanced text introduces to the advanced undergraduate and graduate student the mathematical foundations of the methods needed to carry out practical applications in electronic molecular quantum mechanics, a necessary preliminary step...
The Sounds of Language. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Elizabeth Zsiga C.
The Sounds of Language is an introductory guide to the linguistic study of speech sounds, which provides uniquely balanced coverage of both phonology and phonetics. Features exercises and problem sets, as well as supporting online resources at...
Mirror-Image Asymmetry. An Introduction to the Origin and Consequences of Chirality
James Riehl P.
An overview of the importance and consequences of asymmetry from molecules to the macroscopic world As scientists have become more capable of probing the structure of three-dimensional objects at the molecular level, the need to understand the...
Fusion. An Introduction to the Physics and Technology of Magnetic Confinement Fusion
Weston Stacey M.
This second edition of a popular textbook is thoroughly revised with around 25% new and updated content. It provides an introduction to both plasma physics and fusion technology at a level that can be understood by advanced undergraduates and...
Digital Design for Print and Web. An Introduction to Theory, Principles, and Techniques
John DiMarco
The all-inclusive guide—from theory to practice—for print and Web design Any well-conceived print or Web design features the dynamic interplay between visual artistry and technical skill. It becomes important, therefore, for the designer to...
Field Computation for Accelerator Magnets. Analytical and Numerical Methods for Electromagnetic Design and Optimization
Stephan Russenschuck
Written by a leading expert on the electromagnetic design and engineering of superconducting accelerator magnets, this book offers the most comprehensive treatment of the subject to date. In concise and easy-to-read style, the author lays out...
Optics in Instruments. Applications in Biology and Medicine
Jean Goure Pierre
Optics is a science which covers a very large domain and is experiencing indisputable growth. It has enabled the development of a considerable number of instruments, the optical component or methodology of which is often the essential part of...
Supramolecular Soft Matter. Applications in Materials and Organic Electronics
Takashi Nakanishi
The pivotal text that bridges the gap between fundamentals and applications of soft matter in organic electronics Covering an expanding and highly coveted subject area, Supramolecular Soft Matter enlists the services of leading researchers to...
An Introduction to Audio Content Analysis. Applications in Signal Processing and Music Informatics
Alexander Lerch
With the proliferation of digital audio distribution over digital media, audio content analysis is fast becoming a requirement for designers of intelligent signal-adaptive audio processing systems. Written by a well-known expert in the field,...
Isocyanide Chemistry. Applications in Synthesis and Material Science
V. Nenajdenko
The efficacy of isocyanide reactions in the synthesis of natural or naturallike products has resulted in a renaissance of isocyanide chemistry. Now isocyanides are widely used in different branches of organic, inorganic, coordination,...
