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The Unlimited Dream Company: A Novel

by J. G. Ballard

"A remarkable piece of invention, a flight from the world of the familiar and the real into the exotic universe of dream and desire." -New York Times Book ReviewWhen a light aircraft crashes into the Thames...

Fast Handling Technique

by Frank Bethwaite

From the author of the bestselling High Performance Sailing and Higher Performance Sailing comes the first scientific analysis of what makes fast sailors fast. Eschewing the idea that luck or innate talent are...

Schaum's Outline of College Chemistry

by Jerome Rosenberg & Lawrence Epstein

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately, there's Schaum's.

More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum'sto help them succeed in the classroom and on exams.Schaum's is the key...

Samuel and His God

by Marti J. Steussy & James L. Crenshaw

An insightful untangling of divergent voices and viewpoints found in the story of the last Hebrew judge and first major prophet.

Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of Africa

by Chris Stuart & Tilde Stuart

A field guide to the larger mammals of Africa with over 400 photographs for easy identification.

A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology

by Curtis W. Dewey

A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology provides students and clinicians with the tools necessary to understand and be clinically proficient with neurology cases faced in small animal practice. Highlights...

Talent Intelligence: What You Need to Know to Identify and Measure Talent

by Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur

Building effective talent measurement systems in businesses big and small

Much has been written about best practices for measuring talent and which tests and tools to use, however there is little written that...

Processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images

by Henri Maitre

Synthetic aperture radar provides broad-area imaging at high resolutions, which is used in applications such as environmental monitoring, earth-resource mapping, and military systems.

This book presents the tools...

Thermo-Hydromechanical and Chemical Coupling in Geomaterials and Applications: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium GeoProc'2008

by Jian-Fu Shao & Nicolas Burlion

GeoProc2008 collects the proceedings of the International Conference on Coupled T-H-M-C (thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, chemical) Processes in Geosystems.

Drug-Drug Interactions for Therapeutic Biologics

by Honghui Zhou & Bernd Meibohm

Strategize, plan, and execute comprehensive drug-drug interaction assessments for therapeutic biologics

Offering both theory and practical guidance, this book fully explores drug-drug interaction assessments...

Advanced Mapping of Environmental Data

by Mikhail Kanevski

This book combines geostatistics and global mapping systems to present an up-to-the-minute study of environmental data. Featuring numerous case studies, the reference covers model dependent (geostatistics) and...

Materials and Surface Engineering in Tribology

by Jamal Takadoum

This title is designed to provide a clear and comprehensive overview of tribology. The book introduces the notion of a surface in tribology where a solid surface is described from topographical, structural,...

Dynamic Behavior of Concrete and Seismic Engineering

by Jacky Mazars & Alain Millard

While the static behavior of concrete has been the subject of numerous works, the same cannot be said for the dynamic behavior. This book sets out to remedy this situation: it begins by presenting the most frequently...

Materials and Acoustics Handbook

by Michel Bruneau & Catherine Potel

Written by a group of acoustics and vibration specialists, this book studies the acoustic and vibrating phenomena that occur in diverse materials used for all kinds of purposes. The first part studies the fundamental...

Transverse Disciplines in Metrology: Proceedings of the 13th International Metrology Congress

by French College of Metrology

Based on The International Metrology Congress meeting, this reference examines the evolution of metrology, and its applications in industry, environment and safety, health and medicine, economy and quality,...

Micro, Nanosystems and Systems on Chips: Modeling, Control, and Estimation

by Alina Voda

Micro and nanosystems represent a major scientific and technological challenge, with actual and potential applications in almost all fields of the human activity. The aim of the present book is to present how...

Energy Storage

by Yves Brunet

Energy storage examines different applications such as electric power generation, transmission and distribution systems, pulsed systems, transportation, buildings and mobile applications. For each of these applications,...

Decision Making Process: Concepts and Methods

by Denis Bouyssou, Didier Dubois & Henri Prade

This book provides an overview of the main methods and results in the formal study of the human decision-making process, as defined in a relatively wide sense. A key aim of the approach contained here is to...

Silicon Non-Volatile Memories: Paths of Innovation

by Barbara de Salvo

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the different technological approaches currently being studied to fulfill future memory requirements. Two main research paths are identified and discussed. Different...

Organic Materials for Sustainable Civil Engineering

by Yves Mouton

This book provides an inventory of organic materials and products, the major components of all civil engineering projects, in terms of their scientific and technical background, including the regulations that...