Science and Technics

MATLAB For Dummies

by John Paul Mueller & Jim Sizemore

Go from total MATLAB newbie to plotting graphs and solving equations in a flash! 

MATLAB is one of the most powerful and commonly used tools in the STEM field. But did you know it doesn’t take an advanced...

The Science Fiction Collection

by Philip K. Dick, Andre Norton, Murray Leinster & Lester del Rey et al.

The Science Fiction Collection features some of the most amazing sci fi tales ever told!

Featuring:

The Sentimentalists, by Murray Leinster

The Girls from Earth, by Frank Robinson

The Death Traps of FX-31, by Sewell...

Duurzame Ontwikkeling door Collectief Bewonersinitiatief.

by Fred Sanders, Tu Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

pCollectief bewonersinitiatief gericht op duurzame energie-optimalisatie is in Nederland in opkomst. Ook de installatietechniek speelt daar met een nieuw type installaties voor meerdere huishoudens op in. De...

AM Envelope

by Holger Strauss, Tu Delft, Architecture

This book shows the potential of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for the development of building envelopes: AM will change the way of designing facades, how we engineer and produce them. To achieve today’s demands...

The Fairy Tale Collection

by Andrew Lang, Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen & James Stephens

The Fairy Tale Collection brings together some of the greatest fairy tales ever written. 

Featuring:

FAIRY TALES OF THE SLAV PEASANTS AND HERDSMEN, by Aleksander Chod?ko

THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK, by Andrew Lang

THE...

Storming the Old Boys' Citadel

by Carla Blank & Tania Martin

?Women? and ?architecture? were once mutually exclusive terms. In an 1891 address, Louise Blanchard Bethune declared, ?it is hardly safe to assert? that a connection even exists between the two words. Some women...

Creating Cohousing

by Charles Durrett & Kathryn McCamant

The cohousing "bible" by the US originators of the concept.

A man's home is his castle. But demographic and economic changes haveturned our castles into islands. How can we regain the elements of the traditional...

Polysaccharide-Based Nanocrystals

by Jin Huang, Peter R. Chang, Ning Lin & Alain Dufresne

Polysaccharide nanocrystals, an emerging green nanoingredient (nanomaterial) with high crystallinity obtained by acid hydrolysis of biomass-based polysaccharides, are of scientific and economic significance...

Sustainable Luxury

by McGillick,Paul & Masano Kawana

This sustainable architecture and design book featuring elegant photographs and showcases the ultra-modern homes of Singapore.

Singapore is celebrated as one of the most livable cities in Asia, and Sustainable...

An Unlikely Vineyard

by Deirdre Heekin & Alice Feiring

Named one of the Best Wine Books of 2014 by The New York Times, An Unlikely Vineyard tells the evolutionary story of Deirdre Heekin?s farm from overgrown fields to a fertile, productive, and beautiful landscape...

Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden

by Vera Schwarcz

The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the...

Grasslands and herbivore production in Europe and effects of common policies

by Christian Huyghe, Alex De Vliegher, Bert Van Gils & Alain Peeters*

The European project Multisward (http://www.multisward.eu/multisward_eng/) aims at supporting developments and innovations in grassland use and management in different European farming systems (including low-input...

Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity

by Christine Lehleiter

Examining novels, studies on plant hybridization, treatises on animal breeding, and collections of anatomical monstrosities, Origins Matter delineates how romantic authors imagined the ramifications of emerging...

Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments: A Practical Consulting Guide

by Marvin C. McMaster

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...

Hashing in Computer Science: Fifty Years of Slicing and Dicing

by Alan G. Konheim

Written by one of the developers of the technology, Hashing is both a historical document on the development of hashing and an analysis of the applications of hashing in a society increasingly concerned with...

Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification

by Ross Spiegel & Dru Meadows

To properly select and specify green building materials, architects need advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled, and recyclable products, and how to integrate these products into the design process...

Chaos in Electric Drive Systems: Analysis, Control and Application

by K. T. Chau & Zheng Wang

In Chaos in Electric Drive Systems: Analysis, Control and Application authors Chau and Wang systematically introduce an emerging technology of electrical engineering that bridges abstract chaos theory and practical...

A Short Course on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

by Asis Kumar Chaudhuri

By colliding heavy ions at nearly the speed of light, scientists are exploring both our physical world and conditions at the beginning of the universe. With applications in nuclear physics, particle physics,...

Rapid Qualitative Inquiry

by James Beebe

Practitioners in need of timely results for program and policy planning—and students looking for

realistic research projects—will find solutions in Rapid Qualitative Inquiry (RQI), a team-based,

applied research...

Thumbelina

by Michel Serres & Daniel W. Smith

The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living...