Unforgettable Books
-
Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping (2010)
"Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping" offers insight into the methods and techniques that allow for easily implementing engineering designs by incorporating advanced methodologies and technologies. This book contains advanced topics such as feature-based design and process planning, modularity and rapid manufacturing, along with a collection of the latest methods and technologies currently being utilized in the field. The volume also: -Provides axiomatic design and solution methodologies for both design and manufacturing -Discusses product life cycle development and analysis for ease of manufacture and assembly -Offers applied methods and technologies in rapid prototyping, tooling and manufacturing "Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping" will be extremely valuable for any engineers and researchers and students working in engineering design.
$184.00 $179.00
-
Hispanic Families at Risk: The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State (2009)
In the United States, work is the key to economic success, as well as the major source of health care coverage and retirement security. While Europeans look to the State for these benefits, Americans for the most part do not. This system of employment-based benefits means that those disadvantaged in the labor market are also disadvantaged in terms of health care coverage and retirement security. The authors of this work examine the overrepresentation of Mexican Americans in low wage or service sector jobs, which rarely come with health insurance or retirement coverage. At all ages, Mexican Americans have lower rates of health insurance and retirement coverage than do other minority groups, such as African Americans or other Hispanic groups. Although employment in jobs that do not provide benefits is one major source of this disparity, other factors--including immigration history, citizenship status, and language proficiency--further block opportunities for upward mobility within the Mexican American population. In their analysis, the authors work to deemphasize the popular, cultural explanation for the economic disparities and focus on more practical, policy-based solutions. In each chapter, the authors identify and critique the factors that affect the economic security and health care access of individuals throughout the life course, suggesting policies for reform. This work will be of interest to anyone working in the fields of cultural studies, public health and the sociology of work. With the focus on real world causes for the problems as well as potential solutions, policy-makers will also find this informative book an essential resource.
$114.99 $109.99
-
Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy: Stars and Satellites (2009)
Careers in astronomy for women (as in other sciences) were a rarity in Britain and Ireland until well into the twentieth century. The book investigates the place of women in astronomy before that era, recounted in the form of biographies of about 25 women born between 1650 and 1900 who in varying capacities contributed to its progress during the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are some famous names among them whose biographies have been written before now, there are others who have received less than their due recognition while many more occupied inconspicuous and sometimes thankless places as assistants to male family members. All deserve to be remembered as interesting individuals in an earlier opportunity-poor age. Placed in roughly chronological order, their lives constitute a sample thread in the story of female entry into the male world of science. The book is aimed at astronomers, amateur astronomers, historians of science, and promoters of women in science, but being written in non-technical language it is intended to be of interest also to educated readers generally.
$114.99 $109.99
-
Handbook of Pediatric Chronic Pain: Current Science and Integrative Practice
The purpose of this text is to provide not only the science and current knowledge of pediatric pain management but a rationale for intervention. The book is ground-breaking in that it provides pearls for the recognition and management of multiple childhood chronic pain syndromes. Also, uncommon yet confounding issues such as pain management for epidermolysis bullosa are adequately addressed. Concerns unique to pediatric patients are reviewed. While there are no firm standards in pediatric chronic pain, a care plan is offered to help guide practitioners when possible. The book will consist of 24 chapters, many co-written by a physician and a psychologist. Chapter 1 covers the history of pediatric chronic pain, the advancement pediatric pain as a clinical subspecialty, development of pediatric pain clinics, and characterization of the common pain syndromes. Chapters 2-4 cover, respectively, the research on early pain exposure and neuroplasticity, theories on the common adolescent pain syndromes, and the demographics of chronic pain in children. Chapters 5-16 discuss approaches to assessment and intervention for specific pediatric and adolescent pain syndromes. Chapters 17-23 address interventional techniques such as therapeutic blocks, neurablation, implantable systems, physical therapy, complementary therapy, and pharmacology including opioid tolerance. The final chapter discusses the role of the nurse practitioner in pediatric chronic pain.
$174.99 $169.99
-
Visual Complexity and Intelligent Computer Graphics Techniques Enhancements (2009)
This book offers the latest research in Intelligent Scene Modeling Information Systems. It uses three main notions to explore improvements in various areas of computer graphics: Artificial Intelligence, Viewpoint Complexity, and Human Intelligence.
$114.99 $109.99
-
Explorations in Harmonic Analysis: With Applications to Complex Function Theory and the Heisenberg Group (2009)
This text on modern harmonic analysis provides an introduction to the subject in the context in which it is actually applied, in particular, through complex function theory and partial differential equations. The exposition begins with the fundamentals of Fourier analysis, complex function theory, and integral operators and further introduces students to cutting-edge ideas about the Heisenberg group.
$59.99 $54.99
-
Chemical Communication in Crustaceans
The crustaceans are ecologically and economically important organisms. They constitute one of the dominant invertebrate groups on earth, particularly within the aquatic realm. Crustaceans include some of the preferred scientific model organism, profitable aquaculture specimen, but also invasive nuisance species threatening native animal communities throughout the world. Chemoreception is the most important sensory modality of crustaceans, acquiring important information about their environment and picking up the chemical signals that mediate communication with conspecifics. Significant advances have been made in our understanding of crustacean chemical communication during the past decade. This includes knowledge about the identity, production, transfer, reception and behavioral function of chemical signals in selected crustacean groups. While it is well known that chemical communication is an integral part of the behavioral ecology of most living organisms, the intricate ways in which organisms allocate chemicals in communication remains enigmatic. How does the environment influence the evolution of chemical communication? What are the environmental cues that induce production or release of chemicals? How do individuals economize production and utilization of chemicals? What is the importance of molecule specificity or mix of a molecule cocktail in chemical communication? What is the role of chemical cues in multimodal communication? How does the ontogenetic stage, the sex or the physiological status of an individual affect its reaction to chemical cues? Many of these questions still represent important challenges to biologists.
$334.99 $329.99
-
Role of Genetics in Breast and Reproductive Cancers (2010)
This volume will explore the latest findings in research into the genetics of breast and reproductive cancers, covering the epidemiological aspects of these cancers, their etiology, the effect of environment on genes and cancer etiology, and how research in this area can lead to development of preventative measures and treatments.
$224.99 $219.99
-
Biologically-Inspired Optimisation Methods: Parallel Algorithms, Systems and Applications (2009)
Evolution's Niche in Multi-Criterion Problem Solving.- Applications of Parallel Platforms and Models in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization.- Asynchronous Multi-Objective Optimisation in Unreliable Distributed Environments.- Dynamic Problems and Nature Inspired Meta-heuristics.- Relaxation Labelling Using Distributed Neural Networks.- Extremal Optimisation for Assignment Type Problems.- Niching for Ant Colony Optimisation.- Using Ant Colony Optimisation to Construct Meander-Line RFID Antennas.- The Radio Network Design Optimization Problem.- Strategies for Decentralised Balancing Power.- An Analysis of Dynamic Mutation Operators for Conformational Sampling.- Evolving Computer Chinese Chess Using Guided Learning.
$254.99 $249.99
-
Mazzel Ritual: Culture, Customs and Crime in the Diamond Trade (2009)
In this original book cultural anthropologist Dina Siegel follows the route of a diamond from the mines of Africa to the shops of Europe and the United States. The book is about the diamond business itself as well as about the people involved in it.
$114.99 $109.99
-
Heat Conduction (2009)
This textbook presents the classical topics of conduction heat transfer and extends the coverage to include chapters on perturbation methods, heat transfer in living tissue, and microscale conduction. This makes the book unique among the many published textbook on conduction heat transfer. Other noteworthy features of the book are: The material is organized to provide students with the tools to model, analyze and solve a wide range of engineering applications involving conduction heat transfer. Mathematical techniques are presented in a clear and simplified fashion to be used as instruments in obtaining solutions. The simplicity of one-dimensional conduction is used to drill students in the role of boundary conditions and to explore a variety of physical conditions that are of practical interest. Examples are carefully selected to illustrate the application of principles and the construction of solutions. Students are trained to follow a systematic problem solving methodology with emphasis on thought process, logic, reasoning and verification. Solutions to all examples and end-of-chapter problems follow an orderly problems solving approach. Extensive training material is available on the web The author provides an extensive solution manual for verifiable course instructors on request. Please send your request to heattextbook@gmail.com
$114.99 $109.99
-
Tailored Light 1: High Power Lasers for Production (2018)
Complete survey of all relevant highpower laser systemsFeatures principles, performance data, characteristics, beam quality
$144.00 $139.00
You have seen 744 out of 1689 products