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The industrial application of robots is growing steadily. This is reflected in the number of manufacturers now in volved in the field of robotics. Thanks to pioneers such as Joseph Engelberger of Unimation Inc, industry has seen their rapid deployment in...

This book is for senior undergraduate or postgraduate students who want an insight into some modern approaches to metamorphic petrology. Its aims are to explain, in reasonably simple, informal terms, the processes underlying (i) metamorphic reactions and...

This book began many years ago as course notes for students at the University of Bath, and later at the University of Kent. Students used draft versions of the chapters, which were consequently revised. Second and third year students, as well as those...

For many years now I have been required to give a series of elementary lectures on statistics to medical students about to undertake a postgraduate course in psychiatry. The declared aim of the course, for which very limited time was available, was to...

This book contains a rigorous coverage of those topics (and only those topics) that, in the author's judgement, are suitable for inclusion in a first course on Complex Functions. Roughly speaking, these can be summarized as being the things that can be...

In the last few years there has been a tremendous increase in the number of Pascal courses taught at various levels in schools and universities. Also with the advances made in electronics it is possible today for the majority of people to own or have...

Plants, in addition to their role as primary synthesizers of organic com pounds, have evolved as selective accumulators of inorganic nutrients from the earth's crust. This ability to mine the physical environment is restricted to green plants and some...

This volume discusses the mineral resources upon which modern civiliza tion is built. Take away these minerals and humanity will rapidly return to the stone age, with its greatest concern the depletion of flint (also a mineral). It would, of course,...

BY Sir Frederic Bolton, M.C. Chairman 0/ F. Bolton Group Ltd, Director 0/ Sealink Ltd and a past President o/the General Council 0/ British Shipping The shipping industry has always lacked a body which can confer professional status on would-be...

As time progresses, biology becomes more and more fragmented and specialized and it becomes increasingly difficult to see how all the dis- ! parate facts fit together. It is completely proper that biologists should have sought to reduce complex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918287199Author Robert L PowersFormat HardbackImprint Adlerian Psychology AssociatesPublisher Adlerian Psychology AssociatesWeight(grams) 826g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674731332Author Percy Williams BridgmanFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 703g

The future is the last frontier where nonwestern societies are still free-free to envision desirable futures based on their own worldviews, cultures, and traditions. Yet the discipline of futures studies, this volume argues, has abandoned its goal of...

Best Science Writing features 12 award-winning and compelling examples of science journalism. Background and perspective for each of the selected articles is provided through the editor's commentary, which is based on interviews with the authors. This...

This study analyzes the relationship of professional employees to their professions, and the organizations for which they work.Book InformationISBN 9780313234910Author William KornhauserFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher...

This book explains the fundamental principles involved in hazardous materials management. It provides a thorough and readable explanation of the laws governing the management of hazardous materials and potential management responses, including both...

Catastrophes are part of Earth's real history. Its grim disasters, acting as a backdrop against which human dramas have been played out, have been recorded in many ancient writings. As Milne shows, doomsday catastrophism, once the prerogative of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645146905Author Malual Ayom DorFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 653g

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections gathers accounts of the two poets from her precocious childhood to his death in Venice. Comments by Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, Alfred Tennyson, Henry James, Edmund Gosse...

The Return to Europe examines the ability of the Central and South-east European economies to withstand competitive pressures on entry to the EU. These economies are still experiencing major structural problems inherited from communism. A major gap still...

This collection of important new research in 19th-century media history represents some salient, recent developments in the field. Taking as its theme, the ways the media serves to define identities - national, ethnic, professional, gender, and textual,...

This book is directed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students-and their teachers-who are involved in those areas of cell biology which require a basic knowledge of cytoskeletal structure, parti cularly with respect to cell motility. It...

A course of eight lectures delivered at Cambridge in 1943. In his introduction Dr Raven suggests that science and religion, as the most formative influence in the educational and the intellectual life of the world, share responsibility for the outbreak...

Newton's mathematical researches during the last five years of his stay in Cambridge before leaving in April 1696 to take up his duties at the Mint in London have three main centres of interest: methods of fluxions and series, classical pure geometry,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359995936Author Folasayo AyegbayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 216g

2012: Hoax or Shock? is written by the author of another bestseller "History of The Impossible: Earth before the Pyramids" and designed for general readers who won't need a special scientific degree to understand what is coming in 2012. Year...

Mammalian sociobiology is a rapidly advancing field which has made enormous strides in the last ten years. The last major monograph on the subject (Ewer, 1968) was published sixteen years ago, and there is a need for this information to be examined in...

Reviews the studies on the role of cell energetics in the mechanism of the stress response inductions, presenting a selection of facts, speculations, and hypotheses concerning the involvement of heat-shock proteins in protecting the cell during depletion...

The years 1760 to 1789 mark the political birth of the United States; simultaneously, an emancipation of American scientific endeavor from the influence of England and Europe was taking place. This is especially evident in the area of natural...

Health is both simple and complex. Health is the normal state with the right lifestyle. When anyone asks me what are the factors affecting our health, I am now quite clear that the answer is; everything! Our health is affected by many things including...

Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death by Edward RettigBook InformationISBN 9780557491568Author Edward RettigFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 506g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359119493Author Folasayo AyegbayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 567g

This book is a research work originated from a new cosmological model 'The Heart of the God' further to film theory of the universe. It supports 'Steady State Theory 'of cosmology. The GP equation is the ultimate proof for correctness of data and the...

Soil formation is related to the nature of landforms on which that formation takes place. The nature of the soil affects some of the processes shaping the landforms and which cause landscape change. An accurate assessment of the evolution of landforms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578209012Author Larry PodsobinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Larry J. PodsobinskiPublisher Larry J. PodsobinskiWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578118376Author Li ZhengFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Li ZhengPublisher Li ZhengWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464983156Author Joan Tucker MDFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 203g

This landmark monograph in ethnoecology is now available in print format for the first time. Based on long-term fieldwork in Guyana during 1998, 1999 and 2000, it examines relationships between the ecological knowledge of Wapishana hunters and equivalent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757556456Author Hattey-PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837166223Author Eve WhyteFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO