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 How Spacecraft Fly: Spaceflight Without FormulaeThe aim of this popular science text is to explain aerodynamic and astrodynamic flight without the use of mathematics, in an informal style, for non-technical readers who are interested in spaceflight and spacecraft.
The book will open with a concise introductory chapter, chronicling the ‘space age’ up to the present, and a brief... | | Networks-on-Chips: Theory and Practice (Embedded Multi-core Systems)
This book addresses many challenging topics related to the NoC research area. It starts by studying 3D NoC architectures and progresses to a discussion of NoC resource allocation, processor traffic modeling, and formal verification. NoC protocols are examined at different layers of abstraction. Also, several emerging research issues in NoC... | | Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the вÐÑGreen RevolutionвÐÑ succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year most of them in Africa ... |
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Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.
Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral... | | The Encyclopedia Of International Organized Crime (Facts on File Crime Library)As a reporter, columnist, and author who has written extensively about organized crime for more than three decades, my primary beat has been what is referred to by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as “traditional organized crime.” In official court documents, the FBI identifies the organization as La Cosa Nostra (LCN). Most... | | |
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Computers in PsychiatryAt its heart, a psychiatrists work is about communicating. Failures in communication have led to well-publicised failures in care. The new technologies of communication can hopefully lead to better care. To realise these hopes, however, psychiatrists need a computer book aimed at intelligent professionals, not dummies. This is that book.It differs... | | Practical Risk ManagementIn early 1995 people were glued to their television sets watching the aftermath of a very large earthquake in the city of Kobe in western Japan. Little did they suspect the deep-seated implications of this event on the financial markets in general, and on the Bank of England in particular. The earthquake caused a major sell-off in the already... | | Advanced Euclidean Geometry (Dover Books on Mathematics)Tms book deals with the geometry of the triangle and the circle, as developed extensively in the nineteenth century by British and Continental writers. This geometry, based entirely on the elementary plane geometry of Euclid or its modern equivalent, is rapidly coming to its due recognition as excellent material for college courses. Perhaps in no... |
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Excel Gurus Gone Wild: Do the IMPOSSIBLE with Microsoft Excel
Drawn from actual excel conundrums posted on the author's website, www.mrexcel.com, this high-level resource is designed for people who want to stretch Excel to its limits. Tips for solving 100 incredibly difficult problems are covered in depth and include extracting the first letter of each word in a paragraph, validating ... | | Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook...the notebook offers a rich and vivid demonstration of the ways in which Hardy, astonishingly creative even into his mid-80s, worked persistently with ideas towards so many of the poems which were gathered into the remarkable final volume, Winter Words. With particular value from a biographical standpoint, we can catch tantalising glimpses of the... | | Newnes Data Communications Pocket Book, Fourth Edition (Newnes Pocket Books)*A practical engineer’s reference that puts the key information at your fingertips
*Covers essential data, techniques and working practice
*This update covers the latest international regulations
Newnes Data Communications Pocket Book is a remarkable toolkit for engineers, IT professionals, managers and students. The wide... |
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