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 Crop Improvement Under Adverse Conditions
Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, and salinity represent key elements limiting agricultural productivity worldwide. Thus, developing crop plants with the ability to tolerate abiotic stresses is a critical need which demands modern... | | Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation (MIT Press)
Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Sutherland... | | Plasma Engineering: Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology
Plasma engineering applies the unique properties of plasmas (ionized gases) to improve processes and performance over many fields, such as materials processing, spacecraft propulsion, and nanofabrication. Plasma Engineering considers this rapidly expanding discipline from a unified standpoint, addressing fundamentals of physics and... |
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Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia, 1933 to 1966
"The anti-communist hysteria generated by the Cold War frequently unhinged the policy judgments of US government officials in many areas, but nowhere so completely as in our relations with Cuba. This conclusion is inescapable as Gangsterismo brilliantly unravels the bizarre tale of the Mafia army the Kennedy brothers recruited in their... | | Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin (Reverb)
In 1976, David Bowie left Los Angeles and the success of his celebrated albums Diamond Dogs and Young Americans for Europe. The rocker settled in Berlin, where he would make his “Berlin Trilogy”âthe albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger, which are now considered some of the most critically ... | | Labor in America: A History
The contours and content of this book have evolved in response to the experiences of
American workers and their organizations as they have played out over the course of
the last 70 years. When Foster Rhea Dulles began drafting the first edition of this
textbook after World War II, the American labor movement was ascendant, benefiting... |
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