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Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science

Princeton Press, 2008

From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown...

Solar Power Your Home For Dummies (Home & Garden)

For Dummies, 2007

Want to take advantage of solar power in your home? Whether you’re looking to save on your energy costs by adding a few solar components or you want to build a solar-powered house from the ground up, Solar Power Your Home For Dummies takes the mystery out of this energy source and shows you how to put it to work for you!

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Setting-Up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)

Springer, 2007

This is the book to tell the intermediate-level amateur astronomer what he needs to know about observatories. It draws on the author’s practical experience and that of many other experienced amateur astronomers.

It is an ideal complement to Patrick Moore’s More Small Astronomical Observatories which is a compendium of ideas for...

Making & Enjoying Telescopes: 6 Complete Projects & A Stargazer's Guide

Sterling, 1997

"...follows a logical path through topics of safety, construction, sky coordinates, and, finally, design....Plans for each telescope are illustrated with both line drawings and photographs...procedures are laid out in an easy-to-follow technique...includes a rich gallery of illustrated telescopes that amateurs have built...a welcome addition...

Practical Guide to Low Voltage Directive

Newnes, 1998

Compliance with the Low Voltage Directive (LVD) is now essential for CE marking. Products cannot leave your firm without it. This book provides essential and informative reading for company directors, engineers, designers and students designing, manufacturing or studying the design of electrical products covered by the Low Voltage Directive....

MicroComputed Tomography: Methodology and Applications

CRC Press, 2008

Due to the availability of commercial laboratory systems and the emergence of user facilities at synchrotron radiation sources, studies of microcomputed tomography or microCT have increased exponentially.

MicroComputed Technology provides a complete introduction to the technology, describing how to use it...

Microdynamics Simulation (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)

Springer, 2007

This volume deals with the simulation of metamorphic and tectonic microstrucutres in rocks with a special emphasis on the modeling package 'Elle'. The first part provides a review of the problems and opportunities in the modeling of microstructures, followed by an introduction to various numerical modelling techniques. In the second part examples...

Micromachined Thin-Film Sensors for SOI-CMOS Co-Integration

Springer, 2006

Co-integration of sensors with their associated electronics on a single silicon chip may provide many significant benefits regarding performance, reliability, miniaturization and process simplicity without significantly increasing the total cost.

Micromachined Thin-Film Sensors for SOI-CMOS Co-integration covers the challenges...

Introduction to Environmental Analysis (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences)

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Global awareness of the importance of monitoring and protecting our environment has grown considerably over the last ten years. Environmental concerns are now an integral part of today's legislation, product design and development, waste minimization and disposal. As well as background monitoring of the environment, scientists are involved in...

Geometric Spanner Networks

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Aimed at an audience of researchers and graduate students in computational geometry and algorithm design, this book uses the Geometric Spanner Network Problem to showcase a number of useful algorithmic techniques, data structure strategies, and geometric analysis techniques with many applications, practical and theoretical. The authors present...

Issues in the Integration of Research and Operationsl Satellite Systems for Climate Research: Science and Design (Compass Series)

National Academy Press, 2000

This is the first of two reports that address the complex issue of incorporating the needs of climate research into the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). NPOESS, which has been driven by the imperative of reliably providing short-term weather information, is itself a union of heretofore separate civilian...

Partial Differential Equations: Modelling and Numerical Simulation (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences)

Springer, 2008

This book is dedicated to Olivier Pironneau.

For more than 250 years partial differential equations have been clearly the most important tool available to mankind in order to understand a large variety of phenomena, natural at first and then those originating from human activity and technological development. Mechanics, physics and their...

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