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Great Events From History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970

Salem Press, 2007

This is a unique resource: Nothing is comparable with this much depth or numbers that covers so many 20th century events.??AAGreat Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970??AA, is the ninth installment in Salem Press' ongoing ??AAGreat Events from History??AA series. This six-volume set contains 1,112 essays on more than 1,100...

Ultraviolet Light in Food Technology: Principles and Applications (Contemporary Food Engineering)

CRC Press, 2009

The production of environmentally friendly, sustainable, chemical-free food continues to challenge the food industry, spurring on investigations into alternative food processing techniques that are more sophisticated and diverse than current practices. Exploring one of these emerging solutions, Ultraviolet Light in Food Technology:...

Ecology, Cognition and Landscape

Springer, 2009

It is more and more evident that our living system is completely disturbed by human intrusion. Such intrusion affects the functioning of entire systems in ways we do not yet fully understand. We use paradigms such as the disturbance to cover large and deep gaps in our scientific knowledge.

Human ecology is an uncertain terrain for...

Culture of Cells for Tissue Engineering (Culture of Specialized Cells)

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Step-by-step, practical guidance for the acquisition, manipulation, and use of cell sources for tissue engineering

Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field incorporating the principles of biology, chemistry, engineering, and medicine to create biological substitutes of native tissues for scientific research or clinical use. Specific...

Semiconductors and the Information Revolution: Magic Crystals that made IT Happen

Academic Press, 2009

This book sets out to explain the development of modern electronic systems and devices from the viewpoint of the semiconductor materials (germanium, silicon, gallium arsenide and many others) which made them possible. It covers the scientific understanding of these materials and its intimate relationship with their technology and many applications....

Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Multinationals and Social Challenges

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important approach for addressing the social and environmental impact of company activities. Yet companies are increasingly expected to go beyond this. They are now often expected to assist in addressing many of the world's most pressing problems, including climate change, poverty and...

Transport in Laser Microfabrication: Fundamentals and Applications

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Emphasizing the fundamentals of transport phenomena, this book provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background they need to understand laser-induced microfabrication and materials processing at small scales. It clarifies the laser/materials coupling mechanisms, and discusses the nanoscale confined laser interactions that...

Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments: Processes and Interactions

Information Science Publishing, 2009

As emerging technologies increase the potential for constructivist learning processes and responses, it is critical that educational researchers, instructional designers, cognitive scientists, and information scientists become more aware of advances in these correlating fields. Cases on Collaboration in Virtual Learning Environments:...

The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (Volume 1)

Microsoft Press, 2009

This book presents the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science, with the goal of influencing the worldwide scientific and computing research communities and inspiring the next generation of scientists. Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers...

Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL

Apress, 2009

Unique to the popular Grails web framework is its architecture. While other frameworks are built from the ground up, Grails leverages existing and proven technologies that already have advanced functionality built in. One of the key technologies in this architecture is Hibernate, on top of which Grails builds its GORM (Grails Object Relational...

Soft Real-Time Systems: Predictability vs. Efficiency (Series in Computer Science)

Springer, 2005

Real-time systems technology, traditionally developed for safety-critical systems, has recently been extended to support novel application domains, including multimedia systems, monitoring apparatuses, telecommunication networks, mobile robotics, virtual reality, and interactive computer games. Such systems are referred to as mft real-time systems,...

Towards a Critical Sociology (Routledge Revivals): An Essay on Commonsense and Imagination

Routledge, 2010

For the better part of its history sociology shared with commonsense its assumption of the ‘nature-like’ character of society – and consequently developed as the science of unfreedom. In this powerful and engaging work, first published in 1976, Professor Bauman outlines the historical roots of such a science and describes how...

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