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The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments

University of Chicago Press, 2021

Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social organization is often a feature of local organization. While those forces may seem beyond...

DUNE - The Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment (Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, 140)

Springer, 2020

The Distributed and Unified Numerics Environment (Dune) is a set of open-source C++ libraries for the implementation of finite element and finite volume methods. Over the last 15 years it has become one of the most commonly used libraries for the implementation of new, efficient simulation methods in science and engineering....

Forensic Human Factors and Ergonomics: Case Studies and Analyses

CRC Press, 2018

This book has 18 case study chapters investigating various injury scenarios through the use of a Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) analysis. Each injury scenario derives from one or more similar lawsuits (but names, places and some of the details are fictionalized). The scenarios describe a ‘slice of life’ of people...

Quantum Computing for Everyone (The MIT Press)

MIT Press, 2019

An accessible introduction to an exciting new area in computation, explaining such topics as qubits, entanglement, and quantum teleportation for the general reader.

Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics and computer science, incorporating some of the most stunning ideas from twentieth-century...

Active Vibration Control and Stability Analysis of Flexible Beam Systems

Springer, 2019

Control of flexible beam systems constitutes an important benchmark problem in many application areas, such as flexible manipulators for grasping, marine mooring lines for station keeping, marine risers for oil transportation, and crane cables for positioning the payload. Flexible systems have a number of advantages...

Researching Risk and Uncertainty: Methodologies, Methods and Research Strategies (Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Understanding and managing risk and uncertainty is a central task in contemporary societies characterised by rapid social, technological and environmental change.

This book presents research approaches used by scholars who all share a passion to gain new insights in how individuals, organisations and societies...

Reliability Engineering: Theory and Applications (Advanced Research in Reliability and System Assurance Engineering)

CRC Press, 2018

Reliability theory is a multidisciplinary science aimed at developing complex systems that are resistant to failures. Reliability engineering has emerged as a main field not only for scientists and researchers, but also for engineers and industrial managers. This book covers the recent developments in reliability engineering. It...

Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior

Rocky Nook, 2019

In Mastering Bird Photography: The Art, Craft, and Technique of Photographing Birds and Their Behavior, acclaimed bird photographer and author Marie Read shares techniques and stories behind her compelling images, offering fresh insights into making successful bird photographs, whether you’re out in the field or in the comfort...

Epidemiology and Biostatistics: Practice Problem Workbook

Springer, 2018

This workbook is designed to teach the major fundamental concepts in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and clinical research design alongside the textbook "Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2nd Edition". It is written in concise and organized fashion with many examples to illustrate the concepts deriving from a collection of written materials...

Parallel Programming with Co-arrays (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

CRC Press, 2018

Parallel Programming with Co-Arrays describes the basic techniques used to design parallel algorithms for high-performance, scientific computing. It is intended for upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students who need to develop parallel codes with little or no previous introduction to parallel...

Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Cornell University Library, 2019

Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects?artifacts, structures, and archaeological...

Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world ? and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of...

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