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Sensors Handbook

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Complete, State-of-the-Art Coverage of Sensor Technologies and Applications

Fully revised with the latest breakthroughs in integrated sensors and control systems, Sensors Handbook, Second Edition provides all of the information needed to select the optimum sensor for any type of application, including engineering,...

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Crown, 2010

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled...

Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are

Oxford University Press, 2007

It is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why are some people so easy-going and laid-back, while others are always looking for a fight?

Written by Daniel Nettle--author of the popular book Happiness--this brief volume takes the reader on an exhilarating tour of...

Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light

Snow Lion Publications, 1992

Secret Tibetan methods for working with dream states.

Knowing the importance and the necessity of the “Practice of the Night” I have explained many aspects of dreams in this book edited by my student Michael Katz. It is my hope that those individuals who already have an interest in dreams or who are actively...

Streptomyces in Nature and Medicine: The Antibiotic Makers

Oxford University Press, 2007

This is an insiders account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs. The book begins by describing how these microbes the actinomycetes were discovered in the latter part of the nineteenth...

Immunopharmacology of Platelets (Handbook of Immunopharmacology)

Academic Press, 1995

Although anucleated, blood platelets are extraordinarily efficient cells and still the subject of fruitful investigations in haematology, in vascular physiology, in biochemistry, and more recently in immunology and in physiopathology where their metabolism has been implicated as a source of potential effector compounds. It...

Case Files Surgery, Second Edition (LANGE Case Files)

McGraw-Hill, 2006

We appreciate all the kind remarks and suggestions from the many medical

students over the past three years. Your positive reception has been an incredible encouragement, especially in light of the short life of the Case Files series. It was rewarding to work together with Andre Campbell, the endowed chair of surgical education at...

Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma: Mycosis Fungoides and Sezary Syndrome (Dermatology: Clinical & Basic Science)

CRC Press, 2004

Mycosis fungoide (MF) cases make up the great majority (80%–85%) of cases of primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). CTCL is a lymphoproliferative disorder of epidermotropic, neoplastic T cells with a wide range of clinical manifestations. A number of other cutaneous disorders may present as different clinical...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Harper Perennial, 2001

The Challenge:
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good...

Food Process Engineering and Technology (Food Science and Technology)

Academic Press, 2008

We begin this book with the theme of the 13th World Congress of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), held in Nantes, France, in September 2006, in recognition of the vital role of food and food processing in our life. The necessity to subject the natural food materials to some kind of treatment...

Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Advertising: User Generated Content Consumption (1 volume)

Information Science Publishing, 2010

When first thinking of putting together a compilation of writings on a particular topic, those that have such a notion believe they will give meaning to a paradigm, influence a research area, or at a minimum shed light exploring a critical phenomenon. Ultimately, the editors and authors hope that the exchange for the reader - in...

Web Design Confidential: Drawing on survey statistics from over 5,400 web designers from around the world, and the insights and experiences of several ... design industry in Web Design Confidential.

Rockable Press, 2012

Let’s get to the nut of the book: web design is not for cowards. It’s a hard field, always changing and demanding more of you. There’s no resting on your laurels, and there’s no cushy job that never changes in web design. It’s all in.

Drawing on survey statistics from over 5,400 web...

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