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The Southern Sky Guide

Cambridge University Press, 2008

."..better than any of the other guides presently available. recommended for all libraries." J.O. Christensen, Choice

"...an ideal book to accompany anyone who undertakes the scanning of the southern skies, with or without binoculars or a small telescope." Science Books & Films

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Disasters at Sea (Disasters Up Close)

Lerner Publications, 2007

For thousands of years, the perils of the sea have claimed uncountable numbers of victims. Bad weather, rocks and icebergs, equipment failures, human error, and many more types of tragedies have all sent ships to watery graves. While modern technology has made sea-going vessels safer and rescues easier, there still are terrible disasters that...

The Everyday Language of White Racism (Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill explores the myth that White racism is fading in the western world. Instead she reveals it to be a pervasive and highly adaptive cultural system, one that has endured in various forms for hundreds of years. Hill’s incisive analysis of everyday talk and text shows how language...

Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows

Oxford University Press, 2008

If a spinning disk casts a round shadow does this shadow also spin? When you experience the total blackness of a cave, are you seeing in the dark? Or are you merely failing to see anything (just like your blind companion)?

Seeing Dark Things uses visual riddles to explore our ability to see shadows, silhouettes, and black birds--plus...

Architecting Dependable Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Springer, 2003

As software systems become more and more ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more critical. Given that solutions to these issues must be planned at the beginning of the design process, it is appropriate that these issues be addressed at the architectural level. This book is inspired by the ICSE 2002 Workshop on Architecting...

Electric Power Distribution Handbook (Electric Power Engineering Series)

CRC Press, 2003

Generation, transmission, distribution. Of the "big three" components of the electricity infrastructure, distribution typically gets the least attention. Yet, its impact on reliability, quality of service, and society often make distribution the most critical element. Today, deregulation and the emergence of distributed power generation...

Forensic Cremation Recovery and Analysis

CRC Press, 2007

Immediately apparent is the author’s vast experience in processing fire scenes and analyzing cremains. … a well-written text that is a valuable resource to forensic anthropology students and fire scene responders alike.
—J.C. Love, Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office, Houston, Texas,...

Solar Radiation and Daylight Models, Second Edition: For the Energy Efficient Design of Buildings

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004

A practical guide to the modelling and application of solar energy data

The cost of operating a building far exceeds the cost of constructing it, and yet until recently little attention was paid to the impact of solar radiation on the costs of heating, cooling and ventilation. And now that there has been a surge in interest...

Nano and Microstructural Design of Advanced Materials

Elsevier Limited, 2003

Reading this book is very much like attending a conference in the field of inorganic advanced materials, faithful to the sources of the papers which it contains.
David A. Schiraldi
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland Ohio

* Authoritative and up-to-date articles from...

Hitting the Wall: A Vision of a Secure Energy Future (Synthesis Lectures on Energy and the Environment: Technology, Science, and Society)

Morgan and Claypool Publishers, 2008

Hitting the Wall examines the combination of two intractable energy problems of our age: the peaking of global oil production and the overloading of the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Both emerge from the overconsumption of fossil fuels and solving one problem helps solve the other. The misinformation campaign about climate change is discussed...

Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

The book issued by two professors at MIT is intended to initiate a new approach in presenting and developing analog and digital electronics. Traditionally, analog and digital elements and circuits are given in separate courses. Here, the authors want to show that in presenting both topics (analog and digital), a deeper insight of the real...

The Design Analysis Handbook: A Practical Guide to Design Validation

Newnes, 1998

If you need to create reliable, cost-effective, optimized designs, The Design Analysis Handbook provides a practical framework for integrating quality into the design process from start to finish. The methodology used is called Worst Case Analysis Plus (WCA+), a design-validation tool that demands thoroughness and analytical thinking by the user....

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