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Turbopumps and Pumping Systems

Springer, 2007

This book covers most of the subjects that are requested by engineers, those who are directly involved in design and manufacturing the pumps to those who operate the pumps in industrial units. The authors have worked for many years teaching the subject, conducting research, and implementing pump and pump station designs in different academic...

Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880

Oxford University Press, 2009

Credit's centrality to the current economic crisis makes the publication of Sean O'Connell's social history of working-class credit consumption particularly timely. Although the credit crunch came too late to be included in this book, the portrait of a complex relationship between lenders and borrowers over the past 120 years should be required...

Information Resources in Toxicology, Fourth Edition

Academic Press, 2009

This latest version of Information Resources in Toxicology (IRT) continues a tradition established in 1982 with the publication of the first edition in presenting an extensive itemization, review, and commentary on the information infrastructure of the field. This book is a unique wide-ranging, international, annotated bibliography and compendium...

Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business Results

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Performance Management presents an end-to-end practical model of effective performance management that shows how to develop and implement performance management systems that drive results. It goes beyond prescribing typical best practices – instead focusing on what it really takes to implement performance management effectively....

An Introduction to Catholicism (Introduction to Religion)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe, and how do they put their beliefs into practice in worship, the family, and society? This down-to-earth account goes back to the early...

Software Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (Premier Refence Source)

Information Science Publishing, 2009

Numerous technological advancements have overwhelmingly redesigned and improved countless aspects of computer software applications, creating tools and functions that greatly benefit its users.

Software Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications contains an impressive collection of over 300 authoritative...

Database Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Information Science Publishing, 2009

The expanding possibilities and promising current and future potential that lies within the advancing field of database technologies encompasses many aspects of life as its beneficial features and innovative functions are seen impacting society at countless diverse angles.

Database Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and...

Industrial Mathematics: A Course in Solving Real-World Problems

SIAM, 1987

'This is REAL. It has a different spirit. It gives students the distinct feeling that they could go into industry and actually work on problems like those in this book. The standard teaching of 'here is the mathematics, use it to solve this problem' has been replaced with 'here is a problem, use mathematics to solve it.' This book refreshes the...

Encyclopedia of Cybercrime

Greenwood Press, 2008

The first comprehensive encyclopedia to examine all aspects of the mysterious world of cybercrime

There are today no more compelling sets of crime and security threats facing nations, communities, organizations, groups, families and individuals than those encompassed by cybercrime. For over fifty years crime enabled by computing and...

Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics (The Frontiers Collection)

Springer, 2009

"Scientists other than quantum physicists often fail to comprehend the enormity of the conceptual change wrought by quantum theory in our basic conception of the nature of matter," writes Henry Stapp. Stapp is a leading quantum physicist who has given particularly careful thought to the implications of the theory that lies at the heart...

Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume II: Design, Fabrication and Testing, Sources and Detectors, Radiometry and Photometry

McGraw-Hill, 2009

The most comprehensive and up-to-date optics resource available

Prepared under the auspices of the Optical Society of America, the five carefully architected and cross-referenced volumes of the Handbook of Optics, Third Edition, contain everything a student, scientist, or engineer requires to actively work in...

Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity (Modernity and Society)

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

This comprehensive volume ranges across the entire spectrum of contemporary sociological inquiry, as seen by Durkheim. It also includes secondary readings by social thinkers of today, connecting the classic writings of Durkheim to contemporary issues.

Organizes Durkheim's writings thematically, in a comprehensive collection...

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