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Spars and Rigging
From Nautical Routine, 1849
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Relying on his own experience in the U.S. Navy and consulting his contemporaries in the maritime profession, midshipman John Murphy published this book to provide an accurate portrait of a ship's rigging and spars (masts or yardarms supporting or extending a ship's sail). An important book in maritime...
by C M Sonsino, W Fricke, Dieter Radaj
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2006
Local approaches to fatigue assessment are used to predict the structural durability of welded joints, to optimise their design and to evaluate unforeseen joint failures. This standard work provides a systematic survey of the principles and practical applications of the various methods. It covers...
Globalization and Education
Integration and Contestation across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2000
The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as “globalization” is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural,...
Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East
Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of...
Educating Elites
Class Privilege and Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study...
by Wei Shyy, H. S. Udaykumar, Madhukar M. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This text describes several computational techniques that can be applied to a variety of problems in thermo-fluid physics, multi-phase flow, and applied mechanics involving moving flow boundaries. Step-by-step discussions of numerical procedures include multiple examples that employ algorithms in problem-solving.In...
The DelFly
Design, Aerodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence of a Flapping Wing Robot
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book introduces the topics most relevant to autonomously flying flapping wing robots: flapping-wing design, aerodynamics, and artificial intelligence. Readers can explore these topics in the context of the "Delfly", a flapping wing robot designed at Delft University in The Netherlands.
How...
Power System Dynamics and Stability
With Synchrophasor Measurement and Power System Toolbox
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Classic power system dynamics text now with phasor measurement and simulation toolbox
This new edition addresses the needs of dynamic modeling and simulation relevant to power system planning, design, and operation, including a systematic derivation of synchronous machine dynamic models together...
Modeling of Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Manufacturing Processes
Applications in Metal Forming and Resistance Welding
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Modeling of Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Manufacturing Processes with Applications in Metal Forming and Resistance Welding provides readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental ingredients in plasticity, heat transfer and electricity that are necessary to develop and proper utilize computer...
by Kurt M. Cuffey, W. S. B. Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
The Physics of Glaciers, Fourth Edition, discusses the physical principles that underlie the behavior and characteristics of glaciers. The term glacier refers to all bodies of ice created by the accumulation of snowfall, e.g., mountain glaciers, ice caps, continental ice sheets, and ice shelves. Glaciology—the...
by Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell, Christopher P. Borick
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Now in an extensively revised 9th edition, Introducing Public Administration provides students with the conceptual foundation they need, while introducing them to important trends in the discipline. Known for its lively and witty writing style, this beloved textbook examines the most important issues...
Economic Development Through Regional Trade
A Role for the New East African Community?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.
by Epsten Grinnell Howell, Susan M. Hawks McClintic, Esq.
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
This booklet contains the Commercial and Industrial Common Interest Development Act enacted in the 2013 Legislative Session as part of SB-752. Starting January 1, 2014, this statute will apply to all common interest developments that are limited to industrial or commercial uses by law or by a recorded...
LASIK
A Guide to Laser Vision Correction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
If you'd like to improve your vision and reduce or eliminate your need for glasses or contacts, perhaps you're considering LASIK. This procedure has become one of the most popular vision correction surgeries in the nation with 9 million Americans undergoing LASIK procedures annually.
But,...