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Report copyright infringementby Joseph A. Defeo (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A practical, concise guide to improving business performance by properly applying quality management methods"Dr. Juran's wisdom on quality and management is timeless. The tenets of modern quality that were forged by Dr. Juran in the second half of the 2...

Lean Retail and Wholesale: Use Lean to Survive (and Thrive!) in the New Global Economy with Its Higher Operating Expenses, Increase Competition, and D

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Myerson (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Best practices for implementing Lean techniques in retail and wholesale"Lean Retail & Wholesale is a highly insightful and succinct guide to lean application and a valuable resource for any retailer or wholesaler seeking a competitive edge." --APICS Ma...

Transparency for Sustainability in the Food Chain: Challenges and Research Needs Effost Critical Reviews

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Report copyright infringementby G. Schiefer (Author), Gerhard Schiefer (Author), Jivka Deiters (Author)Transparency for Sustainability in the Food Chain lays out the key issues and challenges in food safety, food quality, chain integrity, the link with consumers, and the technological base of tracking and tracing systems. This succinct volume brings readers up to speed on the state of the art in these areas, and the research trends in specific domains. Transparency in the food sector, especia...

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Report copyright infringementby Tariq Siddiqui (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Complete coverage of aircraft design, manufacturing, and maintenanceAircraft Materials and Analysis addresses aircraft design, mechanical and structural factors in aviation, flight loads, structural integrity, stresses, properties of materials, compressi...

Practical Blacksmithing and Metalworking

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Report copyright infringementby Percy W. Blandford (Author) Number of Pages: 370 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 27, 1988

3D Printing with Autodesk 123d, Tinkercad, and Makerbot

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Report copyright infringementby Lydia Sloan Cline (Author)Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Master the art of 3D printing with step-by-step tutorials and DIY projectsAre you ready to join the new industrial revolution? 3D Printing with Autodesk 123D, Tinkercad, and MakerBot reveals how to turn your ideas into physical products that you can u...

Product Development: A Structured Approach to Consumer Product Development, Design, and Manufacture

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Report copyright infringementby Anil Mital (Author), Anoop Desai (Author), Anand Subramanian (Author)Product development teams are composed of an integrated group of professionals working from the nascent stage of new product planning through design creation and design review and then on to manufacturing planning and cost accounting. An increasingly large number of graduate and professional training programs are aimed at meeting that need by creating a better understanding of how to integrate...

Analog Circuit Design Volume Three: Design Note Collection

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Report copyright infringementby Bob Dobkin (Author), John Hamburger (Author)Design Note Collection, the third book in the Analog Circuit Design series, is a comprehensive volume of applied circuit design solutions, providing elegant and practical design techniques. Design Notes in this volume are focused circuit explanations, easily applied in your own designs. This book includes an extensive power management section, covering switching regulator design, linear regulator design, microproces...

Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

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Report copyright infringementby David Kilcullen (Author)When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan. But the face of global conflict is ever-changing. In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on current and future conflict, offers a groundbreaking look at what may happen after today's wars end. This is a book about future conflicts and future cities, and...

Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

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Report copyright infringementby J. E. Smyth (Author)Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the...

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Report copyright infringementby M. J. Baines (Editor), K. W. Morton (Editor)This volume brings together leading mathematicians and engineers to review recent advances in mathematical and computational fluid techniques for modelling fluid flows. Four key topics are treated in detail: implicit methods in CFD, mesh generation and error analysis, numerical boundary conditions, and multigrid and alternative methods for hyperbolic systems. This up-to-date survey will appeal to students and research...

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Report copyright infringementby R. A. Young (Editor)A powerful and relatively new method for extracting detailed crystal structural information from X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data, the Rietveld method attracts a great deal of interest from researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, and crystallography. Now available in paperback, this book comprises chapters from international researchers on all aspects of this important technique. It will be of great interest to all res...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert D. Guenther (Author)This textbook reduces the complexity of the coverage of optics to allow a student with only elementary calculus to learn the principles of optics and the modern Fourier theory of diffraction and imaging. Students majoring in sciences or engineering and taking a standard physics course on optics will find this text useful. Examples of a variety of applications dependent on optics allow the student to connect this course to their partic...

Military Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

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Report copyright infringementby George Lucas (Author)What significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations, along with "just war theory," international relations, and international law. The ethical foundations that define the "Profession of Arms" have developed over millennia f...

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Report copyright infringementby Luciano Floridi (Author)We live in a society that is awash with information, but few of us really understand what information is. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the world's leading authorities on the philosophy of information and on information ethics, Luciano Floridi, offers an illuminating exploration of information as it relates to both philosophy and science. He discusses the roots of the concept of information in mathematics and science, and consi...

Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog: Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Collins (Author)Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but also transform astronomy. Although no gravitational wave has ever been directly detected, the previous five years have been an especially exciting period in the field. Here sociologist Harry Colli...

City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago

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Report copyright infringementby Carl Smith (Author)A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks...

The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Otter (Author)During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive rese...

Complex Deterrence: Strategy in the Global Age

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Report copyright infringementby T. V. Paul (Editor), Patrick M. Morgan (Editor), James J. Wirtz (Editor)As the costs of a preemptive foreign policy in Iraq have become clear, strategies such as containment and deterrence have been gaining currency among policy makers. This comprehensive book offers an agenda for the contemporary practice of deterrence--especially as it applies to nuclear weapons--in an increasingly heterogeneous global and political setting. Moving beyond the precepts of trad...

Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism

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Report copyright infringementby Barak Mendelsohn (Author)Although terrorism is an age-old phenomenon, jihadi ideology is distinctive in its ambition to abandon the principle of state sovereignty, overthrow the modern state system, and replace it with an extremely radical interpretation of an Islamic world order. These characteristics reflect a radical break from traditional objectives promoted by terrorist groups. In Combating Jihadism Barak Mendelsohn argues that the distinctiveness of the a...

Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Schulten (Author)In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and themat...

The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods

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Report copyright infringementby Sun Zi (Author), Victor Mair (Translator)Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations, and while numerous editions of the work exist, Victor Mair'...

Note-By-Note Cooking: The Future of Food

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Report copyright infringementby Hervé This (Author), Malcolm Debevoise (Translator)Note-by-Note Cooking is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constraints of traditional ingredients and methods through the use of pure molecular compounds. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell of citrus; sotolon, whose fragrance at high concentrations resembles curry and at low concentrations, maple syrup or ...

Instrumental Realism: The Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Don Ihde (Author)In this volume, Don Ihde argues that scientific instrumentation is the link between philosophy of science and philosophy of technology and shows that the interconnections between the two involve scientific instrumentation as an "interface." Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.52 x 9.28 x 6.17 IN Publication Date: May 01, 1991

The Radiance of France, New Edition: Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II

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Report copyright infringementby Gabrielle Hecht (Author), Michel Callon (Foreword by)How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. The Radi...

Hellions of the Deep: The Development of American Torpedoes in World War II

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Gannon (Author)Ultimately, World War II was the first war won by technology, but within only a few weeks after the war began, the U.S. Navy realized its torpedo program was a dismal failure. Submarine skippers reported that most of their torpedoes were either missing the targets or failing to explode if they did hit. The United States had to work fast if it expected to compete with the Japanese Long Lance, the biggest and fastest torpedo in the world, an...

The Navy in the Post-Cold War World: The Uses and Value of Strategic Sea Power

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Report copyright infringementby Colin S. Gray (Author)The Navy in the Post-Cold War World is the first book to invite the reader to think strategically--that is, in means-ends terms--about the navy in the new post-Soviet era. It provides a unique synthesis of strategic theory, defense analysis, and history. Colin Gray first explains how sea power "works"; explores the strategic relationship among sea, land, and air power, with particular attention to the course of a conflict viewed as a whole...

New Pioneers: The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Carl Jacob (Author)"[P]ractically everyone I know is nursing fantasies about escaping the life they're trapped in and creating one that makes more sense," writes the editor of Utne Reader in a recent issue. "The people I most admire, though, are those who actually do it--who break free and pursue a higher calling no matter how great the risk." New Pioneers is about one such group of people--the hundreds of thousands of urban North Americans who over the...

The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s

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Report copyright infringementby Mildred Beik (Author)In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectivel...

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Report copyright infringementby Ningguo Shen (Author), Bin Yu (Author), Mingxiang Huang (Author)Campus Network Architectures and Technologies begins by describing the service challenges facing campus networks, and then details the intent-driven campus network architectures and technologies of Huawei Cloud Campus Solution. After reading this book, you will have a comprehensive understanding of next-generation campus network solutions, technical implementations, planning, design, and other know...

Genetic Glass Ceilings: Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Gressel (Author)As the world's population rises to an expected ten billion in the next few generations, the challenges of feeding humanity and maintaining an ecological balance will dramatically increase. Today we rely on just four crops for 80 percent of all consumed calories: wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans. Indeed, reliance on these four crops may also mean we are one global plant disease outbreak away from major famine.In this revolutionary and con...

Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm: Principles and Applications in Research Practices

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Report copyright infringementby Devra I. Jarvis (Author), Toby Hodgkin (Author), Anthony H. D. Brown (Author)Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding, genAuthor BiographyDevra Jarvis is principal scientist, Bioversity International. Toby Hodgkin is coordinator, Platform for Agrobiodiver...