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The Elements of Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory

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Report copyright infringementby H. Glauert (Author)More than half a century has elapsed since the first edition of The Elements of Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory appeared in 1926, a period in which massive advances have been made in the understanding and description of aerodynamic phenomena. Yet Glauert was an acknowledged master of his subject and his book remains the most lucid and best organised introduction to the fundamental principles of aerodynamics that has ever been written. This new p...

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Gunston (Author)The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary is an authoritative and accessible reference useful to scholars and enthusiasts alike. This dictionary is an essential tool for professionals involved in the aerospace industry and flight, and for anyone who must read and understand the technical literature of the aerospace industry and about specific air and space craft. It is also an ideal reference for engineering and physics students encountering a sub...

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Report copyright infringementby C. R. Callandine (Author), C. R. Calladine (Author)Shell structures form key components in a very wide range of engineering enterprise. The theory of shell structures is an old and large subject, with a huge literature. However, this book is not a compilation of results from the past. Instead, it is an attempt to bring the essence of the subject within the grasp of engineers. It tackles the fundamental question of how bending and stretching effects combine and ...

Fundamental Solutions in Elastodynamics: A Compendium

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Report copyright infringementby Eduardo Kausel (Author), E. Kausel (Author)This work is a compilation of fundamental solutions (Green's functions) for classical or canonical problems in elastodynamics presented with a common format and notation. These formulas describe the displacements and stresses elicited by dynamic sources in solid elastic media like full spaces, half-spaces, strata and plates in both two and three dimensions, using the three major coordinate systems, and also for transie...

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Report copyright infringementby William C. Martel (Author)War demands that scholars and policy makers use victory in precise and coherent terms to communicate what the state seeks to achieve in war. The failure historically to define victory in consistent terms has contributed to confused debates when societies consider whether to wage war. This volume explores the development of a theoretical narrative or language of victory to help scholars and policy makers define carefully and precisely w...

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Report copyright infringementby David Ludden (Author)David Ludden provides a comprehensive historical framework for the understanding of regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view, he treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but as a patchwork of agrarian regions, with their own social, cultural and political histories. He traces these histories from medieval times to the present. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in So...

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Report copyright infringementby Robert I. Rotberg (Editor), Theodore K. Rabb (Editor), Rotberg Robert I. (Editor)Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of casualties. Another major war is difficult to conceive of, since it would presumably be the last such conflict, and yet it is not an impossibility. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists an...

Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics

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Report copyright infringementby Ernest Braun (Author), Stuart MacDonald (Author), Stuart MacDonald (Photographer)Semiconductor electronics is the major technology of our age. Its achievement and potential are vast, its application and influence ubiquitous, its social and economic consequences uncertain. Semiconductor electronics has become the vehicle for nearly all technological change and, consequently, the subject of much discussion. This revised and up dated edition is offered as a basic ...

The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Temin (Author), Louis Galambos (With)AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s. This study reveals the internal decision-making process at AT&T and explains how private and public interests combined to shape corporate and public policy in late 20th-century ...

Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton: A Selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library, Cambridge

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Newton (Author), James Ed Hall (Author)First published in 1962, this volume collects together some of Newton's most important scientific papers. Chosen primarily to illustrate Newton's ideas on the nature of matter, the papers afford valuable insights into Newton's development as a scientist and his ideas of the world that science explores. The six sections are entitled: Mathematics, Mechanics, Theory of Matter, Manuscripts related to the Principia, Educa...

The Biotechnology of Malting and Brewing

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Report copyright infringementby James S. Hough (Author)Now available in paperback for the first time, this book gives a clear, concise account of the malting and brewing processes and the science on which they are based. There are chapters about barley and the malting of grain, about water, hops, yeasts and bacteria as well as descriptions of fermentation and post-fermentation processes. The techniques of production of high-quality beers are also described. The whole description is placed wit...

Micromechanisms in Particle-Hardened Alloys

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Report copyright infringementby J. W. Martin (Author), S. J. Martin (Author)This book was first published in 1980. A great number of metallic materials in practical use owe their strength to the presence in their microstructure of particles of a hard precipitated phase. The text emphasises the importance of scientific rather than empirical methods in attempting to develop particle-hardened alloys. The author progresses from an elementary knowledge of metallurgy to theories relating to the def...

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Report copyright infringementby J. S. Turner (Author)The phenomena treated in this book all depend on the action of gravity on small density differences in a non-rotating fluid. The author gives a connected account of the various motions which can be driven or influenced by buoyancy forces in a stratified fluid, including internal waves, turbulent shear flows and buoyant convection. This excellent introduction to a rapidly developing field, first published in 1973, can be used as the basis of...

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Report copyright infringementby Yinke Deng (Author)China has given birth to numerous scientific and technological inventions, and for many centuries led the world in such innovations. Indeed, some of the most important inventions in the history of human civilization originated in China - not least the compass, gunpowder, paper and printing. Ancient Chinese Inventions provides an accessible, illustrated introduction to the many inventions to which China can lay claim, from the aforementioned s...

Plastic Design of Frames 1: Fundamentals

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Report copyright infringementby John Baker (Author), Jacques Heyman (Author)When this volume was first published, plastic theory was the most modern method of structural analysis, and it made possible the direct design of steel frames in a way not available with only elastic methods. It is now recognized that this theory is also fundamental to structural design in materials such as reinforced concrete and aluminium. This is the first volume of a two-volume work by Professors Baker and Heyman ...

Peace and War: Armed Conflicts and International Order 1648-1989

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Report copyright infringementby Kalevi J. Holsti (Author)In this book, Professor Holsti approaches the study of the origins of war and the foundations of peace from a new perspective. He asks three interrelated questions. Which issues generate conflict? How have attitudes toward war changed? And, what attempts have been made historically to create international institutions and orders that can manage, control or prevent international conflicts? Starting with the peace treaties of Munster and ...

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (Author)Originally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of ear...

Distributed Computing: Principles, Algorithms, and Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Ajay D. Kshemkalyani (Author), Mukesh Singhal (Author)Designing distributed computing systems is a complex process requiring a solid understanding of the design problems and the theoretical and practical aspects of their solutions. This comprehensive textbook covers the fundamental principles and models underlying the theory, algorithms and systems aspects of distributed computing. Broad and detailed coverage of the theory is balanced with practical systems-rel...

The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Author)For decades, Japan has been at the cutting edge of much technology, becoming an industrial superpower along the way. However, it is not widely acknowledged that Japan's status as technological leader is the result of historical processes over centuries. This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan. Impressive for its scope and insight, the book also considers the social costs of rapid...

Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History

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Report copyright infringementby Al Hassan (Author), Ahmad Y. Al-Hassan (Author), Donald Hill (Author)Although the contributions of Islamic civilisations to science have long been recognised, the application of this scientific expertise to technology had been neglected until the publication of this then pioneering 1986 text. The book begins to remedy that neglect, first by celebrating the richness and ingenuity of the world of Islamic technology and then by pointing the way forward to its more...

Mechanics of Pre-Industrial Technology: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Ancient and Traditional Material Culture

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Cotterell (Author), Johan Kamminga (Joint Author)This book is the first general account of the mechanics behind pre-industrial technology and combines the skills of an engineer and an archaeologist. Number of Pages: 344 Dimensions: 0.73 x 9.28 x 7.52 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 24, 1992

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Report copyright infringementby Mattieu Bloch (Author)This complete guide to physical-layer security presents the theoretical foundations, practical implementation, challenges and benefits of a groundbreaking new model for secure communication. Using a bottom-up approach from the link level all the way to end-to-end architectures, it provides essential practical tools that enable graduate students, industry professionals and researchers to build more secure systems by exploiting the noise inh...

Computational Electromagnetics for RF and Microwave Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby David B. Davidson (Author)This hands-on introduction to computational electromagnetics (CEM) links theoretical coverage of the three key methods - the FDTD, MoM and FEM - to open source MATLAB codes (freely available online) in 1D, 2D and 3D, together with many practical hints and tips gleaned from the author's 25 years of experience in the field. Updated and extensively revised, this second edition includes a new chapter on 1D FEM analysis, and extended 3D tre...

In Search of the Ultimate Building Blocks

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Report copyright infringementby Gerard 'T Hooft (Author)From 1960 until 1990 theoretical physicists and experimentalists worked together to probe deeper and deeper into the basic structure of matter, moving closer to an understanding of the ultimate building blocks of the universe. Gerard 't Hooft was closely involved in many of the advances in modern theoretical physics that led to improved understanding of elementary particles, and this is a first-hand account of one of the most creative an...

Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450 1850

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Report copyright infringementby Dirk H. a. Kolff (Author), Kolff Dirk H. a. (Author), Faculty of Oriental Studies (Editor)This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labor market for state and sect formation, for social change and for the energetic survival strategies of the village of Hindustan. It traces the history of the British Indian sepoy back to the fifteenth century, firmly rooting him in India's medieval past. It a...

The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933 1940

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Report copyright infringementby Martin S. Alexander (Author), Alexander Martin S. (Author)This is the first full-length reappraisal in English of the role of France's chief of defense forces, General Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). Reviled by many of his contemporaries and by two generations of historians as "the man who lost the Battle of France" in 1940, Gamelin is here presented as a man seeking to provide France with security and armed readiness in the face of the aggression and expansionism...

The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought

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Report copyright infringementby Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (Author), Dobbs Betty Jo Teeter (Author)In this major reevaluation of Isaac Newton's intellectual life, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs shows how his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, and cosmology was intertwined with his study of alchemy. Professor Dobbs argues that to Newton those several intellectual pursuits were all ways of approaching Truth, and that Newton's primary goal was not the study of nature for its own sake but rather an attem...

Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England

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Report copyright infringementby Theodore Steinberg (Author), Steinberg Theodore (Author), Donald Worster (Editor)Nature Incorporated explores the Industrial Revolution in New England from an environmental perspective. The advent of the industrial age brought about significant changes in gender and class relations, and also in work and culture. But it also involved a fundamental change in the way the natural world was handled. Focusing on the legendary Waltham-Lowell style mills, this book exa...

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Burcher (Author), L. J. Rydill (Joint Author)This book shows how the engineering and architectural aspects of submarine design relate to each other, and describes the operational performance required of a vessel. The authors explain concepts of hydrodynamics, structure, powering and dynamics, in addition to architectural considerations that bear on the submarine design process. They pay particular attention to the interplay among these aspects of design, an...

Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine

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Report copyright infringementby Richard L. Hills (Author)This is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in fifty years. It follows the development of reciprocating steam engines, from their earliest forms to the beginning of the twentieth century when they were replaced by steam turbines.Back JacketPower From Steam is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in 50 years. It follows the development of the steam engines from their earliest forms to the beginning of the t...

Sea Loads on Ships and Offshore Structures

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Report copyright infringementby Odd M. Faltinsen (Author)The book introduces the theory of the structural loading on ships and offshore structures caused by wind, waves and currents, and goes on to describe the applications of this theory in terms of real structures. The main topics described are linear-wave induced motions, loads on floating structures, numerical methods for ascertaining wave induced motions and loads, viscous wave loads and damping, stationkeeping and water impact and entry...

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Report copyright infringementby Williamson Murray (Editor), Alvin Bernstein (Editor), MacGregor Knox (Editor)Moving beyond the limited focus of the individual strategic theorist or the great military leader, The Making of Strategy concentrates instead on the processes by which rulers and states have formed strategy. Seventeen case studies--from the fifth century B.C. to the present--analyze through a common framework how strategists have sought to implement a coherent course of action against...