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Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients

Chicago Review Press, 2007

This book started in my shower.

The label on my shampoo bottle listed many compounds, and, due to my interest in chemistry, most of them were familiar or had obvious functions. However, one compound stood out as puzzling: sodium chloride.

Why was there salt in my shampoo?

Since I wasn't likely to be eating it, I...

How to Succeed in Commercial Photography: Insights from a Leading Consultant

Allworth Press, 2007

Photographers looking to develop their vision, values, and business plans will find the keys to success in How to Succeed in Commercial Photography. Veteran photography consultant Selina Maitreya provides photographers at every career stage with all the tools they need for a prosperous career and a rewarding life in commercial photography. She...

Grid Enabled Remote Instrumentation (Signals and Communication Technology)

Springer, 2008

Grid architectures, which are viewed as tools for the integration of distributed resources, play a significant role as both managers of computational resources but also as aggregators of measurement instrumentation and pervasive large-scale data acquisition platforms. The functionality of a grid architecture allows managing, maintaining, and...

Hydrodynamics of High-Speed Marine Vehicles

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Hydrodynamics of High-Speed Marine Vehicles discusses hydrodynamic aspects of the three main categories of high-speed marine vehicles, i.e. vessels supported by either the submerged hull, an air cushion or foils. Submerged-hull-supported vessels include planing and semi-displacement vessels. The wave environment, resistance, propulsion,...

Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for Wireless Networks (Premier Reference Source)

Information Science Publishing, 2008

The dramatic growth of the wireless communication industry has resulted in searches for new technologies to provide broader bandwidth per user channel, better quality, and new value-added services. Employing smart antennas presents an elegant and relatively economical way to improve the performance of wireless transmission.

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Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2007

Retaining the comprehensive and in-depth approach that cemented the bestselling first edition's place as a standard reference in the field, the Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Second Edition features new and updated material that keeps it at the vanguard of today's most dynamic and rapidly growing field. Iconic experts Robert...

Handbook of New Technologies for Genetic Improvement of Legumes

CRC Press, 2008

A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection of ideas for plant improvement

Most of the world's supply of legumes is cultivated under adverse conditions that make this commercially important crop susceptible to the vagaries of nature and damaging stresses. Genetic manipulation has become a proven way for cultivators to battle these...

Conducting polymers (Handbook of advanced electronic and photonic materials and devices)

Academic Press, 2001

Since the realization of the first laser 40 years ago, the merging of the fields of quantum electronics and quantum optics has stimulated the development of many new materials and devices. These, in turn, support a flourishing optoelectronics market for optical communications, optical data processing, medical diagnostics, materials processing,...

Web Site Design Is Communication Design (Document Design Companion Series, V. 2)

John Benjamins Publishing, 2001

This title is based on a series of case studies of the website design processes in smaller and larger organizations. It offers a thorough analysis of the activities undertaken, in conbination with practical experiences of website designers and producers. It pays attention to the often complicated organizational context that web deigners and...

Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Fourth Edition

W. H. Freeman, 2004

The fourth edition of Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry stays true to the vision of its predecessors while embracing the advances made in biochemical research since the previous edition. As always, the book presents the fundamentals of biochemistry through selected topics, and emphasizes the most important recent developments and applications...

The Method of Moments in Electromagnetics

CRC Press, 2007

Responding to the need for a clear, up-to-date introduction to the field, The Method of Moments in Electromagnetics explores surface integral equations in electromagnetics and presents their numerical solution using the method of moments (MOM) technique. It provides the numerical implementation aspects at a nuts-and-bolts level...

Software Engineering 3: Domains, Requirements, and Software Design (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) (v. 3)

Springer, 2006

From the reviews:

"The presentation is focused on the fundamental ideas of domain engineering, requirements engineering and computer system engineering. … The rigorous treatment and the author’s original style of viewing the software engineering approaches are important, outstanding features … . is of...

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