Ideal for non-Mac programmers, this introductory guide shows developers how to create applications for the world's most popular smart phone. You will learn how to use a modified version of the Mac development environment, the Objective-C programming...

Nowadays, Web applications are almost omnipresent. The Web has become a platform not only for information delivery, but also for eCommerce systems, social networks, mobile services, and distributed learning environments. Engineering Web applications involves many intrinsic challenges due to their distributed nature, content orientation, and the...

This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time....

Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic and technological change, Brian McNair examines the main...

This book entitled “Random Vibration in Spacecraft Structures Design: Theory and Applications” is based on the lecture notes “Spacecraft structures” and “Special topics about vibration in spacecraft structures”. The author is lecturer to the graduate students at the Delft University of Technology, faculty of...

During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late nineteenth and early...

The human genome is a well known symbol of scientific and technological progress in the 21st century. However, concerns about the exacerbation of inequalities between the rich and the poor, the developing and the developed states, the healthy and the unhealthy are causing problems for the progress of scientific research. The international...