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The book is designed for students taking introductory and intermediate thermodynamics within degree and HND courses in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and process engineering. The text provides a progressive development of ideas together with progress questions placed at regular intervals throughout the material.

In response to the increasing interest in developing photonic switching fabrics, this book gives an overview of the many technologies from a systems designer's perspective. Optically transparent devices, optical logic devices, and optical hardware are all discussed in detail and set into a systems context. Comprehensive, up-to-date, and profusely illustrated, the work will provide a foundation for the field, especially as broadband services ...

The purpose of this book is to serve as a guide to understanding the Latino family in the United States and to describe the personal, political, historical, and sacred choices available in creating a freer and more fruitful family life. By linking theory to practice, the book provides a reenvisioning of the Latino family. Before any family can look at itself in a new way, it has to have a theoretical perspective. The book's theory of transform...

In this work, scholars explore new directions in communication research in the light of social, economic and technological changes in recent years. An interdisciplinary study, it examines basic concerns such as how public agendas are formed and how shifting groups interpret messages differently.

Beyond A Dream Deferred is a multidisciplinary work that consolidates progressive perspectives on multicultural education, establishing it as a crucial sphere in a society charged with reimagining its national identity in all its diversity.

Here is a comprehensive overview of the geophysical, technological, and social aspects of natural disasters. This book systematically reviews the agents of natural catastrophes - earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, drought, hurricanes, erosion, fires, etc. - in terms of their geophysical processes and effects. The human impact and response is examined from various perspectives, including damage and the urban environment, the logistics of planning ...

This socio-historical analysis, from a neo-Weberian perspective, deals with issues of interest to sociologists, political theorists, and historians. The book looks at the role of the middle class, its cultural links with democracy and the part it played in industrialisation and capitalism.

Recognizing the impact of cultural diversity in society, this book seeks to broaden health professionals' awareness of clients' needs and to promote the requisite empathy. The authors describe how ethnic, racial and gender issues affect psychotherapy's progress and outcomes.

Reference survey that analyzes the work of 100 leading criminal justice organizations in the United States.

Reference materials on European painting of the seventeenth century are generally restricted to a roster of a few dozen great masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Velazquez, but this Golden Age produced hundreds of prodigiously talented painters. Almost 300--mainly Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and Spanish--are here given biographical coverage based on an extensive bibliography of contemporaneous, later, and recent scholarship. Attent...

For 35 years, the critical and creative writings of Robert E. Butts have been a notable and welcome part of European and North American philosophy. A few years ago, James Robert Brown and Jiirgen Mittelstrass feted Professor Butts with a volume entitled An Intimate Relation (Boston Studies vol. 116, 1989), essays by twenty-six philosophers and historians of the sciences. And that joining of philosophers and historians was impressive evidence o...

This work deals with the background of Machiavellism in 16th-century Europe. The focal point is Niccolo Machiavelli's reputed modernistic "Machiavellism" and "statism" in relation to that of Jean Bodin, Henry VIII and Giovann Botero. Historiographical aspects are addressed.

Takes the position that a pro-active marketing strategy can protect a business from the adverse impact of market turbulence. This work makes the case that the firm must revise its orientation towards the market, and then develop a strategy which the author calls "value marketing".

The aim of this book is to provide an account of the state of the art in Com­ putational Kinematics. We understand here under this term , that branch of kinematics research involving intensive computations not only of the numer­ ical type, but also of a symbolic nature. Research in kinematics over the last decade has been remarkably ori­ ented towards the computational aspects of kinematics problems. In fact, this work has been prompted by the...

We are all in the dumpsFor diamonds are thumps The kittens are gone to St. Paul's!The baby is bitThe moon's in a fitAnd the houses are built Without wallsJack and GuyWent out in the RyeAnd they found a little boyWith one black eyeCome says Jack let's knock Him on the headNo says GuyLet's buy him some breadYou buy one loafAnd I'll buy twoAnd we'll bring him up As other folk doTwo traditional rhymes from Mother Goose, ingeniously joined and inte...

Examines the importance of logistics, through Desert Storm experiences, to the success of an overall U.S. strategy and military deployment in a crisis situation.

Christmas is Treva's favorite time of year, especially the preparations -- finding the perfect tree, decorating the house, and making presents for her family. But this year is different. Small things are disappearing, then some of the presents themselves. Treva is mystified, until early one morning she sees a small creature scurrying across the snow, carrying the Christmas pudding. Treva races after it into the forest where her adventures are ...

The use of tritium as a basic fuel material in a thermonuclear fusion reactor raises particular safety issues due to the combined effects of its physico­ chemical properties and radioactive nature. Furthermore the possibility of attaining further significant progresses in developing and demonstrating the feasibility of tritium burning devices relies on the handling of tritium macroquantities, say ten grammes, in a safe and reliable manner. It ...

A macroeconomic disequilibrium model is developed for theFederal Republic of Germany. Starting with a microeconomicmodel of firm's behaviour, the optimal dynamic adjustment ofemployment and investment is derived. The model of the firmis complemented by an explicite aggregation procedure whichallows to derive macroeconomic relations. The model isestimated with macroeconomic data for the Federal Republicof Germany.An important feature is the con...

This book has been written while the author was a member of the long-term research program "Internationalization of the Economy" (Sonderforschungsbereich 178) at the University of Konstanz. Its subject, the harmonization of commodity taxes in the European Community's internal market, has been intensely - and controversially - debated among both economists and legal scholars. The interdisciplinary contacts in the research program have contribut...