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CAD and Robotics in Architecture and Construction
Proceedings of the Joint International Conference at Marseilles, 25–27 June 1986
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots...
by I.L.G.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
If you thought you knew God then please read this. Guaranteed to move you from your comfort zone into free-fall; or treading water because your toes no longer touch the bottom. Refute it if you can; after all we all want to know, 'What is Truth?'
Explosives
History with a Bang
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The dramatic history of explosives, from the invention of gunpowder to the H-bomb Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people involved, on the diverse uses of explosives, and on their social and historical impact, this entertaining history relates a story of remarkable international and human endeavor....
by Evgeny Denisov, Oleg Sarkisov, G. I. Likhtenshtein
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2003
Comprehensive manual embracing essentially all the classical and modern areas of chemical kinetics. Provides details of modern applications in chemistry, technology and biochemistry.
Special sections of the book treat subjects not covered sufficiently in other manuals, including: modern methods...
Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Human activities impact the environment and modify the cycles of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen from local to global scales. In order to maintain long-term and sustainable use of the world's natural resources it is important that we understand how and why ecosystems respond to such...
by R.L. Carlson, G.A. Kardomateas, J.I. Craig
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
This book focuses on the mechanisms and underlying mechanics of failure in various classes of materials such as metallic, ceramic, polymeric, composite and bio-material. Topics include tensile and compressive fracture, crack initiation and growth, fatigue and creep rupture in metallic materials,...
by Y. N. Grigorenko, V.S. Sobolev, T. A. Andiyeva
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Much of the world’s petroleum is located on continental margins, and any further development of these offshore deposits would be impossible without new technologies and new methods contained in this volume. Written by some of the world’s foremost authorities on oil and gas, this volume explains...
Expats and the Labor Force
The Story of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
An investigation into the labor force in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries primarily focusing on labor migration and remittances. The GCC countries have the highest share of foreign labor in the world. The authors examine the multidimensional aspects of such a large foreign population.
Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa
Beyond Right and Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
*Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West Africa:*Beyond Right and Wrong expands the discourse on indigenous knowledge. With several examples and case histories, the work defines, characterizes, and explains indigenous conflict management strategies in West Africa, particularly in Ghana,...
Comparative Law for SpanishEnglish Speaking Lawyers
Legal Cultures, Legal Terms and Legal Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Comparative Law for SpanishEnglish Speaking Lawyers provides practitioners and students of law, in a variety of English- and Spanish- speaking countries, with the information and skills needed to successfully undertake competent comparative legal research and communicate with local counsel and clients...
The Electrified Mind
Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact. The chapters by distinguished mental health professionals delineate...
A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue
Living Within the Abrahamic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today’s tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue, fifteen authors present their experiences and analyses of interfaith dialogue, and contextualize interfaith...
by G. Zu Rhein, I. Klatzo
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Human greatness has many connotations. Since the requirements for membership in this category are vague and poorly defined, admittance to the Mount Olympus is frequently erratic and subjective, especially in view of a wide "penumbra zone"* of border cases. Nevertheless, rising above a twilight...
My Odyssey
Thoughts of a Wondering Man
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This work is a sample of the authors mindset at different times, at different places and in response to different situations. It is a journey through moments of laughter and sadness, of peace and chaos, of love and of dishonest hate, which though not coherently collected, samples an adequate and interesting exodus that captivates you all way long.