John J : 1441 books
Automotive Engineering
Powertrain, Chassis System and Vehicle Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This one-stop Mega Reference eBook brings together the essential professional reference content from leading international contributors in the automotive field.
An expansion the Automotive Engineering print edition, this fully searchable electronic reference book of 2500 pages delivers content...
Creating the Third Force
Indigenous Processes of Peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The profession of peacemaking has been practiced by indigenous communities around the world for many centuries; however, the ethnocentric world view of the West, which dominated the world of ideas for the last five centuries, dismissed indigenous forms of peacemaking as irrelevant and backward tribal...
Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing
with Research and Applications in Thermal Laser Processing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Solid Freeform Fabrication is a set of manufacturing processes that are capable of producing complex freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of an object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. In essence, these methods are miniature manufacturing plants which come complete with...
by Andy Hartnell, Stephen Molnar, John Royle
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: February 12, 2014
La suite inédite de Danger Girl : Revolver !
Elles sont trois : Abbey Chase, Sydney Savage et Sonya Savage, la dernière recrue de Danger Girl ! Du Caire au Congo en passant par Londres, retrouvez les aventures des espionnes les plus sexy de la planète. Cette fois, les filles sont séparées...
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
Whooping Cranes: Biology and Conservation
Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Whooping Cranes: Biology and Conservation covers one of the most endangered birds in North America, and the subject of intense research and highly visible conservation activity. The volume summarizes current biological information on Whooping Cranes and provides the basis for future research necessary...
by John B. Parkinson, Damian J. J. Farnell
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The topic of lattice quantum spin systems is a fascinating and by now well established branch of theoretical physics. Based on a set of lectures, this book has a level of detail missing from others, and guides the reader through the fundamentals of the field.
"No One Avoided Danger"
NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
"No One Avoided Danger" is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of Oahu. Partly because of Kaneohe’s location-15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of that day’s infamous attack on Pearl...
by John H. Gould, F. E. Chadwick, William H. Rideing
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Ocean Steamships - A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances. A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move propellers or paddlewheels.
Living with Florida’s Atlantic Beaches
Coastal Hazards from Amelia Island to Key West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Amelia Island just south of Georgia to Key West's southern tip, beaches are one of Florida's greatest assets. Yet these beaches are in danger: rapid structural development on a highly erodible coast make them vulnerable to some of nature's greatest storms. The same development that has been driven...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
Genetics, breeding and production techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Sorghum is one of the world’s major cereals, cultivated in the semi-arid tropics for a growing range of uses. Like other crops it faces the need to meet rising demand whilst reducing its environmental impact and adapting to the challenges of climate change. This volume summarises the wealth of research...
by Sungbok Hong, John Kalliongis, Darryl McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
This work concerns the diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds, in particular of elliptic 3-manifolds. These are the closed 3-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of constant positive curvature, now known to be exactly the closed 3-manifolds that have a finite fundamental group. The (Generalized)...
by Frederick M Azar, MD, Michael J. Beebee
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This issue of Orthopedics Clinics will be surveying a broad range of topics across sub-specialty areas on Evidence-based Medicine in Orthopedics. Each issue in the series is edited by an experienced team of surgeons from the Campbell Clinic. Articles will discuss the following topics, among others:...
by Frederick M Azar, MD, Michael J. Beebee
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This issue of Orthopedic Clinics will cover a variety of important topics surrounding Outpatient Surgery. Each issue in the series is edited by an experienced team of surgeons from the Campbell Clinic. Articles will discuss the following topics: Outpatient Total Knee Arthroplasty; Total Hip Arthroplasty...