Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
Control System Design Guide
Using Your Computer to Understand and Diagnose Feedback Controllers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Control System Design Guide, 3E will help engineers to apply control theory to practical systems using their PC. This book provides an intuitive approach to controls, avoiding unnecessary mathematics and emphasizing key concepts with more than a dozen control system models. Whether readers are just...
Digital Signal Processing
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Digital Signal Processing, Second Edition enables electrical engineers and technicians in the fields of biomedical, computer, and electronics engineering to master the essential fundamentals of DSP principles and practice. Many instructive worked examples are used to illustrate the material, and the...
Basic Electric Circuit Theory
A One-Semester Text
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This is the only book on the market that has been conceived and deliberately written as a one-semester text on basic electric circuit theory. As such, this book employs a novel approach to the exposition of the material in which phasors and ac steady-state analysis are introduced at the beginning....
by Martin Plonus
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
A new type of text for non-majors in electrical engineering, this book satisfies the need for all educated persons to comprehend some basics of electronic technology and the Internet. Class-tested with 300 students at Northwestern University, Electronics and Communications for Scientists and Engineers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Emotional design explicitly addresses the emotional relationship between the objects and the subjects of design—in this book, the objects are technologies, and the subjects are technology users. The first section delves into the philosophy and theory of emotional design to provide a foundation for...
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2012
2D and 3D Drawing and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Gindis introduces AutoCAD with step by step instructions, stripping away complexities to begin working in AutoCAD immediately. All concepts are explained first in theory, and then shown in practice, helping the reader understand what it is they are doing and why, before they do it.
Divided...
Energy Positive Neighborhoods and Smart Energy Districts
Methods, Tools, and Experiences from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Energy Positive Neighborhoods and Smart Energy Districts: Methods, Tools, and Experiences from the Field is a comprehensive guide to this highly interdisciplinary topic. Monti et. al’s combined experience make them the most qualified team of editors to explore the processes and tools involved in...
Thermal Solar Desalination
Methods and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Thermal Solar Desalination: Methods and Systems presents numerous thermal seawater desalination technologies varying from the very simple, easy to construct and operate solar stills, to the more advance membrane and indirect distillation methods. All types of solar thermal desalination technologies...
Gasification of Waste Materials
Technologies for Generating Energy, Gas, and Chemicals from Municipal Solid Waste, Biomass, Nonrecycled Plastics, Sludges, and Wet Solid Wastes
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Gasification of Waste Materials: Technologies for Generating Energy, Gas and Chemicals from MSW, Biomass, Non-recycled Plastics, Sludges and Wet Solid Wastes explores the most recent gasification technologies developing worldwide to convert waste solids to energy and synthesis gas and chemical products....
by Ruth Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Second Edition addresses both the physiological and the psychological aspects of human behavior. Carefully crafted, well written, and thoroughly indexed, the encyclopedia helps users - whether they are students just beginning formal study of the broad field or...
Understanding Food Systems
Agriculture, Food Science, and Nutrition in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Understanding Food Systems: Agriculture, Food Science, and Nutrition in the United States explores the complex and evolving system from which the United States gets its food. From farm, to home, and everything in-between, the authors use a scientific perspective that explains the fundamentals of agricultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Risk Management for Food Allergy is developed by a team of scientists and industry professionals who understand the importance of allergen risk assessment and presents practical, real-world guidance for food manufacturers.
With more than 12 million Americans suffering from food allergies and...
Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge
How Distributed Energy Resources are Disrupting the Utility Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Innovation and Disruption at the Grid’s Edge examines the viable developments in peer-to-peer transactions enabled by open platforms on the grid’s edge. With consumers and prosumers using more electronic platforms to trade surplus electricity from rooftop solar panels, share a storage battery,...
Drug-Like Properties
Concepts, Structure Design and Methods from ADME to Toxicity Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Of the thousands of novel compounds that a drug discovery project team invents and that bind to the therapeutic target, only a fraction have sufficient ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination) properties, and acceptable toxicology properties, to become a drug product that will successfully...