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This book addresses the most important aspects of solid state physics, reviewing basic properties, related experimental techniques, and summarizing research over six decades.

Once again comprehensive and authoritative, this second edition puts spacecraft propulsion systems in perspective, from earth orbit launchers to astronomical/space exploration vehicles. It includes new material on fusion propulsion, new figures and updates.

This book analyzes the latest research on ice cover variability in the Arctic seas during the 20th and early 21st centuries. It includes a discussion of the Arctic climate system and the impact of climate change from internal and external factors.

This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. This second edition has been extensively updated in light of what has newly been discovered by the Cassini probe.

This book develops the theory of the null-field method (also called T-matrix method), covering almost all aspects and current applications. Worked examples of the application of the FORTRAN programs show readers how to adapt or modify the programs for their specific application.

Gives the first a coherent and comprehensive account of how meteorites may have brought the seeds of life to Earth. Embedds specific results within a broader framework that considers the creation and evolution of the Early Earth.

Lifetime spectroscopy is one of the most sensitive diagnostic tools for the identification and analysis of impurities in semiconductors. This book introduces a transparent modeling procedure that allows a detailed theoretical evaluation of the spectroscopic potential of the different lifetime spectroscopic techniques.

This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The text is up-to-date, solid and avoids jargon. This is an established book, already in its 4th edition.

This book discusses the beginnings of the process of galaxy formation from cosmological observations and calculations. It also considers the broad features of galaxies that we need to explain and what we know of their later history.

Recognising the possibilities and grasping the emerging potential is an important challenge for todays management, if the organisations and systems are to develop over the next twenty years. Business in the Information Age offers models and techniques for transforming company structures to help face this challenge.

Traces of the action of mechanical and chemical boring, scraping or crushing organisms on hard substrates appear in fossil carbonates as old as the Precambrian, providing valuable palaeoenvironmental indicators.

This second edition is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded version of a classic text, with lots of new material on electronic signal creation, amplification and shaping.

This work aims to familiarize the reader with the planning and scheduling issues of flexible assembly systems and various operations research modelling and solution approaches.

This introduction to the principles of unsteady aerodynamics covers all the core concepts, provides readers with a review of the fundamental physics, terminology and basic equations, and covers hot new topics such as the use of flapping wings for propulsion.

This book discusses the electromagnetic field theory and its mathematical methods. Maxwell's equations are presented and explained. It also provides a discussion of electrostatics, flux, magnetostatics, quasi stationary fields and electromagnetic fields.

Tidal power has enormous potential. This book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing and updates a prior publication by the author.

This volume aims to demonstrate the significance of landforming processes from geological, geochemical and dynamic points of view. Evidence is provided for climatic influences on sandstone landforms, taking into account geochemical weathering processes and comparative studies.

This volume deals with the interaction between flowing waters in rivers and their environment. Based on the representation of basic flow parameters, the geometry, classification and historic development of rivers are treated.

This book presents the physics of piezoleletric sensors in a straight-forward and easy-to-grasp way, from the fundamentals of phenomenological crystal physics through more complex concepts, to its explanation of several important piezoelectric materials.

This management book documents the remarkable transformation of DSM, first from a coal mining company to a commodity chemicals producer and then in the last two decades to the life sciences & materials sciences company it is today, with its strong focus on biotechnology.

Mit provozierenden Thesen und ironischer Distanz seziert der Autor die menschliche Seele und bohrt in den Wunden, die wir ihr zuf gen. Unterdr ckung der Lebhaften, Dressur der Braven, Scheuen und Friedfertigen - kann das der Sinn des Lebens sein?