Have you ever wondered how stealth planes achieve "invisibility," how sunken ships are found, or how fishermen track schools of fish in vast expanses of ocean? Radar and sonar echolocation-a simple matter of sending, receiving, and processing signals. Weaving history with simple science, Mark Denny[...]

When a mortifying defeat to his teenage son rekindles his lifelong passion for table tennis, keen philosopher Guido Mina di Sospiro sets out to learn the game properly.Guido's love for spinning a feather-weight ball takes him from his local Ping-Pong club, populated by idiosyncratic players with ext[...]

A comprehensive overview, from fundamental theory and numerical methods to the design of real plasmonic structures for nanoelectronic and sensing applications.[...]

This book describes basic lubrication problems and specific engineering applications. It focuses on the Reynolds equation, illustrating solutions with different conditions and discrete forms, such as dynamic bearing or grease lubrication.[...]

This is the simplified Chinese, 2 volume edition (Vol. 2 of 2) of Jin Ping Mei, the forbidden classical Chinese fiction which is about Sexmen King (Ximen Qing) and his many concubines, authored by Lan-Ling Xiao-Xiao Sheng and edited by YeShell.[...]

Written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, the fifth edition of this best-selling book provides a wide range of new examples along with historical discussions of mathematicians, problems, and conjectures. It features new and expanded coverage of such topics as toughness, gra[...]

"The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism" presents a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of bilingualism, covering language processing, language acquisition, cognition and the bilingual brain.This thorough introduction to the psycholinguistics of bilingualism is accessible to non-specialists[...]

Significant progress has been made on nonlinear control systems in the past two decades. However, many of the existing nonlinear control methods cannot be readily used to cope with communication and networking issues without nontrivial modifications. For example, small quantization errors may cause [...]