This book covers energy conservation and new technologies needed within the materials field for today's climate of high energy costs and environmental consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Also included in this book are papers from the second symposium on carbon dioxide reduction metallurgy. Th[...]

"Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Pathology, 2nd Edition", by Paolo Gattuso, MD, Vijaya B. Reddy, MD, Odile David, MD, and Daniel J. Spitz, MD, is skillfully designed to help you confidently sign out your most complex and challenging cases. Covering a complete range of tumors and tumor-like condit[...]

Essentials of Offshore Structures: Framed and Gravity Platforms examines the engineering ideas and offshore drilling platforms for exploration and production. This book offers a clear and acceptable demonstration of both the theory and application of the relevant procedures of structural, fluid, and[...]

An essential handbook for engineers and designers, this second edition considers all of the latest technologies, from materials to computers, that exert a profound effect on the design and operation of buildings. It includes chapters on economic analysis and optimization, new heating and cooling loa[...]

Research on the problem of clustering tends to be fragmented across the pattern recognition, database, data mining, and machine learning communities. Addressing this problem in a unified way, Data Clustering: Algorithms and Applications provides complete coverage of the entire area of clustering, fr[...]

Though Charles Portis is best known for his fiction writing, he is also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Collected here in "Escape Velocity," edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" -- journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play "Delray's New Moon," published [...]

A first source for traditional methods of microbiology as well as commonly used modern molecular microbiological methods.Provides a comprehensive compendium of methods used in general and molecular microbiology. Contains many new and expanded chapters, including a section on the newly important fiel[...]