In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature--trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts--and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world.
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Modern warfare is an impersonal business over which one has little direct control. But for the sniper it is a deadly one-on-one confrontation in which he may have to wait motionless for days before firing a single shot - a shot that can change the outcome of a single battle or even a war. In Sniper,[...]

All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, the spies watch each other and ready their knives, while Myna sees the troops muster at its border and emotions run high as it vows never to be enslaved again. In Collegium, the students argue politics, too late to turn the tide. In the h[...]

Through an interdisciplinary synthesis combining social theory, social policy and the empirical findings of social science research, this title bridges the gap between theory and practice, offering an incisive theoretical account of childhood that is grounded in substantive areas of children's lives[...]

Suitable for those teaching and training to teach primary science, this book focuses on the essential science knowledge required for trainee primary school teachers, as well as some of the best ways to teach it.[...]

Making Population Geography is a lively account of the intellectual history of population geography, arguing that, while population geography may drift in and out of fashion, it must continue to supplement its demographic approach with a renewed emphasis on cultural and political accounts of compell[...]

For fans who have been been waiting to devour Darker After Midnight, as well as new readers tempted by the seductive thrills of her Midnight Breed novels, New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian offers up a tantalizing appetizer in A Taste of Midnight. In this spellbinding eBook novella of oth[...]

"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
In this pulse-pounding and thrillingly sensual novel, Lara Adrian returns to the mesmerizing world of the Midnight Breed, following new characters into a dark future where an uneasy peace can unravel into war--and a great betrayal can mask an all-consuming love.
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With the acclaimed Midnight Breed series, "New York Times" bestselling author Lara Adrian has written thrilling novels of electrifying romance and heart-pounding suspense page-turners in which humans and vampires live tenuously side by side. In "Crave the Night, " Adrian brings the Breed and its wor[...]

An innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary minds
"The New World" is the story of a marriage. Dr. Jane Cotton is a pediatric surgeon; her husband, Jim, is a humanist chaplain. They are about to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary [...]

"Rare Earth Minerals" presents a current overview of this geologically and industrially important group of minerals. It presents a wide variety of formats, crystal structures, petrographic descriptions, analytical data and numerous illustrations from outcrop photos to SEM pictures and crystallograph[...]

Ingres Then, and Now is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.[...]

Why is money more "taboo" than sex or death? Does money make us happy? This fascinating book examines such compelling subjects as money and power, possessions and self-image, and why some people gain more pleasure from giving away money than from retaining it. This book will be of interest to psycho[...]