Bringing together scattered information on the fundamental concepts and technological applications for the manufacture of wood and natural fiber composites, this title provides an overview of this rapidly evolving field in a way that is accessible for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and [...]

Get in the game of developing successful apps for the iPad Designing for the iPad presents unique challenges for developers and requires an entirely different mindset of elements to consider when creating apps.[...]

Witty, ironic, and thought-provoking, the experimental style of Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) forever changed the landscape of modern verse. This first-rate collection includes 82 brilliant works by the 1955 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, including such oft-studied compositions as "Sunday Mo[...]

The reissue of Rosemary Stevens's groundbreaking book on the growth of medical specialties offers a new opportunity to consider the state of the American health care system. Updated with an extensive new introduction and a new bibliography, Stevens's book chronicles the development of the medical pr[...]

Edward Ragg's 2010 study was the first to examine the role of abstraction throughout the work of Wallace Stevens. By tracing the poet's interest in abstraction from Harmonium through to his later works, Ragg argues that Stevens only fully appreciated and refined this interest within his later career[...]

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Romanticism offers guidance through the diversity of uses and meanings of the word 'romantic', not in terms of fixed definitions or essential qualifying characteristics, but rather in giving a helpful framework for questions and explo[...]