Understanding materials, their properties and behavior is fundamental to engineering design, and a key application of materials science. Written for all students of engineering, materials science and design, this book describes the procedures for material selection in mechanical design in order to e[...]

Develops a detailed understanding of the fundamental properties of engineering materials, how they are controlled by processing, formed, joined and finished, and how all of these factors influence the selection and design of materials in real-world engineering applications.[...]

Covers the subjects that a beginning EE needs to know: intuitive circuit and signal analysis, physical equivalents of electrical components, proper use of an oscilloscope, and troubleshooting digital and analog circuits. This work contains a reference library of electronics information, with demo si[...]

A CD that contains PDF versions of the titles including: "Electrical Engineering 101" (Ashby), "Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers" (Wilmshurst); "Starting Electronics Construction" (Brindley); "Electronics Made Simple 2e (Sinclair)"; and, "Robotics, Mechatronics, and Artificial In[...]

Amy Peterson is a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother's past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive. N[...]

This book provides fundamental and practical information on all aspects of GaAs processing. The book also gives pragmatic advice on cleaning and passivation, wet and dry etching and photolithography, and dry etching.[...]

This accessible textbook provides a clear and practical introduction to phonetics, the study of speech. Assuming no prior knowledge of the topic, it introduces students to the fundamental concepts in phonetic science, and equips them with the essential skills needed for recognizing, describing and t[...]

Never Highlight a Book Again! Just the FACTS101 study guides give the student the textbook outlines, highlights, practice quizzes and optional access to the full practice tests for their textbook.[...]

Practical techniques for applying neuroscience and behavior research to attract new customers."Brainfluence" explains how to practically apply neuroscience and behavior technology and behavior research to better market to consumers by understanding their decision patterns. This application, called n[...]

Casting fresh light on New Hollywood - one of American cinema's most fertile eras - Authoring Hal Ashby is the first sustained argument that, rather than a period dominated by genius auteurs, New Hollywood was an era of intense collaboration producing films of multiple-authorship. Centering its disc[...]

Covering his entire career, these interviews offer an unrivalled insight into the mind and works of Hal Ashby, one of Hollywood's greatest lost talents. Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered by many to he lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of Robe[...]

The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individual[...]