With traditional growth engines failing, the world is looking to Asia for economic salvation. This book charts the rise of China, India and ASEAN nations, who are increasingly being seen as the new growth drivers for the world, and discusses the imminence of a new global economic order.[...]

Do you need a guide to releasing the mind's full energies...a handbook for the soul? Must you trip over your own feet all too often and find yourself not 'with it'? Some move through their day with ease; others too often stumble or knot themselves up. Yet we're more than the limited beings we see ou[...]

The American Government invested millions in Helmand, Afghanistan in the 1950s and 1960s to transform the barren desert into a veritable oasis. It became the largest international development effort after the Marshall Plan. 'Little America' was the name for this specific region, first used in the 19[...]

As semiconductor and electronic device sizes shrink to the nanoscale, contamination from ever smaller particles become critical to high yield and high performance. This contamination can take the form of dust, tiny particles of abrasive material left behind by polishing processes, airborne pollution[...]

Provides an advanced survey and guidance for scientists and engineers engaged in surface cleaning or handling the consequences of surface contamination. This title covers important fundamental aspects of surface contamination that are key to understanding the behavior of specific types of contaminan[...]

Offers information on optical networking technologies and techniques. This book covers componentry and transmission in detail but also emphasizes the practical networking issues that affect organizations as they evaluate, deploy, or develop optical solutions.[...]

Bioremediation is a soft bioengineering technique to clean up contaminated lands and soils using microbes, plants and earthworms. It is also a technique to stabilise the eroded lands and prevent soil erosion. Microbes are adapted to thrive in 'adverse conditions' of high acidity, alkalinity, toxicit[...]

In this book, Rajiv Mehrotra explores the 'challenge and the riddle' presented by the great mystic who, more than a century after his death, continues to dominate secular Hindu consciousness. Sri Ramakrishna brought a new vitality not only to the practices, rituals and symbols of the Hindu heritage [...]

This book lays out the fundamentals of friction stir welding and processing and builds toward practical perspectives. The authors describe the links between the thermo-mechanical aspects and the microstructural evolution and use of these for the development of the friction stir process as a broader [...]