Smith/Hashemi's Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering, 5/e provides an eminently readable and understandable overview of engineering materials for undergraduate students. This edition offers a fully revised chemistry chapter and a new chapter on biomaterials as well as a new taxonomy for [...]

"Schaum's Easy Outline Series" - when you are looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, there's no series that does it better. "Schaum's Easy Outline of Electronic Devices and Circuits" is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor.[...]

The authors of Arthur Andersen bring their unique insights to a close-range observation of Andersen's culture that has continued for more than 15 years. They set the stage by reviewing Andersen's unique history and role; its traditionally careful attention to "enculturing" new employees; and its soc[...]

Contemporay debates about Muslim slavery occur in a context of fierce polemics between Islam and other belief systems. While Islamic groups had an ambivalent and generally muted impact on the legal repudiation of slavery, a growing religious commitment to abolition was essential if legislation was t[...]

Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments,[...]

This manual contains completely worked-out solutions for all the odd-numbered exercises in the text.

Post traumatic stress disorder develops after exposure to one or more terrifying events that have caused, or threatened to cause the sufferer grave physical harm. This book discusses how trauma-focused cognitive therapy can be used to help children and adolescents who suffer from post traumatic stre[...]

This book presents an easy-to-read discussion of domain decomposition algorithms, their implementation and analysis. The relationship between domain decomposition and multigrid methods is carefully explained at an elementary level, and discussions of the implementation of domain decomposition method[...]

Michael and Elizabeth Flannigan are a wealthy couple who always wanted a little daughter,so when they found an abandoned baby,swaddled in a pink blanket,they thought that God had blessed them with a miracle,as they end up accepting this baby into their home,and adopt her,but eventually they find out[...]