Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) provides two major advantages: an efficient approach for weighting maintenance objectives, and a method for specifying physical methods for achieving those objectives. In this section, the authors deal with the multi-objective condition based maintenance optimizatio[...]
Helps policymakers to integrate the objectives of sustainability into policy actions in a given socio-political environment. This book outlines the elements and considerations of community aspects of policy evaluation in an effort to reduce the future consequences on resources and environmental sust[...]
Tissue Engineering is a comprehensive introduction to the engineering and biological aspects of this critical subject. With contributions from internationally renowned authors, it provides a broad perspective on tissue engineering for students coming to the subject for the first time. In addition to[...]
This textbook is intended for a graduate-level course and assumes familiarity with basic concepts from matrix theory, linear algebra, and linear system theory. Six appendices at the end of the book provide the reader with enough background and review material in all these areas. This original work [...]
The AVR Microcontroller and Embedded Systems: Using Assembly and Cfeatures a step-by-step approach in covering both Assembly and C language programming of the AVR family of Microcontrollers. It offers a systematic approach in programming and interfacing of the AVR with LCD, keyboard, ADC, DAC, Senso[...]
Ali Smith's masterful, ambitious Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and most ambitious book to date, the brilliant young Scottish writer Ali Smith brings alive[...]
This is a brilliant new collection of stories from a much loved and highly praised author. It presents stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out and don't want it to. How do you ever know the whole story? How do you ever know even part of the story? How do you find meaning wh[...]
The Accidental is Ali Smith's sparkling novel about a family holiday and a stranger who upends it. Arresting and wonderful, The Accidental pans in on the Norfolk holiday home of the Smart family one hot summer. There a beguiling stranger called Amber appears at the door bearing all sorts of unexpect[...]
Other Stories and Other Stories is a stunning collection of short stories from Ali Smith. Individually lucid and luminous, these formally inventive and exquisite tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, and lightly and expertly inching [...]
There but for the is the sparkling satirical novel by bestselling Ali Smith. 'There once was a man who, one night between the main course and the sweet at a dinner party, went upstairs and locked himself in one of the bedrooms of the house of the people who were giving the dinner party...' As time p[...]
How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. Winner of the GoldSmiths Prize 2014 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 Winner of the 2014 Costa Novel Award Winner of the Saltire Society Literary Book of the Year Award 2014 Nominated for the Folio Prize 2015. Passionate, compassionate, [...]
Zaki has returned home to Pakistan ...His childhood friend and cousin Samar is getting married, and he's come to wish her happiness for the future. But returning to the family home in Lahore - crammed as it is with relatives - Zaki is confronted vividly with the past that has shaped not only his and[...]
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peo[...]
This isn't gritty. This isn't glamorous. This is real life. Real sex. Real teens. There's always one page each book will fall open at. One scene that gets people talking. The sexiest, most romantic scene. The kind you don't want to read in public. Four girls. Three boys. Turning 18. Get set to follo[...]
Real love. Real lives. The real thing ..."Girl Heart Boy" is the irresistible new romantic series for teens, combining the romance of "The OC" with the realism of "Skins" and the sexiness of E L James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" - for a teen audience. "Girl Heart Boy" is perfect for fans of "Twilight" a[...]
Cass is Ms Monogamy. Ashley is a player. Donna is a party girl. But what about Sarah? Her friends tease her for being uptight, but she's waiting for The One. Now she's found him, but is he forever - or is Sarah just his summer fling?[...]
It's launch time for the hotly anticipated video game Alien Liberator 2, and who better to invite along than top gamer Ali-A? Ali is promised the biggest game launch ever - but what he doesn't count on is just how real the action is about to get! When a merciless band of aliens turns up to spoil[...]
"A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction" ("The New Yorker") from the incomparable Ali Smith
"Artful" is a celebration of literature's worth in and to the world--it is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness[...]
Winner of Blue Peter's Book That I Couldn't Put Down and Book of the Year Award 2010 .