Edited by highly cited researchers, Vibrational Spectroscopy of Electrified Interfaces highlights modern vibrational techniques ranging from Raman, infrared and non-linear optical spectroscopy to inelastic electron scattering and their application to study electrified interfaces.[...]
This book presents a modern viewpoint of welding thermomechanics and provides a unified and systematic continuum approach for engineers and applied physicists working on the modelling of welding processes. The theory presented includes developments in the areas of welding thermodynamics, thermoplast[...]
Frederick Hirsch, a Senior Architect at Nokia, is responsible for the company's Web Services standardization strategy, and for security in Web service products. He is an active contributor to the Web Services Security and Digital Signature Services committees of OASIS, and has worked as an editor in[...]
The Three Faces of Leadership takes readers inside the minds of CEOs who have been celebrated by the Harvard Business Review over the last decade of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with these famous CEOs, Mary Jo Hatch, Monika Kostera and Andrzej K. Kozminski demonstrate how business le[...]
Ski Skills: top tips for expert skiing technique is an excellent guide for any regular skier wanting to take this sport to the next level. Packed with stunning colour photography and clear illustrations offering useful analysis to help improve technique. Additionally, step-by-step descriptions of ho[...]
Looking at the economic growth of seemingly similar countries one can find striking differences. Why has Australia gotten so much ahead of New Zealand, in spite of the latter being held up as a paragon of free market reform? How is it possible that Austria, with its persistently oversized state ente[...]
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roa[...]
"Watch for the signs What signs these shall be, I say unto you: first the earth will flow with the blood of Aen Seidhe, the blood of elves "For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the rac[...]
Andrzej Wajda is considered one of Poland's - many would say the world's - greatest film directors. During the thirty-five years of his activity in film, theatre or television, his work, whether strong or weak, always arouses strong emotions and provokes intense debates in the media. His films deal [...]
Are you tired of your students complaining about repeating times tables and cringing at the mention of word problems? Ease their fears and revitalize the class by implementing these 60 exciting lessons developed for K-8 students. The three different formats (brief lesson plans, longer narratives tha[...]
Simplifying the often confusing array of software programs for fitting linear mixed models (LMMs), "Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software" provides a basic introduction to primary concepts, notation, software implementation, model interpretation, and visualization of clus[...]
In this improved book, Lechowski updates and supplements his observations contained in 'Three Indispensable Steps of the Theory of Everything'. He tries to give a clue to all the riddles of the universe on grounds of logical thinking, intuition and scientific conquers. He refutes all known to him th[...]
Falkowska's comprehensive survey of Wajda's artistic evolution is a worthwhile addition to the growing critical literature on this exceptional filmmaker. In practical terms, the monographs is also useable as a textbook and...can serve as a point of departure for the continuing discourse von Andrzej [...]
During the 1970s, when many Eastern European citizens dreamed of going West, two young students travelled the other way. They studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and, much to everyone's surprise, stayed on to make a living as artists. Behind the Curtain is a graphic novel account of their [...]