Covering the years 1924 to1933 when the author was living in Paris, this title offers an account of the successes and disappointments of a great creative artist at the heart of the European arts world between the two World Wars. It documents the inner world of a Russian exile uncomfortably aware of [...]

Some people's path to anthroposophy leads them directly to Rudolf Steiner's early work and The Philosophy of Freedom, and this becomes the philosophical basis for their future exploration. Rudolf Steiner referred to this as a 'safe' approach.But many people's destiny leads them directly to anthropos[...]

This encyclopedia presents an all-embracing collection of analytical surface classes. It provides concise definitions and description for more than 500 surfaces and categorizes them in 38 classes of analytical surfaces. All classes are cross references to the original literature in an excellent bibl[...]

The only DP Chemistry resource developed with the IB to accurately match the new 2014 syllabus for both SL and HL, this revised edition gives you unrivalled support for the new concept-based approach to learning, the Nature of science. Understanding, applications and skills are integrated in every [...]

This book is the first book dealing with structural crystallography of inorganic oxysalts in general. A special emphasis is placed upon structural topology and methods of its description. The latter include graph theory, nets, 2-D and 3-D tilings, polyhedra, etc. The structures considered range from[...]

After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War Three.In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko[...]

Presents the main approaches developed for a posteriori error estimation in various problems. This book contains a number of mathematical results and lists a posteriori error estimation methods. It includes computable bounds of approximation, errors checking algorithms, iteration processes, finite e[...]

A companion to the successful 2009 publication Biofouling (Durr & Thomason), Biofouling Methods is a comprehensive collection of tried and trusted methods and practical information for those working in or entering the biofouling field.[...]

Graduate-level textbook describing the principles of nanophotonics, for students in physics, optical and electronic engineering and materials science.[...]