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A Random Walk in Science

A Random Walk in Science

A Random Walk in Science provides insight into the wit and intellect of the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious contributions written by and about scientists. The book records changing attitudes within science and mirrors the interactions of science with society. Some of the contributors include Lewis Carroll Isaac Newton Jonathan Swift and James Clark Maxwell. This entertaining anthology covers Murphy's Law the trial of Galileo life on Earth Gulliver's computer and much more.

GBP 175.00
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A Long Walk To Church A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy

A Long Walk To Church A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy

Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government interviews and first-hand personal experiences Nathaniel Davis describes how the Russian Orthodox Church hung on the brink of institutional extinction twice in the past sixty-five years. In 1939 only a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly. Ironically Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church - and parishes reopened new clergy and bishops were consecrated a patriarch was elected and seminaries and convents were reinstituted. However after Stalin's death Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals that the erosion of church strength between 1948 and 1988 was greater than previously known and it was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of the millennium of Russia's conversion to Christianity. More recently the collapse of communism has created a mixture of dizzying opportunity and daunting trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. The newly revised and updated edition addresses the tumultuous events of recent years including schisms in Ukraine Estonia and Moldova and confrontations between church traditionalists conservatives and reformers. The author also covers battles against Greek-Catholics Roman Catholics Protestant evangelists and pagans in the south and east the canonization of the last Czar the church's financial crisis and hard data on the slowing Russian orthodox recovery and growth. Institutional rebuilding and moral leadership now beckon between promise and possibility. | A Long Walk To Church A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy

GBP 130.00
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Organization Made Easy Tools For Today's Teachers

Organization Made Easy Tools For Today's Teachers

Meet the ever-growing organizational demands of today's changing world with the variety of tools digital and otherwise available to you as a teacher. In this book organization guru Frank Buck shows you how to take expert advantage of the specific electronic and paper-based resources that will help you manage your time and stay on course as a teacher of the 21st century. Buck offers practical easy-to-read strategies for organizing your surroundings increasing productivity and reducing stress. Teachers will leave this book with a feeling of greater control of the day plus a renewed sense of pride in their profession. IN THIS BOOK. • Organizing Digitally • Organizing with Paper • E-mail and other e-timesavers • Handling multiple projects • Handling the paper blizzard | Organization Made Easy Tools For Today's Teachers

GBP 105.00
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5S Made Easy A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing and Sustaining Your 5S Program

5S Made Easy A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing and Sustaining Your 5S Program

For decades 5S practitioners have struggled with exactly how to implement and sustain a 5S program in their workplaces. While there are many books available on the organization methods suggested by 5S few provide easy-to-understand step-by-step guidance on how to set up and sustain successful 5S implementations. 5S Made Easy fills this need. Written by an expert whose focus for the last decade has been nothing but 5S the book supplies in-depth guidance on how to implement and sustain each of the 5S pillars‘sort set in order shine standardize and sustain. The book uses an easy-to-follow format that was designed for use during 5S events. It provides color images of real-world 5S solutions including before and after pictures from the field. It also supplies readers with online access to all of the forms and documents needed for an effective 5S program. All the forms and documents are provided in an easily editable format to fit any operation. | 5S Made Easy A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing and Sustaining Your 5S Program

GBP 175.00
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The Remix Manual The Art and Science of Dance Music Remixing with Logic

The Remix Manual The Art and Science of Dance Music Remixing with Logic

Can you turn a soulful ballad into a hit dance track or make any Billboard hit your own? With this all-in-one guide to remixing you can! Whether you're a professional DJ or producer or are just beginning to mix tracks this step-by-step guide will bring you through the entire process of making your own professional-quality remixes. Author Simon Langford a renowned producer/remixer with over 300 remixes and chart-toppers under his belt shares his years of experience and expertise in the most in-depth guide on the market. The Remix Manual covers creative processes technical legal and contractual issues and includes a unique remix walk-through and useful contacts and links. The companion website www. TheRemixManual. com provides source files that illustrate all stages of the remix as well as additional interviews additional walk-throughs a Buyer's Guide video tutorials and demo versions of the hottest mixing software. A working musician and remixer Simon Langford provides up-to-the-minute information on all aspects of the remix process from the latest software tips and tricks to timeless artistic advice. While technical aspects are explained in detail you also get a pro's advice on how to produce outstanding tracks by being aware of the originals message style and emotion. The creative side of remixing is explored from all angles as a wide variety of industry insiders weigh in on key issues in exclusive interviews and quotes. | The Remix Manual The Art and Science of Dance Music Remixing with Logic

GBP 170.00
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The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century The Story of a Political Issue 1660-1802

The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century The Story of a Political Issue 1660-1802

First published in 1965 The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century directs light on English politics and government through studying the militia from the Restoration to the days of the younger Pritt. The militia occupied a significant place both in the quarrels between king and parliament in the later seventeenth century and in the struggle for power between the elder Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle. Raised and officered by the county and parish authorities its maintenance constantly posed the problem of how to harness the machinery of local government to national purposes. The gentry had to be induced to help and the militia like other institutions national and local was shaped by the fashion and extent to which they responded. The book will be of interest to students of history political science and literature. | The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century The Story of a Political Issue 1660-1802

GBP 130.00
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Start Programming Using HTML CSS and JavaScript

Start Programming Using HTML CSS and JavaScript

A Beginner‘s Guide to Computer Programming Start Programming Using HTML CSS and JavaScript is a manual for undergraduate students in engineering and the natural sciences to discover how computer programming works. Using a dialog format between two students and a professor the text teaches students how the mainstream web languages HTML CSS and JavaScript interact and how to harness their capabilities in practical settings. Each chapter focuses on a specific theme supported by a gradual development of engaging worked examples of live web documents and applications using the three languages. Students can follow most of the examples and experiments using any modern browser and plain text editor. A practical homework problem is included at the end of every chapter and then is discussed at the beginning of the next chapter. In addition a related keywords list helps students review key topics. By focusing on important established principles and concrete examples this introductory book shows students how to write cleaner and more easily maintainable code. It augments the basic language syntax and rules with contents and structure while keeping the material simple and manageable.

GBP 175.00
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The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical. Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form artists from around the globe are examined including Rinko Kawauchi Catherine Opie Dayanita Singh Moyra Davey and Elina Brotherus who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors domestic objects and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors public and private and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandings of the self and photography. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photographic history and theory art history and visual studies. | The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

GBP 130.00
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Real World modo: The Authorized Guide In the Trenches with modo

Real World modo: The Authorized Guide In the Trenches with modo

Explore one of the most exciting 3D tools on the market modo with Real-World modo - the Luxology approved concept and principle- driven guide. Learn to apply the revolutionary artist-friendly modo toolset with its powerful 3D rendering engine to your project workflows. In a clear motivating and entertaining style Luxology insider Wes McDermott provides captivating 3D imagery real world observations and valuable tips and tricks all in one place - an invaluable resource for any digital artist. Explore 3D techniques and principles with chapters on modelling UV mapping texturing animation lighting and rendering. Learn to leverage the technical elements of the modo rendering engine including Antialaising Shading Rate and Irradiance Caching from an artist's perspective. Integrate modo with other 3D applications such as Maya and Mudbox and learn to properly setup a linear rendering workflow within modo. For practical hands-on techniques you can visit www. wesmcdermott. com for video walk-throughs that further enhance the coverage in the book. | Real World modo: The Authorized Guide In the Trenches with modo

GBP 175.00
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Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies. The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual localities to exercise any control over their own growth and decline. Place Policy and Politics examines local political initiatives seeking to influence economic and social development in seven sharply contrasting localities ranging from the outer council estates of Merseyside to the boom towns of Cheltenham and Swindon. Throughout their analysis the contributors drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines address the vital questions in the debate over local policy initiatives including: To what extent are localities able to harness trends in the national and international economy to provide jobs and a better standard of living for their inhabitants? Why do local authorities vary in their capacity to initiate economic policy? To what extent do national urban and other policies inhibit or encourage their efforts? How might central government modify its policies to facilitate the prospering of localities? | Place Policy and Politics Do Localities Matter?

GBP 175.00
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Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations Practitioner Perspectives on Theory Research and Practice

Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations Practitioner Perspectives on Theory Research and Practice

Focused on the interpersonal aspects of internal evaluation in non-profit organisations this book presents practice-based discussions centred on six key topics identified through the authors’ experience as evaluation practitioners. Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations: Practitioner Perspectives on Theory Research and Practice is not a step-by-step how-to guide; instead each chapter unpacks an aspect of internal evaluation in non-profits that is paid insufficient heed in the existing literature. Written by and for internal evaluation practitioners the book contains a plethora of practical strategies and critical analysis of thought-provoking topics that are of particular interest and importance to internal evaluators in non-profit settings. The authors understand the pressures facing practitioners and non-profit organisations and share their insights around improving evaluation’s ability to be efficient embedded useful and meaningful. This book will be of interest to researchers scholars and students focusing on non-profit management and will hold specific value for internal evaluators who want to harness their unique and influential position to help organisations achieve their goals. Further this book is ideal for individuals wanting to think critically about evaluation and improve evaluation utilisation by developing their professional capability building teamwork skills using informal everyday data incorporating theory and developing fruitful relationships with external evaluators. | Internal Evaluation in Non-Profit Organisations Practitioner Perspectives on Theory Research and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Data Science AI and Machine Learning in Drug Development

Data Science AI and Machine Learning in Drug Development

The confluence of big data artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has led to a paradigm shift in how innovative medicines are developed and healthcare delivered. To fully capitalize on these technological advances it is essential to systematically harness data from diverse sources and leverage digital technologies and advanced analytics to enable data-driven decisions. Data science stands at a unique moment of opportunity to lead such a transformative change. Intended to be a single source of information Data Science AI and Machine Learning in Drug Research and Development covers a wide range of topics on the changing landscape of drug R & D emerging applications of big data AI and ML in drug development and the build of robust data science organizations to drive biopharmaceutical digital transformations. Features Provides a comprehensive review of challenges and opportunities as related to the applications of big data AI and ML in the entire spectrum of drug R & D Discusses regulatory developments in leveraging big data and advanced analytics in drug review and approval Offers a balanced approach to data science organization build Presents real-world examples of AI-powered solutions to a host of issues in the lifecycle of drug development Affords sufficient context for each problem and provides a detailed description of solutions suitable for practitioners with limited data science expertise | Data Science AI and Machine Learning in Drug Development

GBP 99.99
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Dealing with Difficult Parents

Dealing with Difficult Parents

Communicating with parents is one of the most challenging and potentially stressful tasks that teachers face on a daily basis. Whether trying to resolve a heated argument or delivering bad news it is essential to know how to handle difficult situations and establish positive relationships with your students parents. In this updated second edition of the bestselling Dealing with Difficult Parents award-winning educators Todd Whitaker and Douglas J. Fiore help you develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents. The book‘s features include: Tools to help you understand parents motivations and how to work with them rather than against them; Detailed scripts for dealing with even the most stubborn and volatile parents; New strategies for increasing parent involvement to foster student success; An all-new chapter on the role that social media can play in interacting with parents; and A new chapter on initiating contact with parents to build positive credibility. This must-read book will equip you with the skills you need to expertly navigate even the most challenging encounters with parents and walk away feeling that you have made a positive and meaningful impact.

GBP 105.00
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Software Engineering Approaches to Enable Digital Transformation Technologies

Software Engineering Approaches to Enable Digital Transformation Technologies

Software Engineering Approaches to Enable Digital Transformation Technologies features contributions reflecting ideas and research in enabling digital transformation technologies through software engineering. To date multiple different approaches have been adopted to develop software solutions for a variety of different problems. Of all the available approaches the main approaches are level-oriented data flow-oriented data structure-oriented and object-oriented design approaches. The other focus of the book is digital transformation which can be defined as the adoption of digital technology to improve efficiency value and innovation Digitalization is more than just putting additional technological systems and services in place. Rather than improving conventional methods a true digital transformation initiative includes radically rethinking company structures and procedures. There are four types of digital transformation: business process business model domain and cultural and organizational. Companies are being challenged to develop new business models that consider and harness digitalization. From the standpoint of software engineering digital transformation alters how software is built. Current trends include the development of mobile applications cloud applications and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Emerging trends are the development of digital twins robotics artificial intelligence machine learning augmented reality and additive manufacturing. This book examines the challenges that arise due to digitization in society and presents plausible solutions that could be applied to counter these challenges and convert them into opportunities. These solutions may further be improvised and worked out for the software companies from the technological perspective organizational perspective and management perspective.

GBP 150.00
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Locative Tourism Applications A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City

Locative Tourism Applications A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City

Travel through time. Walk the streets as they were. See through floors. Hunt for ghosts (with drink in hand). Hear the walls speak. These are just a few of the ways that locative tourism applications seek to augment the urban experience. This book explores the universe of locative tourism applications. It uses multi-sited sensory ethnography with diverse apps in 12 cities around the world to interrogate how these applications layer (often branded) maps of meaning over the urban environment and exposes what their use – at the embodied intersection of physical and digital space – can tell us about the production of cityscapes for touristic consumption. Locative Tourism Applications takes a journey in three parts to evaluate how these “extensions of the senses” mediate users’ experience of urban locales. The first offers the reader some theoretical and methodological orientation the second takes them on a whirlwind tour of locative apps and the third settles in for an extended exploration of two destinations: Montreal and Christchurch. With broad cross-disciplinary appeal this volume will be of interest to scholars from tourism studies cultural geography urban studies new media studies and sensory studies and will be particularly valuable for sensory ethnographers examining mobile and location-aware media. | Locative Tourism Applications A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City

GBP 130.00
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Change or Die The Business Process Improvement Manual

Change or Die The Business Process Improvement Manual

Leadership success depends on clarifying and simplifying complex problems while maintaining a positive outlook. Change or Die - The Business Process Improvement Manual provides you with the tools to do so. Packed with more than 70 pages of workshop tools agendas and activities that detail each of the six stages of the business process improvement (BPI) method it presents a BPI method that promotes the use of facilitator-led workshops to help you and your team make better decisions. Developed from empirical research and bolstered by the results of client experience from hundreds of hours of facilitated workshops and BPI activity Change or Die employs the authors' ENGAGE methodology. To ensure your team achieves its deliverables the authors walk you through each BPI method. In each chapter you will find:Objectives and deliverables clearly identifiedReal-world examples from companies the authors have worked with—presented using a global manufacturer as an exampleActivities questionnaires and examplesA self-assessment tool to help you measure progress identify gaps in team performance and determine team readiness for the next stageThis resource-rich book includes downloadable resources with supplemental activities challenges facilitated workshops templates tables and questionnaires—tools designed to ease each participant’s path to project success. | Change or Die The Business Process Improvement Manual

GBP 175.00
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Java Programming for Engineers

Java Programming for Engineers

While teaching Java programming at Minnesota State University the authors noticed that engineering students were enrolling in Java programming courses in order to obtain basic programming skills but there were no Java books suitable for courses intended for engineers. They realized the need for a comprehensive Java programming tutorial that offers basic programming skills that can be applied in the field of engineering. With this in mind the authors developed Java Programming for Engineers in order to meet the needs of both engineers and engineering students. The text uses the personal computer as a development platform and assumes no prior programming experience or knowledge. The only skills expected of the reader are basic keyboarding and user-level familiarity with the PC. Topics covered range from mathematical expressions to linear systems to engineering graphics. Chapters on problem solving skills and the designing of engineering applications walk readers through real word problems they might encounter. Divided into two parts Part 1 is a description of the Java language of the fundamentals of object orientation input and output operations and error handling. Part 2 is about Java programming for engineers. It starts with computer number systems fixed- and variable-precision numeric data mathematical programming in Java as could be of interest to engineers and concludes with an overview of Java Graphics.

GBP 175.00
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Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Principles and Applications

Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Principles and Applications

This book presents the basics and recent advancements in natural language processing and information retrieval in a single volume. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in interdisciplinary areas of electrical engineering electronics engineering computer engineering and information technology. This text emphasizes the existing problem domains and possible new directions in natural language processing and information retrieval. It discusses the importance of information retrieval with the integration of machine learning deep learning and word embedding. This approach supports the quick evaluation of real-time data. It covers important topics including rumor detection techniques sentiment analysis using graph-based techniques social media data analysis and language-independent text mining. Features:• Covers aspects of information retrieval in different areas including healthcare data analysis and machine translation• Discusses recent advancements in language- and domain-independent information extraction from textual and/or multimodal data• Explains models including decision making random walk knowledge graphs word embedding n-grams and frequent pattern mining• Provides integrated approaches of machine learning deep learning and word embedding for natural language processing• Covers latest datasets for natural language processing and information retrieval for social media like Twitter The text is primarily written for graduate students and academic researchers in interdisciplinary areas of electrical engineering electronics engineering computer engineering and information technology. | Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Principles and Applications

GBP 110.00
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The Science of Wind Power

The Science of Wind Power

Concern for the environment and for the impacts of environmental pollution has brought about the need to shift from the reliance on hydrocarbons to energy sources that are nearly pollution neutral and renewable. The Science of Wind Power is designed to provide a fundamental understanding for wind technicians and students alike essentially examining how to harness the wind to produce energy for transmission and use while keeping environmental impacts in mind. Wind power is one of the fastest-growing energy sources as it offers many advantages such as being sustainable and a renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the global environment compared to fossil fuels. It is important to point out however that like wind itself wind power has a good and bad side advantages and disadvantages (challenges) and these different aspects are discussed in detail herein. Features: Examines the mechanical electrical hydraulic and electronic aspects of wind turbines Provides the fundamentals of wind turbine aerodynamics modeling and testing Includes design standards for wind turbines and electrical distribution systems Delineates the differences between offshore and land-based wind power Discusses special-purpose applications such as energy distribution and storage A must-have volume that includes the latest data diagrams and useful illustrations The Science of Wind Energy offers a complete examination of one of the most promising sources of renewable energy and serves as a great introduction to the cross-disciplinary field for students and practicing engineers. The concepts and guidelines presented will equip readers with the scientific rationale required to make decisions that could directly affect the environment around them.

GBP 99.99
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The (Dis)Order of U.S. Schooling Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World

The (Dis)Order of U.S. Schooling Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World

This book critically interrogates the function of schooling in the United States of America using the writings of sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Asking whether the function is to produce citizens workers a combination of the two or something altogether different it argues that the designs of schooling are part of a carefully crafted ordering illustrated via an analysis of the ways in which schooling introduces students to various forms of coercion and seduction that socialize students in particular ways: ways that support an order. By engaging with the prolific and insightful works of one of the most prominent social thinkers of the 21st century this book considers schooling and its contributions to order. Be they solid or liquid modern ordering mechanisms ordering through repression and seduction or supporting ordering through the creation of boundaries separating an “orderly inside” from its “disorderly outside ” schools imperfectly support the construction of order and in doing so privilege some representations and individuals over others. To order is to harness ambivalence and steer it in directions that privilege the “in” group at the expense of the “out” group; and schools from the curriculum they teach to the values and ideas they promote are desirable captive marketplaces instrumental in steering this ambivalence. The author ultimately suggests that the function of schools whether recognized or not are not so much to educate students to be free thinkers but rather to be orderly cogs in a particular functional social machine. As such the book will be of interest to faculty scholars and postgraduate-level students with interests in the sociology of education schooling sociology and social theory. | The (Dis)Order of U. S. Schooling Zygmunt Bauman and Education for an Ambivalent World

GBP 130.00
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Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods Practical Application and Interpretation

Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods Practical Application and Interpretation

Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods Seventh Edition provides conceptual and practical information regarding multivariate statistical techniques to students who do not necessarily need technical and/or mathematical expertise in these methods. This text has three main purposes. The first purpose is to facilitate conceptual understanding of multivariate statistical methods by limiting the technical nature of the discussion of those concepts and focusing on their practical applications. The second purpose is to provide students with the skills necessary to interpret research articles that have employed multivariate statistical techniques. Finally the third purpose of AMSM is to prepare graduate students to apply multivariate statistical methods to the analysis of their own quantitative data or that of their institutions. New to the Seventh Edition All references to SPSS have been updated to Version 27. 0 of the software. A brief discussion of practical significance has been added to Chapter 1. New data sets have now been incorporated into the book and are used extensively in the SPSS examples. All the SPSS data sets utilized in this edition are available for download via the companion website. Additional resources on this site include several video tutorials/walk-throughs of the SPSS procedures. These how-to videos run approximately 5–10 minutes in length. Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods was written for use by students taking a multivariate statistics course as part of a graduate degree program for example in psychology education sociology criminal justice social work mass communication and nursing. | Advanced and Multivariate Statistical Methods Practical Application and Interpretation

GBP 130.00
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FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software

FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software

Students preparing to work with mechatronics particularly with highly precise and smart actuators face the challenge of designing and analyzing devices without formal and practical guidance in computer techniques. Finally there is a textbook that is as practical as it is authoritative: Kenji Uchino's FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software. Ideal for Today's Computer-Based CurriculaEvery aspect of this book reflects its focus on being easy to use easy to teach from and above all easy to implement. The first half of the text outlines the theory needed to develop and design smart actuators and transducers while the second half walks students step-by-step through the software implementation using seven extensive examples. Even the book's lay-flat binding makes it easy for students to follow the text while working simultaneously at a computer. The downloadable resources supply a free educational version of ATILA-Light. Unified Coverage for Integrated TechnologiesCovering the myriad challenges posed by smart transducers the author introduces the fundamentals of piezoelectric and magnetostrictive devices practical materials device designs drive and control techniques and typical applications. Numerous problems and examples give students ample opportunity to put the concepts into practice. Outlining a complete treatment in 30 convenient 75 minute lessons FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software is a unique classroom text that students will continue to use throughout their entire careers.

GBP 115.00
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