Boris: 660 books
Managing Diabetes and Hyperglycemia in the Hospital Setting
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
As the number of patients with diabetes increases annually, it is not surprising that the number of patients with diabetes who are admitted to the hospital also increases. Once in the hospital, patients with diabetes or hyperglycemia may be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, require urgent or elective...
by Boris Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
A gentle, imaginative introduction to the skills all creative writers need.
Breaking down the elements that go into successful imaginative works, The Creative Writer leads aspiring writers through the skills needed to construct each. The assignments, designed to make students more aware of...
by Boris Fishman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The third volume of the four-book series that guides students into the creation of sophisticated short fiction and mature poetry.
• Complements Peace Hill Press’s expository series Writing With Skill by providing the imaginative element that many students want.
• Unlike most “how to...
by Boris Katsnelson, James Lynch, Valery Petnikov
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Shallow water acoustics (SWA), the study of how low and medium frequency sound propagates and scatters on the continental shelves of the worlds oceans, has both technical interest and a large number of practical applications. Technically, shallow water poses an interesting medium for the study of...
The Moscow Puzzles
359 Mathematical Recreations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
This is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the Russian...
Health Secrets - Part 1
What to Do If You Have Liver and Kindeys?
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
The book describes the methods how to keep liver and kidneys in healthy condition. The first part describes liver: its functions, sources and signs of dysfunction of its work, the prevention and treatment recommendations. The second part is dedicated to kidneys: its correct functioning, the reasons...
by Ioan D. Marinescu, W. Brian Rowe, Boris Dimitrov
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book draws upon the science of tribology to understand, predict and improve abrasive machining processes. Pulling together information on how abrasives work, the authors, who are renowned experts in abrasive technology, demonstrate how tribology can be applied as a tool to improve abrasive machining...
Broken Spirits
The Treatment of Traumatized Asylum Seekers, Refugees and War and Torture Victims
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Mental health problems among asylum seekers and refugees are becoming a public issue, but awareness of this problem among the mental health community is relatively low. Although advances have been made in the provision of innovative mental health services for asylum seekers and refuges with PTSD,...
Fundamentals of Ionized Gases
Basic Topics in Plasma Physics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
A comprehensive and readily accessible work for studying the physics of ionized gases, based on "Physics of Ionized Gases".
The focus remains on fundamentals rather than on the details required for interesting but difficult applications, such as magnetic confinement fusion, or the phenomena...
Atom Projects
Events and People
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This book is a collection of personal memories about the people who participated in the USSR atomic project — Landau, Alikhanov, Pomeranchuk, Alikhanian, Migdal Jr., Gribov, Zeldovich, Sakharov, Kurchatov, Vannikov, Eldian. As the author is the only living person who was involved in the project,...
by G. Blythe, Boris Luban-Plozza, Walter Pöldinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Closely geared to general practice yet without neglecting basic theory, this book has retained so much appeal among readers .as to warrant a third edition. We assume that the work has retained its place among the leading publications on psychosomatics because it embodies our strong interest in the...
by Boris M. Smirnov
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
This book presents the theory of gas discharge plasmas in a didactical way. It explains the processes in gas discharge plasmas. A gas discharge plasma is an ionized gas which is supported by an external electric field. Therefore its parameters are determined by processes in it. The properties of a...
X-Ray Diffraction by Disordered Lamellar Structures
Theory and Applications to Microdivided Silicates and Carbons
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
New methods for the determination of the nature, proportion, and distribution of structural defects in microcrystallized lamellar systems are of utmost importance not only to experimentalists but also to theoreticians. Mathematical formalism - indispensable for such analyses - is well-illustrated...
Breakdown in Traffic Networks
Fundamentals of Transportation Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
This book offers a detailed investigation of breakdowns in traffic and transportation networks. It shows empirically that transitions from free flow to so-called synchronized flow, initiated by local disturbances at network bottlenecks, display a nucleation-type behavior: while small disturbances...