De Paul: 307 books

Transformation Optics-based Antennas is organized into two chapters that follow an introduction that presents the basic principles of the transformation optics concept. Two types of transformation are presented, coordinate transformation and space transformation. Implementations using metamaterials...

Nanotechnologies in Food provides an overview of the products and applications of nanotechnologies in agri-food and related sectors. Following on from the success of the first edition, this new edition has been revised and updated to bring the reader fully up to date on the emerging technological,...

This helpful resource covers a large range of information regarding electrical actuators. In particular, robustness, a very problematic issue, is fully explored in a dedicated chapter. The text also deals with he estimate of non-measurable mechanical variables by examining the estimate of load moment,...

Many things people commonly believe to be true about education are not supported by scientific evidence.  Urban Myths about Learning and Education examines commonly held incorrect beliefs and then provides the truth of what research has shown.  Each chapter examines a different myth, with sections...

The U.S. health care system faces well-known problems: 47 million people without health insurance, rapidly rising costs that consume 16 percent of the country's economic output, and widely uneven quality of care. Even many people with coverage are experiencing serious problems paying for the rapidly...

Diatoms are single cell algae composed of silica. They represent one of the most outstanding natural materials with exceptional structural, mechanical, optical, photonic and chemical properties optimized through millions years of evolution. The unique nano and micro silica structures of the material...

Integrate spiritual traditions with psychological healing! In this fascinating volume, clinical practitioners of different religious traditions examine the same clinical case, offering insights, interventions, and explanations of transformation and healing. This practical approach allows them...

A reference to answer all your statistical confidentiality questions. This handbook provides technical guidance on statistical disclosure control and on how to approach the problem of balancing the need to provide users with statistical outputs and the need to protect the confidentiality of...

The belief in witchcraft and the persecution of those supposed to practice it have been almost universal in human history. Christianity inherited both the belief and the persecution from the religions, Jewish and pagan, which preceded it. But, under the influence of its monotheistic faith and its...

UPON a certain evening in the month of December, of the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-two, a man walked at a rapid pace down the Rue Saint-Honoré and directed his steps towards the Rue Bourdonnais. The individual appeared to be forty years old or thereabouts; he was tall as to his...

Ever since 1807, when the space between the Rhine and the Niemen had been overrun, the two great empires of which these rivers were the boundaries had become rivals. By his concessions at Tilsit, at the expense of Prussia, Sweden, and Turkey, Napoleon had only satisfied Alexander. That treaty was the...

Limousin, France, 1249:  In one night, Damien La Croix loses his life and his soul, as he willingly choses Undeath rather than  perish of the Plague.  Once risen as a vampire, he takes his betrothed into the dark with him, but something goes wrong and Antoinette perishes.  Now,...

An Weihnachten machen wir uns alle Jahre wieder auf, um unsere Liebsten zu sehen. Meist ist schon die Anreise nervenzehrend, wenn zeitgleich gefühlt die halbe Republik unterwegs ist. Daheim angekommen, wird es nicht besser – davon erzählen diese Geschichten. Wir begegnen einer genervten Mutter,...

Das beste Geschenk für die bucklige Verwandtschaft? Geschichten über die bucklige Verwandtschaft! Denn mit schwarzem Humor kommt man besser durch die Feiertage. Die Familie wird immer anspruchsvoller: Oma lehnt den fair gehandelten Seitanbraten ab. Die papierdünne Cousine akzeptiert die Mousse...