Erik: 1534 books
An Accidental Utopia?
Social Mobility and the Foundations of an Eglitarian Society, 18801940
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
An Accidental Utopia? investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand ranks fourth in the developed world for social inequality. It is our first systematic analysis of urban social structure, focusing on three major forms of mobility—marital, work life, and intergenerational. This...
Suborbital
Industry at the Edge of Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
The nascent commercial suborbital spaceflight industry will soon open the space frontier to commercial astronauts, payload specialists, scientists and of course, tourists. This book describes the tantalizing science opportunities to be offered when suborbital trips become routine within the next 12...
Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Chemistry of Advanced Environmental Purification Processes of Water covers the fundamentals behind a broad spectrum of advanced purification processes for various types of water, showing numerous applications through worked examples. Purification processes for groundwater, soil water, reusable water,...
A Fair Share
Doing the Math on Individual Consumption and Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Global warming looms large, and seems beyond the ken of any one person to affect, while the notion that simply driving less or changing other habits could be of any real use seems to make a mockery of the enormity of the problem. However, a rigorous quantification of consumption shows that, far...
Australia in the US Empire
A Study in Political Realism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia’s deep dependency on the US is incompatible with democracy and the security of the country. The Australian continent is increasingly a contestable geopolitical...
by Simón Mr. Cueva, Stephen Mr. Tokarick, Erik Mr. Lundbäck
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2000
Design for Software
A Playbook for Developers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
A unique resource to help software developers create a desirable user experience
Today, top-flight software must feature a desirable user experience. This one-of-a-kind book creates a design process specifically for software, making it easy for developers who lack design background to create...
by Erik Seedhouse
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
For centuries the British developed a reputation as a nation of explorers. From Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe to the ascent of Everest, British explorers crossed oceans and continents and ventured where few, if any, had gone before. Until very recently, that legacy of exploration...
Building the New World
Work, Politics and Society in Caversham, 1880s1920s
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
These essays are the result of a study of the Dunedin working-class suburb of Caversham. Olssen discusses a number of important theoretical issues the writing of history, the question of class, the role of gender, the nature of work and the growth of the labor movement are all explored.
Structures and Algorithms
Mathematics and the Nature of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book explains exactly what human knowledge is. The key concepts in this book are structures and algorithms, i.e., what the readers “see” and how they make use of what they see. Thus in comparison with some other books on the philosophy (or methodology) of science, which employ a syntactic...
by Erik Vlaminck
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Een man is niet in staat zich aan te passen aan een veranderende wereld. Hij verliest zich in hunkeringen naar de geborgenheid van zijn jeugd. Tot hij er niet meer tegen kan. Leo Lenaerts sterft in de zomer van 2015 op nog geen tweehonderd meter van de plek waar ooit zijn ouderlijk huis stond. Het idyllische...
Restored Lives
Recovery from divorce and separation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
A book for anyone trying to recover relationship breakdown, separation or divorce
by Thomas L. Marzetta, Erik G. Larsson, Hong Yang
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Written by pioneers of the concept, this is the first complete guide to the physical and engineering principles of Massive MIMO. Assuming only a basic background in communications and statistical signal processing, it will guide readers through key topics in multi-cell systems such as propagation...
Turkey
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2004
This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins with the forging of closer links with Europe after the French Revolution, and the changing face of the Ottoman Empire in...