K W : 495 books
by W.K Hancock, M.M Gowing
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Astonishing book. Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in why the allies won world war 2. Explains in detail the decisions that lead to the UK building twice as many aircraft as Germany during the battle of Britain and why Germany was doomed from the start of WWII because of poor economic planning.
by S W Field, K G Swift
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Providing an understanding of what is meant by quality and its unique position in a manufacturing environment to improve competitive business performance, this text defines all the fundamental ingredients required to introduce an improvement in quality. Concise and easy to read, the theory is backed...
Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing
with Research and Applications in Thermal Laser Processing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Solid Freeform Fabrication is a set of manufacturing processes that are capable of producing complex freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of an object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. In essence, these methods are miniature manufacturing plants which come complete with...
3D Printing and Bio-Based Materials in Global Health
An Interventional Approach to the Global Burden of Surgical Disease in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
This book examines the potential to deploy low-cost, three-dimensional printers known as RepRaps in developing countries to fabricate surgical instruments and medical supplies to combat the “global surgical burden of disease.” Approximately two billion people in developing countries around the...
by Susan K. Sparks, Thomas W. Many
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Collaborate for schoolwide success. Establishing a collaborative culture can significantly impact student achievement and professional practice. With this how-to guide, you’ll gain clarity on the work of teams in a PLC and uncover the elements of effective team development. Discover skills and behaviors...
Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization
The contribution of Merleau-Ponty for Organizational Studies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Drawing on contemporary debates and responding to an analytic lacuna in organization and management studies and calls from organizational practice, Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization explores the fundamental and integral role of the body and embodiment in organizational life-worlds.
Subgame Consistent Economic Optimization
An Advanced Cooperative Dynamic Game Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Various imperfections in existing market systems prevent the free market from serving as a truly efficient allocation mechanism, but optimization of economic activities provides an effective remedial measure. Cooperative optimization claims that socially optimal and individually rational solutions...
Subgame Consistent Cooperation
A Comprehensive Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Strategic behavior in the human and social world has been increasingly recognized in theory and practice. It is well known that non-cooperative behavior could lead to suboptimal or even highly undesirable outcomes. Cooperation suggests the possibility of obtaining socially optimal solutions and the...
by Brandon K. Schultz, Steven W. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This innovative volume details counseling interventions for secondary students with ADHD and its associated academic and conduct problems, particularly focusing on youth at risk for developing serious disruptive behaviors. It addresses the continuing debate over counseling for youths with ADHD by...
by J.A. Butters, D.W. Hollomon, S.J. Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past 30 years one alarming trend is the emergence of plant species resistant to agrochemicals (e.g. insecticides, herbicides, fungicides). Considering the fact that these pesticides are crucial to human health and to food, feed and fiber production, impressive research was carried out during...
Cyber Denial, Deception and Counter Deception
A Framework for Supporting Active Cyber Defense
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This book presents the first reference exposition of the Cyber-Deception Chain: a flexible planning and execution framework for creating tactical, operational, or strategic deceptions. This methodology bridges the gap between the current uncoordinated patchwork of tactical denial and deception (D&D)...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of grain legumes Volume 1
Advances in breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varieties
Coverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storage
Discusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management
by T.D. Lekkas, J.B. Jahnel, C.J. Nokes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Drinking water quality has been a matter of concern for several decades. Disinfection of drinking water improves its microbiological quality and prevents disease outbreaks. However, continuously increasing scientific research concerns the presence of organic and inorganic contaminants in water. Many...
by W. K. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
In these works Professor Jordan studies the origins of modern social and cultural institutions in England. He is concerned with the momentous shift which occurred in men's aspirations for their society in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as reflected in the charities which were...