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by Nelson H. Lawry, Glen M. Williford, Leo K. Polaski
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor�s Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River�s naval shipyard and harbor defenses. Long before it became home to one of the U.S. Navy�s first federal shipyards, the harbor at...
More Than a Game
A History of the African American Experience in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and bring...
by Sheppard Salon, M. V.K. Chari
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 1999
Electromagnetics is the foundation of our electric technology. It describes the fundamental principles upon which electricity is generated and used. This includes electric machines, high voltage transmission, telecommunication, radar, and recording and digital computing. Numerical Methods in Electromagnetism...
Advanced Electrical and Electronics Materials
Processes and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
This comprehensive and unique book is intended to cover the vast and fast-growing field of electrical and electronic materials and their engineering in accordance with modern developments. Basic and pre-requisite information has been included for easy transition to more complex topics. Latest developments...
Making Markets More Inclusive
Lessons from CARE and the Future of Sustainability in Agricultural Value Chain Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Most studies of doing business at the "bottom of the economic pyramid" focus on viewing the poor as consumers, as micro-entrepreneurs, or as potential employees of local companies. Almost no analysis focuses on the poor as primary producers of agricultural commodities a striking omission...
Class, Surplus, and the Division of Labour
A Post-Marxian Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The traditional Marxian picture of a two-class polarisation seems far removed from today's diverse society. Re-examining the very foundations of the Marxian theory in the process, the author argues that important critiques can fruitfully be understood and to accomplish the goal, he extends the traditional concepts in innovative and original ways.
Wise Wealth
Creating It, Managing It, Preserving It
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Captures the insights of leading academics and practitioners based on decades of research around the globe on factors of success and failures of private wealth, over time. It presents a deep and broad approach to understanding why and how wealth is created, managed and preserved over generations.
by Solange Kelly, Mustafa Balat, Ayhan Demirbas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum, once considered inexhaustible, is now being depleted at a rapid rate. As the amount of available petroleum decreases, the need for alternative technologies...
by K. E. Peters, C. C. Walters, J. M. Moldowan
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
The second edition of The Biomarker Guide is a fully updated and expanded version of this essential reference. Now in two volumes, it provides a comprehensive account of the role that biomarker technology plays both in petroleum exploration and in understanding Earth history and processes. Biomarkers...
by Denny K. S. Ng, Raymond R. Tan, Dominic C. Y. Foo
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This book covers recent developments in process systems engineering (PSE) for efficient resource use in biomass conversion systems. It provides an overview of process development in biomass conversion systems with focus on biorefineries involving the production and coproduction of fuels, heating,...
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded...
Old Ninety Six
A History & Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Few locations in South Carolina have figured as prominently in the early history of the state as the old town of Ninety Six. As a witness to two Revolutionary War battles, two Cherokee War battles, a trading post, three forts and two towns, the site is perhaps one of the richest archaeological sites...
Economic Development Through Regional Trade
A Role for the New East African Community?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.
LASIK
A Guide to Laser Vision Correction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
If you'd like to improve your vision and reduce or eliminate your need for glasses or contacts, perhaps you're considering LASIK. This procedure has become one of the most popular vision correction surgeries in the nation with 9 million Americans undergoing LASIK procedures annually.
But,...