Richard C : 460 books
by Richard C Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Complete with reference tables and sample problems, this volume serves as a textbook or reference for solid-state physics and chemistry, materials science, and engineering. Chapters illustrate symmetry, and its role in determining solid properties, as well as a demonstration of group theory.
MRI
Basic Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This fifth edition of the most accessible introduction to MRI principles and applications from renowned teachers in the field provides an understandable yet comprehensive update.
Accessible introductory guide from renowned teachers in the field
Provides a concise yet thorough introduction for...
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation
Developmental Epidemiology of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and...
Medical Microbiology E-Book
A Guide to Microbial Infections: Pathogenesis, Immunity, Laboratory Diagnosis and Control. With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Medical microbiology concerns the nature, distribution and activities of microbes and how they impact on health and wellbeing, most particularly as agents of infection. Infections remain a major global cause of mortality and in most hospitals around one in ten of those admitted will suffer from an...
The People of the Eye
Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
What are ethnic groups? Are Deaf people who sign American Sign Language (ASL) an ethnic group? In The People of the Eye, Deaf studies, history, cultural anthropology, genetics, sociology, and disability studies are brought to bear as the authors compare the values, customs, and social organization...
The War On Our Freedoms
Civil Liberties In An Age Of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. Today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the instinct to suppress is in the ascendancy. Part of the reason for this is the trauma that our...
by Richard C. Ropp
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Since the first date of publication of this book in 1991, the subject of phosphors and luminescence has assumed even more importance in the overall scheme of technological development. Many new types of displays have appeared which depend upon phosphors in their operation. Some of these were pure...
Trapped Charged Particles
A Graduate Textbook with Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
At Les Houches in January 2015, experts in the field of charged particle trapping came together for the Second Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles. This textbook collates the lectures delivered there, covering the fundamental physics of particle traps and the different types of...
by Richard C. McClain
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Convinced he can find the person(s) responsible for murdering his roommate while blocking The Coterie, who have effectively destabilized the world’s economies, seventeen-year-old loner, Dakarai Holt, will need the help of six other skilled students. Together, they form the clandestine group TRC.
Dak’s...
My Dad Used to Say
The Philosophy of Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This book is about the bullet-like phrases commonly used by my dad and how they related to the basic themes of everyday life. The depths that can be found in some of his quips contribute to broader view of the obvious.
Gulf To Rockies
The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver–Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861–1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Gulf to Rockies is a chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century. Throughout the 1860s the mineral treasures of Colorado were virtually inaccessible for lack of railroads. Even after a hectic decade...
by Herve Millett, João Pinto da Costa, Wai Chin Li
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Plastic has become a ubiquitous part of modern life. A cheap, lightweight material, it is used in everything from food packaging to consumer electronics and microbeads in cosmetic products. However, we are becoming increasingly aware of the problems our reliance on plastic is causing in the environment....
At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942
U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Written by the former chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan, this book sheds new light on key topics in the history of U.S.-Taiwan relations. It fills an important gap in our understanding of how the U.S. government addressed Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait issue from the...
Public Administration and Society
Critical Issues in American Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
For instructors who want to expose their students to the social, political, and historical context of the practice of public administration, this book provides a unique approach to the introductory PA course. The author's own text is skilfully interwoven with a collection of seminal readings and documents...