Roy Smith: 40 books
Alpine & Renault
The Development of the Revolutionary Turbo F1 Car: 1968 to 1979
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This is a study of how the first turbo Grand Prix car came to be a reality. Starting with a brief history of Renault, the story moves to the development of Jean Redele’s company, Alpine, and the parts played by Gordini, Elf and Michelin, including much personal input from the men who made it. The first...
The Heavens on Earth
Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and...
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
Complexities
Social Studies of Knowledge Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2002
Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors...
Growing Explanations
Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them...
Science without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to,...
The Provocative Joan Robinson
The Making of a Cambridge Economist
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was...
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Plurality and Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it...
Alpine & Renault
The Sports Prototypes 1963 to 1969
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Sports prototype racing is about endurance, for the drivers, for the teams and for the companies involved. In this first volume of Alpine and Renault The Sports Prototypes we see the effort, the blood, the sweat and the tears, reputations won and lost, life and also death. Alpine had a passion and...
by ROY S. SMITH JR.
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
The United States is always dealing with foreign powers and all of us fear the possible overthrow of our way of life.Our government and our people fear enemies from outside the country.Until Sept. 11 we were not worried about what can come from within.Now from inside and outside this country comes...
by Stephen A. Benjamin, Caleb E. Finch, John C. Guerin
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The Handbook of Models for Human Aging is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available. For each animal model, it presents key aspects of biology, nutrition, factors affecting life span, methods of age determination, use in research,...
by Roy Balleste, Lisa Smith-Butler, Sonia Luna-Lamas
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Law Librarianship in the 21st Century, a text for library and information science courses on law librarianship, introduces students to the rapidly evolving world of law librarianship. With no prior knowledge of the law required, students using this book will find practical answers to such questions...