Most chemists have little understanding of crystallography. This book provides a basic, non-mathematical education on crystallographic methods, written in language chemists use. It is designed for students and any chemist who has had no instruction in the subject.
This textbook is a unique treatise on the present status of particle physics summarised for physics students at an introductory level: it provides insights into essential experimental and theoretical techniques and will gradually deepen the reader’s understanding of the field.
Entropy is one of the most interesting concepts in physics. Although a well-defined concept, it is still frequently perceived as one cloaked in mystery. This book, however, discusses entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics in such a way that everyone can understand them.
Predict the effects of external fields on the structure and solubility of polymer systems. This book’s methods connect phase diagram shifts with macromolecule size changes, helping you build phase diagrams for use in polymer processing.
This book focuses on the physical processes in the World Ocean which regulate natural climate variability. It analyses Atlantic and Indo-Pacific signals and assesses the ocean’s role in the recent hiatus of global warming and the probability of abrupt climate change.
Second Generation Mainframes
The IBM 7000 series led the way in many innovative concepts that helped to establish IBM as the foremost manufacturer of computer systems. This study describes IBM’s second generation of mainframe computers, detailing their new technology, new peripherals and advanced software.
Sustainable Tourism in Asia
This collection explores sustainable tourism in Asia, drawing on papers from international conferences. It shares empirical studies and cases, forming a rich reference work for tourism researchers, development leaders, policy-makers, and practitioners.
Planar Trusses
This book contains 73 schemes of trusses, with solutions for many not widely published. It identifies trusses with hidden dangerous properties and provides compact formulas for engineers and theorists to supplement numerical calculations, especially for complex structures.
This book tackles modern methods in the modelling of extreme data, such as floods and hurricanes. It provides the latest statistical methods to predict these random phenomena and minimize damage, offering both an applied and theoretical orientation.
This volume provides science and environmental educators with examples of learning that contribute to a more eco-socially just and sustainable world. This education moves beyond facts to develop learners’ values and capabilities to envision and work towards preferable futures.
This book explores research topics in graph theory and its applications, from strongly perfect graphs and reconstruction conjectures to transport networks. It is ideal for researchers interested in exploring new areas of graph theory and its applications.
This book covers Pulsed-Electrochemical Honing (PECH), a hybrid finishing process for intricate components like gears. It details the fundamentals, parameters for finishing straight bevel gears, and recent developments in tools, technologies, controls, and operations.
This book explores modern polymeric composites and their applications in information technologies, such as polarization holography, light electro-optical modulators, polarization sensitive gratings, and photovoltaic elements.
Conventional theories about alloys are wrong. This book is the first to present exhaustive evidence that processes in alloys are determined by the chemical interaction between nearest atoms, radically changing our ability to consciously design new materials.
This book is the most complete description of a photochemical reaction first described 110 years ago. The reaction between a carbonyl compound and an alkene yields an oxetane ring with high selectivity—a key structure in many naturally occurring and bioactive compounds.
Connecting the circular economy, trade, and climate action, this book scrutinizes the global sustainability agenda to propose new management perspectives and adaptive solutions for a changing world.
Fuel for the Future
Explore leading research on transforming low-rank coals into affordable, high-quality fuel for clean power generation. This book charts a course toward secure, zero-emissions energy from an abundant global resource, vital for industry and policymakers.
This book focuses on the calculus of variations, combining partial differential equations with geometry to solve nonlinear problems. It provides the latest developments in multidimensional optimization and optimal control for researchers, engineers, and students.
The Space Economy
This volume offers a new interpretation of the space economy from an economic perspective. It focuses on the tangible returns of investments made in the space industry since the Space Race, including the development of knowledge and technologies with high industrial impacts.
This book analyzes algorithms for stochastic phenomena like random processes and Markov chains. It presents a novel “Complex Probability Paradigm” applied to Brownian motion, making it ideal for researchers and students in mathematics, computer science, and science.