This book covers the theory of Raman scattering by molecules and crystals, including molecular vibrations and their symmetry. It details Raman spectroscopic techniques and is ideal for students and scientists researching chemical, mineralogical, and biological systems.
Explore mathematical concepts from historical and cultural perspectives. This book uses original material to offer new discoveries and re-interpretations of problems, from the abacus to integral calculus. An enthusiastic and rigorous read for educators and general readers alike.
This guide offers a comprehensive understanding of robotics, automation, and CNC technology. Learn how they interact to enhance precision and productivity in modern manufacturing. With real-world examples, it’s an invaluable resource for students, engineers, and professionals.
This book explains the theory and technology of converting electric energy to other forms, such as thermal, chemical, or mechanical. It offers new calculation methods and operating principles for electrotechnological equipment widely used in Eastern Europe.
This book explores the link between human comfort and energy efficiency. Integrating engineering, psychology, and social sciences, it explains how human behaviour impacts energy use and offers practical solutions for creating more energy-conscious environments.
Optical metrology, the science of measuring light, has applications in industry and health, enabling non-destructive evaluation of materials and the study of cellular structures. This book explains recent optical imaging techniques carried out by the author in these fields.
Responsible Pedagogies in Architecture
This book highlights how Manipal University Jaipur’s School of Architecture and Design is addressing climate change. Through its research, teaching, and community outreach, it pursues ‘responsible pedagogies’ for environmental, economic, and social sustainability.
In multiplicative calculus, division and multiplication replace the roles of subtraction and addition. This book is devoted to multiplicative Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, summarizing the most recent contributions for mathematicians, physicists, engineers and biologists.
This work investigates the algebraic theory of corner subrings in Banach and C*-algebras. We propose a general approach to explore when topological properties are consequences of algebraic assumptions, with results for C*-algebras and ternary rings of operators.
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world’s oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism’s introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
Communities in Action
This volume shows how ICTs are a powerful resource for community action, including social change, learning, and development. It offers a platform for exchanging experiences, case studies, and solutions, helping readers grasp the complexities of social-technical relations.
Housing the Environmental Imagination
For writers like Thoreau, Jeffers, and Snyder, the writing project is inseparable from the living project. This book examines how their houses shaped their work, asking a larger question: How shall we live the best lives we can, every day?
The Hydropolitics of Africa
Water is an essential resource and a source of disease and conflict in Africa, where global warming threatens survival. This volume traces the dynamics of contemporary hydropolitics through technical, institutional, and social policy analyses.
Precedented Environmental Futures
This book addresses in a holistic manner the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture. It offers broad discursive messages, rather than narrow conclusions, and will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion assesses the visual persuasiveness of art museums. It demonstrates that museums are as capable of influence as speeches or advertisements through their architecture, collections, and exhibition designs.
Identity theft is a growing concern in mobile ad-hoc networks. This book presents an innovative framework for identity management that puts users back in control. Using context-awareness and user-centricity, it protects identity and balances privacy with convenience.
Singing for Themselves
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
Revisiting the Past through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia
This volume investigates how our memories of conflict are shaped by rhetoric. From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, the authors examine how rhetoric acts as a catalyst not only for what we remember, but also for what we are made to forget.
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
A critical re-reading of early modern architectural history. Through post-war theory, this book unpacks the canon of Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion, extending the critical historiography of Frampton and Tafuri.
Broadening Horizons
‘Broadening Horizons’ presents multidisciplinary approaches to landscape research in the Mediterranean and the Near East. Highlighting diverse methods, it provides a significant contribution for specialists and beginning researchers alike.
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