Romanesque Architecture and its Artistry in Central Europe, 900-1300
This book surveys Romanesque architecture in Central Europe, from palaces and castles to its major churches. It focuses on the artistic ornamentation—from portals to capitals—that transformed these monumental fortresses of God into powerful sermons in stone.
Romanticism, Rhetoric and the Search for the Sublime
This book re-contextualizes Romantic rhetorical theory to construct a Neo-Romantic theory for our time. Correcting misconceptions about major Romantic writers, it uniquely links their love of nature to the current environmental crisis.
This book is a precise and comprehensive history of the digital computer, tracing its roots and routes through the modern era. Though dealing with the history of technology in general, its central focus is the automatic digital program-controlled calculating devices of 1935-1945.
Rigging is hazardous and complex. This book deals exhaustively with the scientific principles and safe practices for rigging heavy loads. It is a must-read for managers and engineers responsible for the safety of their teams involved in heavy rigging activities.
Safety Management for the City Gas Industry
City gas provides great convenience but also poses dangers. This book discusses safety issues from a management perspective, sorting out important Chinese laws and summarising practices and experiences to benefit professionals across the globe.
This book explores quantum-mechanical scattering in macroscopic targets and the conditions for coherent scattering on a macroscopic scale. It introduces coherence domains and examines their role in scattering, emphasizing the momentum and energy transfer to the target.
This book solves scattering problems for elastic waves in solids using analytical approaches. It provides benchmark solutions for numerical methods and introduces applications in ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, material characterization, and geophysics.
Science and Biotechnology in Africa
This volume provides a selection of papers from the conference “Translational Science and Biotechnology Advances in Africa.” Encompassing fields from biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences to agriculture, it reflects the tangible advancement of science in Africa.
This book explores the interface between biochemistry and cosmochemistry to understand how life began on Earth and if this process is universal. Told through personal anecdotes, it focuses on amino acids to ask if life could originate and evolve on other worlds.
Science Meets Sports
This book presents sports statistics to academics and fans alike. Even without advanced math knowledge, readers will gain completely new insights into their favourite sports by combining sports analytics, data visualisation, and advanced statistical procedures.
Scientific Programming
Calvo offers an introduction to computer programming, numerical analysis, and other mathematical ideas that extend the basic topics learned in calculus. He illustrates how mathematicians and scientists write computer programs.
Searching for Sustainable Development and Its Purpose
This book provides a synthesis of sustainable development, detailing the “big picture” of the human story and our influence on the environment. A future-oriented study, it maps the potential opportunities and threats associated with our development.
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.
Sectoral Structures Theory is a novel, interdisciplinary framework for studying arrangements of circular sectors. This work establishes its foundations in geometric combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory, integrating concepts from algebra, topology, and group theory.
Reinforced concrete columns play a very important role in structural performance; as such, it is essential to apply a suitable analytical tool to estimate their structural behaviour and consider failure mechanisms. This monograph focuses on fiber beam-column elements.
Seismic Isolation Strategies for Earthquake-Resistant Construction
This book presents unique, modern, and cost-effective seismic isolation strategies to make existing buildings earthquake-proof. Learn how these highly efficient methods can be implemented quickly, easily, and without interrupting building use, demonstrated on real-world examples.
This book highlights the current state of the art of cybersecurity, covering key areas from systems design and management to emerging technology trends. It will appeal to practitioners, faculty, and students in cybersecurity, information technology, and computer science.
Selected Topics on Antenna Synthesis
This volume provides essential tools for developing antennas. It moves beyond classical synthesis to focus on synthesizing desired radiation patterns and optimizing phase patterns to eliminate shadowing effects, while strengthening the reader’s engineering style of thinking.
Semiotics for Art History
Reading art from a semiotic perspective, this book offers a new interpretation of Chinese landscape painting and outlines a new framework for contemporary semiotics and critical theory. Learn how to put theory into practice and acquire a new point of view in appreciating art.
Semirings are used in cryptography as their additive operation lacks an inverse, preventing cryptosystem breakage. This book describes such protocols and the hard math their security is based on, appealing to cryptographers and specialists in applied algebra.