Comparative Philosophy Today and Tomorrow
With a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this collection of essays juxtaposes philosophical views on shared themes, stimulating fresh insight into contemporary issues from self-cultivation to global justice and the connections between East and West.
This book offers an amazing collection of analyzed images from the Red Planet, suggestive of ancestral life on Mars. It evidences possible microbial life and complex structures reminiscent of terrestrial fossils, a presentation of importance for astrobiologists and space lovers.
Compelling Form
Compelling Form argues that architecture is as capable of social influence as speeches or advertisements. The book demonstrates how the visual design of diverse structures—from cathedrals to skyscrapers—affects the viewer and has lasting social impact.
This book, by experts in Network Science, covers theoretical and practical advances in this growing, interdisciplinary field. It takes the reader through essential concepts for the structural analysis of networks and their applications to real-world scenarios.
Complexes of Natural Flavonoids with Transition Metals
The beneficial effects of plants are associated with flavonoids, which bind metals to form complexes. This book summarizes the scientific evidence on the structure, chemistry, and biological function of these metal-flavonoid complexes and their effect on disease.
This book presents insights into manganese oxides, materials with important technological applications in magnetic refrigeration and sensors. With elegant and didactic mathematical proofs, it will interest both researchers and the general reader interested in the subject.
Computational Modeling by Case Study
Mathematical models power the modern world, but they are all uncertain. This book provides techniques to quantify uncertainty, allowing you to predict and design with confidence. Learn through case studies and reproducible examples in Python adapted for your own problems.
Contemporary Architecture
This book offers an exciting journey into recent architectural achievements. In contrast to many books, architecture is not described chronologically here, but independently for each trend. This allows a better explanation of the evolution and continuity of each movement.
This title discusses an array of critical contemporary issues on housing design pertaining to sustainable practices, emerging technologies, heritage conservation, humanitarian efforts, and their effects on occupants’ physical and psychological experience and well-being.
This book explores urban renewal in post-industrial regional cities through an in-depth study of Geelong. While architecture is key to change, an intersectional perspective reveals contested pasts, from the dispossession of First Nations people to the exploitation of immigrants.
Controllability of Dynamic Systems
This book explores the Green’s function method for controllability analysis in dynamic systems. Valid for both linear and nonlinear dynamics, the approach is shown with examples of sophisticated issues and extensive numerical analysis, revealing its advantages and drawbacks.
A guide to chemically modifying metal surfaces to produce hard, scratch-resistant, and corrosion-resistant surfaces, or surfaces that easily accept coatings. Includes processes for aluminum, magnesium, titanium, iron, copper, silver, and their alloys.
This book presents basic results in functional and classical analysis, emphasizing convexity, optimization, and operator theory. It reveals the connection between linear and convex operators and establishes their relationship with other fields of mathematics and physics.
A self-study guide to Solid State Physics for students of Physics, Engineering, and Materials Science. It contains carefully selected problems and detailed solutions, with core concepts presented concisely and with minimal math to help you master problem-solving.
This book explores the ponderomotive wave forces of space plasma and their theoretical implications. The theory offers a vital tool for analyzing plasma data from the terrestrial and Martian environments, providing a roadmap for interpreting distant stellar and galactic objects.
A must-read for professionals and advocates of historic preservation, this volume is a compendium of powerful essays by thought-leaders in the field first presented in 2016 as part of the fiftieth anniversary observation of the US National Historic Preservation Act.
Critical Practices in Architecture
Inspired by Jane Rendell’s critical spatial practice, this book shows how socially engaged architects, designers, and artists work to change the world. Bridging global perspectives, it explores urgent themes of equality, ethics, pedagogy, and representation.
Constructal theory is widely used, but often incorrectly applied, leading to unreasonable results. This book systematically reviews its applications in fields from economics to heat transfer, pointing out significant flaws, mistakes, and limitations. An essential read for anyone.
Semakov highlights some of the most important fundamental results related to crossings problems in the context of aviation. The result is a work that will appeal to engineers and scientists who are interested in the applications of random processes theory and its methods.
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.