Drawing on 31 years of experience, this book guides readers in designing safe and cost-effective structures. It includes numerical examples in both SI and US units for components like beams, columns, slabs, and shear walls, plus considerations for dynamic loads like earthquakes.
A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications
This book covers a vast range of mathematics, from logic, number theory, and algebra to calculus, topology, and geometry. It includes complex analysis, differential equations, and matrices, with applications in the natural and social sciences, from physics to economics.
This book covers the measurement of optoelectronic components, focusing on the implementation of static electrical and optical characterization. It links these measurements to solid state physics and presents different LED technologies through detailed experimental analyses.
Modern ideas about acute pneumonia ignore fundamental medical science, leading to declining treatment results. This book corrects the existing doctrine to help understand the causes of these failures and significantly improve the effectiveness of treatment for patients.
Music and literature are an intellectual and spiritual marriage. They find their apotheosis when poetry is set to music, forming a complementary entity where music offers perspective to literature, and literature gives words to the feelings music arouses.
Once considered mild, psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a potentially serious disease that is difficult to diagnose early. This book illustrates a systematic approach to accurate diagnosis, presenting typical and rare case studies for clinicians, patients, and their families.
This collection of reflective biographical accounts follows diverse academics on their journeys to becoming educational researchers. Their personal stories highlight the challenges, resolutions, and ‘what I wish I knew’, revealing a path that is profoundly transformational.
This book discusses the impact of micronutrients (minerals and vitamins) on the human brain. From its developmental stage to intellectual performance, it describes their regulatory role, their potency on brain cells, and their connection to various neuropathological conditions.
The Evolution of Stars
With anecdotes from 60 years’ experience as a research scientist on the world’s largest telescopes, this book exposes what is often glossed over. It details the basis for our knowledge of the universe, warts and all, and offers insights as to where the science is going.
Modern Fantasies on Love versus Classical Romances
Viewed through quantum physics, love conquers nothing. This book introduces the Token Valence Method, which treats a word as a quantum state to reveal three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation, alienation, and imagination.
This casebook addresses the intersection of business strategy with biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. It highlights recent trends and opportunities in the life sciences, featuring advancements in fields like AI and showcasing novel applications of strategic management theory.
Anthropological Realism
Ethics lacks a strong theoretical basis and remains parochial as technologies become global. To move beyond unproductive stalemates, this book offers a next-generation theory of hybrid moral realism, promoting a sustainable global ethics of humaneness and human flourishing.
At the forefront of linguistic research, this volume investigates generative syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and traductology. Comparing English and Romanian to other languages, it also explores the challenges of translating specialised or literary texts.
The Christian-Islamic Vision of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror
This book is about the debt owed to a martyr of Ecumenical Romanity: Mehmed the Conqueror. His Christian-Islamic Roman vision, in the line of Alexander and Constantine, was stopped by the West, a conspiratorial son, and a lurking doctor in the service of Venice.
This book explores exhibition engineering design through illustrated case studies. Analyzing representative booths, it covers every aspect from shape and materials to lighting, installation, and AV. An essential reference or textbook for exhibition companies and students.
International sales have been ruled by conflicting English and Civil Law. This book shows how the Vienna Convention (CISG) harmonised these differences, blending civil law codification with common law institutions to bring vital certitude and sophistication to global commerce.
Learn about the most recent developments in English Language Teaching. Aimed at academics and educators, this book explores contemporary ideas and approaches, from creative techniques to cutting-edge technologies, providing theoretical foundations and real-world applications.
This timely book explores innovative, sustainable approaches to mitigate pollution. It delves into nature’s potential to address environmental issues, showing how natural solutions can transform waste management, restore ecosystems, and reclaim valuable resources.
Personal Finance for Everyday Challenges
We all face important career and personal decisions, from choosing a college to planning for retirement. This book provides a powerful set of personal finance concepts to help you analyze your choices and make the best decisions possible in the face of uncertainty.
This book concisely highlights various science laws, their formulas, and applications. These laws are fundamental to our understanding of the natural world and provide the foundation upon which many scientific theories are built.