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There's a hidden Science that affects every part of your life, a Science so powerful that you would be hard-pressed to find a single human being on the planet unaffected by its achievements. It is the Science behind computers, the machines which drive the supply and creation of power, food, medicine, money, communication, entertainment, and most goods our stores. It has transformed societies with the Internet, the digitization of information, mobile phone networks, and GPS technologies. Written in friendly and approachable language, Digitized provides a window onto the mysterious field from which all computer technology originates, making the theory and practice of computation understandable to the general reader. This popular Science book explains how and why computers were invented, how they work, and what will happen in the future. Written by a leading computer scientist, Peter J. Bentley, it tells this fascinating story using the voices of pioneers and leading experts interviewed for the book, in effect throwing open the doors of the most cutting-edge computer laboratories. Bentley explores how this young discipline grew from the early work by pioneers such as Turing, through its growth spurts in the Internet, its difficult adolescent stage where the promises of AI were never achieved and dot-com bubble burst, to its current stage as a semi-mature field, capable of remarkable achievements. Packed with real-world examples, Digitized is the only book to explain the origins and key advances in all areas of computing: theory, hardware, software, Internet, user interfaces, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. If you have an interest in computers--whether you work with them, use them for fun, or are being taught about them in school--this book will provide an entertaining introduction to the Science that's changing the world.
Peter J. Bentley
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Surface Science has evolved from being a sub-field of chemistry or physics, and has now established itself as an interdisciplinary topic. Knowledge has developed sufficiently that we can now understand catalysis from a surface Science perspective. No-where is the underpinning nature of surface Science better illustrated than with nano Science . Now in its third edition, this successful textbook aims to provide students with an understanding of chemical transformations and the formation of structures at surfaces. The chapters build from simple to more advanced principles with each featuring exercises, which act not only to demonstrate concepts arising in the text but also to form an integral part of the book, with the last eight chapters featuring worked solutions. This completely revised and expanded edition features: More than 100 new pages of extensive worked solutions New topics, including: Second harmonic generation (SHG), Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) at interfaces and capillary waves An expanded treatment of charge transfer and carbon-based materials including graphene Extended ‘Frontiers and Challenges’ sections at the end of each chapter. This text is suitable for all students taking courses in surface Science in Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science , as well as for researchers and professionals requiring an up-to-date review of the subject.
Kurt K. Kolasinski
Science
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This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social Science s, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, modeling, and advanced computing. It brings together detailed case studies, regional analyses, and globally scaled mapping efforts. This is the most organized effort made to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth's biosphere.Audience: This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers.This volume includes a CD-ROM containing full color images of a selection of illustrations which are printed in black-and-white in the book.
Garik Gutman |
Anthony C. Janetos |
Christopher O. Justice |
Emilio F. Moran |
John F. Mustard |
Ronald R. Rindfuss |
Mark A. Cochrane |
David Skole |
Billy Lee Turner II
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Adopting a didactical approach from fundamentals to actual experiments and applications, this handbook and ready reference covers modern focused ion beam workstations, scanning electron microscopes and transmission electron microscopes, while also showing how to combine them for real-time observation. The text begins with introductory material and the basics, before going on to cover the techniques needed to determine growth processes, melting, reactions, and doping as well as mechanical, magnetic, optical and electronic properties. A final section is devoted to soft matter.
Gerhard Dehm |
James M. Howe |
Josef Zweck
Technology & Engineering
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The first book on this hot topic summarizes current knowledge of the surface and interface chemistry of aryl diazonium salts. As such, it covers fundamental aspects of diazonium chemistry, together with theoretical calculations of surface-molecule bonding, analytical methods used for the characterization of aryl layers, as well as important applications in the fields of electrochemistry, nanotechnology, biosensors, and materials Science . Furthermore, a section on other surface modifiers is included. Edited and authored by the world's leading experts in the area of surface chemistry, this is a valuable book for PhD students, academics and industrial researchers.
Mohamed Mehdi Chehimi
Science
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Christoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear Science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959.
Christoph Laucht
History
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This book is ideal for undergraduate food Science students as well as for people working in the ice cream industry.
Chris Clarke
Cooking
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" A cutting-edge synthesis of Science and practice, this book covers everything from sports-related concussions to less common types of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and related complications. Preeminent authorities review what is known about mTBI in childhood and adolescence, including its biomechanics, pathophysiology, and neurological and neurobehavioral outcomes and showcase evidence-based clinical evaluation tools and management strategies. Challenging areas such as evaluating complicated mTBI and treating persistent problems after injury are discussed in detail. Also addressed are forensic issues, injury in very early childhood, and other special-interest topics"--
Michael W. Kirkwood |
Keith Owen Yeates
Brain
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Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern Science date back centuries, the category of “ Science ” itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean “ Science ,” naturwissenschaft, was not even included in dictionaries. By 1850, however, the term was in use everywhere. Acolytes of Nature follows the emergence of this important new category within German-speaking Europe, tracing its rise from an insignificant eighteenth-century neologism to a defining rallying cry of modern German culture. Today's notion of a unified natural Science has been deemed an invention of the mid-nineteenth century. Yet what Denise Phillips reveals here is that the idea of naturwissenschaft acquired a prominent place in German public life several decades earlier. Phillips uncovers the evolving outlines of the category of natural Science and examines why Germans of varied social station and intellectual commitments came to find this label useful. An expanding education system, an increasingly vibrant consumer culture and urban social life, the early stages of industrialization, and the emergence of a liberal political movement all fundamentally altered the world in which educated Germans lived, and also reshaped the way they classified knowledge.
Denise Phillips
History
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Uniting fifty of the most prominent and renowned academic, government and industry researchers with the aim of developing commercial concepts, this handbook explores mature, evolving technologies for a clean, economically viable alternative to non-renewable energy. In so doing, it also covers such broader topics as the environmental impact, education and regulatory developments, examining the technologies currently available, materials and production processes, modeling and simulation as well as public awareness.
Detlef Stolten |
Bernd Emonts
Science
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Mineralized Tissues in Oral and Craniofacial Science is a major comprehensive update on knowledge in the field of mineralized tissues in the oral and craniofacial region. Drs. McCauley and Somerman assembled an international team of researchers and clinicians, offering a global perspective on the current knowledge in this field. Basic and clinical correlates reinforce the significance of research to clinical diagnoses and therapies, written in a manner that lends easily to their use for case study teaching venues. Section 1 features the many aspects of bone in the craniofacial region, including embryology, cell biology, and stem cell biology. Section 2 focuses on teeth-tooth development, dentin, enamel, cementum, and tooth regeneration. Section 3 discusses the interaction between bones and teeth, including those associated with inflammatory processes, periodontal ligaments, biomechanics, and other impact factors-such as nutrition, metabolic bone diseases and therapeutic modalities. The novel approach of linking the basic principles of the cell and molecular biology of hard tissues to clinical correlates will appeal to readers at all levels of their research careers, both students and faculty; faculty interested in a comprehensive text for reference; and clinicians interested in the biologic aspects of bones and teeth.
Laurie K. McCauley |
Martha J. Somerman
Medical
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