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Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics

By: Ian Smith

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Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics

By: Ian Smith

Smith’s Elements of Soil Mechanics The revised 10th edition of the core textbook on soil mechanics The revised and updated edition of Smith’s Elements of Soil Mechanics continues to offer a core undergraduate textbook on soil mechanics. The author, a noted expert in geotechnical engineering, reviews all aspects of soil mechanics and provides a detailed explanation of how to use both the current and the next versions of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes accessible explanations, helpful illustrations, and worked examples and covers a wide range of topics including slope stability, retaining walls and shallow and deep foundations. The text is updated throughout to include additional material and more worked examples that clearly illustrate the processes for performing testing and design to the new European standards. In addition, the book’s accessible format provides the information needed to understand how to use the first and second generations of Eurocode 7 for geotechnical design. The second generation of this key design code has seen a major revision and the author explains the new methodology well, and has provided many worked examples to illustrate the design procedures. The new edition also contains a new chapter on constitutive modeling in geomechanics and updated information on the strength of soils, highway design and laboratory and field testing. This important text: Includes updated content throughout with a new chapter on constitutive modeling Provides explanation on geotechnical design to the new version of Eurocode 7 Presents enhanced information on laboratory and field testing and the new approach to pavement foundation design Provides learning outcomes, real-life examples, and self-learning exercises within each chapter Offers a companion website with downloadable video tutorials, animations, spreadsheets and additional teaching materials Written for students of civil engineering and geotechnical engineering, Smith’s Elements of Soil Mechanics, 10th Edition covers the fundamental changes in the ethos of geotechnical design advocated in the Eurocode 7.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119750415

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Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

By: Bryan Kolb,Ian Q. Whishaw

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Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

By: Bryan Kolb,Ian Q. Whishaw

Written by respected academics in neuropsychology, this sixth edition guides students on a comprehensive journey of discovery through the realm of contemporary human neuropsychology. The book has a clinical focus throughout.

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Macmillan

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0716795868

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9780716795865

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

By: Ian P. Howard

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Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

By: Ian P. Howard

The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much broader in scope than the previous books and includes mechanisms of depth perception by all senses, including aural, electrosensory organs, and the somatosensory system. Volume 1 reviews sensory coding, psychophysical and analytic procedures, and basic visual mechanisms. Volume 2 reviews stereoscopic vision. Volume 3 reviews all mechanisms of depth perception other than stereoscopic vision. The three volumes are extensively illustrated and referenced and provide the most detailed review of all aspects of perceiving the three-dimensional world. Volume 3 addresses all depth-perception mechanisms other than stereopsis. The book starts with an account of monocular cues to depth, including accommodation, vergence eye movements, perspective, interposition, shading, and motion parallax. A chapter on constancies in depth perception, such as the ability to perceive the sizes and shapes of objects as they move or rotate in depth, is followed by a chapter on the ways in which depth cues interact. The next chapter reviews sources of information, such as changing disparity, image looming, and vergence eye movements, used in the perception of objects moving in depth. Various pathologies of depth perception, including visual neglect, stereoanomalies, and albanism are reviewed. Visual depth-perception mechanisms through the animal kingdom are described, starting with insects and progressing through crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The chapter includes a discussion of how stereoscopic vision may have evolved. The next chapter describes how visual depth perception is used to guide reaching movements of the hand, avoiding obstacles, and walking to a distant object. The next three chapters review non-visual mechanisms of depth perception. Auditory mechanisms include auditory localization, echolocation in bats and marine mammals, and the lateral-line system of fish. Some fish emit electric discharges and then use electric sense organs to detect distortions of the electric field produced by nearby objects. Some beetles and snakes use heat-sensitive sense organs to detect sources of heat. The volume ends with a discussion of mechanisms used by animals to navigate to a distant site. Ants find their way back to the nest by using landmarks and by integrating their walking movements. Several animals navigate by the stars or by polarized sunlight. It seems that animals in several phyla navigate by detecting the Earths magnetic field.

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Oxford University Press

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019987736X

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The King of Shanghai

An Ava Lee Novel: Book 7

By: Ian Hamilton

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The King of Shanghai

An Ava Lee Novel: Book 7

By: Ian Hamilton

The seventh novel in the Ava Lee series finds Ava caught up in the election for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies. It’s been three months since Uncle’s passing, and Ava is finally ready to begin her new life as a partner with May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law Amanda in their Three Sisters venture capital firm. Ava travels to Shanghai to hear a pitch on a new investment possibility: the creation of a fashion line by Clark and Gillian Po. She also meets with the mysterious Xu, a young man Uncle had been mentoring and who is the head of the triad in Shanghai. Xu makes an audacious business proposal that she and May Ling are compelled to consider. Meanwhile, separately and privately, he confides to Ava that he intends to run for the chairmanship of the Triad Societies and attempts to recruit her as his adviser. Against her will, Ava becomes enmeshed in triad warfare and her future is threatened...

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House of Anansi

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1770892478

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9781770892477

Essentials of Industrial Mathematics

By: Enyinda Onunwor,Ian Miller,Dennis Onyeka Frank-Ito, PhD

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Essentials of Industrial Mathematics

By: Enyinda Onunwor,Ian Miller,Dennis Onyeka Frank-Ito, PhD

This text covers the topics of elementary mathematics needed for applications in the vocational and technical curriculum. The operation and use of the scientific calculator as a problem solving tool will be emphasized. Topics include: basic concepts, fractions, the metric system, measurements, polynomials, basic right angle trigonometry, solving oblique triangles with the Law of Sines and the Law of Cosines, ratios and proportions, and geometry.

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Lulu.com

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1329445740

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9781329445741

Hydrodynamics of Oil and Gas

By: Ian Lerche,R.O. Thomsen

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Hydrodynamics of Oil and Gas

By: Ian Lerche,R.O. Thomsen

There has long been interest in the flow of fluids through permeable aqui fers. Stratigraphic trapping of oil and gas by permeability changes in an aquifer and the amounts of hydrocarbons so trapped are major concerns to the oil industry. The variations of aquifer width and geometry and of the positions in an aquifer where hydrocarbons can be trapped by hydro dynamic forces are intimately intertwined in determining the shape, and thus the volume, of hydrocarbons. Perhaps the seminal work in this area is reflected by King Hubbert's massive review paper "Entrapment of Petroleum under Hydrodynamic Conditions" (Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull. 37(8), 1954-2026, 1953), in which a wide variety of effects, such as capillarity, buoyancy, surface tension, and salinity of water, are incorporated as basic factors influenc ing the positioning and shaping of hydrocarbon masses in hydrodynami cally active aquifers. In those days, while the basic physics could readily be appreciated, development of a detailed quantitative understanding of the interplay of the various factors in controlling or modulating hydro dynamic shapes was severely limited by computer abilities. Indeed, Hub bert actually constructed and photographed physical models, using alcohol and water, to illustrate basic concepts. It is difficult to obtain an appreciation of the behavior of flow geometries from such experiments when all factors are permitted to vary simultaneously.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489913017

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9781489913012

Conflicted

How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes

By: Ian Leslie

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Conflicted

How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes

By: Ian Leslie

Drawing on advice from the world’s leading experts on conflict and communication—from relationship scientists to hostage negotiators to diplomats—Ian Leslie, a columnist for the New Statesman, shows us how to transform the heat of conflict, disagreement and argument into the light of insight, creativity and connection, in a book with vital lessons for the home, workplace, and public arena. For most people, conflict triggers a fight or flight response. Disagreeing productively is a hard skill for which neither evolution or society has equipped us. It’s a skill we urgently need to acquire; otherwise, our increasingly vociferous disagreements are destined to tear us apart. Productive disagreement is a way of thinking, perhaps the best one we have. It makes us smarter and more creative, and it can even bring us closer together. It’s critical to the success of any shared enterprise, from a marriage, to a business, to a democracy. Isn’t it time we gave more thought to how to do it well? In an increasingly polarized world, our only chance for coming together and moving forward is to learn from those who have mastered the art and science of disagreement. In this book, we’ll learn from experts who are highly skilled at getting the most out of highly charged encounters: interrogators, cops, divorce mediators, therapists, diplomats, psychologists. These professionals know how to get something valuable – information, insight, ideas—from the toughest, most antagonistic conversations. They are brilliant communicators: masters at shaping the conversation beneath the conversation. They know how to turn the heat of conflict into the light of creativity, connection, and insight. In this much-need book, Ian Leslie explores what happens to us when we argue, why disagreement makes us stressed, and why we get angry. He explains why we urgently need to transform the way we think about conflict and how having better disagreements can make us more successful. By drawing together the lessons he learns from different experts, he proposes a series of clear principles that we can all use to make our most difficult dialogues more productive—and our increasingly acrimonious world a better place.

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HarperCollins

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006287859X

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9780062878595

Mechanical Science for Technicians

Volume 1

By: Ian McDonagh

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Mechanical Science for Technicians

Volume 1

By: Ian McDonagh

Mechanical Science for Technicians, Volume 1, Second Edition focuses on the understanding of mechanical engineering and analytical approaches to solutions of problems involving deformation of materials, dynamics, and fluid flow. The monograph first elaborates on stress, strain, elasticity, and shear force and bending moment and stress. Discussions focus on the relationship between bending stress and external bending moment, assumptions made in the simple theory of bending, geometrical properties of plane sections, stress and strain in composite bars, and the effect of temperature change on composite bars. The manuscript then takes a look at the torsion of circular shafts, including torsion of hollow circular shafts, shear stress and angle of twist, and the relationship between shear stress and external torque. The text examines angular motion, kinetic energy, simple oscillations, and fluids in motion. Topics include pressure, kinetic, and potential energy, effect of approach velocity on flow through an orifice, oscillations of a simple pendulum, rotational or angular kinetic energy, and equations of uniform angular motion. The monograph is a valuable reference for engineers and researchers interested in mechanical engineering.

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Elsevier

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1483183300

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9781483183305

The Impartial Recorder

A Novel

By: Ian Sansom

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The Impartial Recorder

A Novel

By: Ian Sansom

Big Davey Jones is coming home. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. He's been gone almost 20 years now, but nobody's forgotten him. Davey's a local hero, his miracle birth as the seventh son of a seventh son brought fame to this little town and they've been grateful ever since. But Davey's home town has changed much in the intervening years.

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Harper Collins

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0007157398

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9780007157396

Ring Road: There’s no place like home

By: Ian Sansom

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Ring Road: There’s no place like home

By: Ian Sansom

A warm, humane, and sharply observed tale of small town life that is by equal turns hilarious and moving.

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HarperCollins UK

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0007402473

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9780007402472

Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

By: Ian M. Miller

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Fir and Empire

The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

By: Ian M. Miller

The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth-century social and ecological crisis. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and 1700, when natural forests were replaced with anthropogenic ones. Miller demonstrates that this form of forest management generally rested on private ownership under relatively distant state oversight and taxation. He further draws on in-depth case studies of shipbuilding and imperial logging to argue that this novel landscape was not created through simple extractive pressures, but by attempts to incorporate institutional and ecological complexity into a unified imperial state. Miller uses the emergence of anthropogenic forests in south China to rethink both temporal and spatial frameworks for Chinese history and the nature of Chinese empire. Because dominant European forestry models do not neatly overlap with the non-Western world, China’s history is often left out of global conversations about them; Miller’s work rectifies this omission and suggests that in some ways, China’s forest system may have worked better than the more familiar European institutions.

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University of Washington Press

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029574734X

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9780295747347

Active Networks

IFIP-TC6 Third International Working Conference, IWAN 2001, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 30-October 2, 2001. Proceedings

By: Ian W. Marshall,Scott M. Nettles

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Active Networks

IFIP-TC6 Third International Working Conference, IWAN 2001, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 30-October 2, 2001. Proceedings

By: Ian W. Marshall,Scott M. Nettles

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP-TC6 Third International Working Conference on Active Networks, IWAN 2001, held in Phildelphia, PA, USA in October 2001. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. Papers presented covered topics like active multicast, active QoS, active security, active GRIDs, management, architectures, language and API issues.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540426787

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9783540426783

Complex Analysis

By: Ian Stewart,David Tall

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Complex Analysis

By: Ian Stewart,David Tall

A new edition of a classic textbook on complex analysis with an emphasis on translating visual intuition to rigorous proof.

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405

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Cambridge University Press

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110843679X

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9781108436793

Sparks

China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

By: Ian Johnson

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Sparks

China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

By: Ian Johnson

A vital account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers, and artists haver overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground, its monopoly on history

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Oxford University Press

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0197575501

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9780197575505

Theory and Design of Microwave Filters

By: Ian Hunter

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Theory and Design of Microwave Filters

By: Ian Hunter

A textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students introducing microwave filter design and the circuit theory and network synthesis that are necessary to it. A variety of design theories are presented followed by specific examples with numerical simulations of the designs and when possible pictures of real devices. c. Book News Inc.

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IET

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Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics

Smith's Elements of Soil Mechanics

Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

Perceiving in Depth, Volume 3: Other Mechanisms of Depth Perception

The King of Shanghai

The King of Shanghai

Essentials of Industrial Mathematics

Essentials of Industrial Mathematics

Hydrodynamics of Oil and Gas

Hydrodynamics of Oil and Gas

Conflicted

Conflicted

Mechanical Science for Technicians

Mechanical Science for Technicians

The Impartial Recorder

The Impartial Recorder

Ring Road: There’s no place like home

Ring Road: There’s no place like home

Fir and Empire

Fir and Empire

Active Networks

Active Networks

Complex Analysis

Complex Analysis

Sparks

Sparks

Theory and Design of Microwave Filters

Theory and Design of Microwave Filters

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