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Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China

By: Paul Nicholas Vogt

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Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China

By: Paul Nicholas Vogt

In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009051199

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Combinatorics

By: Nicholas Loehr

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Combinatorics

By: Nicholas Loehr

Combinatorics, Second Edition is a well-rounded, general introduction to the subjects of enumerative, bijective, and algebraic combinatorics. The textbook emphasizes bijective proofs, which provide elegant solutions to counting problems by setting up one-to-one correspondences between two sets of combinatorial objects. The author has written the textbook to be accessible to readers without any prior background in abstract algebra or combinatorics. Part I of the second edition develops an array of mathematical tools to solve counting problems: basic counting rules, recursions, inclusion-exclusion techniques, generating functions, bijective proofs, and linear algebraic methods. These tools are used to analyze combinatorial structures such as words, permutations, subsets, functions, graphs, trees, lattice paths, and much more. Part II cover topics in algebraic combinatorics including group actions, permutation statistics, symmetric functions, and tableau combinatorics. This edition provides greater coverage of the use of ordinary and exponential generating functions as a problem-solving tool. Along with two new chapters, several new sections, and improved exposition throughout, the textbook is brimming with many examples and exercises of various levels of difficulty.

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CRC Press

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149878027X

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The Physical World

An Inspirational Tour of Fundamental Physics

By: Nicholas Manton,Nicholas Mee

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The Physical World

An Inspirational Tour of Fundamental Physics

By: Nicholas Manton,Nicholas Mee

The Physical World offers a grand vision of the essential unity of physics that will enable the reader to see the world through the eyes of a physicist and understand their thinking. The text follows Einstein's dictum that 'explanations should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler', to give an honest account of how modern physicists understand their subject, including the shortcomings of current theory. The result is an up-to-date and engaging portrait of physics that contains concise derivations of the important results in a style where every step in a derivation is clearly explained, so that anyone with the appropriate mathematical skills will find the text easy to digest. It is over half a century since The Feynman Lectures in Physics were published. A new authoritative account of fundamental physics covering all branches of the subject is now well overdue. The Physical World has been written to satisfy this need. The book concentrates on the conceptual principles of each branch of physics and shows how they fit together to form a coherent whole. Emphasis is placed on the use of variational principles in physics, and in particular the principle of least action, an approach that lies at the heart of modern theoretical physics, but has been neglected in most introductory accounts of the subject.

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Oxford University Press

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0192515659

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Engineering Mathematics and Statistics

Pocket Handbook

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Louise Ferrante

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Engineering Mathematics and Statistics

Pocket Handbook

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Louise Ferrante

This pocket handbook is intended as a handy reference guide for engineers, scientists and students on widely used mathematical relationships, statistical formulas and problem-solving methods. It is a compilation of useful formulas and generalised problem-solving techniques employed by practitioners in the analysis and interpretation of scientific data and problem solving. Written in short note form, it is intended to provide the user with a quick, easy reference to information with ample references provided for further readings. Illustrated examples are included for more involved problem-solving methods. Many of the techniques are well suited to adaptatation on personal computers and there are more detailed instructions included to guide and illustrate computer aided problem solving.

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Routledge

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1351450972

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Jet Propulsion

A Simple Guide to the Aerodynamic and Thermodynamic Design and Performance of Jet Engines

By: Nicholas Cumpsty

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Jet Propulsion

A Simple Guide to the Aerodynamic and Thermodynamic Design and Performance of Jet Engines

By: Nicholas Cumpsty

This is the second edition of Cumpsty's excellent self-contained introduction to the aerodynamic and thermodynamic design of modern civil and military jet engines. Through two engine design projects, first for a new large passenger aircraft, and second for a new fighter aircraft, the text introduces, illustrates and explains the important facets of modern engine design. Individual sections cover aircraft requirements and aerodynamics, principles of gas turbines and jet engines, elementary compressible fluid mechanics, bypass ratio selection, scaling and dimensional analysis, turbine and compressor design and characteristics, design optimization, and off-design performance. The book emphasises principles and ideas, with simplification and approximation used where this helps understanding. This edition has been thoroughly updated and revised, and includes a new appendix on noise control and an expanded treatment of combustion emissions. Suitable for student courses in aircraft propulsion, but also an invaluable reference for engineers in the engine and airframe industry.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139936123

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Advanced Polymer Processing Operations

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

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Advanced Polymer Processing Operations

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

This volume covers advanced polymer processing operations and is designed to provide a description of some of the latest industry developments for unique products and fabrication methods. Contributors for this volume are from both industry and academia from the international community. This book contains nine chapters covering advanced processing applications and technologies.

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William Andrew

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0815516118

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Loyalty and Secrecy

By: Nicholas G.L. Petryszak

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Loyalty and Secrecy

By: Nicholas G.L. Petryszak

A young, disillusioned university professor tells his story of becoming involved with an international triad organization, “the circle”. Blinded by lust and love, wealth and glamour, he unwittingly transforms into a gang member; participating in a variety of crimes; witnessing murder and tragic suicide; ending up in prison. A story of love, criminal intrigue and tragic drama. About how the bonds of loyalty and secrecy are forged and then, how they are finally broken.

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1665505885

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Illustrating Finance Policy with Mathematica

By: Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

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Illustrating Finance Policy with Mathematica

By: Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

Students in various disciplines—from law and government to business and health policy—need to understand several quantitative aspects of finance (such as the capital asset pricing model or financial options) and policy analysis (e.g., assessing the weight of probabilistic evidence) but often have little quantitative background. This book illustrates those phenomena and explains how to illustrate them using the powerful visuals that computing can produce. Of particular interest to graduate students and scholars in need of sharper quantitative methods, this book introduces the reader to Mathematica, enables readers to use Mathematica to produce their own illustrations, and places specific emphasis on finance and policy as well as the foundations of probability theory.

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Springer

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3319953729

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Cervantine Blackness

By: Nicholas R. Jones

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Cervantine Blackness

By: Nicholas R. Jones

There is no shortage of Black characters in Miguel de Cervantes’s works, yet there has been a profound silence about the Spanish author’s compelling literary construction and cultural codification of Black Africans and sub-Saharan Africa. In Cervantine Blackness, Nicholas R. Jones reconsiders in what sense Black subjects possess an inherent value within Cervantes’s cultural purview and literary corpus. In this unflinching critique, Jones charts important new methodological and theoretical terrain, problematizing the ways emphasis on agency has stifled and truncated the study of Black Africans and their descendants in early modern Spanish cultural and literary production. Through the lens of what he calls “Cervantine Blackness,” Jones challenges the reader to think about the blind faith that has been lent to the idea of agency—and its analogues “presence” and “resistance”—as a primary motivation for examining the lives of Black people during this period. Offering a well-crafted and sharp critique, through a systematic deconstruction of deeply rooted prejudices, Jones establishes a solid foundation for the development of a new genre of literary and cultural criticism. A searing work of literary criticism and political debate, Cervantine Blackness speaks to specialists and nonspecialists alike—anyone with a serious interest in Cervantes’s work who takes seriously a critical reckoning with the cultural, historical, and literary legacies of agency, antiblackness, and refusal within the Iberian Peninsula and the global reaches of its empire.

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Penn State Press

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0271099089

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Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures

Differential Geometry Higher-Order Structural Theories

By: Francesco Tornabene,Michele Bacciocchi,Nicholas Fantuzzi,Erasmo Viola

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Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures

Differential Geometry Higher-Order Structural Theories

By: Francesco Tornabene,Michele Bacciocchi,Nicholas Fantuzzi,Erasmo Viola

The title, “Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures. Differential al Geometry and Higher-order Theories” illustrates the theme treated and the prospective followed during the composition of the present work. The aim of this manuscript is to analyze the static and dynamic behavior of thick and moderately thick composite shells through the application of the Differential Quadrature (DQ) method. The book is divided into two volumes wherein the principal higher order structural theories are illustrated in detail and the mechanical behavior of doubly-curved structures are presented by several static and dynamic numerical applications. In particular, the first volume is mainly theoretical, whereas the second one is mainly related to the numerical DQ technique and its applications in the structural field. The starting point to analyze higher-order structural theories is given by the so-called Unified Formulation (UF), which allows to consider and study several kinematic models in a unified manner. Both the Equivalent Single Layer (ESL) and Layer-Wise (LW) approaches are presented. A particular attention is paid to composite materials, due to their increasing development and use in many engineering fields during the last years.

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8874889577

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Galois Theory

By: Ian Nicholas Stewart

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Galois Theory

By: Ian Nicholas Stewart

Since 1973, Galois Theory has been educating undergraduate students on Galois groups and classical Galois theory. In Galois Theory, Fourth Edition, mathematician and popular science author Ian Stewart updates this well-established textbook for today's algebra students. New to the Fourth EditionThe replacement of the topological proof of the fundame

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1482245833

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Mathematics for Economists

An Introductory Textbook

By: Malcolm Pemberton,Nicholas Rau

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Mathematics for Economists

An Introductory Textbook

By: Malcolm Pemberton,Nicholas Rau

The third edition of Mathematics for Economists features new sections on double integration and discrete-time dynamic programming, as well as an online solutions manual and answers to exercises.

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1442612762

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Mechanics of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures

The generalized differential quadrature method and the strong formulation finite element method

By: Francesco Tornabene,Nicholas Fantuzzi

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Mechanics of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures

The generalized differential quadrature method and the strong formulation finite element method

By: Francesco Tornabene,Nicholas Fantuzzi

This manuscript comes from the experience gained over ten years of study and research on shell structures and on the Generalized Differential Quadrature method. The title, Mechanics of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures, illustrates the theme followed in the present volume. The present study aims to analyze the static and dynamic behavior of moderately thick shells made of composite materials through the application of the Differential Quadrature (DQ) technique. A particular attention is paid, other than fibrous and laminated composites, also to “Functionally Graded Materials” (FGMs). They are non-homogeneous materials, characterized by a continuous variation of the mechanical properties through a particular direction. The GDQ numerical solution is compared, not only with literature results, but also with the ones supplied and obtained through the use of different structural codes based on the Finite Element Method (FEM). Furthermore, an advanced version of GDQ method is also presented. This methodology is termed Strong Formulation Finite Element Method (SFEM) because it employs the strong form of the differential system of equations at the master element level and the mapping technique, proper of FEM. The connectivity between two elements is enforced through compatibility conditions.

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Elastomer Technology Handbook

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Paul N. Cheremisinoff

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Elastomer Technology Handbook

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Paul N. Cheremisinoff

Elastomer Technology Handbook is a major new reference on the science and technology of engineered elastomers. This contributed volume features some of the latest work by international experts in polymer science and rubber technology. Topics covered include theoretical and practical information on characterizing rubbers, designing engineering elastomers for consumer and engineering applications, properties testing, chemical and physical property characterization, polymerization chemistry, rubber processing and fabrication methods, and rheological characterization. The book also highlights both conventional and emerging market applications for synthetic rubber products and emphasizes the latest technology advancements. Elastomer Technology Handbook is a "must have" book for polymer researchers and engineers. It will also benefit anyone involved in the handling, manufacturing, processing, and designing of synthetic rubbers.

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0429610556

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Handbook of Ceramics and Composites

Mechanical Properties and Specialty Applications

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

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Handbook of Ceramics and Composites

Mechanical Properties and Specialty Applications

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

This volume reports the latest technological advances in polymeric composites and blends, reinforced polymeric and composite materials, and ceramics of engineering importance. It covers topics ranging from physical and mechanical properties testing and characterization to specialty composites.

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1000444783

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Liquid Filtration

By: Nicholas P Cheremisinoff

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Liquid Filtration

By: Nicholas P Cheremisinoff

Liquid Filtration is a state-of-the-art review of liquid filtration in the chemical process and allied industries. Interpretations of the phenomenological observations of the hydrodynamics of filtration are given in the hopes of establishing more theoretical and generalized bases of design methodology. Specific design and selection criteria are reviewed, and typical industrial problems and their solutions are presented. Nicholas Cheremisinoff is known internationally as one of the foremost engineers with Exxon and as the author of numerous books, articles and periodical contributions. Most recently his international consulting role has seen him active the Ukraine, part of the former Soviet Union, where the modernising of these industrial processes has been key. Liquid Filtration is a fundamental unit operation extensively practiced throughout the chemical process, petroleum, and allied industries. It involves the separation, removal, and collection of a discrete phase of matter existing in a dispersed or colloidal state in suspension. This separation is most often performed in the presence of a complex media structure in which physical, physiochemical and/or electrokinetic forces interact. - Guide to an essential industrial operation - Single reference source for many industries - Author has world-wide experience and reputation

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0080510361

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Polymer Mixing and Extrusion Technology

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

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Polymer Mixing and Extrusion Technology

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff

Addressing the two major unit operations-mixing and extrusion-fundamental toprocessing elastomers and plastic materials, this reference summarizes design equationsthat can be employed effectively in scaling up product performance parameters, andcontains a thorough survey of rheological principles. In addition, the book provides awealth of practical information, relating molecular and compositional properties ofpolymers to processing characteristics and end-use properties so that engineers can selectpolymers suitable for specific equipment as well as products.Polymer Mixing and Extrusion Technology examines viscometric techniquesand demonstrates their importance to product quality assurance ... reviews design-relatedliterature/correlations and calculation procedures for mixing and extrusion ... definesneeds and precision standards for setting up a polymer processing laboratory so thatproduct quality control can be implemented in physical testing and processing research.. . plus more.Illustrated with over 200 diagrams, tables, and photographs that facilitate readers'understanding of the processes, Polymer Mixing and Extrusion Technology isan authoritative source for plastics, polymer, and chemical engineers, manufacturers ofplastics processing equipment, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in thesedisciplines.

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082477793X

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Handbook of Applied Polymer Processing Technology

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Paul N. Cheremisinoff

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Handbook of Applied Polymer Processing Technology

By: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff,Paul N. Cheremisinoff

Offers detailed coverage of applied polymer processing--presenting a wide range of technologies and furnishing state-of-the-art data on polymer components, properties, and processibility. Reviews fundamental rheological concepts. Contains over 1600 bibliographic citations, some 450 equations, and over 400 tables, drawings, and photographs.

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1000148564

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Vertically and Crosswise

Applications of the Vedic Mathematics Sutra

By: Andrew P. Nicholas,Kenneth R. Williams,Jeremy Pickles

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Vertically and Crosswise

Applications of the Vedic Mathematics Sutra

By: Andrew P. Nicholas,Kenneth R. Williams,Jeremy Pickles

Vertically and Crosswise is an advanced book of sixteen chapters on one Vedic Mathematics sutra. Primarily it deals with the solution of equations, ranging from elementary examples of the sutra to no linear partical differential equations. Other topics include the inversion of matrices, curve-fitting, and methods of obtaining series expansions of common functions of one and ot two independent variables.

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Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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8120819608

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Theory of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures

By: Francesco Tornabene,Nicholas Fantuzzi

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Theory of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures

By: Francesco Tornabene,Nicholas Fantuzzi

This manuscript comes from the experience gained over thirteen years of study and research on shell structures. The title, Theory of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures, illustrates the theme followed in the present volume. The present study aims to analyze the static and dynamic behavior of moderately thick shells made of composite materials. A particular attention is paid, other than fibrous and laminated composites, also to “Functionally graded materials” (FGMs). They are non-homogeneous materials, characterized by a continuous varia on of the mechanical properties through a particular direction. In particular, the present manuscript was written as an attempt to show, in an easy way, the theoretical aspects of doubly-curved composite shell structures. Furthermore, it focuses only on the theoretical aspects related to laminated composite doubly-curved shell structures and represents a shortened version of the book entitled: Mechanics of Laminated Composite Doubly-Curved Shell Structures by the same authors, wherein also the numerical part has been presented. The present volume is aimed at Master degree and PhD students in structural and applied mechanics, as well as experts in these fields. The present volume is divided into six chapters, in which static and dynamic analyses of several structural elements are provided in detail. Furthermore, the results of the adopted numerical technique are presented for several problems such as different loading and boundary conditions.

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Società Editrice Esculapio

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889385001X

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Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World

By: Nicholas Griffin

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Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Ivor Montagu and the Astonishing Story Behind the Game That Changed the World

By: Nicholas Griffin

It was one of the most significant developments of the post-war era: China finally abandoning its close relationship with the Soviet Union to begin detente with the USA. Astonishingly, the man who helped make it happen was a British aristocrat, Ivor Montagu, a Soviet spy who knew Stalin and dined with Trotsky. Even more remarkably, the means to this rapprochement was table tennis, a sport loved by both Chairman Mao and Montagu. For years, Montagu had lived a dual life, working to spread communism and also table tennis around the world. Surprisingly, the two strands of his career would come together in an event of global significance. Nicholas Griffin weaves a compelling story to reveal the background to the famous occasion in 1971, when the USA's Glenn Cowan, a 19-year-old hippie, befriended China's world champion Zhuang Zedong, who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Within days, the Americans would be playing the Chinese in front of 18,000 fans in Beijing, with the whole world watching. It was the beginning of a thaw in Sino-US relations that forced the Soviets into a crippling arms race that acted as a catalyst to pressuring them into errors that would draw the Cold War to an end. Sometimes sport truly can have the biggest consequences.

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Simon and Schuster

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0857207377

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Energy Science

Principles, Technologies, and Impacts

By: John Andrews,Nicholas Alfred Jelley

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Energy Science

Principles, Technologies, and Impacts

By: John Andrews,Nicholas Alfred Jelley

Covering both traditional and renewable energy sources, the book encourages the reader to evaluate different energy sources on the basis of sound quantitative understanding.

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0199592373

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The Phenomenological Theory of Linear Viscoelastic Behavior

An Introduction

By: Nicholas W. Tschoegl

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The Phenomenological Theory of Linear Viscoelastic Behavior

An Introduction

By: Nicholas W. Tschoegl

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in any department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity. J. Willard Gibbs This book is an outgrowth of lectures I have given, on and off over some sixteen years, in graduate courses at the California Institute of Technology, and, in abbreviated form, elsewhere. It is, nevertheless, not meant to be a textbook. I have aimed at a full exposition of the phenomenological theory of linear viscoelastic behavior for the use of the practicing scientist or engineer as well as the academic teacher or student. The book is thus primarily a reference work. In accord with the motto above, I have chosen to describe the theory of linear viscoelastic behavior through the use of the Laplace transformation. The treatment oflinear time-dependent systems in terms of the Laplace transforms of the relations between the excitation add response variables has by now become commonplace in other fields. With some notable exceptions, it has not been widely used in viscoelasticity. I hope that the reader will find this approach useful.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Synthesis

Catalytic Processes in Research and Development

By: Anthony J. Burke,Carolina Silva Marques,Nicholas J. Turner,Gesine J. Hermann

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Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Synthesis

Catalytic Processes in Research and Development

By: Anthony J. Burke,Carolina Silva Marques,Nicholas J. Turner,Gesine J. Hermann

Presents the most effective catalytic reactions in use today, with a special focus on process intensification, sustainability, waste reduction, and innovative methods This book demonstrates the importance of efficient catalytic transformations for producing pharmaceutically active molecules. It presents the key catalytic reactions and the most efficient catalytic processes, including their significant advantages over compared previous methods. It also places a strong emphasis on asymmetric catalytic reactions, process intensification (PI), sustainability and waste mitigation, continuous manufacturing processes as enshrined by continuous flow catalysis, and supported catalysis. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Synthesis: Catalytic Processes in Research and Development offers chapters covering: Catalysis and Prerequisites for the Modern Pharmaceutial Industry Landscape; Catalytic Process Design - The Industrial Perspective; Hydrogenation, Hydroformylation and Other Reductions; Oxidation; ; Catalytic Addition Reactions; Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions; Catalytic Metathesis Reactions; Catalytic Cycloaddition Reactions: Coming Full-Circle; Catalytic Cyclopropanation Reactions; Catalytic C-H insertion Reactions; Phase Transfer Catalysis; and Biocatalysis. -Provides the reader with an updated clear view of the current state of the challenging field of catalysis for API production -Focuses on the application of catalytic methods for the synthesis of known APIs -Presents every key reaction, including Diels-Alder, CH Insertions, Metal-catalytic coupling-reactions, and many more -Includes recent patent literature for completeness Covering a topic of great interest for synthetic chemists and R&D researchers in the pharmaceutical industry, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Synthesis: Catalytic Processes in Research and Development is a must-read for every synthetic chemist working with APIs.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527342419

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Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels

By: Nicholas Lobachevsky

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Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels

By: Nicholas Lobachevsky

Lobachevsky believed that another form of geometry existed, a non-Euclidean geometry, and this 1840 treatise is his argument on its behalf. Line by line in this classic work he carefully presents a new and revolutionary theory of parallels, one that allows for all of Euclids axioms, except for the last. This 1891 translation includes a bibliography and translator George B. Halsteds essay on elliptic geometry. Russian mathematician NICHOLAS LOBACHEVSKY (17921856) is best remembered as the founder (along with Janos Bolyai) of non-Euclidean geometry. He is also the author of New Foundations of Geometry (18351838) and Pangeometry (1855).

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1602064679

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Mechanics of laminated Composite doubly-curvel shell structures

The generalized differential quadrature method and the strong formulation finite element method

By: Francesco Tornabene,Nicholas Fantuzzi

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Mechanics of laminated Composite doubly-curvel shell structures

The generalized differential quadrature method and the strong formulation finite element method

By: Francesco Tornabene,Nicholas Fantuzzi

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Ruler and the Round

Classic Problems in Geometric Constructions

By: Nicholas D. Kazarinoff

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Ruler and the Round

Classic Problems in Geometric Constructions

By: Nicholas D. Kazarinoff

An intriguing look at the "impossible" geometric constructions (those that defy completion with just a ruler and a compass), this book covers angle trisection and circle division. 1970 edition.

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0486143619

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Dynamic Systems and Control Engineering

By: Nader Jalili,Nicholas W. Candelino

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Dynamic Systems and Control Engineering

By: Nader Jalili,Nicholas W. Candelino

Using a step-by-step approach, this textbook provides a modern treatment of the fundamental concepts, analytical techniques, and software tools used to perform multi-domain modeling, system analysis and simulation, linear control system design and implementation, and advanced control engineering. Chapters follow a progressive structure, which builds from modeling fundamentals to analysis and advanced control while showing the interconnections between topics, and solved problems and examples are included throughout. Students can easily recall key topics and test understanding using Review Note and Concept Quiz boxes, and over 200 end-of-chapter homework exercises with accompanying Concept Keys are included. Focusing on practical understanding, students will gain hands-on experience of many modern MATLAB® tools, including Simulink® and physical modeling in SimscapeTM. With a solutions manual, MATLAB® code, and Simulink®/SimscapeTM files available online, this is ideal for senior undergraduates taking courses on modeling, analysis and control of dynamic systems, as well as graduates studying control engineering.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108912923

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The Elena Agenda

A Jack Wolf Novel

By: Hamilton Nicholas Hamilton,Nicholas Hamilton

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The Elena Agenda

A Jack Wolf Novel

By: Hamilton Nicholas Hamilton,Nicholas Hamilton

Will the winner of the prize wield god-like power? An amulet, innocently discovered by an archaeologist and collector of antiquities, is the key to the bloody plague that has settled on their city, Chicago. As Thomas, Clem, and Trinity search to discover the key to the violently bloody, mysterious deaths, they stumble upon something more terrifying than they ever imagined. The murder victims are not just shot or stabbed but they are literally torn apart by their attackers. And they enter the world of Jack Wolf, one that few have ever experienced. Enter a world of gargoyles, necromancers, witches, and otherworldly creatures whose mission is to reclaim the amulet and return it to its rightful place. The Elena Agenda pulses with action, involved dialogue, and intense scenes of hedonistic sex that take you on a roller coaster ride that leads to the answers. Jack Wolf's world is one that once entered; few are able to make their way out again.

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342

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iUniverse

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0595527507

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9780595527502

Bistatic Radar

By: Nicholas J. Willis

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Bistatic Radar

By: Nicholas J. Willis

This is the only English language book on bistatic radar and provides a history of bistatic systems that points out to potential designers, the applications that have worked and the dead-ends not worth pursuing.

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SciTech Publishing

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1891121456

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The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

By: Nicholas Birns,Louis Klee

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The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel

By: Nicholas Birns,Louis Klee

The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the Australian novel, offer historical and conceptual frameworks, and provide vivid and original examples of what reading an Australian novel looks like in practice. The book begins with novels by literary visitors to Australia and concludes with those by refugees. In between, the reader encounters the Australian novel in its splendid contradictoriness, from nineteenth-century settler fiction by women writers through to literary images of the Anthropocene, from sexuality in the novels of Patrick White to Waanyi writer Alexis Wright's call for a sovereign First Nations literature. This book is an invitation to students, instructors, and researchers alike to expand and broaden their knowledge of the complex histories and vital present of the Australian novel.

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131651448X

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