Catálogo de libros: Ciencia: cuestiones generales

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  • World Class Performance Through Total Quality
    Paul. Spenley
    TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) - A COMPETITIVE EDGE In the context of the European and Western manufacturing challenge being set by the ’Far Eastern Machine’, it is of critical importance that manufacturing competitiveness is improved in Western companies. The ability to export successfully is becoming even more critical to the economic well-being of ...
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    66,77 €

  • Successful ASIC Design the First Time Through
    John Huber
    he very name application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, con­ T notes an ability to provide a dense package for a highly complex design targeted at a focused, often complex solution. The ability to create customized high-performance designs has come of age, facilitated by so­ phisticated tools that enable designers to cope with ever-increasing d...
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    66,62 €

  • Ideas Under Fire
    The history of Western philosophy and science is marked by numerous moments when a major development has emerged from conditions that are manifestly adverse to intellectual activity. This book surveys a wide range of cases, and considers how these achievements were possible and how adversity helped shape the ideas that emerged. ...
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    140,98 €

  • Engineers and Communities
    Earthea Nance
    Engineers and Communities traces the evolution of a small but important innovation in Brazil from 1980 through 2005. Through a series of grand experiments with participatory water and sanitation, coalitions of engineers, planners, public officials, and residents revealed the essential elements of how urban services can be made to be more inclusive. ...
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    132,00 €

  • Not Even Trying
    Bruce G Charlton
    Real science is dead.Researchers are no longer trying to seek and speak the truth. Scientists no longer believe in the truth. They no longer believe that there is an eternal unchanging reality beyond our human organisation which they have a duty to discover and disseminate. Hence, the vast structures of personnel and resources that constitute modern science are not real science...
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    23,99 €

  • Duoethnography
    Joe Norris / Richard D. Sawyer
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    47,65 €

  • The Biology of Numbers
    Ana M. Gasca / Giorgio Israel
    Foreword The modern developments in mathematical biology took place roughly between 1920 and 1940, a period now referred to as the 'Golden Age of Theoretical Biology'. The eminent Italian mathematician Vito Volterra played a decisive and widely acknowledged role in these developments. Volterra’s interest in the application of mathematics to the non ph...
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    145,60 €

  • The Expanding Worlds of General Relativity
    The past decade has seen a considerable surge of interest in historical and philo­ sophical studies of gravitation and relativity, due not only to the tremendous amount of world-wide research in general relativity and its theoretical and observational consequences, but also to an increasing awareness that a collaboration between working scientists, hi...
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    206,54 €

  • My Reality
    Stan Green
    Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? In My Reality, author Stan Green examines and attempts to answer these three basic questions confronting humanity. Writing from the perspective of a well-read and educated person who has lived through the last half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, Green presents his ideas based on the study o...
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    30,17 €

  • Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education
    Daryao Khatri
    A useful guide for both high school teachers and postsecondary faculty, this book explains how to organize, arrange, and streamline STEM content so that it is approachable, understandable, and applicable for students. Likewise, this guide discusses important classroom management skills and pedagogical techniques that will help students master these critical subjects. Providing ...
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    53,83 €

  • National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain
    Carol Yeh-Yun Lin / Jeffrey Chen / Leif Edvinsson
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the biggest event of worldwide proportion was the 2008 global financial crisis, which was caused primarily by ineffective governance, failed surveillance systems, and implementation flaws. While fiscal and monetary policies succeeded in pulling many countries out of a financial freefall, most economies have performed beneath pre...
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    61,89 €

  • Lipid Biochemistry
    M. Gurr
    Lipids can usually be extracted easily from tissues by making use of their hydrophobic characteristics. However, such extractions yield a complex mixture of different lipid classes which have to be purified further for quantitative analysis. Moreover, the crude lipid extract will be contami­ nated by other hydrophobic molecules, e.g. by intrinsic memb...
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    65,68 €

  • My Reality
    Stan Green
    Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? In My Reality, author Stan Green examines and attempts to answer these three basic questions confronting humanity. Writing from the perspective of a well-read and educated person who has lived through the last half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, Green presents his ideas based on the study o...
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    22,61 €

  • Newton and the Origin of Civilization
    Jed Z. Buchwald / Mordechai Feingold
    Isaac Newton’s Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man’s death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised timeline for ancient civilizations, contracting Greek history by five hundred years and Egypt’s by a millennium. Newton and the Origin of Civilization tells the story of how...
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    93,12 €

  • Experimental Researches in Electricity
    Michael Faraday
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    56,53 €

  • Experimental Researches in Electricity - Volume 1
    Michael Faraday
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    94,74 €

  • The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics
    Biman B. Nath
    What if one of the most thrilling stories in the history of science turned out to be wrong? Can urban legends creep into the hallowed grounds of scientific history? As incredible as it may sound, the story of one of the most important elements in modern times - helium - has been often misrepresented in books, encyclopedias, and online sources, despite the fact that archival mat...
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    47,73 €

  • Spatial Modeling in Natural Sciences and Engineering
    Jürgen Friedrich
    The author introduces the reader to the creation and implementation of space-related models by applying a learning-by-doing and problem-oriented approach. The required procedural skills are rarely taught at universities and many scientists and engineers struggle to transfer a model into a computer program. The purpose of this book is to fill this gap....
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    133,76 €

  • The Electric ARC
    Hertha Ayrton
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    87,68 €

  • Industrial Radiology
    R. Halmshaw
    Industrial radiography is a well-established non-destructive testing (NDT) method in which the basic principles were established many years ago. However, during 1993-95 the European Standards Organisa­ tion (CEN) commenced drafting many new standards on NDT including radiographic methods, and when completed these will replace national standards in all...
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    269,04 €

  • Einstein Studies in Russia
    This engaging volume offers a selection of the best contributions by Russian historians and philosophers of science to the Einstein Studies industry. ...
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    66,07 €

  • Systems Biology of Tumor Dormancy
    This volume is based on the Workshop on Systems Biology of Tumor Dormancy meeting, held July 25th to July 28th, 2011. The first annual CCSB workshop brought together biologists, clinicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists to discuss various aspects of tumor dormancy and develop novel mathematical/computational models with the keynote speakers. Specific topics included t...
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    47,74 €

  • REMINISCENCES
    ADRIAN MELISSINOS
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    49,30 €

  • Medical and Nutritional Complications of Alcoholism
    Charles S. Lieber
    In the Western world, alcohol is the most abused drug. recognized that a majority of patients with cirrhosis do For all the attention being directed toward heroin, co­ admit to excessive alcohol consumption. Other tissues caine, and marijuana, the favorite mood-altering drug in can also be severely affected, including brain, gut, the United States, as...
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    89,85 €

  • Java Microarchitectures
    Java is an exciting new object-oriented technology. Hardware for supporting objects and other features of Java such as multithreading, dynamic linking and loading is the focus of this book. The impact of Java’s features on micro-architectural resources and issues in the design of Java-specific architectures are interesting topics that require the imme...
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    134,00 €

  • The Urge to Disperse
    Sheila Newman
    A biology of land-use planning systems, a political economy of genetic diversity, and a tool for steady state economies, here is a key theory to the mystery of unwanted population growth and unbalanced ecological communities.With a new cross-disciplinary, cross-species theory of population, this book leaps beyond the old demographic transition and predator-prey models. Environm...
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    18,38 €

  • To Feel What Others Feel
    Stewart Justman
    How is it that people in search of healing were at one time able to experience the therapeutic effects of 'animal magnetism'? The evidence suggests that those who went in for treatments we would now call placebos didn’t feign their sensations but felt what they supposed others felt; they reacted as social beings. In one way or another, so do we today. But while the feeling o...
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    23,39 €

  • Principles of Paint Formulation
    R. Woodbridge
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    84,77 €

  • Using an Explosive Substance to Generate Electricity
    Robert J. Richey / Robert JRichey
    It is this Writers Opinion and Belief that a crisis faces all of the Industrialized Societies in the field of Energy Production. The massive increase in the population around the world and the attendant need for electricity is placing a strain on the Worlds supply of fossil fuels. The book being presented here proposes a new way of generating Electricity using and explosive sub...
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    16,23 €

  • The Emergence of Indigenous Peoples
    Rodolfo Stavenhagen
    This is the second part of a trilogy published in the Springer Briefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a distinguished Mexican sociologist and professor emeritus of El Colegio de Mexico. Rodolfo Stavenhagen wrote this collection of six essays on The Emergence of Indigenous Peoples between 1965 and 2009. These widel...
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    68,23 €