THE BEHAVIOUR AND DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES TO EC3

Taylor & Francis
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
ISBN 0-203-93593-4
Fourth edition published 2008

Book Description,
This fourth British edition has been directed specifically to the design of steel structures in accordance with Eurocode 3 Design of Steel Structures. The principal part of this is Part 1-1:General Rules and Rules for Buildings and this is referred to generally in the text as EC3. Also referred to in the text are Part 1-5: Plated Structural Elements, and Part 1-8: Design Of Joints, which are referred to as EC3-1-5 and EC3-1-8. EC3 will be accompanied by NationalAnnexes which will contain any National Determined Parameters for the United Kingdom which differ from the recommendations given in EC3. EC3 does not provide approximations for calculating the lateral buckling resistances of beams, but instead expects the designer to be able to determine the elastic buckling moment to be used in the design equations. Additional information to assist designers in this determination has been given in Chapter 6 of this book. EC3 also expects the designer to be able to determine the elastic buckling loads of compression members. The additional information given in Chapter 3 has been retained to assist designers in the calculation of the elastic buckling loads. EC3 provides elementary rules for the design of members in torsion. These are generalised and extended in Chapter 10, which contains a general treatment of torsion together with a number of design aids.
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LANDSCAPE AND SUSTAINABILITY

Spon Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN 0-203-99578-3
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

Book Description,
The contents are potentially ‘difficult’ in that they draw on a range of disciplines—including ecology, economics, philosophy— and professional areas—including land-use planning, landscape planning, design and management, horticulture, agriculture, forestry, politics and policy—which, depending on your disciplinary naïveté or illiteracy, may mean careful reading is needed in places to follow sometimes complex and challenging ideas, analyses and proposals.
If your first interest is in landscape or landscape architecture, the ‘territory here will be familiar, even if the scale and scope of our conception of landscape are broader than you previously imagined, or if your previous contact with sustainability has been cursory or frustrating. If it is in sustainability from a quite different disciplinary perspective, the contents of the book will offer you new insights into a contested and some say overworked topic, and may change the way you think about what sustainability is or what it could become. If it is primarily neither of these, we still believe the subjects are in themselves important, and the treatment here accessible with effort, to be of interest to a wide range of students, academics, policy-makers and practitioners.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO URBAN HOUSING AT HOME IN THE CITY

Elsevier
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
30 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803
ISBN 0 7506 5902 5
Copyright © 2005, Graham Towers. All rights reserved

Book Description,
For a long time there was no obvious connection between housing and transport; or, more specifically, between the advocacy of high-density housing and opposition to urban motorways. Now, though, these two issues have come together.
The two imperatives of urban policy are to meet the growing demand for additional housing and to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emission. It is recognised that these cannot be achieved through the continued development of low-density housing sprawl. This not only makes poor use of land – an increasingly scarce resource – it separates people from their work, from social facilities and from personal contacts. They become increasingly depended on the motorcar and increasingly embroiled in congestion. High-density urban housing provides efficient use of land, the delivery of services at low cost, and the development of effective and energy efficient transport systems.
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THE PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE OF CONTACT AND OCCUPATIONAL DERMATOLOGY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
P O Box 128, Farrer Road, Singapore 912805
ISBN 981024570X
ISBN 9810246412
Copyright © 2001 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Book Description,
That skin contact with certain plants and chemicals can produce itching eruptions has been known, since ancient times, in all cultures. This phenomenon is now universally termed Contact Dermatitis.
The term Contact Dermatitis is used both to describe the phenomenon of an adverse cutaneous contact eruption, as well as for the study of the phenomenon. One seldom use the term "Contact Dermatology" to describe the field of study, always "Contact Dermatitis"1. Making Contact Dermatitis a science is credited by most to be the work of Joseph Jadassohn, a Danish dermatologist, who in 1895 performed the first patch test. Although the science is now over 100 years old, it is only in the last 35 years that the study Contact Dermatitis has really taken off.
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TEXTBOOK OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC,
233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA
ISBN 978-1-4419-0768-4
e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0769-1
© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009

Book Description,
There is increasing interest in personalized medicine. Considerable advances have taken place in molecular biology and biotechnology to make personalized medicine a viable option, but some misconceptions still exist, both in the academic and in the commercial sectors. There is lack of a suitable source of information that provides both the fundamentals as well as applications of personalized medicine. As the latest version of the first monograph on personalized medicine published in 1998, this volume, Textbook of Personalized Medicine, summarizes the author’s
efforts during the past decade as well as reviews selected studies done during this period in a readable format for the physicians and scientists.
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ORAL CANCER RESEARCH ADVANCES

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13: 978-1-60741-924-2
Copyright © 2007 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Book Description,
Oral cancer is any cancerous tissue growth located in the mouth. It may arise as a primary lesion originating in any of the oral tissues, by metastasis from a distant site of origin, or by extension from a neighboring anatomic structure, such as the nasal cavity or the maxillary sinus. Oral cancers may originate in any of the tissues of the mouth, and may be of varied histologic types: teratoma, adenocarcinoma derived from a major or minor salivary gland, lymphoma from tonsillar or other lymphoid tissue, or melanoma from the pigment producing cells of the oral mucosa. Far and away the most common oral cancer is squamous cell carcinoma, originating in the tissues that line the mouth and lips. Oral or mouth cancer most commonly involves the tissue of the lips or the tongue. It may also occur on the floor of the mouth, cheek lining, gingiva (gums), or palate (roof of the mouth). Most oral cancers look very similar under the microscope and are called squamous cell carcinoma. These are malignant and tend to spread rapidly. This new book presents important research from around the world.
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THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF DIFFERENTIATION IN CANCER AND NORMAL STEM CELLS

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 978-1-60741-391-2
Copyright © 2009 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Book Description,
Differentiation is a complex multistep process that affects many biological pathways that regulate the expression of specific genes, and cell proliferation. All adult tissues are made up of lineages of cells consisting of tissue stem cells and their progeny (transit-amplifying cells and terminally differentiated cells). Recent data suggest that cancers arise from rare self-renewing stem cells that are biologically distinct from their more numerous differentiated progeny. Growing evidence suggests that pathways regulating normal stem cell self-renewal anddifferentiation are also present in cancer cells and cancer stem cells (CSCs). The unique properties of stem cells are opening the door to the development of new therapeutic approaches notably in oncology and regenerative medicine.
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PHYSICAL GEOLOGY OF HIGH-LEVEL MAGNETIC SYSTEMS

The Geological Society Publishing House
Unit 7, Brassmill Enterprise Centre Brassmill Lane
Bath BA1 3JN, UK
ISBN 1-86239-169-6
© The Geological Society of London 2004. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
This book is the outcome of a two-day international workshop on the physical geology of subvolcanic systems, held at TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany between 12 and 14 October 2002. Christened LASI by the conference organizers and participants (Laccoliths and Sills), the workshop was supplemented by a one-day field trip to visit quarries that expose Late Palaeozoic subvolcanic systems. In all, the meeting attracted 40 participants from 10 countries, who presented papers covering a wide range of topics relevant to the geology and emplacement of high-level intrusions, 14 of which are included in this volume. We make no apologies for the strong European bias, and we are especially pleased that a number of contributors are from the former Soviet bloc countries.
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GEOLOGY AND HABITABILITY OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.,
233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA
ISBN-978-0-387-74287-8
e-ISBN-978-0-387-74288-5
© 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

Book Description,
The current approach to the study of the origin of life and to the search for life elsewhere is based on two assumptions. First, life is a purely physical phenomenon closely linked to specific environmental conditions. From this, we hypothesise that when these environmental conditions are met, life will arise and evolve. If these assumptions are valid, the search for life elsewhere should be a matter of mapping what we know about the range of environments in which life can exist, and then simply trying to find these environments elsewhere. Second, life can be clearly distinguished from the non-living world. While a single feature of a living organism left in the rock record is not always sufficient to determine unequivocally whether life was present, life often leaves multiple structural, mineralogical and chemical biomarkers that, in sum, support a conclusion that life was present.
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GEOLOGY FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS

First published 1979 by E & FN Spon,
an imprint of Chapman & Hall Second edition 1985
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005
ISBN 0-203-36215-2 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-37473-8 (Adobe e-Reader Format)
ISBN 0-419-16000-0 (pbk)

Book Description,
Our course and this book are essentially an introduction to geology for civil engineers, which is adequate for the needs of their later careers, and on which further courses of engineering geology, soil mechanics or rock mechanics can be based. They are not conceived as a course and text on engineering geology. We have, however, extended the scope of the book beyond what is geology in the strict sense to include engineering applications of geology.
This is partly to demonstrate the relevance of geology to engineering, and partly in the expectation that the book, with its appendices, will also serve as a useful handbook of facts and methods for qualified engineers and other professionals who use geology. The reactions of the majority of those who reviewed our first draft reassured us that our ideas were not peculiar to ourselves, and that we were not the zvx only teachers of geology who felt the need for a textbook tailored to them. Other views ranged from a preference for altering the book to make it a comprehensive account of the whole of geology largely devoid of material on engineering, to a preference for a more radical change along the lines we were following, which would have produced an introductory text in engineering geology rather than geology.
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ECONOMICS AND FINANCE OF RISK AND OF THE FUTURE

John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester,
West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-01577-3
ISBN-10: 0-470-01577-2
Copyright © 2006

Book Description,
This book aims to reconsider the analysis of risks with the objective of proposing new or adapted management instruments for problems we face today. In the first section of this General Introduction we shall recall some historical facts about financial assets. The second section introduces risk, with all its different meanings, and the way it relates to financial assets and other management instruments. The third section addresses the perception of the future in a general way and introduces the new problems in risk management. The last section presents the solutions that have been found for some of them and dispatches them among the three parts of the book.

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GUIDE TO ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Published by Profile Books Ltd
3a Exmouth House, Pine Street, London ec1r 0jh
ISBN-10: 1 86197 974 9
ISBN-13: 978 1 86197 974 6
Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Ltd 2006

Book Description,
It is essential to have a thorough understanding of economic information and to be able to grasp fully the real implications of the economic indicators referred to in business reports and by the media. This guide is, above all, a practical work that clearly explains the underlying economic realities of today's world. Fully updated and revised, this sixth edition is an invaluable reference for those in business, the financial markets, or government, and a necessary resource for students. Written for the nonspecialist, this accessible guide explains how to understand and interpret all that main economic indicators that relate to: GDP and GNI (GNP); Growth, trends and cycles; Population, employment, unemployment; Government; Investment and savings; Industry and commerce; Balance of payments; Exchange rates; and Money and financial markets.
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ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Published by Princeton University Press,
41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
ISBN: 978-0-691-12459-9
Copyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press

Book Description,
This book is primarily aimed at students and researchers interested in economic geography. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5–7, and 11–13 form what could be considered the core of the teaching material, while the remaining chapters dig deeper. However, we have organized the book so that it can be profitably used in other courses by grouping the chapters into large blocks. Chapters 3–7 and chapters 12 and 13 can be incorporated into a course on international trade, while chapters 3, 6, 8, and 9 can serve as illustrations for a course on industrial organization. Chapters 1, 6, 7, 10, and 11 could have a place in a course on development economics, while chapters 11–13 would be useful in a course on applied econometrics. Finally, chapter 2 could be used in a course devoted to the history of economic thought.
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THE ECONOMICS OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521828139
© Simon C. Parker, 2004

Book Description,
Entrepreneurship is a subject that is commonly taught and researched in business schools, but seldom if at all in economics departments. Consequently, most books on entrepreneurship tend to be written from a business and management perspective.
Such books often downplay, or ignore altogether, the contribution of modern economics to our understanding of the subject. Indeed, it is common to find them referring to ‘the contribution of economics’ mainly in terms of the treatises of Frank Knight and Josef Schumpeter – works that were published more than half a century ago! Of modern economics, there is little mention, apart from the occasional disparaging remark that competitive general equilibriumtheory leaves little or no room for the entrepreneur, so modern economicshas little to offer the study of the subject.

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ECONOMIC GROWTH A UNIFIED APPROACH

Cambridge University Press, New York
ISBN-13 978-0-511-59051-1
ISBN-13 978-0-521-89801-0
ISBN-13 978-0-521-72520-0
© Olivier de La Grandville 2009

Book Description,
This book is not quite the same as other books. Economic growth has attracted, particularly in the last hundred years, countless, excellent writers who have developed the field into an immense array of topics, from theoretical to empirical.
Underline the new results you will find in this book:
A proof of one of the most important, daring conjectures ever made in economics or social sciences.We owe this conjecture, known as “the invisible hand”, to Adam Smith who wrote, in his Inquiry into the Nature and the Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
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CELL, GENE AND MOLECULAR THERAPY NEW CONCEPTS

Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York
ISBN 978-1-60741-682-1
Copyright © 2009 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Book Description,
Treatment is the heart of medicine. For patient, the main aim of visiting to the physician is to get the best therapy. Therapy has a long history. At the present, advanced biotechnology help improve the medical treatment.
Apart from the classical treatment, there are many new emerging means of medical treatment. In this book, the concept of new therapeutic channels, cell, gene and molecular concepts will be focused. Interesting details on concepts for these modern therapies can be found in this book and this book can be the reference resource for the physician, medical personnel and health care worker for update the knowledge of treatment.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISORBERS

Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York
ISBN 978-1-60741-189-5
Copyright © 2009 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Book Description,
Psychological factors significantly affect the cardiovascular system and play an important role in the etiopathogenesis of cardiovascular disorders. For the past several decades attention to the psychosocial and behavioral factors in cardiovascular disease has increased significantly. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that psychosocial factors contribute significantly to coronary heart disease as evidenced by data relating risk to depression, anxiety, personality factors and character traits, social isolation, and chronic life stress. When psychosocial stresses tend to cluster together, risk for cardiac events is often substantially elevated, equaling or exceeding that associated with standard biomedical risk factors for coronary disease such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia.

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THE RENAL SYSTEM AT GLANCE

Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781405184724
This edition fi rst published 2009

Book Description,
This book aims to synthesize all this new information and make sense of it. The book is principally aimed at students, but as with previous editions, it should also be useful to doctors,
nurses, or other health - care professionals who wish to learn about or update themselves on the kidney and renal system inhealth and disease.
This approach has proved very popular, and the book has been circulated worldwide and has been translated into various languages including Chinese, Greek, and Japanese. Feedback from many readers of the previous editions has guided the writing of this edition and I am grateful to all those who have written to me with their comments. I am also especially grateful for the support and advice of Professor Barry Brenner of Harvard University who co - authored the fi rst edition with me and to many other fine colleagues who have taught me about the renal system over the years.
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DEVELOPMENTS IN STEM CELL RESEARCH

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.  New York
ISBN: 978-1-60741-213-7
Copyright © 2009 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Book Description,
The two broad categories of mammalian stem cells exist: embryonic stem cells, derived from blastocysts, and adult stem cells, which are found in adult tissues. In a developing embryo, stem cells are able to differentiate into all of the specialised embryonic tissues. In adult organisms, stem cells and progenitor cells act as a repair system for the body, replenishing specialised cells. As stem cells can be readily grown and transformed into specialised tissues such as muscles or nerves through cell culture, their use in medical therapies has been proposed. In particular, embryonic cell lines, autologous embryonic stem cells generated therapeutic cloning, and highly plastic adult stem cells from the umbilical cord blood or bone marrow are touted as promising candidates. Among the many applications of stem cell research are nervous system diseases, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune diseases as well as Parkinson’s disease, end-stage kidney disease, liver failure, cancer, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Stem cells are self-renewing, unspecialized cells that can give rise to multiple types all of specialized cells of the body. Stem cell research also involves complex ethical and legal considerations since they involve adult, fetal tissue and embryonic sources. This new book presents the latest research in thefield from around the globe.

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PEDIATRICS

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
ISBN: 978-0-07-170035-1
Copyright © 2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
This book should serve as an assessment tool for students, residents, and practitioners who wish to evaluate their pediatric knowledge base and clinical deductive skills. The question focus and organization of chapters were chosen to cover topics, by and large, consistent with the American Board of Pediatric general pediatric core competencies.
Chapters cover a range of topics spanning ages from newborn, including the premature infant through adolescence.Comprehensive dedication to issues related to growth and development, feeding and nutrition, fluids, electrolytes, and metabolic disorders are included. The infectious disease chapter covers both common outpatient infection as well as life-threatening infections which occur in the healthy and immunocompromised host. The chapter on injuries, poisoning, and substance abuse provides review of clinical problems which may be seen on both outpatient and emergency care encounters. Critical care and pediatric therapeutic questions target distinctive clinical scenarios and require the clinician to make prompt, evidencebased medical decisions. The answers and discussion which follow each question include reference to key pediatric textbooks and American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines.
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BUSINESS CYCLE FLUCTUATIONS AND ECONOMIC POLICY

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 978-1-60741-406-3
Copyright © 2009 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Book Description,
The primary purpose of this book entitled Business Cycle Fluctuations and Economic Policy is to disseminate knowledge and understanding of the techniques that can be employed for testing possible existence of similarity and asymmetries in business cycle fluctuations in macroeconomic time series. In doing so, the book assembles a number of papers that employ various parametric and non-parametric time series techniques for modeling macroeconomic time series in addition to modeling these series using the other non-parametric techniques such as artificial neural networks to study whether business cycle fluctuations in all the countries studied are alike.
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INVESTORS GUIDE TO ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS

John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium,
Southern Gate, Chichester,
West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England
ISBN 0-470-84690-9
Copyright C 2003

Book Description,
The book is structured as follows. Part I (Chapters 1–10) looks at economic fundamentals for investors, to explain how economic forces combine with monetary and fiscal policy to determine interest rates, economic growth and inflation. The chapters start with economic growth and the cycle, moving through inflation, deflation and unemployment to monetary and fiscal policy. In Chapter 4 an assessment of the so-called ‘new economy’ is made. Chapter 7 discusses the feedback from asset prices to the economy and policy, an increasing area of interest to policymakers and the markets. Chapters 8–10 look at international aspects including the xchange rate, trade and globalisation and emerging markets.
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INTERPRETING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DATA

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN 978-3-540-68720-7
e-ISBN 978-3-540-68721-4
C Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

Book Description,
This book, by the way, is not meant as an introduction to statistics, nor as a “how-to-do, hands-on” manual. Its concern is tomake sense of socio-economic data. and to shine new light on various misconceptions the reader may have acquired in previous statistics courses. Only a minimum of mathematics will be required. Calculations are relegated to the five optional appendices. Although mathematical statisticians may find this book pedestrian and simplistic, some abstract thinking isinvolved and the reader is asked to be patient with unfamiliar ideas.
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THE STRUGGLE OVER THE SOUL OF ECONOMICS

Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
ISBN 0-691-03419-2
Copyright C 1998 by Princeton University Press

Book Description,
This book analyzes a struggle between two schools of economics in the period between the world wars. The two schools are the neoclassical school, which emerged at the last third of the nineteenth century, and the institutionalist one,1 which had started with the works of Veblen and Commons at the end of the nineteenth century and had enjoyed a short period of prosperity in the interwar period before rapidly declining after the Second World War. Current historians of economic thought usually ignore the institutionalists or consider their movement to be an ephemeral and inconsequential episode in the history of economics. My story, however, reveals that the rise of the institutionalist school was an important chapter in the history of economics and has had lingering effects on the practice of economics to the present.
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ISOTOPE GEOLOGY

Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
ISBN-13 978-0-511-45524-7
ISBN-13 978-0-521-86228-8
© Claude J. Allegre 2008

Book Description,
This book is designed to provide an introduction to the methods, techniques, andmain findings of isotope geology.The general character of the subject defines its potential readership: final-year undergraduates and postgraduates in the earth sciences (or environmental sciences), geologists, geophysicists, or climatologistswantingan overview of the field.
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GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF OIL AND GAS

ELSEVIER B.V. Radarweg 29
P.O. Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52053-1
ISBN-10: 0 444 52053 8
ISSN: 0376-7361 (Series)
© 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Book Description,
This book discusses the major theoretical and practical problems of petroleum geology and geochemistry as they are viewed at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. The treatment of the material is non-uniform in the sense that the accepted scientific concepts are treated cursorily, just to maintain the completeness and continuity of the story, whereas the disputable and innovative issues are handled in more detail. The discussion is conducted from a position of the science of petroleum geology, geochemistry, and other related disciplines. For instance, in describing oil-bearing sequences, the main brunt is on depositional
environments and such features as reservoir and fluid-sealing properties.
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COASTAL CHALK CLIFF INSTABILITY

The Geological Society Publishing House
Unit 7, Brassmill Enterprise Centre
Brassmill Lane
Bath BA1 3JN, UK
ISBN 1-86239-150-5
ISSN 0267-9914
© The Geological Society of London 2004. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
The book is organized around three main themes: the geological factors controlling cliff instability, the marine parameters influencing coastal erosion and the use of some new tools for hazard assessments. This volume will be of use to academics and professionals working on rocky shores, with an interest in sedimentary geology, stratigraphy, tectonics, geomorphology, engineering geology, coastal engineering and GIs.
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THE GEOLOGY OF THE EVERGLADES AND ADJACENT AREAS

CRC Press
Taylor & Francis Group
6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300
Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742
ISBN 1-4200-4558-X
© 2007 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Book Description,
There is but one Everglades on this planet — a hauntingly beautiful subtropical wetland governed by a monsoonal climate. Only the Sud marshland of Sudan and the Pantanal of Paraguay and Brazil come close to duplicating this Floridian ecological treasure. Because we work at a state university adjacent to the Everglades, we have always felt privileged to have such a unique natural wonder, easily available for research, right at our doorstep. Although representing America’s only Sud-like subtropical wetland, the Everglades has always frustrated geoscientists by obscuring the bulk of its true nature and history with surface layers of peat and muck.
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PRACTICAL STRAW BALE BUILDING

Landlinks Press
150 Oxford Street (PO Box 1139)
Collingwood VIC 3066 Australia
ISBN 0 643 06977 1
ISBN 0 643 09214 5
© Murray Hollis 2005

Book Description,
This book does not address comprehensively all aspects of building a structure that has straw bale walls. Aspects of structures other than walls are addressed only to the extent that they are relevant to the use of straw bales as a building material for the walls. Issues not unique to building with straw bales, such as the various types of floors (concrete, earth, timber, etc.), roof
structures, methods of heating/cooling, and sustainable building issues, are discussed extensively elsewhere in conjunction with straw bale building, as well as in other contexts. These issues would tend to dilute the main thrust of this book. However, some techniques not familiar to the building trade are discussed in substantial detail.
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STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

IIT Kharagpur, India
ISBN: N/A
Copyright 2008

Book Description.
In this book we are mainly concerned with the analysis of framed structures (beam, plane truss, space truss, plane frame, space frame and grid), arches, cables and suspension bridges subjected to static loads only. The methods that we would be presenting in this course for analysis of structure were developed based on certain energy principles, which would be discussed in the first module.
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ANALYSING UNCERTAINTY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN 3-540-22246-4
C Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Printed in Germany

Book Description,
This volume addresses the issue of uncertainty in civil engineering from design to construction. Failures do occur in practice. Attributing them to a residual risk or a faulty execution of the project does not properly cover the range of causes. A closer scrutiny of the design, the engineering model, the data, the soil-structure-interaction and the model assumptions is required. Usually, the uncertainties in initial and boundary conditions as well as material parameters are abundant. Current engineering practice often leaves these issues aside, despite the fact that new scientific tools have been developed in the past decades that allow a rational description of uncertainties of all kinds, from model uncertainty to data uncertainty.
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STRUCTURAL TIMBER DESIGN TO EUROCODE 5

Blackwell Science Ltd,
9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK
ISBN: 978-14051-4638-8
C 2007 by Jack Porteous and Abdy Kermani

Book Description,
As a natural material, timber is unique, innovative and easy to handle.
It is sustainable,environmentally friendly, can be readily recycled, and as sawn sections or qualitycontrolledengineered products, timber has a large potential market for use as a structural and building material. However, the existing civil and structural engineering curricula neglect, to a large extent, the importance of timber as a viable engineering material and as a consequence relatively few textbooks provide information on the design of timber structures. Also, most books have tended to concentrate on designs in accordance with BS 5268, a permissible stress-based design, with limited information on designs to Eurocode 5, which is based on a limit states design philosophy.

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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Published in the United States of America by
Idea Group Publishing (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.)
701 E. Chocolate Avenue
ISBN 1-59140-807-5
Copyright © 2006 by Idea Group Inc. All rights reserved

Book Description,
Over the past two decades, governmental information systems have changed from being a relatively unimportant “back office” function to a crucial element in making governmental organizations more accountable, efficient, and effective. Prior to the revolutions brought on by personal computers and the Internet, most government employees, including top managers, gave little attention to computerized information systems. Information systems were primarily used for routine reports and transactions such as payroll and utility billing. Now information technology is viewed as a major asset that needs to be actively managed. Information technology (IT) has become integral to the jobs of most employees and now is used by citizens through e-government. Consequently, it is incumbent on governmental managers to understand how to build and maintain information systems that are responsive to their users — both internal and
external.
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NEW BUSINESS MODEL FOR THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Published byGower Publishing Limited
Gower House Croft Road Aldershot
Hampshire GU11 3HR England
ISBN-13: 9780866087882
© Wendy Jansen, Wilchard Steenbakkers and Hans Jägers 2007

Book Description,
Business models are widely discussed. We encounter the concept everywhere, in academic literature, in the press, in board rooms and throughout organisations. After the fi rst shake-out of the dot-coms, people began to ask themselves what caused such a large number of business failures. It was not just the reversing economy.
The reason why many organisations failed is that they had no clear idea of what they wanted to accomplish. And an adequate fi ne-tuning between adopted strategy, management, business processes and information technology was frequently lacking. This brought the concept of the business model to the centre of attention, and research into the subject has become topical and relevant.
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HANDBOOK OF MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOR AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
ISBN 978 1 84844 095 1
© Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Cary L. Cooper, George P. Chrousos,
Charles D. Spielberger and Michael William Eysenck 2009

Book Description,
Over the past decades the nature of work has changed dramatically around the world. The introduction of new technologies in the workplace, followed by a huge shift towards globalization, has resulted in marked changes in business organizations, management structures and employment relationships. Organizations in countries hit by recession have been forced to downsize in an effort to survive.
There has been a noticeable rise in short-term contracts, possibly as a result of the deregulation of fi xed-term contracts and the limited requirements on permanent employment in many countries (OECD, 2006). Other changes include new work patterns, such as self-regulated work and team work, and a shift towards a more fl exible workforce, including the number of employees along with their skills and functions (Sparks et al., 2001).
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WHAT FUNCTIONAL MANAGERS NEED TO KNOW PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
ISBN 978-0-470-52547-0
Copyright © 2009 by International Institute for Learning, Inc.,
New York, New York. All rights reserved

Book Description,
Project managers were viewed as managing profi t centers, and functional manager groups were looked upon as cost centers. The role of the functional manager was basically to assign resources to projects and to keep their costs as low as possible.
If the project was successful, then the project manager could expect to receive a bonus. If the project failed, blame was placed on both the project manager and the functional managers. Functional managers were treated with indifference and often received neither bonuses nor credit for doing their job well.
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FINANCE FOR THE NON FINANCIAL MANAGER

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
DOI: 10.1036/0071425640
Copyright © 2003

Book Description,
What should you hope to get from this book, or any book on this subject? I believe the answer is:
• The viewpoint of an author who speaks the language of finance, but thinks more like a line
manager than an accountant,
• Examples of the typical, standard financial reports, with plenty of explanation—in English—that
will help you understand those same kinds of reports when you see them in your company,
• Examples of financial reports you may not see in your company yet, but that you might want
to, because they could give you valuable information, and
• Some help in mastering the tools of finance where they can be useful to you, without wasting
time explaining the deep details that will likely never benefit you.
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postroke dementia and imaging

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 978-1-60876-422-8
Copyright © 2009

Book Description,
Stroke increases the risk of dementia by approximate 2-9 times. World wide, vascular dementia (VaD) is the second commonest cause of dementia. Presence of poststroke dementia (PSD) reduces survival among stroke survivors and increases risk of long term stroke recurrence. Varying severity levels of cognitive impairment affects functional outcome independent of physical impairment. With an aging population, burden of PSD is expected to rise. Although PSD is prevalent, relevant to mortality and morbidity, and is potentially more preventable than Alzheimer’s disease (AD), it has received less attention relative to poststroke physical impairment or to AD. It is not until the last decade that more attention has been paid to PSD.
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MENTAL HEALTH, SOCIAL MIRROR

publisher Springer Science+Business Media, LLC,
233 Springer Street, New York, NY 10013, USA
ISBN-10: 0-387-36319-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-36319-6
© 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Book Description,
In 2004, the discipline of sociology celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Sociological Association. In 2005, the Section on Medical Sociology celebrated 50 years since the formation of the Committee on Medical Sociology within the ASA. And, in 2003, the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health celebrated ten years since its founding within the American branch of the discipline. This brief accounting marks the American-based organizational landmarks central to concerns about how social factors shape the mental health problems individuals face as well as the individual and system responses that follow. This history also lays a trail of how the focus on mental health and illness has narrowed from a general concern of the discipline to a more intense, substantively-focused community of scholars targeting a common set of specific theoretical and empirical questions.
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PHARMACEUTICAL MICROBIOLOGY

NEW AGE INTERNATIONAL (P) LIMITED, PUBLISHERS
4835/24, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi - 110002
ISBN (13) : 978-81-224-2867-4
Copyright © 2008 New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers

Book Description,
Modern invigorative society, based on the overwhelming and overemphasized
broad-spectrum importance vis-a-vis utilities of ‘Microbiology’ profusely gets benefited from the intricate species of scores of microorganisms in several ways and means, namely : antibiotics, vaccines, enzymes, vitamins etc. Nevertheless, a quantum-leap-forward in the field of ‘Modern Biotechnology’ rests predominantly upon reasonably sound microbiological foundation. Besides, microorganisms do modulate a plethora of vital and critical functionalities, such as : (a) enable completion of cycles of C, O, N and S which essentially occur in both terrestrial and aquatic systems ; (b) provide absolutely indispensable components of prevailing ecosystem ; and (c) serve as a critical source of ‘nutrients’ occurring at the grass-root of practically a large segment of ecological food webs and chains.

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ELECTRICAL POKET BOOK

Newnes
An imprint of Elsevier Science
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803
ISBN 0 7506 4758 2
Copyright © 2003 E.A. Reeves and Martin J. Heathcote. All rights reserved

Book Description,
This is where it is hoped that this little book will remain of assistance. The danger is that it will get larger at each new edition. If it is to remain a handy pocket reference size, then to include new material it is necessary to leave out some information which has proved useful in the past. The hope is that the balance will remain about right and what Eric Reeves has achieved so successfully for many years will continue.
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ELECTRICITY

Technornic Publishing Company, Inc.
851 New Holland Avenue, Box 3535
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604 U.S. A.
ISBN NO. 1-56676-907-8
CopyrightC 2001 All rights reserved

Book Description,
This text is not primarily concerned with applications, but with the basic principles of electricity underlying all the applications. It will assist you in gaining an understanding of the laws governing voltage, current, resistance, and power, as well as the somewhat more complex concepts of alternating current-the principles that are the basis for electronics. The goal of this text is not to make electricians of anyone but to provide basic electrical information for maintenance operators in both water and wastewater treatment and thus give them a better understanding of the complicated equipment found in plants.

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TURBO MACHINERY DYNAMICS

McGRAW-HILL
DOI: 10.1036/0071467041
Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
This book is written to meet the needs of students in engineering colleges and practicing engineers in a large variety of industries where turbo-machines are used. All the material has been specifically tailored for college undergraduate and graduate level design engineering and vibration of rotating machine courses. Electronic spread-sheet type of calculations are used in example problems to calculate natural frequencies of vibration, dynamic response, fatigue life, and design parameters related to fluid flow and component sizing. It is expected that the reader is familiar with basic- to medium-level calculus offered at the college undergraduate level.
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PRACTICAL LUBRICATION FOR INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES

Published by The Fairmont Press, Inc.
700 Indian Trail
Lilburn, GA 30047
ISBN 0-88173-579-5
©2009 by The Fairmont Press.

Book Description,

This text provides the student and professional mechanical engineer with a reference text of an essentially practical nature. It is uncluttered by text, and extensive use of illustrations and tables provide quick and clear access to information. It also includes examples of detailed calculations on many of the applications of technology used by mechanical and production engineers, draughtsmen and engineering designers. Although mainly intended for those studying and practising mechanical engineering, a glance at the contents will show that it is also useful to those in related branches of engineering such as production, marine, offshore, mining, mineral and in particular that of design. This reference book provides engineers with a wealth of useful material in a very compact and quickly accessible form. clear presentation and quick access to information very practical material, readily applied highly illustrated to aid understanding.

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MECHANICAL ENGINEER'S DATA HANDBOOK

Butterworth-Heinemann
An imprint of Elsevier Science
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803
ISBN 0 7506 1960 0
Copyright 0 1993, Elsevier Science Ltd. All riehts reserved.
Reprinted 2003

Book Description,
The Mechnical Engineer’s Data Handbook has been compiled with the express intention of providing a compact but comprehensive source of information of particular value to the engineer whether in the design office, drawing office, research and development department or on site. It should also prove to be of use to production, chemical, mining, mineral, electrical and building services engineers, and lecturers and students in universities, polytechnics and colleges. Although intended as a personal handbook it should also find its way into the libraries of engineering establishments and teaching institutions. The Mechanical Engineer’s Data Handbook covers the main disciplines of mechanical engineering and incorporates basic principles, formulae for easy substitution, tables of physical properties and much descriptive matter backed by numerous illustrations. It also contains a comprehensive glossary of technical terms and a full
index for easy cross-reference.
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ELECTRICAL CRAFT PRINCIPLES

The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Michael Faraday House
Six Hills Way, Stevenage
Herts, SG1 2AY, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-0-86341-932-4
Fifth edition 2008

Book Description,
The increasingly ‘hands-on’ nature of the training is to be welcomed, as is the widening of syllabuses to include more electronics. Multiple-choice questions are now in wide use and a selection of this type of test has been continued in each chapter of the book. I must admit to having doubts about presenting the reader with faulty information in the wrong answers to the multiple-choice questions, but am sure that a sensible approach, including the analysis of each wrongly answered question, will ensure that no harm results. I still feel very strongly that the best method of mastering material of this kind is to work through numerous examples. To this end, the present volume contains 98 fully worked examples, 303 exercises and 231 multiple-choice exercises, all with answers.
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ELECTRICAL CRAFT PRINCIPLES

The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Michael Faraday House
Six Hills Way, Stevenage
Herts, SG1 2AY, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-0-86341-933-1
Fifth edition 2008

Book Description,
This book has been in use for well over thirty years through four editions. Although the basic theory has changed very little in that time, the equipment in use has evolved, making this new edition necessary. A further change is that the 17th edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations, to which reference is made in this volume, has been published and amendments have been made to reflect its new requirements. There have also been changes in the syllabuses of the examining bodies responsible for the certification of electrical craftsmen, as well as in the pattern of education and training that they are required to follow.
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ENERGY AND POWER RISK MANAGEMENT

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
ISBN 0-471-10400-0
Copyright © 2003 by Alexander Eydeland and Krzysztof Wolyniec. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
The subject of this book is assessing and managing the risks of complex derivative structures arising in energy markets. It is natural to ask: Why do energy derivatives merit special attention and what is so unusual about them that we cannot use the familiar and well-developed risk management tools of the financial markets?
Energy Derivatives Are Unique. A number of energy derivative products cannot be found in any other markets. For example, various volumetric options, such as swing, recall, and nominational, which have been developed to manage risks associated with meeting the demand in natural gas or power, have no parallel in financial markets. Similarly exceptional are all kinds of load serving structures.
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