AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE VALAVE RECESSION

Professional Engineering Publishing Limited,
London and Bury St Edmunds, UK
ISBN 1 86058 358 X
ISSN 1468-3938
First published 2002
© R Lewis and R S Dwyer-Joyce

Book Description,
Valve wear has been a serious problem to engine designers and manufacturers for many years. Although new valve materials and production techniques are constantly being developed, these advances have been outpaced by demands for increased engine performance. The drive for reduced oil consumption and exhaust emissions, the phasing out of leaded petrol, reductions in the sulphur content of diesel fuel, and the introduction of alternative fuels such as gas all have implications for valve and seat insert wear. This book aims to provide the reader with a complete understanding of valve recession, starting with a brief introduction to valve operation, design, and operating conditions such as loading and temperature. A detailed overview of work carried out previously, looking at valve and seat wear, is then given and valve and seat failure case studies are discussed.
DOWNLOAD

MARITIME ATLAS

Lloyd’s MIU
ISBN 978-184311-604-2
ISSN 0076-020X
© Lloyd’s MIU 2007

Book Description,
The Atlas provides precise latitude and longitude co-ordinates, details of the main canals and river systems, weather conditions, load line zones, international airports, plus details on principal road and rail connections. In addition, the Atlas features world and regional marine distance tables, a comprehensive user guide and detailed statistics on commercial vessel movements, characteristics and casualties. Featuring world maps, regional maps and larger scale maps for the busiest shipping areas, the book also encompasses a unique indexing system which allows users to search for ports on both a geographical and alphabetical basis.The use of full colour throughout adds to the user friendliness of the Atlas. The Atlas is designed to be used in conjunction with the Lloyd’s List Ports of the World annual publication. By cross referencing between the two books, users can glean full details on cargo-handling facilities and services provided at all the major ports and shipping centres across the globe.

DOWNLOAD

MARINE GEOCHEMISTRY

Springer
ISBN-10 3-540-32143-8
ISBN-13 978-3-540-32143-9
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999, 2006

Book Description,
Marine geochemistry is generally integrated into the broad conceptual framework of oceanography which encompasses the study of the oceanic currents, their interactions with the atmosphere, weather and climate; it leads from the substances dissolved in water, to the marine flora and fauna, the processes of plate tectonics, the sediments at the bottom of the oceans, and thus to marine geology. Our notion of marine geochemistry is that it is a part of marine geology, wherefore we began our book with a chapter on the solid phase of marine sediments concerning its composition, development and distribution. The first chapter written by Dieter K. Fütterer is therefore a brief summarizing introduction into marine geology which describes all biochemically relevant aspects related to the subject. Monika Breitzke and Ulrich Bleil are concerned in the following chapter with the physical properties of sediments and sedimentary magnetism in a marine-geophysical context, which we deem an important contribution to our understanding of geochemical processes in the sediment.

DOWNLOAD

CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS OF MATERIALS

John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN 0-471-49230-2
Copyright © 2004 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Book Description,
Thermodynamic systems a thermodynamic description of a process needs a well-defined system. A thermodynamic system contains everything of thermodynamic interest for a particular chemical process within a boundary. The boundary is either a real or hypothetical enclosure or surface that confines the system and separates it from its surroundings. In order to describe the thermodynamic behaviour of a physical system, the interaction between the system and its surroundings must be understood. Thermodynamic systems are thus classified into three main types according to the way they interact with the surroundings: isolated systems do not exchange energy or matter with their surroundings; closed systems exchange energy with the surroundings but not matter; and open systems exchange both energy and matter with their surroundings.
DOWNLOAD

CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS FOR METALS AND MATERIALS

Imperial College Press
57 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9HE
ISBN 1-86094-177-X
Copyright 0 1999 by Imperial College Press and World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Book Description,
This book with CD-ROM presents classical thermodynamics with an emphasis on chemical aspects. It is written primarily for students and graduate engineers of metals and materials. Since its treatment of the subject is sufficiently general, students in related fields such as physical chemistry and chemical engineering can also use it. As thermodynamics is a key discipline in most science and engineering fields, a great number of books, each claiming originality in presentation and approach, have been published on the subject. However, thermodynamics is still a confusing subject for uninitiated students and an “easy to forget” one for graduate engineers This book is intended for use primarily at the undergraduate level, but will also -be useful to the practising graduate engineers in industry.

DOWNLOAD

ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS ENGINEERING

CRC Press LLC
ISBN 0-8493-2553-6
© 2002 by CRC Press LLC

Book Description,
The instructors have been teaching advanced thermodynamics for more than twelve\ years using various thermodynamic texts written by others. In writing this text, we acknowledge that debt and that to our students who asked questions that clarified each chapter that we wrote. This text uses a “down–to–earth” and, perhaps, unconventional approach in teaching advanced concepts in thermodynamics. It first presents the phenomenological approach to a problem and then delves into the details. Thereby, we have written the text in the form of a self–teaching tool for students and engineers, and with ample example problems. Readers will find the esoteric material to be condensed and, as engineers, we have stressed applications throughout the text. There are more than 110 figures and 150 engineering examples covering thirteen chapters.

DOWNLOAD

PERRY'S CHEMICAL ENGINEERS HANDBOOK

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
DOI: 10.1036/007151127X
Copyright © 2008

Book Description,
Thermodynamics is the branch of science that lends substance to the principles of energy transformation in macroscopic systems. The general restrictions shown by experience to apply to all such transformations are known as the laws of thermodynamics. These laws are primitive; they cannot be derived from anything more basic. The first law of thermodynamics states that energy is conserved, that although it can be altered in form and transferred from one place to another, the total quantity remains constant. Thus the first law of thermodynamics depends on the concept of energy, but conversely energy is an essential thermodynamic function because it allows the first law to be formulated. This coupling is characteristic of the primitive concepts of thermodynamics.

DOWNLOAD

INSIDER COMPUTER FRAUD

Auerbach Publications
Taylor & Francis Group
6000 Broken Sound Parkway
ISBN 978-1-4200-4659-5
© 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Book Description,
All roads within Insider Computer Fraud: An In-Depth Framework for Detecting and Defending against Insider IT Attacks point to the importance of maintaining strong security controls first. Then, using completed comprehensive and integrated data flow diagrams, the transactions transmission and storage life cycle (critical path) will be traced. The critical path will show the transmission and ultimate storage of NPPI and critical core transaction data elements, which will be useful for determining the assigned control points throughout the critical path where access
controls, data origination and input, processing, and output controls exist.

DOWNLOAD

INCIDENT RESPONSE

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
DOI: 10.1036/0072230371
Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
According to the Internet research firm comScore, goods and services worth more than $17 billion were sold via the Internet in the first quarter of 2002. It has been our experience that wherever money goes, crime follows. We have spent the last few years responding to incidents where the number one goal of a computer crime was money. Nearly every computer intrusion we have responded to was followed by credit card fraud, extortion, or fraudulent purchases of merchandise by thieves who had obtained valid customer credentials on e-commerce sites. It is highly probable that these intrusions also led to identity theft.With enough information about an individual, evildoers can manufacture false credentials and attempt to withdraw money froman unwitting person’s bank accounts. Today’s attackers are much more efficient and aggressive at seeking economic gain than they have been in the past. New regulations and standards are indirectly and directly influencing an organization’s capability to respond to computer security incidents. Therefore, we wrote this book to illustrate a professional approach to investigating computer security incidents in an effort to help organizations comply with the new standards and regulatory requirements, as well as to minimize losses.
DOWNLOAD

400 MUST HAVE WORDS FOR THE TOEFL

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
DOI: 10.1036/0071467076
Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Book Description,
400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL® will help you improve your score on the TOEFL test. In particular, this book will build your TOEFL vocabulary for the new Internet-based TOEFL of 2005. This book is designed for ease of use as a self-study guide. Its chapters were written for easy completion in one sitting—about 25 minutes. 400 Must-Have Words is also highly effective in the TOEFL-prep classroom. Each chapter begins with a list of 10 target words. These words are defined and used in sample sentences. Usage tips are given for many words, as are any commonly used parts of speech related to the target word. Following these definitions, the words are practiced in three exercises. TOEFL Prep I and TOEFL Prep II give straightforward practice in a variety of easy exercise styles.The last exercise,TOEFL Success, includes a TOEFLstyle reading followed by one or two authentic TOEFL-style questions. Most TOEFL Success readings incorporate all 10 target words, and most also include an additional bonus structure. Each chapter ends with an answer key so you can check your work.

DOWNLOAD

ACADEMIC WRITING A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR STUDENTS

RoutledgeFalmer
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
ISBN 0-203-47059-1
ISBN 0 7487 6838 6
Text © Stephen Bailey 2003
Original illustrations © Nelson Thornes Ltd 2003

Book Description,
Academic Writing is designed for anybody who is studying (or planning to study) at English-medium colleges and universities and has to write essays and other assignments for exams or coursework. International students especially find the written demands of their courses extremely challenging. On top of the complexity of the vocabulary of academic English they have to learn a series of conventions in style, referencing and organisation. Academic Writing is a flexible course that allows students to work either with a teacher or by themselves, to practise those areas which are most important for their studies. Many students find that they have very limited time to prepare for their courses, and that writing is only one of several skills they need to master. The structure of the book has been made as simple as possible to allow users to find what they want quickly.

DOWNLOAD

JUST ENOUGH ENGLISH GRAMMAR ILLUSTRATED

McGraw-Hill
DOI: 10.1036/0071492321
Copyright © 2008 by Gabriele Stobbe. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated requires no formal exposure to English grammar. The book is designed to give learners of English a basic grammar foundation. It may serve other students as a reference or review tool. This book takes a practical approach. It does not focus on rules and definitions. Instead, it studies how words work and what they do in sentences. The material is presented in an easy, step-by-step format. As the learner moves through the book, he or she will gain an understanding of the basic principles of the English language. These principles are laid out simply but thoroughly, and each new principle builds on what the student learned earlier in the book.

DOWNLOAD

ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE

Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13 978-0-511-07862-0
© David Crystal 1997, 2003

Book Description,
Although English as a global language did not appear until 1997, it was actually written in 1995, which in 2002 seems a very long time ago, as far as global linguistic developments are concerned. The 1990s were a revolutionary decade, in that respect, with a proliferation of new linguistic varieties arising out of the worldwide implementation of the Internet, an emerging awareness of the crisis affecting the world’s endangered languages, and an increasingly public recognition of the global position of English. Academic publications relating to this last topic seriously increased in number and weight. The largely article-driven literature of previous decades had typically been exploratory and programmatic, restricted to individual situations, anecdotal in illustration, lacking a sociolinguistic frame of reference, and focusing on the written (and usually literary) language. By contrast, the 1990s saw the emergence of a more comprehensive perspective in which spoken varieties became prominent, there was a real increase in the amount of descriptive data, and attempts were made to arrive at explanations and to make predictions of an appropriately general and sociolinguistically informed character.
DOWNLOAD

CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR TOEIC

A & C Black Publishers Ltd
38 Soho Square, London W1D 3HB
ISBN-10: 0 7136 7508 5
ISBN-13: 978 0 7136 7508 X
eISBN-13: 978-1-4081-0234-3
© Rawdon Wyatt 2006

Book Description,
This book has been written for anyone who is planning to take the TOEIC®, and who wants to practice and develop their vocabulary. A greater command of vocabulary is one of the key factors that will help you raise your TOEIC® score. You should not go through the exercises in this book mechanically. It is better to choose areas that you are unfamiliar with, or areas that are of specific interest or importance to you. Each exercise is accompanied by a full answer key at the back of the book. This key also gives you other information about particular vocabulary items (for example, words with similar meanings, alternative words and expressions, etc.) that are not covered in the exercises themselves.

DOWNLOAD

PRACTICAL INSIGHT INTO CMMI

Artech House
ISBN 1-58053-625-5
© 2004 Tim Kasse

Book Description,
Practical Insight into CMMI® provides an understanding of the engineering, project management, process management, and quality management principles behind the specific and generic goals and practices of CMMI®. It does so without listing the specific goals and practices in their technical entirety. It offers clear interpretations that are based upon my long experience
with the definition and the use of CMMI®. It borrows examples from the Kasse Initiatives Systems/Software Engineering Workshops in order to provide practical insight into those principles behind CMMI®. It integrates my experience with the concepts presented in CMMI®. This book presents complicated engineering concepts in a manner that will enable both higher-level managers and practitioners to visualize what it would be like to work in an organization that fully understood and embraced the best concepts\ of the CMMI® Reference Model.

DOWNLOAD

MARINE DIESEL ENGINE AND GAS TURBINES

Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803
ISBN 0 7506 5846 0
© 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Book Description,
Developments in two-stroke and four-stroke designs for propulsion and auxiliary power drives in the five years since the publication of the seventh edition of Pounder’s Marine Diesel Engines call for an update. Rationalization in the engine design/building industry has also been sustained, with the larger groups continuing to absorb (and in some cases phase out) long-established smaller marques. This eighth edition reflects the generic and specific advances made by marine engine designers and specialists in support technologies— notably turbocharging, fuel treatment, emissions reduction and automation systems—which are driven by: ship designer demands for more compactness and lower weight; shipowner demands for higher reliability, serviceability and overall operational economy; and shipbuilder demands for lower costs and easier installation procedures.

DOWNLOAD

GLACIAL GEOLOGY

John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
ISBN: 978-0-470-51690-4 (HB)
978-0-470-51691-1 (PB)
C 2009 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Book Description,
In the preface for the First Edition of Glacial Geology we wrote that this book is the product of two things: an enthusiasm for glacial geology and a perceived need for a student text with which to stimulate this enthusiasm in others. Thirteen years on we still believe this to be the case. The First Edition has sold well and has been wellreceived by undergraduates studying the subject. In the First Edition of Glacial Geology we also wrote that the aim of the book is simple: to provide an account of glacial geology which is accessible to undergraduates and uncluttered from unnecessary detail. Although we have taken the opportunity to update and revise a lot of the content in this Second Edition, reflecting new developments in the subject, we have tried to stay true to this original aim. We hope you will still find this an accessible and helpful treatment of the subject and that by reading this book you will share some of our enthusiasm for glacial geology.

DOWNLOAD

GENERAL DICTIONARY OF GEOLOGY

Alva Kurniawan, Jasmine A. P., John Mc. Kenzie
Environmental Geographic Student Association (EGSA)
Bulaksumur (postal code 55282), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
© 2009 by Environmental Geographic Student Association

Book Dscription,
The subjects of this dictionary are most of geological terms but there are many terms that also related with geophysics, biology, astrophysics, and geography. Geology is an interesting subject in knowing history of Earth creation, creature evolution, ancient Earth life and Earth condition in the past; even find mine, coal, also oil deposit below Earth surface. Petrogeologist study geology to find mine, coal, or oil deposit. Geophysics scientist study geology for recognize the physical characteristics of Earth component such as magnetism, seismicity, elasticity, Earth thermodynamic, by physical experiments in a specific geological structure which consist of specific rocks and minerals. Biology scientist study geology for tracing the historical evolution of creature in its first appearance until this time. Geographers also study geology for recognize a spatial phenomenon of Earth surface that were formed or influenced with a sequences of geological event.

DOWNLOAD

MARINE GEOLOGY

Facts On File, Inc.
132 West 31st Street
New York NY 10001
ISBN 0-8160-4874-6
Copyright © 2003, 1996 by Jon Erickson

Book Description,
In the revised edition of Marine Geology, Jon Erickson explores several ideas hypothesizing the origin of the Earth, continents, and oceans and how these processes fit into the origin of the universe.The role of oceans and water in the development of plate tectonics is discussed in detail, while the reader is given essential information on how plate tectonics works. Ocean basins have continually expanded and contracted on Earth, and the continents have alternately converged into large single supercontinents and then broken apart by the formation of new ocean basins.The appearance, evolution, and extinction of different life-forms are inextricably linked to the expansion and contraction of ocean basins, partly through the changing environmental conditions associated with tectonic processes.The history of several different ocean basins over the past billion years is discussed in Marine Geology, as well as the changing life-forms in each successive ocean basin.

DOWNLOAD

MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

Academic Press
International Standard Book Number: 0-12-740852-5
Copyright © 2003, Elsevier (USA).

Book Description,

Economics is the study of how individuals and societies make choices subject to constraints. The need to make choices arises from scarcity. From the perspective of society as a whole, scarcity refers to the limitations placed on the production of goods and services because factors of production are finite. From the perspective of the individual, scarcity refers to the limitations\ on the consumption of goods and services because of limited of personal income and wealth.
Definition: Economics is the study of how individuals and societies choose to utilize scarce resources to satisfy virtually unlimited wants. Definition: Scarcity describes the condition in which the availability of resources is insufficient to satisfy the wants and needs of individuals and
society. The concepts of scarcity and choice are central to the discipline of economics. Because of scarcity, whenever the decision is made to follow one course of action, a simultaneous decision is made to forgo some other course of action. Thus, any action requires a sacrifice. There is another
common admonition that also underscores the all pervasive concept of scarcity: if an offer seems too good to be true, then it probably is.
DOWNLOAD

LAW'S ORDER

Princeton University Press
ISBN 0-691-01016-1
Copyright C 2000 by Princeton University Press

Book Description,
The legal rules that we are most familiar with are laws created by legislatures and enforced by courts and police. But even in our society much of the law is the creation not of legislatures but of judges, embedded in past precedents that determine how future cases will be decided; much enforcement of law is by private parties such as tort victims and their lawyers rather than by police; and substantial bodies of legal rules take the form, not of laws, but of private norms, privately enforced.

DOWNLOAD

ECONOMICS A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION

Oxford University Press
ISBN 978–0–19–285345–5
© Partha Dasgupta 2007

Book Description,
Writing an introduction to economics is both easy and hard. It’s easy because in one way or another we are all economists. No one, for example, has to explain to us what prices are – we face them every day. Experts may have to explain why banks offer interest on saving deposits or why risk aversion is a tricky concept or why the way we measure wealth misses much of the point of measuring it, but none of these is an alien idea. As economics matters to us, we also have views on what should be done to put things right when we feel they are wrong. And we hold our views strongly because our ethics drive our politics and our politics inform our economics.

DOWNLOAD

COGNITIVE ECONOMICS

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN 978-3-540-71346-3
C 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Book Description,
The book is organized into four parts, over the course of which the actor’s behavior becomes more and more precisely and completely specified in an ever-enriched social context. Each part is itself developed into two chapters, the first of which introduces the main concepts in a static perspective, while the second extends these concepts into a more dynamic perspective. Each chapter reinterprets, in an explicitly cognitive perspective, classical achievements as well as more original developments, either formalized or not, and mentions existing experimentation works in support of them. Moreover, every section is illustrated by a recurrent example (presented in italics) giving the actor a different role in each part, successively soothsayer, surgeon, driver and worker.

DOWNLOAD

EC & M'S ELECTRICAL CALCULATIONS HANDBOOK

McGraw-Hill
DOI: 10.1036/0071414800
Copyright © 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Book Description,
It was with all of these in mind that I conceived of this electrical calculations handbook. It is intended to be a handy tool that provides in just one place much of the information that one normally seeks from reference manuals; it also provides solved “go-by” problems of the most-often encountered types in the electrical industry to expedite\ solutions and make calculations easy. Instead of simply providing formulas without explanations, I took care to explain each problem type and formula, and to prepare step-by-step solutions.

DOWNLOAD

ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION WORK

Newnes is an imprint of Elsevier
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK
30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA
ISBN: 978-0-7506-8733-1
Copyright © 2008, Brian Scaddan. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Book Descrption,
This book is intended for the trainee electrician who is working towards NVQs, gaining competences in various aspects of installation work. It covers both installation theory and practice in compliance with the 17th edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations, and also deals with the electrical contracting industry, the environmental effects of electricity and basic electronics. The material in this book has been arranged to cater for student-centred learning programmes. Self-assessment questions and answers are provided at the ends of chapters.

DOWNLOAD

ADVANCED ELECTRICAL WORK

Newnes
An imprint of Elsevier
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
30 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803
ISBN 978-0-7506-8752-2
Copyright © 2008, Trevor Linsley. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Book Description,
The 5th Edition of Advanced Electrical Installation Work has been completely rewritten in 10 Chapters to closely match the 10 Outcomes of the City and Guilds qualifi cation. The technical content has been revised and updated to the requirements of the new 17th Edition of the IEE Regulations BS 7671: 2008. Improved page design with new illustrations gives greater clarity to each topic.

DOWNLOAD

ADVANCED ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION WORK

Newnes
An imprint of Elsevier
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
30 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA 01803
ISBN 0 7506 6626 9
Copyright © 2005, Trevor Linsley. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Book Description,
The fourth edition of Advanced Electrical Installation Work has been written as a complete textbook for the City and Guilds 2330 Level 3 Certificate in Electrotechnical Technology and the City and Guilds 2356 Level 3 NVQ in Installing Electrotechnical Systems. The book meets the combined requirements of these courses, that is the core units and the electrical installation occupational units and therefore students need purchase only this one textbook for all subjects in the Level 3 examinations. The book will also assist students taking the SCOTVEC and BTEC Electrical and Utilization units at levels II and III and many taking engineering NVQ and Modern Apprentiship courses.

DOWNLOAD

PRE TEST PSYCHIATRY

McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc
ISBN: 978-0-07-159831-6
Copyright © 2009

Book Description,
Psychiatry: PreTestTM Self-Assessment and Review, twelfth edition, has been designed to provide medical students and international medical graduates with a comprehensive and convenient instrument for self-assessment and review. The 500 questions provided have been written to parallel the topics, format, and degree of difficulty of the questions contained in the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2. Each question in the book is accompanied by an answer, a paragraph explanation, and a specific page reference to a standard textbook or other major resource. These books have been carefully selected for their educational
excellence and ready availability in most libraries. A bibliography listing all the sources used in the book follows the last chapter. Diagnostic nomenclature is that of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR).

DOWNLOAD

ADVANCES IN PSYCHIATRY

World Psychiatric Association
ISBN: 2.902.050.04.6
Copyright © 2005,World Psychiatric Association

Book Description,
The Sections of the World Psychiatric Association (currently 64) are the “scientific backbone” of our Association. That this is so is documented by the richness, quality and diversity of activities of the Sections, from research, scientific meetings and congresses to educational programs, consensus statements and publications. It is further documented by the production of this volume of state-of-the-art papers by Section Leaders which follows the first volume produced in 2002.

DOWNLOAD

CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHIATRY

John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN-13 978-0-470-02209-2
ISBN-10 0-470-02209-4
Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Book Description,
The welcome growth of knowledge in our field has effected changes in clinical practice and created a need for an update of this book. Like its predecessor, Clinical Child Psychiatry, Second Edition, is presented neither as a comprehensive textbook covering the entire field, nor as a brief introduction. It still attempts to serve as a focused study of major problems, challenges, and practices commonly encountered in clinical work. Whatever its merits, Clinical Child Psychiatry, Second Edition, is the product of the many individuals’ efforts. We have been well served by our publisher John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, and especially by our consultants Charlotte Brabants, Deborah Russell and Andrea Baier.
DOWNLOAD

EMERGENCY PSYCHIATRY

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
1400 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
ISBN 1-58562-070-X
Copyright © 2002 American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Book Description,
This book in the Review of Psychiatry series will attempt to meet two needs. Psychiatric emergencies are unpredictable and potentially catastrophic. Consequently mental health practitioners of all types in all settings must be prepared for crises like suicidal ideation, agitation and aggression, and acute confusion. For various reasons, such crises are becoming more common. Substance abuse has increased, while access to both inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance abuse services has declined. This has been associated with a rise in emergency room visits for these problems. Many of these episodes will be unreimbursed, which discourages facilities from organizing services of this type. This forces larger numbers of patients to rely on the few services that are available and often to move constantly among mandated providers because of lack of regular and effective care in the community.

DOWNLOAD

PILE DESIGN FOR STRUTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS

B H
Ruwan Rajapakse, CCM, CCE, PE

Book Description,
Pile design is mostly about application of engineering concepts rather than use of elaborate mathematical techniques. Most pile design work can be done with simple arithmetic. I have provided necessary equations and concepts in a manner so that the reader would be able to refer to them with ease. All chapters are provided with plethora of design examples. The solutions to design examples are given in a step by step basis with many illustrations.
In geotechnical engineering, formulas and methodologies change significantly from sandy soils to clay soils. Different pile types also would affect the design methods used. As often the case, one may find mixed soil conditions. This book is mainly aimed at practicing geotechnical engineers, graduate and undergraduate students who are planning to become geotechnical engineers.

DOWNLOAD

GEODETIC DEFORMATION MONITORING : FROM GEOPHYSICAL TO ENGINEERING ROLES

Springer
ISSN 0939-9585
ISBN-10 3-540-38595-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN-13 3-540-38595-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006

Book Description,
the position of points in space, the shape and gravity filed of the earth and with their time variations. A consequence is that geodesists feel as a permanent subject of research, the detection, analysis and interpretation of spatial deformation as well as gravity field variation. Deformation in fact is what remains of time variation when reference systems effects are eliminated; as such, deformation is a concept much closer to the dynamics of bodies, included the body of the earth, than simple change of vector components, either for positions or for the gravity field. In addition all problems of temporal variations can be put on quite different spatial scales so that one and the same concept can be applied to a number of different physical contexts.

DOWNLOAD

FUNDAMENTAL OF GEOSYNTHETIC EWNGINEERING

Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN10 0–415–39444–9
ISBN13 978–0–415–39444–4
© 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK

Book Description,
Every four years since 1982, the engineering community has held an international conference on geosynthetics. There are presently two official journals, namely Geotextiles and Geomembranes, and Geosynthetics International, from the International Geosynthetics Society. A few books have also been written to meet the demands of students, researchers, and practising civil engineers. However, we feel that there should be a textbook on geosynthetics that deals with the basic concepts of the subject, especially for meeting the requirements of students as well as of practising civil engineers who have not been exposed to geosynthetics during their university education. The book also covers major aspects related to field applications including application guidelines and description of case studies to generate full confidence in the engineering use of geosynthetics. We have made every effort in this direction and do hope that this book will be of value to both civil engineering students and practising civil engineers. In fact, the aim of this book is to assist all those who want to learn about the fundamentals of geosynthetic engineering.

DOWNLOAD

FUNDAMENTAS OF SOIL SCIENCE

JOHN WILEY & SONS
ISBN 0-471-52279-1
Copyright © 1958, 1965, 1972, 1978, 1984, 1990, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Book Description,
The eighth edition is a major revision in which there has been careful revision of the topics covered as well as changes in the depth of coverage. Many new figures and tables are included. Summary statements are given at the ends of the more difficult sections within chapters, and a summary appears at the end of each chapter. Many nonagricultural examples are included to emphasize the importance of soil properties when soils are used in engineering and urban settings. The topics relating to environmental quality are found throughout the book to add interest to many chapters. Several examples of computer application are included.

DOWNLOAD

GEOLOGY OF CARBONATE RESERVOIRS

John Wiley & Sons, Inc
ISBN 978-0-470-16491-4
Copyright © 2008 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
This is a book on the geology of hydrocarbon reservoirs in carbonate rocks. Although it is written for petroleum geologists, geophysicists, and engineers, it can be useful as a reference for hydrogeologists and environmental geologists because reservoirs and aquifers differ only in the fl uids they contain. Environmental geoscientists interested in contaminant transport or hazardous waste disposal also need to know about porosity (capacity to store) and permeability (capacity to fl ow) of subsurface formations. The fi rst two chapters focus on defi nitions and on rock properties that infl uence fl uid movement. The third chapter focuses on reservoir properties the interaction between rocks and fl uids — and how rock properties infl uence saturation, wettability, capillarity, capillary pressure, and reservoir “ quality. ” Although carbonate rocks differ in many ways from siliciclastic rocks, the laws of physics that govern fl uid movement in terrigenous sandstones also govern fl uid behavior in carbonates; therefore many of the principles discussed in this text are applicable to reservoirs and aquifers in any porous and permeable rock. There are fundamental differences between carbonates and siliciclastic rocks that will be emphasized thoughout, and knowing those differences can be used to advantage in exploration, development, and management of reservoirs and aquifers.

DOWNLOAD

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRINCIPLES AND TECHNOLOGY

Newnes is an imprint of Elsevier
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK
30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA
ISBN: 978-0-75-068556-6
Copyright © 2000, 2003, 2007, John Bird. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

Book Description,
Electrical and Electronic Principles andTechnology, 3rd Edition introduces the principles which describe the operation of d.c. and a.c. circuits, covering both steady and transient states, and applies these principles to filter networks, operational amplifiers, three-phase supplies, transformers, d.c. machines and three-phase induction motors. New topics included in this edition are a complete update on semiconductor diodes and transistors, and additional material on batteries, fuel cells and alternative and renewable energies, relative and absolute voltages, self and mutual inductance, virtual test and measuring instruments. In addition, applications in all areas are expanded and emphasised and some new further problems added.
DOWNLOAD

INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL ELECTRICAL CODE

INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL, INC.
ISBN-13: 978-1-58001-266-9 (soft)
ISBN-10: 1-58001-266-3 (soft)
2006 ICC Electrical Code®—Administrative Provisions

Book Description,
The purpose of this code is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, installation, quality of materials, location, operation, and maintenance or use of electrical systems and equipment. This code shall regulate the design, construction, installation, alteration, repairs, relocation, replacement, addition to, use or maintenance of electrical systems and equipment.

DOWNLOAD

ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY

Newnes
An imprint of Elsevier Science
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
200 Wheeler Rd, Burlington, MA 01803
ISBN 0 7506 5784 7
Copyright C 1997, 2001, John Bird. All rights reserved

Book Description,
Electrical Circuit Theory and Technology, Revised second Edition’ provides coverage for a wide range of courses that contain electrical principles, circuit theory and technology in their syllabuses, from introductory to degree level. The chapter ‘Transients and Laplace transforms’, which had been removed from the second edition due to page restraints, has been included in this edition in response to popular demand.

DOWNLOAD

COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

CRC Press
Taylor & Francis Group
6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300
Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742
ISBN 0-8493-3086-6
© 2005 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Book Description,
The dictionary is organized like a standard language dictionary except that not every word used in the dictionary is defined (this would necessitate a complete embedding of an English dictionary). However, we tried to define most non-obvious technical terms used in the definition of another term. In some cases more than one definition is given for a term. These are denoted (1), (2), (3), . . . , etc. Multiple definitions were given in cases where the term has multiple distinct meanings in differing fields, or when more than one equivalent but uniquely descriptive definition was available to help increase understanding. In a few cases, I just couldn’t decide between two definitions. Pick the definition that seems to fit your situation most closely. The notation 1., 2., etc. is used to itemize certain elements of a definition and are not to be confused with multiple definitions.

DOWNLOAD

La Cour Walnut Creek,
California (San Francisco Bay Area).
Copyright 2000

Book Description,
I believe many of us make the process of bodybuilding far more complicated than it needs to be. This is especially true when it comes to nutrition. I’ve come to this conclusion after answering literally thousands of questions from bodybuilders for more than a decade. Through seminars, appearances, letters, phone consultations, and contact through the Internet, the same questions we’re asked and the same challenges were encountered over and over again. It didn’t matter what level of experience, number of accomplishments, individual circumstances, or what part of the world a bodybuilder lived, when it comes to nutrition, our patterns of thinking and the obstacles they faced were basically the same.
DOWNLOAD

SPORTS NUTRITION FATS AND PROTEINS

CRC Press
Taylor & Francis Group
6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300
Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742
ISBN-13: 978-0-8493-9079-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8493-9079-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
© 2007 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Book Description,
Many recreational, collegiate, and professional athletes in the U.S. and other developed countries consume more fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol in their diets than is recommended. Many of these athletes consume more than the minimal amount of protein to meet their needs. This book addresses the recommendations for fat and protein intakes for athletes and the general population that have been published by organizations and professionals. Critical reviews of these topics that are of upmost importance to athletes and professionals working with athletes are included in this book. The quantity and types of fats in the diet have an influence on energy intake, health, and physical performance. Certain quantities of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids are needed for good health. High intakes of total fat, saturated fats, and to a lesser extent cholesterol have been reported to increase the risk of obesity, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and perhaps other chronic diseases such as cancer. The quantity and quality of proteins in the diet also influence energy intake, health, and physical performance. Many athletes take protein or amino acid supplements, and evidence exists that some of these supplements may be or are beneficial to physical performance.

DOWNLOAD

SPORTS NUTRITION

CRC Press
Taylor & Francis Group
6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300
Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742
ISBN 978-0-8493-7950-5
© 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Book Description,
Over recent years, in a close and fruitful collaboration, we have put together a number of books in the area of sports nutrition. During this period we have seen a burgeoning of interest in the area, namely: increased research, new journals, new courses at universities, new professional groups and, of course, new publications such as this one. In this book on energy metabolism and exercise we provide the reader in-depth exploration of important topics that will be of interest to health and nutrition professionals of all walks, as well as the well informed and motivated layman. What is clear from this book and others we have edited is that there must be a range of diets and exercise regimens that will support excellent physical condition and performance. There is not a single diet–exercise treatment that can be the common denominator, and no single formula for health or performance panacea.

DOWNLOAD

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FARM ANIMAL NUTRITION

CABI Publishing
ISBN 0 85199 369 9
© CAB International 2004. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
An encyclopedia should properly encompass the totality of human knowledge, or at least of some particular sector of it. Not so many years ago it would have been possible to contain all that was known of animal nutrition in a book the size of this, for the science of nutrition is young, but such has been the pace of its growth that that is no longer possible. The nutrition of farm animals is a complex subject, reaching into biochemistry, physiology, pathology, veterinary medicine, animal husbandry and agriculture and even, as evidenced in the following pages, beyond those disciplines. The subject matter of farm animal nutrition is covered in a large number of text books – most are referred to in the entries of this encyclopedia – but their arrangement does not lend itself to the rapid recovery of specific pieces of factual information and it was with that object in view that this encyclopedia was devised and written. Its aims are completeness, accuracy, succinctness and ease of access. The aim of completeness – to include as much factual information as possible – was addressed by embracing all the ramifications of nutrition just mentioned.

DOWNLOAD

PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS

Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN: 0-306-48408-0
©2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers
New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow

Book Description,
Magnetic materials can be regarded now as being indispensable in modern technology. They are components of many electromechanical and electronic devices. For instance, an average home contains more than fifty of such devices of which ten are in a standard family car. Magnetic materials are also used as components in a wide range of industrial and medical equipment. Permanent magnet materials are essential in devices for storing energy in a static magnetic field. Major applications involve the conversion of mechanical to electrical energy and vice versa, or the exertion of a force on soft ferromagnetic objects. The applications of magnetic materials in information technology are continuously growing.

DOWNLOAD

QUANTUM PHYSICS

Oneworld Publications
ISBN 978–1–85168–369–7
Copyright © Alastair I. M. Rae 2005
Reprinted 2006, 2007, 2008

Book Description,
This book aims to introduce the reader to a selection of the successes and triumphs of quantum physics; some of these lie in explanations of the behaviour of matter on the atomic and smaller scales, but the main focus is on the manifestation of quantum physics in everyday phenomena. It is not always realized that much of our modern technology has an explicitly quantum basis. This applies not only to the inner workings of the silicon chips that power our computers, but also to the fact that electricity can be conducted along metal wires and not through insulators.

DOWNLOAD

MATHEMATICAL FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Springer-Verlag Heidelberg
ISBN-10: 0-387-01674-0
ISBN-13: 978-0387-01674-0
© 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.

Book Description,
This second edition of Mathematica in Theoretical Physics seeks to prevent the objectives and emphasis of the previous edition. It is extended to include a full course in classical mechanics, new examples in quantum mechanics, and measurement methods for fractals. In addition, there is an extension of the fractal's chapter by a fractional calculus. The additional material and examples enlarged the text so much that we decided to divide the book in two volumes. The first
volume covers classical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. The second volume starts with electrodynamics, adds quantum mechanics and general relativity, and ends with fractals. Because of the inclusion of new materials, it was necessary to restructure the text. The main differences are concerned with the chapter on nonlinear dynamics. This chapter discusses mainly classical field theory and, thus, it was appropriate to locate it in line with the classical mechanics chapter.
DOWNLOAD

MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING

cambridge university press
ISBN-13 978-0-511-16842-0
ISBN-10 0-511-16842-x
© K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson and S. J. Bence 2006

Book Description,
As is natural, in the four years since the publication of the second edition of this book we have somewhat modified our views on what should be included and how it should be presented. In this new edition, although the range of topics covered has been extended, there has been no significant shift in the general level of difficulty or in the degree of mathematical sophistication required. Further, we have aimed to preserve the same style of presentation as seems to have been well received in the first two editions. However, a significant change has been made to the format of the chapters, specifically to the way that the exercises, together with their hints and answers, have been treated; the details of the change are explained below. This third edition are those dealing with ‘special functions’ and the applications of complex variables. The former presents a systematic account of those functions that appear to have arisen in a more or less haphazard way as a result of studying particular physical situations, and are deemed ‘special’ for that reason. The treatment presented here shows that, in fact, they are nearly all particular cases of the hypergeometric or confluent hypergeometric functions, and are special only in the sense that the parameters of the relevant function take simple or related values.
DOWNLOAD

THE FAILURE OF RISK MANAGEMENT

John Wiley & Sons, Inc
ISBN 978-0-470-38795-5
Copyright # 2009 by Douglas W. Hubbard. All rights reserved.

Book Description,
This book is somewhat more confrontational thanmy first one.Nodoubt, some proponents of widely used methods—some of which have been codified in international standards—might feel offended by some of the positions I am taking in this book. As such, I’ve taken care that each of the key claims I make about the weaknesses of some methods is supported by the thorough research of others, and not just my own opinion. The research is overwhelmingly conclusive much of what has been done in risk management, when measured objectively, has added no value to the issue of managing risks. It may actually have made things worse.

DOWNLOAD