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MgB2 Superconducting Wires
Basics and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The compendium gives a complete overview of the properties of MgB2 (Magnesium Diboride), a superconducting compound with a transition temperature of Tc = 39K, from the fundamental properties to the fabrication of multifilamentary wires and to the presentation of various applications. Written by eminent...
Advanced Thermoelectrics
Materials, Contacts, Devices, and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book provides an overview on nanostructured thermoelectric materials and devices, covering fundamental concepts, synthesis techniques, device contacts and stability, and potential applications, especially in waste heat recovery and solar energy conversion. The contents focus on thermoelectric...
by Russ Mead
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2018
Passing animal legislation can improve the lives of thousands, or even tens of thousands, of animals. In Grass Roots, Animal Legislation author Russ Mead looks at over 20 different types of state and local animal welfare laws. These are laws that are having a real impact on animals somewhere in the...
Vacuum Nanoelectronic Devices
Novel Electron Sources and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Introducing up-to-date coverage of research in electron field emission from nanostructures, Vacuum Nanoelectronic Devices outlines the physics of quantum nanostructures, basic principles of electron field emission, and vacuum nanoelectronic devices operation, and offers as insight state-of-the-art...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Heterostructured nanoparticles have the capability for a broad range of novel and enhanced properties, which leads to appealing biomedical and environmental applications. This timely new book addresses the design and preparation of multiphase nanomaterials with desired size, shape, phase composition,...
by Ferruccio Pinotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Che il mondo laico cerchi il profitto a ogni costo potrà non piacerci. Ma che finanzieri osservanti, pii banchieri, uomini di Chiesa, esponenti politici che fanno pubblica professione di fede pratichino comportamenti economici che di caritatevole non hanno nulla, suscita forte repulsione in un'epoca...
Pentecoste nella terra di Maometto
Vivere da cristiani nei Paesi del Golfo arabo. Prefazione di George Emil Irani. Postfazione del vicario apostolico di Arabia del Nord Camillo Ballin
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Osservatori e analisti concordano nel sostenere che le rivolte all interno del mondo arabo nella primavera 2011 costituiscono uno degli eventi storici più importanti e dirompenti degli ultimi tempi. Ne hanno sentito l influsso i Paesi della sponda sud del Mediterraneo, quelli del Medio Oriente e,...
The Way of Peace Restored Momentarily
Herbert W. Armstrong showed the way to peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A powerful, genuine example of peace was given to this world for a tiny period. When you see how people reacted, you can understand why this world has no real peace. Nevertheless, we are about to have world peace in spite of man and his human nature.
Alice
Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**Winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award **
In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her...
A Great Day to Fight Fire
Mann Gulch, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’ families...
American Patriots
Answering the Call to Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The United States of America was founded and established by ordinary citizens just like you and me. In their struggle for independence, these heroic men and women willingly shed their blood, sweat, and tears—often sacrificing their own lives and fortunes in order to hand down the precious legacy...
by Johnny Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their pastor burning to death halfway out a second-story...
Thomas Jefferson
Author of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years,...
by Stephen Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
In the first book to explore the religious ideals and background of the 43rd president of the United States, The Faith of George W. Bush discusses how Bush's spiritual beliefs shape his private life as well as drive his policies and politics. More than any other presidency in recent years, George...