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The Vitreous State
Thermodynamics, Structure, Rheology, and Crystallization
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book summarizes the experimental evidence and modern classical and theoretical approaches in understanding the vitreous state, from structural problems, over equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics, to statistical physics. Glasses, and especially silicate glasses, are only the best known...
Solid State Quantum Information — An Advanced Textbook
Quantum Aspect of Many-Body Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This book on solid state physics has been written with an emphasis on recent developments in quantum many-body physics approaches. It starts by covering the classical theory of solids and electrons and describes how this classical model has failed. The authors then present the quantum mechanical model...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Thomas Jefferson’s only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, is a rich and revealing compendium of information and opinion on the largest and most important state in the union at the end of the American Revolution. Presented in the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment as an encyclopedia of useful...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The revised second edition of this respected text provides a state-of-the-art overview of the main topics relating to solid state drives (SSDs), covering NAND flash memories, memory controllers (including booth hardware and software), I/O interfaces (PCIe/SAS/SATA), reliability, error correction codes...
Solid State Physics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
A must-have textbook for any undergraduate studying solid state physics.
This successful brief course in solid state physics is now in its second edition. The clear and concise introduction not only describes all the basic phenomena and concepts, but also such advanced issues as magnetism and superconductivity....
by Liam Gearon, Joseph Prud'homme
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This book explores recent calls to increase instruction of the Bible in American public schools. The work develops a distinctive philosophical and trans-Atlantic assessment of these proposals by critiquing European approaches to religious education and by reviewing the role of religion in contemporary...
Church and State in the Roberts Court
Christian Conservatism and Social Change in Ten Cases, 2005-2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Religious liberty is often called “the first freedom.” For many years, few decisions made by the Supreme Court have been more significant for ordinary Americans than those concerning issues of church and state. By what criteria do the justices make these holdings? This analysis reaches beyond...
The Poverty Industry
The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety net
Government aid doesn’t always go where it’s supposed to. Foster care agencies team up with companies to take disability and survivor benefits from abused and neglected...
Endangered Dreams
The Great Depression in California
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1996
California, Wallace Stegner observed, is like the rest of the United States, only more so. Indeed, the Golden State has always seemed to be a place where the hopes and fears of the American dream have been played out in a bigger and bolder way. And no one has done more to capture this epic story than...
Oil in Texas
The Gusher Age, 1895-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy that built cities, attracted...
An Old Ranger’S Memories
Building Montaña De Oro State Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
An Old Rangers Memories: Building Montaa de Oro State Park chronicles the adventures had in taking what used to be a working seaside ranch and transforming it into what would become San Luis Obispo Countys most-beloved state park. From Ranger McKillops first visit, through to the first Labor Day weekend...
The Cradle of Texas Road
A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.
Thoroughly...
by Doug Brodie, James Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The mid-19th century mining town of Bodie, California located at 8,369 feet, atop the Sierra Nevada Mountains, just 3 1/2 miles from the Nevada border, was considered one of the richest gold and silver mining towns in the west. Geologists who know of its present rich ore deposits, say it could have...
Founding Sins
How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists. For two centuries they decried the fact that, in their view, the United States was not a Christian nation because slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. Having once ruled Scotland as a part of a Presbyterian...