David J Smith: 76 books
The Manager’s Guide to Terrorism, Risk, and Insurance
Essentials for Today’s Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
As a manager, you’re aware of terrorist acts, are considering the risks, but sense that you need more background. How might terrorism occur? How is it part of risk and threat planning? What insurance strategies might protect your company from financial loss? In a few short chapters, The Manager’s...
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook
A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2015 Edition) and Related Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2016 Edition) & Related Guidance, Fourth Edition, presents the latest on the electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic systems that provide safety functions that guard...
Peace Jobs
A Student’s Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book is a guide for college students exploring career options who are interested in working to promote peacebuilding and the resolution of conflict. High school students, particularly those starting to consider college and careers, can also benefit from this book. A major feature of the book...
Safety Critical Systems Handbook
A Straight forward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 EDITION) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 and ISO 13849
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightfoward Guide to Functional Safety, IEC 61508 (2010 Edition) and Related Standards, Including Process IEC 61511 and Machinery IEC 62061 AND ISO 13849, Third Edition, offers a practical guide to the functional safety standard IEC 61508. The book is organized...
Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Eighth Edition, discusses tools and techniques for reliable and safe engineering, and for optimizing maintenance strategies. It emphasizes the importance of using reliability techniques to identify and eliminate potential failures...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years.
For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex...
by David J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
A collection of lessons dedicated to those willing to dream the impossible while seeking the improbable, to those willing to reach for the stars when establishing their reality, to those who would accept what could be as a destination rather than being content to live life within what is, to those...
The Baltic States
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War there has been an increased interest in the Baltics. The Baltic States brings together three titles, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, to provide a comprehensive and analytical guide integrating history, political science, economic development and contemporary events into...
Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State
National Cultural Autonomy Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book explores a largely forgotten legacy of multicultural political thought and practice from within Eastern Europe and examines its relevance to post-Cold War debates on state and nationhood. Featuring a Preface by former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke, it weaves theory and practice to challenge...
by David J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
In a fascinating reflection of biblical truth, modern medicine is proving the beneficial role of prayer. Yet countless individuals who need to be healed-faith-filled Christians included-do not really know how to take hold of this promise of Scripture. Where does healing prayer start? What if nothing...
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers including Reliability Centred Maintenance and Safety-Related Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
For over 30 years, Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been recognised as a leading text for reliability and maintenance professionals. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been updated to remain the first choice for professional engineers and students. The seventh edition incorporates...
Aesthetic Surgery Techniques E-Book
A Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Changing trends, ethnic and regional preferences, and a hands-on teaching method make cosmetic surgery uniquely challenging for novice and experienced surgeons alike. Aesthetic Surgery Techniques: A Case-Based Approach offers expert, real-world instruction by presenting chapters and patients in a...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...