Nicholas Spencer: 3 books
Paper Empire
William Gaddis and the World System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists.
In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker,...
Aqueous Lubrication
Natural and Biomimetic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Man lubricates mostly with oil. Nature lubricates exclusively with water. Pure water is a poor lubricant, but the addition of proteins, especially glycoproteins, can modify surfaces to make them far more lubricating at slow speeds. Understanding how nature does this, and the physical structures involved,...
The Cutting Edge of Tribology
A Decade of Progress in Friction, Lubrication and Wear
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This book is a compilation of witty and insightful short pieces on scientific developments in the science of friction, lubrication and wear. It focuses on topics that are of interest to practicing scientists, engineers and students in tribology and related areas, and deals with novel and intriguing...