Icp imprint: 267 books
Biocatalysis
Biochemical Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
The book covers the fundamentals of the field of biocatalysis that are not treated in such detail (or even not at all) in existing biocatalysis books or biochemistry textbooks. It of course does not substitute existing biochemistry textbooks but will serve a suitable supplement as it discusses biochemical...
Total Value Development
How to Drive Service Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Total Value Development provides a framework to help businesses innovate and derive greater value from the services they offer. The secret is to devise an innovative model built on total value creation, identified as the total value development (TVD) model.
The TVD model has broad applicability...
Nonlinear Mixture Models
A Bayesian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This book, written by two mathematicians from the University of Southern California, provides a broad introduction to the important subject of nonlinear mixture models from a Bayesian perspective. It contains background material, a brief description of Markov chain theory, as well as novel algorithms...
Getting to Grips with Science
A Fresh Approach for the Curious
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Science touches all of our lives, every day, and should be a constant source of wonder and fascination — not something confined to the classroom. This book is for anybody who feels curious about ideas in science but lacks a strong background in the subject. Getting to Grips with Science draws on...
Cultural Security
Evaluating the Power of Culture in International Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Over the past two centuries, abuse of antiquities and fine art has evolved from the “spoils of war” into a medium for conducting terrorism which strives to erase the cultural heritage of “the other”. At the same time, the growth of the art market over the past fifty years has created opportunities...
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials
Basics of Imaging and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The basics, present status and future prospects of high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) are described in the form of a textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. This volume covers recent achievements in the field of STEM obtained with advanced technologies...
Globalisation, Migration and Health
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
As globalisation gains momentum, international migration continues to divide opinion and polarise policy makers, politicians, and advocates. This polarisation has been reflected in research and publications, with pro-globalisation being pitched against
by David W A Rees
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The fifteen chapters of this book are arranged in a logical progression. The text begins with the more fundamental material on stress and strain transformations with elasticity theory for plane and axially symmetric bodies, followed by a full treatment of the theories of bending and torsion. Coverage...
Paradigms of Peace
A Pragmatist Introduction to the Contribution to Peace of Paradigms of Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Knowledge can create peaceful realities in addition to serving as an intellectual tool for peace-making. This is why pragmatist assessment of social science should avoid looking exclusively at the instrumental value of different paradigms. This book investigates the realities that positivism, anti-determinism,...
Transport in Multilayered Nanostructures
The Dynamical Mean-Field Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Over the last 25 years, dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT) has emerged as one of the most powerful new developments in many-body physics. Written by one of the key researchers in the field, this book presents the first comprehensive treatment of this ever-developing topic.
Transport in Mutlilayered...
Non-Traditional Security in East Asia
A Regime Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
In a changing security environment shaken by the United States' pivot to Asia, China's rise, growing economic interdependence, new institutional frameworks, and long-standing tensions, regional security dynamics within East Asia have changed profoundly. Non-Traditional Security in East Asia assesses...
Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials
Nonlinear Field Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Fracture Mechanics of Electromagnetic Materials provides a comprehensive overview of fracture mechanics of conservative and dissipative materials, as well as a general formulation of nonlinear field theory of fracture mechanics and a rigorous treatment of dynamic crack problems involving coupled magnetic,...
by Godfrey Onwubolu
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Computer-Aided Engineering Design with SolidWorks is designed for students taking SolidWorks courses at college and university, and also for engineering designers involved or interested in using SolidWorks for real-life applications in manufacturing processes, mechanical systems, and engineering analysis....
Surgery: Problems and Solutions
Revision Questions in Undergraduate Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
As the first in the “Clinical Talk” series, the philosophy of this book is to have a set of question-based sections to help a final-year medical student prepare for exams. These sections include multiple choice questions (MCQs), extended matching questions (EMQs) and case studies. The idea is...