Springer imprint: 58640 books
by Vijayan Krishnaraj, Redouane Zitoune, J. Paulo Davim
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This brief focus on drilling of polymer matrix composites for aerospace and defence applications. It gives an introduction to machining of polymer composites and discusses drilling as a processing of composites.
On the Shoulders of Medicine's Giants
What Today's Clinicians Can Learn from Yesterday's Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Medical history offers us many wise thoughts, a few misguided notions, and a host of intriguing back-stories. *On the Shoulders of Medicine’s Giants *presents a selection of these, and tells how the words of medicine’s “giants”—such as Hippocrates, Sir William Osler, Francis Weld Peabody,...
The Sociology of Medical Regulation
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession. It offers up-to-date information on the current legislative framework and institutional arrangements surrounding the regulation in the United Kingdom. Well organized and written...
A Thousand Deadlines
The New York City Press and American Neutrality, 1914–17
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This study is an attempt to chronicle and analyse the attitudes of the New York press in connection with the events of the period from 1914 to 1917 relating to American neutrality. It is based primarily on a day to-day study of sixteen daily newspapers in New York City for the period of American...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The aim of this series is to inform both professional philosophers and a larger readership (of social and natural scientists, methodologists, mathematicians, students, teachers, publishers, etc. ) about what is going on, who's who, and who does what in contemporary philosophy and logic. PROFILES is...
by Howard R. Winokuer, PhD, Darcy L. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
"The book is well-written, interesting, informative, thorough, and useful! As an educator for 43 years, this is the sort of text that I would be pleased to use in my classroom!....I would highly recommend this book! It is an important contribution to the field!"--Gerry R. Cox, PhD, in Illness,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women. It is the first to explore how women were represented and addressed within medieval discussions of the virtues....
by Frank G. Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Reading is a many-faceted subject. A book on the topic may, like many, be a description of the physiological steps one takes in performing the process called reading. More commonly, it is a manual, describing the methods a teacher may use in teaching schoolage children to acquire the mechanical aspects...
John Robinson
Two Addresses Delivered in the Pieterskerk in Leyden on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Memorial-Tablet in the Baptismal Chapel, on Saturday September 8th 1928
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Andrew May
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity … are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference.
Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with academic science, beyond...
Divided Languages?
Diglossia, Translation and the Rise of Modernity in Japan, China, and the Slavic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The present volume is a collection of papers presented at the international conference “Linguistic Awareness and Dissolution of Diglossia” held in July 2011 at Heidelberg University. The aim is to reevaluate and compare the processes of dissolution of diglossia in East Asian and in European languages,...
Aesthetics and Art
Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics. It also explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings, and discusses the development of aesthetics throughout history,...
Odyssey of Culture
Wenda Gu and His Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This book is the first case study on Wenda Gu that systematically investigates the cultural and artistic context of his life and works, examining selected images of his artwork spanning from the late 1970s to the early 21st century. It is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive and profound...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book summarizes recent developments in the research area of quantum gravity phenomenology. A series of short and nontechnical essays lays out the prospects of various experimental possibilities and their current status. Finding observational evidence for the quantization of space-time was long...