Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Vascular Smooth Muscle
Structure and Function in Health and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book presents key concepts in the structure and function of vascular smooth muscle cells in health and disease. Supplemental reading may be drawn from the extensive references listed at the end of each chapter. Vascular smooth muscle cell is the major cell type in blood vessels. Dysfunction of...
Beyond the Moon
A Conversational, Common Sense Guide to Understanding the Tides
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2006
Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed...
Waves and Particles
Two Essays on Fundamental Physics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The book consists of two separate parts, the first part is on waves and the second part on particles. In part 1, after describing the awesome power of tsunami and the history of their occurrences, the book turns to the history of explaining phenomena by means of mathematical equations. Then it describes...
Stem Cells
Promise and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.
Stem cells are the great therapeutic promise of the century, and this evolving field of research and medicine brings with it many legal,...
A Singularly Unfeminine Profession
One Woman's Journey in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In 1981 Mary K Gaillard became the first woman on the physics faculty at the University of California at Berkeley. Her career as a theoretical physicist spanned the period from the inception — in the late 1960s and early 1970s — of what is now known as the Standard Model of particle physics and...
Particles and the Universe
From the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book aims to present the history and developments of particle physics from the introduction of the notion of particles by the Ionian school until the discovery of the Higgs boson at LHC in 2012. Neutrino experiments and particle accelerators where different particles have been discovered are...
Intrinsic Sustainable Development
Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century. Human technological capability and needs mean that nature is and will be challenged and damaged in many ways. Whilst many social and technological innovations are being made to improve our survival prospects, they are likely to be insufficient...
Vindication of Cosmic Biology
Tribute to Sir Fred Hoyle (19152001)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
In the year 2015, 100 years after Fred Hoyle was born, the ideas relating to the cosmic origins of life are slowly gaining credence in scientific circles. Once regarded as outrageous heresy, evidence from a variety of disciplines — astronomy, geology, biology — is converging to support these once...
by Peter Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book looks at how Newton's theories can be linked to modern day problems and solutions in physics. Newton created an abstract system of theorizing which has been applied to all aspects of the physical world, however he had difficulties in persuading his contemporaries of its unique merits. A...
by Peter Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Unique among celebrated scientists, Newton was equally gifted at theoretical physics, experimental physics and pure mathematics. He was also exceptional in another, less well-recognised sense. No one has come near to equalling his extraordinary analytical power.
Analytically-derived truths...
by Brian Cotterell
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The role of physics in our culture is examined from the time of Newton to the present day. It has three parts: an introduction to physics and two parts covering the roles of Newtonian and Modern/Postmodern physics. It is shown how popularization enabled physics to become part of our culture, while...
Selforganizology
The Science of Self-Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This invaluable book is the first of its kind on "selforganizology", the science of self-organization. It covers a wide range of topics, such as the theory, principle and methodology of selforganizology, agent-based modelling, intelligence basis, ant colony optimization, fish/particle swarm...
Fundamental & Applied Problems of Terahertz Devices and Technologies
Selected Papers from the RussiaJapanUSA Symposium (RJUS TeraTech-2014)
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This book brings together seven selected best papers presented at the 2014 Russia–Japan–USA Symposium on Fundamental and Applied Problems of Terahertz Devices and Technologies (RJUS TeraTech-2014), which was held at the University of Buffalo, New York, USA on 17–21 June 2014.
As the third...
by Osamu Oda
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
This book is concerned with compound semiconductor bulk materials, and has been written for students, researchers and engineers in material science and device fabrication. It provides the elementary and intermediate knowledge of compound semiconductor bulk materials necessary for entry into this field....