Pergamon imprint: 338 books
On the Psychobiology of Personality
Essays in Honor of Marvin Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2004
Zuckerman received his Ph.D. in psychology from New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science in 1954 with a specialization in clinical psychology. After graduation, he worked for three years as a clinical psychologist in state hospitals in Norwich, Connecticut and Indianapolis, Indiana....
Solar Energy Applications in Houses
Performance and Economics in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Solar Energy Applications in Houses: Performance and Economics in Europe provides information on the state of development of solar space and water heating technology and on the influence of climatic and economic factors on the attractiveness of solar systems. The book discusses the aspects of climate...
Technology of Efficient Energy Utilization
The Report of a NATO Science Committee Conference Held at Les Arcs, France, 8th – 12th October, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Technology of Efficient Energy Utilization is a report of a NATO Science Committee conference held in Les Arcs, France on October 8-12, 1973. The focus of said conference is on energy conservation, the end-uses of energy, and its determining factors in the long run.
The report is composed of two parts....
by M. Endo, S. Iijima, M.S. Dresselhaus
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Carbon nanotubes have been studied extensively in relation to fullerenes, and together with fullerenes have opened a new science and technology field on nano scale materials.
A whole range of issues from the preparation, structure, properties and observation of quantum effects in carbon nanotubes...
by Jonathan Clayden
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2002
This volume, number 23 in the "Tetrahedron Organic Chemistry" series, presents organolithium chemistry from the perspective of a synthetic organic chemist, drawing from the synthetic literature to present a unified overview of how organolithiums can be used to make molecules. The development of methods...
Non-Aqueous Solvents in Inorganic Chemistry
The Commonwealth and International Library: Chemistry Division
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Non-Aqueous Solvents in Inorganic Chemistry gives a concise treatment of the important inorganic non-aqueous solvents, emphasizing why they do in fact exhibit solvent power, how they are prepared and handled experimentally, how they can be used as media for the synthesis or analysis of inorganic and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Translated from the 6th Russian edition, this latest edition contains seven new sections with chapters on General Relativity, Gravitational Waves and Relativistic Cosmology, where Professor Lifshitz's interests lay. The text of the 3rd English edition has been thoroughly revised and additional problems inserted
Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry
A Critical Review of the 1999 Literature Preceded by Three Chapters on Current Heterocyclic Topics
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2000
This volume of Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry (PHC) is the twelfth annual review of the literature, covering the work published on most of the important heterocyclic ring systems during 1999, with inclusions of earlier material as appropriate. As in PHC-11, there are also three specialized reviews...
by R.A. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Physics for O.N.C. Courses is a textbook that aims to serve the specific needs of science and engineering students at Ordinary National Certificate (ONC) level in physics. Topics covered range from surface tension and viscosity to gas laws and the specific heats of gases, sources of sound and sound...
by Henry Nguyen, Norman Lewis, Hans J. Bohnert
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
The increased knowledge about the structure of genomes in a number of species, about the complexity of transcriptomes, and the rapid growth in knowledge about mutant phenotypes have set off the large scale use of transgenes to answer basic biological questions, and to generate new crops and novel...
Twelve Little Housemates
Enlarged and Revised Edition of the Popular Book Describing Insects That Live in Our Homes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Twelve Little Housemates focuses on the characteristics, health hazards, life cycle, feeding habits, transfer, and control of insects that generally live in the house.
The manuscript first offers information on the house-flies, and particularly emphasized are the distinguishing characteristics of...
The Social Costs of Solar Energy
A Study of Photovoltaic Energy Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The Social Costs of Solar Energy: A Study of Photovoltaic Energy Systems covers issues of implementing a solar energy power source. Comprised of eight chapters, this book tackles several topics that are relevant to the use of solar energy as an alternative power source.
The opening chapter is an introduction,...
Energy Modelling Studies and Conservation
Proceedings of a Seminar of the United Nations Economics Commission for Europe, Washington D.C., 24-28 March 1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Energy Modelling Studies and Conservation documents the proceedings of seminar of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe held in Washington D.C., on 24-28 March 1980. The volume begins with a Seminar Theme Paper that identifies background policy issues that lead to modeling; discusses points...
by L D Landau, J. S. Bell, M. J. Kearsley
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Covers the theory of electromagnetic fields in matter, and the theory of the macroscopic electric and magnetic properties of matter. There is a considerable amount of new material particularly on the theory of the magnetic properties of matter and the theory of optical phenomena with new chapters...