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Challenges in Physics Education This book offers a comprehensive overview of the theoretical background and practice of physics teaching and learning and assists in the integration of highly interesting topics into physics lessons. Researchers ......

The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have profoundly changed rese......

This text details the relationship between membrane technology and bioprocesses, discussing applications. This second edition refines and optimizes key features of the first edition - and features new illustrative case studies. The book examines a......

Sample surveys provide data used by researchers in a large range of disciplines to analyze important relationships using well-established and widely used likelihood methods. The methods used to select samples often result in the sample differing i......

This volume addresses the fraught relationship between market and society in times of social and economic crisis, exploring how they interact in key social, cultural, and political arenas on a global scale. The contributors examine the neoliberal ......

Learn about one of the most explosive periods in German history: the rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party. In this book youll discover how Hitler came to power, convinced the German people to follow him, and brought not just Germany, but the whole of......

Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles Finalist for the 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association It is often the cas......

When the Romans left Britain around AD 410, the unconquered native peoples of modern Scotland, Ireland and Wales were presented with the opportunity to pillage what remained of Roman Britain. The Post-Roman Britons did their best to defend themsel......

Its alive! Its alive! (Thanks to biochemistry, that is.) Biochemistry is the science of the chemical processes that allow forwelllife. If it moves, breathes, eats, or sleeps, biochemistry can probably explain how. So, it stands to reason that ......

Highly Profitable Algorithmic Trading Strategies for Forex and Cryptocurrency Includes Secret Strategies Professional Traders Use To Make Massive Profits Fast! The strategies in this book have been back tested and optimized for the best poss......

Thomas D. Rossing String instruments are found in almost all musical cultures. Bowed string instruments form the backbone of symphony orchestras, and they are used widely as solo inst- ments and in chamber music as well. Guitars are used universal......

Strategies for Protecting Your Child's Immune System is the first book to focus on prevention of environmental damage to the immune system of embryos, babies and older children. It provides expecting and existing parents, their families and physic......

Being smart, savvy, and knowledgeable during the early stages of your career is one thing. Being wise, an accomplished expert, and someone who is widely regarded as having created something of substance and value is the next level. This book sh......

Although ideas from quantum physics play an important role in many parts of modern mathematics, there are few books about quantum mechanics aimed at mathematicians. This book introduces the main ideas of quantum mechanics in language familiar to m......

Meat is both a major food in its own right and a staple ingredient in many food products. With its distinguished editors and an international team of contributors, Meat Processing: Improving Quality reviews the latest research on what defines and ......

How Does Technical Progress Affect Workers? Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and impoverish workers, but other economists thought the opposite, that it would lead to increased wages and living......

Gold is used in a wide range of industrial and medical applications and accounts for over 10 percent of the annual demand for metal, worth billions of dollars annually. While much has been written about the mystique and trade of gold, very little ......

This new streamlined text offers a one-semester treatment of the essentials of how the fission nuclear reactor works, the various approaches to the design of reactors, and their safe and efficient operation. The book includes numerous worked-out e......

This book covers all common behavior problems pertaining to the cat, including the history of feline development to social and communicative behavior. An excellent resource for both professionals and pet owners alike, it features a clear format an......

Until the late eighties, information processing was associated with large mainframe computers and huge tape drives. During the nineties, this trend shifted towards information processing with personal computers, or PCs. The trend towards miniaturi......