H2O Just Ordinary Water |
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H2O Just Ordinary Water English | 70 pages | ASIN: B009DMSJTA | PDF | 3.61 MB Our water is a marvellous solution – always on the move in the cycle of nature – and a condition for all life. Water is always changing form, from liquid to vapour to ice, and back again. Water is cyclic and has been functioned this way for billions of years. Every life on Earth depends on water; computer simulation has shown that the DNA helix breaks apart if it is modelled without water. |
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SWITCH! Design and everyday energy ecologies |
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SWITCH! Design and everyday energy ecologies English | 224 pages | ISBN-10: 9198092405 | PDF | 33.32 MB There is no single answer to the question of how people should live nor any silver bullet to solve current ecological problems - and yet, we must seek new ways to think and act in light of emerging environmental challenges. Given the power of design to influence consumer and societal values, its role must be questioned and renewed in relation to current problematics of mass-production and (over)consumption. Switch! develops design artifacts and methods to influence perceptions and values around energy use in everyday life. Within the collaborative design research program, a conceptual and practical inquiry focused on critical interventions into sustainable design discourse. |
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Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing |
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Evolutionary Computing in Advanced Manufacturing English | 354 pages | ISBN-10: 0470639245 | PDF, EPUB | 25.45 MB This cutting-edge book covers emerging, evolutionary and nature inspired optimization techniques in the field of advanced manufacturing. The complexity of real life advanced manufacturing problems often cannot be solved by traditional engineering or computational methods. Hence, in recent years researchers and practitioners have proposed and developed new strands of advanced, intelligent techniques and methodologies. |
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Essentials of Managing Corporate Cash |
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Essentials of Managing Corporate Cash English | 272 pages | ISBN-10: 0471208752 | EPUB | 3.25 MB Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments and technologies in managing corporate cash. |
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Mathematical Methods and Models for Economists |
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Mathematical Methods and Models for Economists English | 848 pages | ISBN-10: 0521585295 | PDF | 37.65 MB This book is intended as a textbook for a first-year Ph. D. course in mathematics for economists and as a reference for graduate students in economics. It provides a self-contained, rigorous treatment of most of the concepts and techniques required to follow the standard first-year theory sequence in micro and macroeconomics. The topics covered include an introduction to analysis in metric spaces, differential calculus, comparative statics, convexity, static optimization, dynamical systems and dynamic optimization. The book includes a large number of applications to standard economic models and over two hundred fully worked-out problems. |
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Targeting Civilians in War |
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Targeting Civilians in War English | 328 pages | ISBN-10: 0801478375 | PDF | 3.31 MB Accidental harm to civilians in warfare often becomes an occasion for public outrage, from citizens of both the victimized and the victimizing nation. In this vitally important book on a topic of acute concern for anyone interested in military strategy, international security, or human rights, Alexander B. Downes reminds readers that democratic and authoritarian governments alike will sometimes deliberately kill large numbers of civilians as a matter of military strategy. What leads governments to make such a choice? |
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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, 2nd Edition |
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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, 2nd Edition English | 312 pages | ISBN-10: 0321811984 | EPUB, PDF | 38.85 MB Best-selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds is back in this newly revised edition of his classic, best-selling book, Presentation Zen, in which he showed readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design and deliver successful presentations. |
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The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics |
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The Structure of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics English | 238 pages | ISBN-10: 1402015372 | PDF | 27.77 MB This book develops a new interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics. By exploring the significance of the long ignored distinction between being with regard to categories and being with regard to potentiality and actuality, the author presents that Aristotle's science of being has two distinct aspects: an investigation of the basic constituents of reality in terms of categories, predication, and definition, and an investigation which deals with change, process, and order of the world. |
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Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life |
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Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life English | 192 pages | ISBN-10: 0195161114 | PDF | 3.43 MB In business, politics, marriage, indeed in any significant relationship, trust is the essential precondition upon which all real success depends. But what, precisely, is trust? How can it be achieved and sustained? And, most importantly, how can it be regained once it has been broken? |
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Bending the Rules: Morality in the Modern World - From Relationships to Politics and War |
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Bending the Rules: Morality in the Modern World - From Relationships to Politics and War English | 256 pages | ISBN-10: 0199218978 | PDF | 3.49 MB Everywhere people share certain moral principles--it is bad to steal, to kill, to lie--and yet we often subvert these rules. As Robert Hinde points out in this provocative book, the politician will vote with his party instead of his conscience, a lawyer will argue a point that he or she personally abhors. And this constant bending the rules ultimately endangers our world. |
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