Other Technologies & Applied Sciences

This book examines the occurrence of uranium in its natural setting in the United States, as well as its industrial uses and the methods employed o...

Space transportation is the movement of, or means of moving objects, such as communications and observation satellites, to, from, or in space. Comm...

The present book is focused on the study of unprecedented control and manipulation of light by photonic crystals (PCs) and their applications. Thes...

Share our experiences, our successes and failures, and our ideas and dreams, all with the goal of getting better at the work we love: building tunn...

Share our experiences, our successes and failures, and our ideas and dreams, all with the goal of getting better at the work we love: building tunn...

This book presents the most recent theoretical developments and numerical/experimental validations of new metamaterials and phononic crystals for t...

Every two years, industry leaders and practitioners from around the world gather at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC), the autho...

Every two years, industry leaders and practitioners from around the world gather at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC), the autho...

Historians have established a norm whereby President Eisenhower's actions in relation to the dawn of the space age are judged solely as a response ...

Hydrocarbon production, gas recovery from shale, CO2 storage and water management have a common scientific underpinning: multiphase flow in porous ...

SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC WASTE Written and edited by a group of industry professionals, this new volume provides cutting-edge insights ...

Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Br...

A NEW, FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF ANDREW MAY'S ILLUMINATING GUIDE TO LIFE NOT ON EARTHThe possibility that alien life exists in the universe is a...

Sound and listening are intrinsically linked to how we experience and engage with places and communities. This guide puts forward a new conceptual ...

Long before karaokes ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and cont...

Post Sound Design provides a practical introduction to the fascinating craft of editing and replacing dialog, creating Foley and sound effects, edi...

A classic work in the history of science, and described as a good book on rocket stuffthats a really fun one by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers w...

Loudspeakers: For Music Recording and Reproduction, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide, offering the tools and understanding needed to cut out...

Linear systems is a broad and important area in many scientific and engineering disciplines, and it is especially important in optics because it fo...

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is naval historys most powerful and versatile warship. It is the reason the U.S. Navy is the predominant force...

This comprehensive handbook covers all major aspects of optomechanical engineering - from conceptual design to fabrication and integration of compl...

Everything you''ve always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM''s Watson, and video game-playing computer programs....

On July 20th, 1969, over half of the world's population tuned in to witness the first lunar landing, waiting with bated breath as Neil Armstrong ve...

In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured...