Technology: General Issues

This book provides a basic introduction to reduced basis (RB) methods for problems involving the repeated solution of partial differential equation...

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the twenty-first century. With its position at the border o...

This book celebrates binocular vision by presenting illustrations that require two eyes to see the effects of cooperation and competition between t...

This book is meant as an introduction to graphene plasmonics and aims at the advanced undergraduate and graduate students entering the field of pla...

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half...

The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation -- it inspired a flurry of creat...

This compelling story of exploration charts and celebrates humankind in space, from Sputnik's launch in 1957 through the Apollo Moon landings and t...

This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social ...

Convergence is defined as the intertwinement of species or technologies. Tech- logical convergence, on the other hand, refers to a trend where a si...

The challenge for the biosciences in the twenty-first century is to integrate genome sequencing information into a better understanding of biology,...

Now in its ninth edition, Birds Engineering Mathematics has helped thousands of students to succeed in their exams. Mathematical theories are expla...