Functionally graded structures

This book explores the static and dynamical behaviours such as bending, buckling, and vibration of functionally graded structures using existing and new theories. The text presents a holistic examination of functionally graded structures, providing invaluable knowledge for professionals, research...

Extreme-temperature and harsh-environment electronics (second edition)

This second edition describes the various materials, devices, and technologies required to make electronics capable of operating in harsh conditions, such as exposure to extreme temperatures, humidity, or radiation. Implantable medical electronics, vibration-tolerant electronics, space electronic...

Lithium niobate-based heterostructures

With the use of ferroelectric materials in memory devices and the need for high-speed integrated optics devices, interest in ferroelectric thin films continues to grow. With their remarkable properties, such as energy nonvolatility, fast switching, radiative stability and unique optoacoustic and ...

Studies in theoretical physics, volume 2

This book introduces tensor calculus needed in advanced theoretical physics courses such as general relativity, fluid dynamics, quantum information theory, quantum field theory, and continuum mechanics. It provides several examples illustrating applications of tensor calculus in special relativit...

Simplified quantum computing with applications

Much enhanced contents to tell the basic to applications of quantum computing. So, the book provides the theory of quantum computing in its actual status starting from the basic algorithms.

Balancing green power

The use of renewable energy is expanding dramatically, but the energy sources for renewables can be varied and intermittent. Balancing measures will be needed to deal with that variability. Balancing Green Power offers an ideal introduction to this rapidly evolving field.

Entrepreneurship for creative scientists

Written by experienced scientists and entrepreneurs, this book examines innovative businesses founded by scientists. Aimed at scientists and engineers, this essential guide sets out the steps required to commercialize an idea and maximize its potential for success.

Engineering electrodynamics (second edition)

This book discusses mathematical tools and key concepts of electrodynamics through principles, theorems and practical engineering examples.

Semidefinite programming in quantum information science

Semidefinite programming is a class of optimisation problem with application in physics, engineering and mathematics It is particularly suited to problems in quantum physics and quantum information science. This book is a self-contained introduction to semidefinite programming and its widespread ...

Theory of electromagnetic pulses (second edition)

This short monograph presents the theory of electromagnetic pulses in a simple and physical way. All pulses discussed are exact localized solutions of the Maxwell equations, and have finite energy, momentum and angular momentum.

Computation in science (second edition)

The book explains how computing is used in the natural sciences and provides a high-level overview of relevant aspects of computer science and software engineering with a focus on concepts, results and applications. It is intended for both graduate students and experienced scientists.

Vascular and intravaslcular imaging trends, analysis, and challenges - volume 2

As one of the most prominent diseases in our society, cardiovascular disease (CVD) requires dedicated analysis and investigation to reduce the increasing mortality rate worldwide. Scholars, biomedical engineers and medical practitioners will greatly benefit from the detailed information in this b...

Biopharmaceutical manufacturing, volume 1

This volume covers the regulatory processes involved in producing a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) biopharmaceutical product for commercial distribution, including areas of current GMP, registration, and legal and ethical considerations. Emerging trends in the technology and regulatory complia...

Planar slow-wave structures: applications in traveling-wave tubes

This book comprehensively explores the design and application of planar slow-wave structures for millimeter-wave travelling-wave tubes, focusing on enhancing their efficiency and reducing costs. TWTs based on planar SWSs are promising for 5G/6G communications, satellite constellations, automotive...

A liberal tide?

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regr...

Chile and the inter-american human rights system

Liberation theology and praxis in contemporary latin america

Focusing on the lived experiences and spiritual and embodied practices of those engaged in social action in Latin America, this book’s diverse, interdisciplinary contributions seek to re-evaluate the history and legacy of liberation theology in examining religious praxis in the region from the 19...

Creative spaces

The essays within this collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in Latin America and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. Viewing them neither as spaces of deprivation nor romanticized spaces of opportu...

A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of andean culture in retrospective

This edited volume brings together several scholars who produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities between the 1970s and 2000s and asks them to revisit, review, and reassess their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal a...

Octavia hill, social activism and the remaking of british society

Octavia Hill was a housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to fou...

The afterlife of apuleius

Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, lingui...

Ravenna

In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a ...

Mapping the state

Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Using significant new archival discovery, digital methods and ‘big data’, it provides a major reassess...

European socialists across borders

From post-war debates on institutionalised cooperation in Western Europe to the ambitions of the European Union in the post-Cold War era, this volume investigates the impact of transnational socialist networks on European construction and integration, as well as the role of European socialism in ...

Books, readers and libraries in fiction

This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...

A nicaraguan exceptionalism?

In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her ne...

Designed for play: children’s playgrounds and the politics of urban space, 1840–2010

An original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond. Charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity, this title demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state and commercial sectors all sought to reimagine and re...

New world objects of knowledge

With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and mus...

Understanding alba: progress, problems, and prospects of alternative regionalism in latin america and the caribbean

This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond...

Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in latin america

This book offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices within Latin America. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and ...

Rethinking past and present in cuba

This volume comprises of essays and research articles written in homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. Following Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba, ...

Memory, migration and (de)colonisation in the caribbean and beyond

Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of Caribbean migrations and migrants in relation to the histories and cultures of countries of the Northern Atlantic. It focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. At the heart of this b...

Materials technology for the energy and environmental nexus, volume 1

The ‘materials nexus’ represents the role or connection of materials in building the path for greener energy and sustainable environment. This two-volume set covers the state-of-the-art of materials technology for greener energy and sustainable environment, including current issues, anticipated d...

Plasma modeling (second edition)

Plasma Modeling: Methods and applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling. In this updated second edition, an extensive new part is added that discusses methods to calculate data needed in plasma modeling, such as thermodynamic and transport...

Philosophy of physics

This book outlines three different approaches to philosophy of physics, and highlights their differences by showing how they engage specific topics and issues, including method, discovery, and theory.

Web content mining

This book illustrates the concepts and applications of web mining from the nature of web data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. Starting with an overview of data mining, it introduces web mining and draws comparisons between data mining and web mining. After this in...

Essential concepts in metamaterials

An introductory book for graduate students and researchers in transformation optics and metasurfaces. Including practical guidance, this book will allow those new to the subject to immediately commence working in this exciting research area. In order to carry out the numerous examples in the book...

Breast cancer and medical imaging

This book presents detailed explanations of the topics of breast cancer and the medical imaging modalities that are used for breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment monitoring.

Solving climate change

This book explains how the world can stabilize Earth’s climate and minimize future damage from climate change, presenting the latest analytical tools and data for those who want to help solve the biggest collective challenge humanity has ever faced.

The physics of emergence (second edition)

This book explores whether physics points to a reductive or an emergent structure of the world and proposes a physics-motivated conception of emergence that leaves behind many of the problematic intuitions shaping the philosophical conceptions. It would be suitable for physicists, scientists, und...

Energy density functional methods for atomic nuclei

Energy Density Functional Methods for Atomic Nuclei provides a thorough and updated presentation of energy density functional (EDF) techniques in atomic nuclei. Incorporating detailed derivations, practical approaches, examples and figures, a coherent narrative of topics that have hitherto rarely...

Secondary ion mass spectrometry and its application to materials science (second edition)

In this edition, a more detailed overview of the principles of SIMS is given, and of how the development of dual-beam instruments has blurred the traditional fields of dynamic and static SIMS to enable greater analytical possibilities. This is an ideal text for final year undergraduates, first ye...

Integrability using the sine-gordon and thirring duality

This book provides a description of the duality between two integrable systems: the 1+1-dimensional Sine-Gordon model and the 1+1-dimensional Thirring model. It’s an opportunity for a focussed study of integrability in its wider breadth of interest, maintaining a clear ultimate purpose in mind: u...

Nuclear data

This course text provides an intermediate level treatment on the topic of the nuclear structure, focussing on the collective properties of atomic nuclei. The book goes into more detail on the specific topic of collective motion in nuclei, which has two major aspects: rotation and vibration.

Imaging modalities for biological and preclinical research: a compendium, volume 2

This compendium is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of currently available biological and preclinical imaging methods, including their benefits and limitations. Volume 2 covers in-vivo imaging techniques, correlative multimodal imaging and emerging imaging technologies.

Neutron and x-ray reflectometry

This book introduces the techniques of neutron and x-ray reflectometry and presents the studies carried out to date, using the techniques to understand emerging phenomena at the interfaces of thin films.