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Removable Orthodontic Appliances
- ISBN:
- 0723610533
- Authors:
- K. G. Isaacson FDS MOrth RCS(Eng), R. T. Reed BDS FDS MOrth RCS(Eng) RCPS(Glas), John D. Muir BDS FDS MOrth RCS(Eng)
(Wright) North Hampshire Hospital Trust, Basingstoke, UK. Combination of two previous titles: Orthodontic Treatment with Removable Appliances by Houston and Tooth Movement with Removable Appliances by Muir. Practical guide covers diagnosis and treatment through case studies and data on construction and design of appliances. Softcover.
Tax Loopholes for eBay Sellers: Pay Less Tax and Make More Money
- ISBN:
- 0072262427
- Authors:
- Diane Kennedy, Janelle Elms
Hundreds of Deductions for eBay Sellers! If you’re an online seller, take note: now you can reduce--or even eliminate--the taxes you pay using the insider tips in Tax Loopholes for eBay Sellers. You’ll discover hundreds of little-known, completely legal tax deductions and reporting tips that are unique to eBay and designed to benefit small business owners. Learn what the IRS is looking for when sorting out a real business from a hobby and...
Agent Intelligence Through Data Mining (Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations)
- ISBN:
- 0387243526
- Authors:
- Andreas L. Symeonidis, Pericles A. Mitkas
Knowledge, hidden in voluminous data repositories routinely created and maintained by today’s applications, can be extracted by data mining. The next step is to transform this discovered knowledge into the inference mechanisms or simply the behavior of agents and multi-agent systems. Agent Intelligence Through Data Mining addresses this issue, as well as the arguable challenge of generating intelligence from data while transferring it to a...
Hydrocarbon Exploration & Production, Volume 55, Second Edition (Developments in Petroleum Science)
- ISBN:
- 0444532366
- Authors:
- Frank Jahn, Mark Cook, Mark Graham
Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production, Second Edition is a comprehensive and current introduction to the upstream industry, drawing together the many inter-disciplinary links within the industry. It presents all the major stages in the life of an oil or gas field, from gaining access to opportunity, through exploration, appraisal, development planning, production, and finally to decommissioning. It also explains the fiscal and commercial...
An Introduction to Dynamics of Colloids (Studies in Interface Science)
- ISBN:
- 0444820094
- Authors:
- J.K.G. Dhont
One of the few textbooks in the field, this volume deals with several aspects of the dynamics of colloids. A self-contained treatise, it fills the gap between research literature and existing books for graduate students and researchers. For readers with a background in chemistry, the first chapter contains a section on frequently used mathematical techniques, as well as statistical mechanics. Some of the topics covered include: • diffusion of...
Wiley Critical Content: Petroleum Technology
- ISBN:
- 047013402X
- Authors:
- Wiley
The two-volume reference Wiley Critical Content: Petroleum Technology presents a collection of over 40 articles that were reprinted from the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. The articles are organized in three thematic subjects: PART I: Exploration, Refining, Engineering, and Handling PART II: Fuels PART III: Base Chemicals
Art Nouveau Motifs CD-ROM and Book (Dover Pictorial Archives)
- ISBN:
- 0486995194
- Authors:
- Dover
black-and-white motifs depict languid ladies, enchanting florals, and other designs that add panache to any print project. All rendered in the sensuous, curvilinear style of Art Nouveau, these enchanting designs can also be adapted for use as borders or cornerpieces for a virtually unlimited number of art and craft uses. Disk contains all items in book.
A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala (Perspectives on Southern Africa)
- ISBN:
- 0520081722
- Authors:
- Phyllis Ntantala
"Like Trotsky, I did not leave home with the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I come from a family of landed gentry . . . [and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of struggle and uncertainty."--from the Preface Born into the small social elite of black South Africa, Phyllis Ntantala did not face the grinding...
Modeling and Simulation of Mineral Processing Systems
- ISBN:
- 0750648848
- Authors:
- R. Peter King
Dr. R. Peter King covers the field of quantitative modeling of mineral processing equipment and the use of these models to simulate the actual behavior of ore dressing and coal washing as they are configured to work in industrial practice. The material is presented in a pedagogical style that is particularly suitable for readers who wish to learn the wide variety of modeling methods that have evolved in this field. The models vary widely from...
Managing Stakeholders in Software Development Projects (Computer Weekly Professional)
- ISBN:
- 075066455X
- Authors:
- John McManus
As stakeholder relationships and business in general have become increasingly central to the unfolding of stakeholder thinking, important new topics have begun to take centre stage in both the worlds of practitioners and academics. The role of project management becomes immeasurably more challenging, when stakeholders are no longer seen as simple objects of managerial action but rather as subjects with their own objectives and purposes. This...
Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-first Century (Urban Planning and Environment)
- ISBN:
- 0754649598
- Authors:
- Marco Amati
Green belts are among the oldest and most widely used policies for controlling sprawl. During the twentieth century they have been employed to contain the explosive growth of cities as varied as Tokyo, Seoul and Melbourne with a variety of results. Increasingly, policy-makers, researchers and even environmentalists have pointed to the failings of a green belt approach, favouring more pragmatic or more linear green space concepts such as...
Rexx Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer)
- ISBN:
- 0764579967
- Authors:
- Howard Fosdick
Originally developed for mainframes but highly portable across platforms-from servers to desktops to handhelds-Rexx is an easy yet powerful scripting language that's widely used for rapid application development. Covers Rexx interpreters for specialized functions-object-oriented, mainframe, and handheld. There are 8 different free Rexx interpreters optimized for different platforms and uses. This book shows how to use them all. Shows how to...
JNCIA: Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate Study Guide
- ISBN:
- 0782140718
- Authors:
- Joseph M. Soricelli, John L. Hammond, Galina Diker Pildush, Thomas E. Van Meter, Todd M. Warble
Get ready for the hot new JNCIA certification from Juniper Networks with the Official Study Guide from Sybex! Juniper Networks develops high-speed, scalable routers for the service provider and networking industry, and they are challenging Cisco in the internetworking market with state of the art technology and innovation. Juniper Networks offers a four-tiered certification program that validates knowledge and skills related to Juniper Networks...
Modelling Environmental Dynamics: Advances in Geomatic Solutions (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Science)
- ISBN:
- 3540684891
Modelling environmental dynamics is critical to understanding and predicting the evolution of the environment in response to the large number of influences including urbanisation, climate change and deforestation. Simulation and modelling provide support for decision making in environmental management. The first chapter introduces terminology and provides an overview of methodological modelling approaches which may be applied to environmental...
Make Your Own Working Paper Clock
- ISBN:
- 0060910666
- Authors:
- James Smith Rudolph
Cut this book into 160 pieces, glue them together, and have a paper clock operated by weights that keeps perfect time and can be rewound and regulated.
The NALCO Guide to Boiler Failure Analysis
- ISBN:
- 0070458731
- Authors:
- Robert Port, Harvey Herro
This book illustrates and explains virtually all common failure modes which adversely affect boiler reliability. Each failure mode is well illustrated with case histories. The corrective steps necessary to reduce or eliminate each failure type, as well as precautionary notes, are provided. The book is a comprehensive, authoritative field guide for the identification and elimination of boilure failures. Boilers of virtually all pressures and many...
Tourism Demand Modelling and Forecasting: Modern Econometric Approaches (Advances in Tourism Research)
- ISBN:
- 0080436730
The phenomenal growth of both the world-wide tourism industry and academic interest in tourism over the last thirty years has generated great interest in tourism demand modelling and forecasting from both sectors. However, the tendency for researchers and practitioners engaged in quantitative causal tourism modelling and forecasting to run many regression equations and try to choose the 'best' model based on various parametric and non-parametric...
Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases: Relaxation, Transfer, and Reactions in Condensed Molecular Systems (Oxford Graduate Texts)
- ISBN:
- 0198529791
- Authors:
- Abraham Nitzan
This text provides a uniform and consistent approach to diversified problems encountered in the study of dynamical processes in condensed phase molecular systems. Given the broad interdisciplinary aspect of this subject, the book focuses on three themes: coverage of needed background material, in-depth introduction of methodologies, and analysis of several key applications. The uniform approach and common language used in all discussions help to...
Your MBA With Distinction: Developing a Systematic Approach to Succeeding in Your Business Degree
- ISBN:
- 0273656678
- Authors:
- Caroline Gatrell, Sharon Turnbull
The key to doing well in an MBA can often appear to be shrouded in mystery, 'success' being a concept available only to the brilliant or the very lucky. MBA with Distinction proposes that MBAs are not mystery prizes linked to the wheel of fortune, but quite the reverse. They can be seen as a process which, if approached systematically, can be managed effectively. The advice in this book will assist readers to distinguish themselves as good MBA...
Observing America: The Commentary of British Visitors to the United States, 1890-1950 (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
- ISBN:
- 0299218805
- Authors:
- Robert Frankel
Beginning with Alexis de Tocqueville and Frances Trollope, visitors to America have written some of the most penetrating and, occasionally, scathing commentaries on U.S. politics and culture. Observing America focuses on four of the most insightful British commentators on America between 1890 and 1950. The colorful journalist W. T. Stead championed Anglo-American unity while plunging into reform efforts in Chicago. The versatile writer H. G....
Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer
- ISBN:
- 0300114907
- Authors:
- Boris Berman
Boris Berman, renowned concert pianist and teacher, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sergei Prokofiev. In this book, he draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev’s work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer’s nine piano sonatas. These cherished works, composed between 1910 and 1951, are today considered an indispensable part of the repertoire of every serious concert pianist. The book, written with a...
Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
- ISBN:
- 0300118406
- Authors:
- Dr. Thomas M. Truxes
This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long...
Peter's War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution
- ISBN:
- 0300119305
- Authors:
- Malcolm, Joyce Lee
A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the revolutionary army at the age of twelve, and how he participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Yorktown and witnessed the surrender at Saratoga. Joyce Lee Malcolm describes Peter’s home life in...
On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere
- ISBN:
- 0300122411
- Authors:
- Stuart Finkel
Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues turned to eliminating perceived ideological foes from within. In On the Ideological Front , Stuart Finkel tells the story of the1922 expulsion from Soviet Russia of almost one hundred prominent intellectuals, including professors and journalists, philosophers and engineers, writers and agronomists. Finkel’s meticulously...
Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C)
- ISBN:
- 0300124473
- Authors:
- Dr. Alan Houston
This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin’s social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered “the first American,” his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Franklin combined abstract analyses with practical proposals. Houston treats Franklin as shrewd, creative, and engaged—a lively thinker who joined both learned...
In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce
- ISBN:
- 030909125X
- Authors:
- Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S. Healthcare Workforce
The United States is rapidly transforming into one of the most racially and ethnically diverse nations in the world. Groups commonly referred to as minorities - including Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska Natives - are the fastest growing segments of the population and emerging as the nation's majority. Despite the rapid growth of racial and ethnic minority groups, their representation...
Genetics, Evolution and Biological Control
- ISBN:
- 085199735X
Developed from the keynote addresses delivered at the third IOBC International Symposium (co-organized with CILBA) held in Montpellier in October 2002, this book follows the themes of: genetic structure of pest and natural enemy populations, molecular diagnostic tools in biological control, tracing the origin of pests and natural enemies, predicting evolutionary change in pests and natural enemies, compatibility of transgenic crops and natural...
Sedum: Cultivated Stonecrops
- ISBN:
- 0881922382
- Authors:
- Ray Stephenson
Sedums are sun-loving, drought-resistant, and mostly hardy. They are prized by rock gardeners and succulent enthusiasts for their color and interesting shapes. This definitive study by one of the world's authorities provides cultural information for more than 400 stonecrop species and varieties, many of them photographed in their native habitats.
Flowering Plants
- ISBN:
- 1402096089
- Authors:
- Armen Takhtajan
Armen Takhtajan is among the greatest authorities in the world on the evolution of plants. This book culminates almost sixty years of the scientist's research of the origin and classification of the flowering plants. It presents a continuation of Dr. Takhtajan’s earlier publications including “Systema Magnoliophytorum” (1987), (in Russian), and “Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants” (1997), (in English). In his latest book,...
Micropropagation of Orchids
- ISBN:
- 1405160888
- Authors:
- Joseph Arditti
This greatly expanded and updated edition of a classic reference work comprises two volumes offering a compendium of methods for multiplying orchids through micropropagation. A detailed collection of procedures and methods for multiplying orchids, including organ, tissue, and cell culture techniques in vitro Presents classic techniques that have been in the forefront of orchid propagation since they were first developed in 1949 Detailed...
Don't Touch That!: The Book of Gross, Poisonous, and Downright Icky Plants and Critters
- ISBN:
- 155652711X
- Authors:
- Jeff Day MD
You’ve probably heard the warning about poison ivy: “Leaves of three, leave it be.” If only it were that simple! Do you know that a plant that has been dead for years can still cause a rash, or that if you burn poison ivy you can get a skin reaction just by walking through the smoke? And that’s just one species to avoid--if you’re not careful, you can also run into poison oak, poison sumac, trumpet creeper, giant hogweed, stinging...
Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq
- ISBN:
- 1586485571
- Authors:
- Charles Duelfer
Charles Duelfer is one of the most senior intelligence officers with on-the-ground experience to have worked in Iraq before, during, and after the Gulf War. His 2004 CIA report is widely renowned as the most authoritative account on how the world was led to believe that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. But until now, Duelfer has never publicly shared his unrivaled expertise on just how the U.S.-Iraq relationship spiraled into a...
Popular Mechanics Complete Car Care Manual: Updated & Expanded
- ISBN:
- 158816439X
- Authors:
- The Editors of Popular Mechanics
One of Popular Mechanics ' most successful books gets a complete tune-up, with 64 extra pages and more than 90 projects, all clearly marked by level. So now owners will be able to hush those squeaks, replace the U-joints, and change their own oil and filter. For more than 100 years, the editors of Popular Mechanics have been providing car enthusiasts with the skills and confidence they need to keep their vehicles running right and looking great....
Buying & Selling Jewelry on eBay (Buying & Selling on Ebay)
- ISBN:
- 1592006094
- Authors:
- Stacey King Gordon
In recent years, U.S. jewelry sales on the Internet have grown to nearly $3 billion yearly, a figure attained in part because of the popularity of eBay. "Buying & Selling Jewelry on eBay" walks you through the process of using eBay to both purchase and purvey jewelry-from finding the perfect gem and the right style of jewelry to understanding the rules of advertising and selling jewelry to consumers. This book also aims to help you gain...
Vehicle Handling Dynamics: Theory and Application
- ISBN:
- 1856177491
- Authors:
- Masato Abe
This is the first book to combine classical vehicle dynamics with electronic control. The equation-based presentation of the theory behind vehicle dynamics enables readers to develop a thorough understanding of the key attribute to both a vehicle's driveability and its active safety. Supported by MATLAB tools, the key areas that affect vehicle dynamics are explored including tire mechanics, the steering system, vehicle roll, traction and...
My Book Of Easy Crafts
- ISBN:
- 1933241039
- Authors:
- Kumon Workbooks
This workbook was designed especially for children who will make three-dimensional objects for the first time. Simple contours and large tabs for pasting make it easy for children to successfully complete the assignments. As they turn two-dimensional parts in the three-dimensional toys, children experience the satisfaction of creating things and grow more confident in what they can do with their hands.
Honda Engine Swaps (S-A Design)
- ISBN:
- 1884089933
- Authors:
- Aaron Bonk
When it comes to their personal transportation, today's youth have shunned the large, heavy performance cars of their parents' generation and instead embrace what has become known as the "sport compact"-- smaller, lightweight, modern sports cars of predominantly Japanese manufacture. These cars respond well to performance modifications due to their light weight and technology-laden, high-revving engines. And by far, the most sought-after and...
Intelligent Agent-Based Operations Management (Innovative Technology Series)
- ISBN:
- 1903996430
Text describes the application range of intelligent agents to practical industrial problems, including: a concurrent engineering approach in new product development, and the formalization of knowledge and product information in intelligent systems. For researchers and practitioners. DLC: Production management.
Equations of State And Pvt Analysis
- ISBN:
- 1933762039
- Authors:
- Tarek Ahmed
This title covers a wide range of topics related to the Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) behavior of complex hydrocarbon systems and documents the ability of Equations of State (EOS) in modeling their behavior. The main objective of this book is to provide the practicing engineer and engineering student with tools needed to solve problems that require a description of the PVT of hydrocarbon systems from their compositions. Because of the...