This unique publication is the only detailed, multinational guide to the cost of construction work across Africa. Thirteen countries are covered in individual country chapters, along with comparative regional information: Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'lvoire, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia ... more »

Beam me up, Scotty. During the 1960s, in an age when the height of technology was a crackly AM transistor radio, Star Trek envisioned a time when communication devices worked without wires. Working Computers of the decade took up entire climate-controlled rooms and belonged only to the government and ... more »

The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. In The Demon Under the Microscope , Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that ... more »

Hybrid Cars!  Man! Is that a HOT topic right now!  There are some good reasons why hybrids are so hot.  If you've pulled your present car or SUV or truck up next to a gas pump and inserted the nozzle, you know exactly what I mean!   I written this book to give you some basic information ... more »

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Since their development in the 1990s, it has been discovered that dilute nitrides have intriguing properties that are not only distinct from those of conventional semiconductor materials, but also are conducive to various applications in optoelectronics and photonics. The book examines these applications ... more »

Knowledge of the mechanical behavior of both naturally occurring materials and artificial materials is of fundamental importance to their proper use in engineering and scientific applications. Research in this area of mechanics attracts scientists from a variety of backgrounds. For simulating the mechanical ... more »

ALL THE DATA YOU NEED FOR SPECTRUM PLANNING -- IN ONE SOURCE Instead of poring through records of proceedings, federal code, and technical publications, quickly access essential information on that prime but invisible expanse of real estate, the public airwaves. In Wireless Spectrum Finder, veteran industry ... more »

International contributors debate ethics in the built environment in all its forms. Will be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and readers with a general interest in ethics. more »

Over three hundred papers given at the Eleventh International Symposium on Water - Rock Interaction in June/July 2004 in Saratoga Springs, summarizing current research from around the world on the broad area of water-rock interactions. more »

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The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: those who fly. Debunks long-rooted misconceptions and offers a clear, minimal-math presentation that starts ... more »