Facade-retention schemes are being used more and more as a means of providing modern accommodation for commercial and industrial buildings in conservation areas and city centres. This book is the first authoritative guide to this highly complex technique and deals with the key issues associated with ... more »

This Second Edition of Robust Control System Design expands upon a groundbreaking and combinatorial approach to state space control system design that fully realizes the critical loop transfer function and robustness properties of state/generalized state feedback control. Revised and expanded throughout ... more »

Simulation modeling is becoming increasingly popular as a technique for evaluating the performance of resource allocation and alternate operating policies. It is a cost-effective method for improving process performance and can be used to evaluate the performance of capital equipment before making an ... more »

From the INTRODUCTION: The completion of the rapid transit railroad in the boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx, which is popularly known as the Subway, has demonstrated that underground railroads can be built beneath the congested streets of the city, and has made possible in the near future a comprehensive ... more »

Branding, says James Twitchell, is nothing more than commercial storytelling; brands are the stories that are associated with products. (For example, the special taste of Evian, says Twitchell, is in the brand, not the water.) Branding has become so successful, so ubiquitous that even institutions that ... more »

Anhand unserer Alltagsaktivitäten erklärt uns Len Fisher anschaulich die Welt der Naturwissenschaften: angefangen von der Chemie des morgendlichen Frühstückseis über die Physik der Heimwerkerei, die Statistik im Supermarkt bis hin zum Geheimnis eines gut gezapften Bieres am Abend. Nach der Lektüre sieht ... more »

Product Info This book presents the proceedings of a major conference held in April 1991 at the Manchester Business School, examining current issues and new directions in practice management. more »

This book highlights those areas of civil engineering where microbiological activities can have a significant impact during design, construction and operation phases of projects. more » more »

Handpicked by renowned editors, the contributors of the Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction series represent the vanguard of research on solvent extraction, covering principles of electrolyte extraction and other subjects of increasing interest to the field. Volume 17 begins with pharmaceutical applications ... more »

Smart Antennas examines nearly all aspects of array signal processing. It delivers a detailed treatment of antenna array processing schemes, adaptive algorithms to adjust weighting, direction of arrival (DOA) estimation methods, and diversity-combining methods that combat fading and reduce errors. The ... more »

From the FOREWARD: We are in the early stages of what promises to be an extended debate about the future of conflict and the future of our defense establishment. Few will deny that the winds of change are blowing as never before, driven by a radically altered geopolitical situation, an evolving information ... more »

We always hear how everyone in America is firmly planted in red or blue. They're permanently conservative or irreversibly liberal. But are we all really that locked in to the left or the right? Is America still a place where it's possible to change someone's mind and get them to cross over to the other ... more »