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This text is a source for information about alternative energy and the context in which it operates. Written for the lay person, the book includes descriptions of alternative energies and how they work, pros and cons of each technology, statistics, news on developments, and much more.

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Examined here are global fuel strategy, ethanol fuels in Brazil, alternative fuels as a solution to the air quality problem, Chevron's view of the future of oil, and the role of government in promoting alternative transportation fuels.

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At the same time, military concerns influenced, and and sometimes channeled, American engineering and scientific development.

American Military Technology chronicles the interactions of technology and science with America's armed forces from colonial times to the end of the 20th century.

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Aimed at the undergraduate students with basic skills in chemistry and physics, this book provides an introduction to the field of material science. It covers the topics, such as crystalline solids and defects, and describes the electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties of matter; the phenomenon of superconductivity; polymers; and more.

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This book offers an introduction to the design of small embedded systems. Topics covered include microcontroller architectures, memory technologies, data conversion, serial protocols, program design, low power design, and design for the real time environment.

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A rigorous introduction to the theory and applications of state estimation and association, an important area in aerospace, electronics, and defense industries.

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This is the first statistics text to address the unique issues the Marine Affairs professional and student must confront.

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The role of appropriate technology in developing the Third World is the focus of this volume. The use of such technology, research, selection, and sources of it, and its application within the framework of development policy are among the many aspects of appropriate technology explored and analyzed in these essays.

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This is a book for those who enjoy thinking about how and why Nature can be described using mathematical tools. Approximating Perfection considers the background behind mechanics as well as the mathematical ideas that play key roles in mechanical applications. Concentrating on the models of applied mechanics, the book engages the reader in the type

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Addressing its technical evolution as well as its military and social impact, this comprehensive reference shows how historic leaders such as Dionysus of Syracuse, the Ottoman sultan Mohammad II, Oliver Cromwell, and Napoleon Bonaparte were successful in battle because of their innovative use of artillery.

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Wunder collectively expose the domestic and technological details of American pioneer life on the High Plains. The final chapter, a speech made in 1890 by a Scottish traveller, contains a contemporary observation of the real and mythical qualities of life on the frontier.

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The description for this book, Automata Studies. (AM-34), will be forthcoming.

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Many industries use control systems to insure that parameters such as temperature or altitude behave in a desirable way over time. This book offers an alternative failure detection approach that addresses two of the fundamental problems in the safe and efficient operation of modern control systems: failure detection and model identification.

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Traces the advantages and dangers of mankind's inventions.

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Modern consumers are well aware that the food they eat is tainted by pesticidal residues; they are less aware that their great-grandparents faced the same hazard. James C. Whorton's history of this public health menace emphasizes that insecticides have been contaminating produce since the introduction of chemical pesticides in the 1860s. The book

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Best Science Writing features 12 award-winning and compelling examples of science journalism. This anthology offers a variety of styles, methods, and techniques that work for the science writer.

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This volume is designed to provide a framework for studying the public policy implications of a broad range of biomedical technologies. Contributors address such issues as new reproductive technologies, animal experimentation, contraceptive drugs, genetic markers and technology and the aging society.

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An overview of the first ten years of the industrial revolution in applied molecular genetics, this work discusses the birth and expectations of the biotechnology industry, the response to products of genetic engineering and the social and political discourse on the direction of biotechnology.