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Examines a range of innovative practices and processes in digital poetry published on the global computer network during the past decade.

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Provides timely and up-to-date facts, context, perspectives, and tools to make informed decisions about nuclear energy.

In the 21st century, nuclear power has been identified as a viable alternative to traditional energy sources to stem global climate change, and condemned as risky to human health and environmentally irresponsible.

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This book presents a comprehensive treatment of necessary conditions for general optimization problems. The presentation is carried out in the context of a general theory for extremal problems in a topological vector space setting. Following a brief summary of the required background, generalized Lagrange multiplier rules are derived for optimizati

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More than just a collection of factual entries, this rich resource explores the difference between scientific and pseudoscientific pursuits in a way that spurs readers to ask questions and formulate answers.

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Introduces quaternions for scientists and engineers, and shows how they can be used in a variety of practical situations. This book is primarily an exposition of the quaternion, a 4-tuple, and its primary application in a rotation operator. It also presents the conventional and familiar 3 x 3 (9-element) matrix rotation operator.

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Molecular nanotechnology involves the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules to produce materials and devices with very precise, predictable properties. This volume discusses the nature of nanotechnology and explains the differences between "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to research.

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The chapters comprising Part I outline larger theoretical perspectives from which to examine techical communication: humanistic approaches to technical communication, the history of technical communication, communication theory and technical writing, and the teaching of technical writing.

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Although enormous industrial advances were made in the USSR, the country still lagged behind the West in the post-industrial age. Conversely, he also replies to the academic debate on the excesses of modern technology in the West, with a sharp criticism of feminist and post-modernist perspectives.

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"The history of "ad-tech" reveals the practices, tools, and relationships that form the commercial infrastructure of the largest digital media platforms"--

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This volume offers a comprehensive guide to the field of space technology for high school and college students, and general readers. Angelo (a retired U.S. Air Force officer) discusses civilian and military applications of space technology; profiles prominent scientists, politicians, space program a

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Offers an introduction to steady flight and performance for fixed-wing aircraft from a twenty-first-century flight systems perspective. This title covers various aspect of flight performance, including maximum and minimum air speed, maximum climb rate, minimum turn radius, flight ceiling, maximum range, and maximum endurance.

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"At last, direct from the trenches, here's the book technical editors have been waiting for. Unlike other guides which review grammar and spelling--but don't address the special challenges of technical"

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This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power.

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This book examines the management of high technology from the dual perspectives of the commercial markets and military national-interest missions. He studies thirty real-life applications of technology management and, using these examples, develops strategies for success both in commercial and governmental areas.