Programmable Controllers, Third Edition: An Engineer's Guide

Fearless Drawing: Illustrated Adventures for Overcoming Artistic Adversity

Quarry Books, 2014

Fearless Drawing is a fun and beautiful exercise and adventure book exploring how to rediscover the joy of drawing. There is a terrific fear attached to drawing, a frozen panic, a cry of "I can't draw!" Yet, embarking on these exciting drawing adventures will re-ignite the profound joy and artistic passion of drawing....

Random Vibrations in Spacecraft Structures Design: Theory and Applications (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

Springer, 2009

This book entitled “Random Vibration in Spacecraft Structures Design: Theory and Applications” is based on the lecture notes “Spacecraft structures” and “Special topics about vibration in spacecraft structures”. The author is lecturer to the graduate students at the Delft University of Technology, faculty of...

No Wonder You Wonder!: Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries

Springer, 2015

This book explores and explains scientific mysteries and principles, leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor and an abundance of illustrations. Chapters are short, but give an understanding of technology and science not available elsewhere. Questions include:

• What holds a satellite up while it goes around the Earth?

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Laparoscopic Urologic Surgery in Malignancies

Springer, 2005

The era of endo-oncology has arrived. Endo-oncology is now firmly en- trenched in the diagnosis and management of urologic cancers. From its early days with transurethral resection of bladder tumors, to the more recent de- cades with establishment of techniques for percutaneous resection of transi- tional cell carcinoma,...

Information Security for Automatic Speaker Identification

Springer, 2011

Speaker identification is a widely used technique in several security systems. In remote access systems, speaker utterances are recoded and communicated through a communication channel to a receiver that performs the identification process. Speaker identification is based on characterizing each speaker with a set of features...

Reliable Methods for Computer Simulation, Volume 33: Error Control and Posteriori Estimates (Studies in Mathematics and its Applications)

Elsevier Limited, 2004

Presentation of the main approaches developed for a posteriori error estimation in various problems.

Recent decades have seen a very rapid success in developing numerical methods based on explicit control over approximation errors. It may be said that nowadays a new direction is forming in numerical analysis, the main goal of...