Author: Physics Survey Overview CommitteeBoard on Physics
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: physics, era, new, series, overview
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-06-15
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0309073421
ISBN-13: 9780309073424

Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rapidly. Accomplishments have led us into the information age and fueled broad technological and economic development. The pace of discovery is quickening and stronger links with other fields such as the biological sciences are being developed. The intellectual reach has never been greater, and the questions being asked are more ambitious than ever before. "Physics in a New Era" is the final report of the NRC’s six-volume decadal physics surve

Author: David Lyo
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: overview, studies, surveillance
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 074563592X
ISBN-13: 9780745635927

The study of surveillance is more relevant than ever before. The fast growth of the field of surveillance studies reflects both the urgency of civil liberties and privacy questions in the war on terror era and the classical social science debates over the power of watching and classification, from Bentham to Foucault and beyond. In this overview, David Lyon, one of the pioneers of surveillance studies, fuses with aplomb classical debates and contemporary examples to provide the most accessible and up-to-date introduction to surveillance available. The book takes in surveillance studies in all

Author: N.C. den Boer
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: overview, chemistry, clinical
Number of Pages: 874
Published: 1989-02-01
List price: $290.00
ISBN-10: 0306430932
ISBN-13: 9780306430930

Author: Sunder S. Rajan
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: overview, conceptual, mri
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 1997-10-03
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0387949119
ISBN-13: 9780387949116

Presented to readers in a visual, image-based style, this guide succinctly explains the scientific principles of MRI and spectroscopy. The book conveys an appreciation for the signal encoding and decoding processes employed in MR, and provides readers with a working understanding of the contrast mechanisms which apply in the acquisition and display of MR data. 117 illus Pub: 7/97.

Author: Jose Fernandez
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: blue, overview
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2003-09-03
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0595288529
ISBN-13: 9780595288526

There are two chairs by the ocean. One chair, in front of a mirror, is facing west. The one sitting on that chair can look at the sunset and take pictures. The other chair, in front of a window, is facing east. The one sitting on that chair can look at the dawn and take pictures.Looking at the pictures that had been taken from those chairs one can notice that two of them look identical.These pictures show the moment when the sun and the ocean are barely touching each other. One picture shows the sun just about to sink into the ocean; in contrast, the other picture shows the sun rising from the

Author: SAS Publishing
Publisher: SAS Publishing
Keywords: overview, platform, intelligence, sas
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2009-02-27
List price: $9.94
ISBN-10: 159994006X
ISBN-13: 9781599940069

Provides a point of entry for understanding the basics of the SAS Intelligence Platform. It discusses the benefits of the SAS Intelligence Platform to businesses, describes the architecture, and provides an overview of each software component. This document can be used alone or as an introduction to the installation and administration guides.

Author: K. Blalchandran
Publisher: Sarup & Son
Keywords: overview, literature, canadian
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8176257532
ISBN-13: 9788176257534