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This book will teach the reader every aspect of map reading and land navigation.続きを見る

In this practical and helpful manual, John R. Weir, who has conducted more than 720 burns in four states, offers a step-by-step guide to the systematic application of burning to meet specific land management needs and goals.続きを見る

This book brings to life one of the most creative (and necessary) human endeavors and makes understandable the incredible complexity of California agriculture, one of the world's most daring experiments in feeding itself. A valuable resource that should be read by everyone--not just those of us wh……続きを見る

This best-selling, easy to read book offers the most complete discussion on the theories and principles behind today's most advanced communications systems. Throughout, Haykin emphasizes the statistical underpinnings of communication theory in a complete and detailed manner. Readers are guided tho……続きを見る

Bee Wilson is a terrific writer who tells great stories, and her book could not be more timely given what's going on in the Chinese food industry today."--Marion Nestle, author of "Food Politics" and "What to Eat""No other book tells the history of food adulteration in this way. "Swindled" is ambi……続きを見る

Predictive Modeling of Dynamic Processes provides an overview of hydrocode technology, applicable to a variety of industries and areas of engineering design. Covering automotive crash, blast impact, and hypervelocity impact phenomena, this volume offers readers an in-depth explanation of the funda……続きを見る

This introduction to biodynamic methods contains five lectures by Rudolf Steiner and an extensive introduction by Hugh Courtney of the Josephine Porter Institute, who unravels not only the practice of biodynamics, but also its spiritual and esoteric background.続きを見る

This book is a systematic introduction to the development of simulation models and the implementation and evaluation of simulation experiments with Plant Simulation. It pays particular attention to SimTalk and includes over 100 examples.続きを見る

Conventional agriculture has attempted to exploit arable land by applying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation water. These practices become increasingly tenuous as they exhaust our supplies of fossil fuels, deplete aquifers and raise concerns about the safety of food and the overall e……続きを見る

This book offers a systematic, comprehensive treatment of analog, discrete signal analysis and synthesis as well as an introduction to analog communication theory. It includes over 400 detailed examples with applications and over 400 homework problems.続きを見る

This market-leading text has been fully updated and expanded in the first new edition for 12 years. Now with four-color illustrations and hundreds of new self-assessment questions, the text is a one-stop shop on this materials characterization technique.続きを見る

Power Electronics is intended to be an introductory text in power electronics, primarily for the undergraduate electrical engineering student. The text is written for some flexibility in the order of the topics. Much of the text includes computer simulation using PSpice as a supplement to analytic……続きを見る

A complete operational and technical guidebook for all professionals involved in inspecting public works construction for city, state, and federal agencies. The most complete and authoritative reference of its kind ever written. Many of the forms used as examples are are actual copies or forms use……続きを見る

Contrary Farmer" Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure--the greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He artfully describes how to manage farm manure, pet manure, and human manure to make fertilizer and humus.続きを見る

The Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking is a comprehensive and unified repository of the various models, applications, methodologies, trends, and challenges of peer-to-peer computing. This makes it the standard reference in the field.続きを見る

This fascinating book discusses the emergence of humanlike robots into our everyday world. It covers the trends, possibilities, and concerns we will all feel with their emergence. State-of-the-art photos and futuristic illustrations are included.続きを見る

Though wind power has been in use for hundreds of years, its one of todays fastest-growing energy sources. Readers will learn how we have harnessed the winds energy with everything from primitive windmills to high-tech wind farms.続きを見る

Civil engineers are introduced to chemistry and biology through a mass and energy balance approach with this book. It covers ABET required topics of emerging importance, such as sustainable and global engineering. Problems are integrated at the end of the chapters that are similar to those on the ……続きを見る

Eco-conscious readers will be thrilled to know that one of the most powerful, renewable sources of energy has nothing to do with burning fuel or releasing of pollutants, and has a very minimal production of green house gases. Students will see how weve harnessed the power of nature and water to cr……続きを見る

We use Earths internal heat to do everything from producing electricity to heating our buildings. Readers will learn about the sources, harnessing, and workings of geothermal energy, and what the future holds for this reliable renewable energy source.続きを見る

The process of industrialization that began over two hundred years ago is continuing to change the way people work and live, and doing it very rapidly, in places like China and India. At the forefront of this movement is the profession of industrial engineering that develops and applies the techno……続きを見る