The Physics of Golf by Theodore P. Jorgensen English | PDF | 1999 | 199 Pages | ISBN : 038798691X | 17.6 MB Improve your golf game by learning the underlying fundamentals of the golf swing in this acclaimed, unique contribution to the sport. Finally, you'll understand: The Physics of Dew, Breath Figures and Dropwise Condensation by Daniel Beysens English | EPUB | 2022 | 457 Pages | ISBN : 3030904415 | 92.4 MB In this book, the author focuses on the physics behind dew, breaths figures, and dropwise condensation phenomena to introduce scientists, engineers and students to the many original processes involved in condensation. Consisting of 15 Chapters, 18 Appendices and over 500 references, the reader learns the needed theoretical backgrounds and formulae to understand the complexity of dropwise condensation. The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration by Mitja Sardoč English | EPUB | 2022 | 1159 Pages | ISBN : 3030421201 | 1.5 MB The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different concepts most commonly associated with it (e.g. respect, recognition) as well as the discussion of the many problems dominating the controversies on toleration at both the theoretical or practical level. The Nature and Origins of Political Extremism In Germany and Beyond by Sebastian Jungkunz English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 245 Pages | ISBN : 3030833356 | 17.1 MB This book provides a systematic overview of the prevalence, causes, and stability of left-wing and right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany between 1994 and 2017. It shows that there are many similarities between left-wing and right-wing extremists, both in terms of their ideologies and their individual experiences. The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives by Irfan Ahmad English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 393 Pages | ISBN : 3030855821 | 6.8 MB This book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer's comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism vis-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective.
The Modern Lean Enterprise: From Mass Customisation to Personalisation, Second Edition by Alexander Tsigkas English | EPUB | 2022 | 294 Pages | ISBN : 3662644754 | 12.5 MB The book addresses a modern reorientation of Lean, abandoning the classical waste dogma that brings direct efficiency gains and substituting by a way to achieving indirect efficiency in a continuous and sustainable manner. Waste is the output of a process that cannot be of further use, while value is a matter of valuation, a process whose output we conceive to be of further use. Value and waste are not antithetical, they are just not comparable issues. The Making of the Democratic Party in Europe, 1860-1890 by Anne Heyer English | EPUB | 2022 | 295 Pages | ISBN : 3030877477 | 1.9 MB This book analyses the emergence of modern parties in nineteenth-century Europe and explores their connection with the slowly developing institution of democracy. The close relationship between party and democracy was established by the founders of the first modern parties who presented themselves as representatives of the people. Focusing on the ideas and practices of party founders, this book moves away from the traditional view that party formation was the result of industrialisation. The Korean Automotive Industry, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1996 by A. J. Jacobs English | EPUB | 2022 | 418 Pages | ISBN : 3030863468 | 0.9 MB In 1962, South Korea assembled just 1,100 new automobiles. By 1996, this total had soared to 2,812,714. What explains this remarkable growth? The answer is complex, and involves a combination of a supportive State, timely technology alliances, a skilled but historically low-paid workforce, aggressive pricing, savvy entrepreneurs, and fortuitous circumstances.
The Interstellar Medium, Expanding Nebulae and Triggered Star Formation: Theory and Simulations by Thomas G. Bisbas English | PDF | 2016 | 82 Pages | ISBN : 3319261401 | 2.2 MB This brief brings together the theoretical aspects of star formation and ionized regions with the most up-to-date simulations and observations. Beginning with the basic theory of star formation, the physics of expanding HII regions is reviewed in detail and a discussion on how a massive star can give birth to tens or hundreds of other stars follows.
The Intensivist's Challenge: Aging and Career Growth in a High-Stress Medical Specialty by David Crippen English | PDF | 2016 | 173 Pages | ISBN : 3319304526 | 3 MB This book brings together personal narratives from critical care medicine specialists around the world. Most of these physicians started in critical care at or before the exponential increase in technological modalities to reverse or sustain organ function, have seen patient care both ways, and have worked as many as 30 years or more at the bedside. The narratives are organized around such themes as : how and why these physicians entered the discipline of critical care; what was critical care like in the beginning; how they have experienced the flood of innovations in critical care; why they decided to retire (or not); and what their retirement options have been (or not). |