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 Jonathan Silvertown, "Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life" English | ISBN: 0198876394 | 2024 | 256 pages | MOBI | 4 MB For all the "selfishness" of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation?  Julian Owen, "Self-build: How to design and build your own home" English | ISBN: 1859469396 | 2021 | 288 pages | AZW3 | 17 MB If you've ever dreamt of designing and building your own home, this book is for you.  Self-Reported Behavior and Attitudes of Enrollees in Capitated and Fee-for-Service Dental Benefit Plans By Ian Coulter 2001 | 86 Pages | ISBN: 0833030337 | PDF | 2 MB Drawing from the results of a survey submitted to respondents in fee-for-service and capitation plans, this book gauges how people rate their health care plans and their oral health.  Pradeep L. Menezes, "Self-Lubricating Composites" English | ISBN: 3662642425 | 2022 | 311 pages | MOBI | 10 MB In most tribological applications, liquid or grease based lubricants are used to facilitate the relative motion of solid bodies to minimize friction and wear between interacting surfaces. The challenges for liquid lubricants arise in extreme environmental conditions, such as very high or low temperatures, vacuum, radiation, and extreme contact pressure. At these conditions, solid lubricants may be the alternative choice which can help to decrease friction and wear without incorporating liquid lubricants. Challenges with solid lubricants are to maintain a continuous supply of solid lubricants on the contact surfaces to act as lubricous layer between two sliding surfaces. Such a continuous supply is more easily maintained in the case of liquid lubricants when compared to solid lubricants. The most innovative development to ensure a continuous supply of solid lubricant to the contact surface during sliding is to introduce solid lubricant as reinforcement into the matrix of one of the sliding components. Composite materials are engineered or naturally occurring materials which contain two or more distinct constituents with significantly different chemical, physical and mechanical properties. Composites consist of reinforcement and matrix (metal, polymer and ceramics). Among various reinforcements, recent emerging material, solid lubricant, is found to have many favorable attributes such as good lubrication property. Self‐lubrication is the ability of a material to provide lubrication to the contact surface to decrease friction and wear rate in the absence of an external lubricant by transferring embedded solid lubricants in the composite to the interface. Self-lubricating composites (SLCs) are an important category of engineering materials that are increasingly replacing a number of conventional materials in the automotive, aerospace, and marine industries due to superior tribological properties. In SLCs, solid lubricant materials, including carbonous materials, molybdenum disulfide (MoS  Pradeep L. Menezes, "Self-Lubricating Composites" English | ISBN: 3662642425 | 2022 | 311 pages | EPUB | 6 MB In most tribological applications, liquid or grease based lubricants are used to facilitate the relative motion of solid bodies to minimize friction and wear between interacting surfaces. The challenges for liquid lubricants arise in extreme environmental conditions, such as very high or low temperatures, vacuum, radiation, and extreme contact pressure. At these conditions, solid lubricants may be the alternative choice which can help to decrease friction and wear without incorporating liquid lubricants. Challenges with solid lubricants are to maintain a continuous supply of solid lubricants on the contact surfaces to act as lubricous layer between two sliding surfaces. Such a continuous supply is more easily maintained in the case of liquid lubricants when compared to solid lubricants. The most innovative development to ensure a continuous supply of solid lubricant to the contact surface during sliding is to introduce solid lubricant as reinforcement into the matrix of one of the sliding components. Composite materials are engineered or naturally occurring materials which contain two or more distinct constituents with significantly different chemical, physical and mechanical properties. Composites consist of reinforcement and matrix (metal, polymer and ceramics). Among various reinforcements, recent emerging material, solid lubricant, is found to have many favorable attributes such as good lubrication property. Self‐lubrication is the ability of a material to provide lubrication to the contact surface to decrease friction and wear rate in the absence of an external lubricant by transferring embedded solid lubricants in the composite to the interface. Self-lubricating composites (SLCs) are an important category of engineering materials that are increasingly replacing a number of conventional materials in the automotive, aerospace, and marine industries due to superior tribological properties. In SLCs, solid lubricant materials, including carbonous materials, molybdenum disulfide (MoS  Self-Healing Structures, Machines, and Systems by Dryver R. Huston English | June 29, 2025 | ISBN: 1032488492 | 478 pages | MOBI | 27 Mb This book describes the behavior, underlying principles and design of self-healing materials, structures, machines, and systems. Self-healing is a ubiquitous phenomenon that appears in many systems ranging from the molecular scale up through to large macroscale systems and in domains ranging from materials such as self-healing polymers, to self-sealing tires, water distribution networks, and information systems, including control systems for damaged aircraft. Self-healing extends performance and endurance in ways that are just not possible otherwise. This book presents a unifying holistic approach to the operation and design of self-healing systems. It acts as a valuable reference for students, researchers, and engineers that are interested in understanding self-healing mechanisms and acquiring techniques to extend the performance and endurance of the structures, machines, and systems that they build, design, and study.  Self-Esteem Research, Theory, and Practice: Toward a Positive Psychology of Self-Esteem, Third Edition By Christopher J. Mruk 2006 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 082610231X | PDF | 2 MB Dr. Mruk has produced a highly readable new edition of his original work on an often misunderstood psychological construct--self-esteem. Mruk's view that self-esteem is a critically important influence on psychological adjustment and quality of life is now an accepted tenet in personality theory. Lack of self-esteem is frequently a precursor to depression, suicidal behavior, and other personality disorders. Nonetheless, the clinical diagnosis of self-esteem problems has lacked the basis of an overarching theory. Dr. Mruk's comprehensive analysis distills the literature on self-esteem into practical and reliable treatment methods for both clinicians and researchers. The new edition contains updated research and current terms, and addresses the self-esteem "backlash." He concludes with worksheets and detailed guidelines for conducting self-esteem building workshops. Added features include: Major theories of self-esteem Chapter on the new positive psychology 150 new references Dr. Mruk has developed a writing style that is successfully oriented toward both academic and clinical audiences in the areas of counseling, education, nursing, psychology, and social work, thus providing much-needed information for teachers, students, and practicing clinicians in a clear, concise way.  Self-Discovery Blueprint: Designing the Life You Were Meant to Live by John Ezra Bien English | March 18, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F1V6Z2CT | 108 pages | EPUB | 0.49 Mb Design the Life You Were Meant to Live  Self-Coaching Questions. Coach Yourself: Asking the Right Questions to Build a Successful Career: Part 5 of the Self-Coaching Book Series English | 14 May 2025 | ASIN: B0F8RHRFHW | 156 pages | EPUB (True) | 1.17 MB Career and Professional Development: Choose Growth on Your Own Terms A career is more than titles, salaries, and KPIs. It's about meaning, impact, direction- and who you become along the way. "Coach Yourself: Asking the Right Questions to Build a Successful Career" is a self-coaching guide for those who want to grow with clarity, make confident career decisions, and stay true to themselves amidst expectations, roles, and ambition. Inside you'll find: Over 200 powerful questions about goals, leadership, decisions, and pivotal moments Key themes: motivation, burnout, values, ambition, teams, purpose, and new directions Support for navigating transitions, growth, and finding meaning in your work A space to ask yourself honest questions-and hear what you truly want This book isn't about building the "right" career. It's about building one that's right for you. Perfect for: professionals, managers, and leaders those who feel they've outgrown their current role people exploring a career shift or reinvention coaches, HR specialists, and career development professionals  Self, Identity, and Social Institutions By David R. Heise, Neil J. MacKinnon 2010 | 279 Pages | ISBN: 0230621791 | PDF | 2 MB This book shows how the individual constructs a self from the thousands of colloquial identities provided by a society's culture, and reveals how the individual actualizes and sustains an integrated and stable self while navigating the sometimes treacherous waters of everyday institutional life. MacKinnon and Heise identify a cultural theory of people that is implicit in the semantics of identity-nouns and outline how that theory functions in everyday life and the development of the self; the book identifies major social institutions through network analysis of identity semantics, and it develops a cybernetic model of self-process wherein individuals re-confirm their self-sentiments after participating in disconfirming institutional roles, balancing one inauthenticity with another. |
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