Water Measurement Manual
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Irrigation
ISBN :
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
Page : 2868 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release :
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Book Description
Tobacco and Public Health
Author : Peter Boyle
Publisher :
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198526872
Book Description
This book comprehensively covers the science and policy issues relevant to one of the major public health disasters of modern times. It pulls together the aetiology and burden of the myriad of tobacco related diseases with the successes and failures of tobacco control policies. The book looks at lessons learnt to help set health policy for reducing the burden of tobacco related diseases. The book also deals with the international public health policy issues which bear on control of the problem of tobacco use and which vary between continents. The editors are an international group distinguished in the field of tobacco related diseases, epidemiology, and tobacco control. The contributors are world experts drawn from the various clinical fields. This major reference text gives a unique overview of one of the major public health problems in both the developed and developing world. The book is directed at an international public health and epidemiology audience includng health economists and those interested in tobacco control.
Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and The Visions of Tondal
Author : Thomas Kren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 1992-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892362049
Book Description
Presented at a symposium held in 1990 to celebrate the Getty Museum's acquisition of the only known illuminated copy of The Visions of Tondal, twenty essays address the celebrated bibliophilic activity of Margaret of York; the career of Simon Marmion, a favorite artist of the Burgundian court; and The Visions of Tondal in relation to illustrated visions of the Middle Ages. Contributors include Maryan Ainsworth, Wim Blockmans, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Peter Dinzelbacher, Rainald Grosshans, Sandra Hindman, Martin Lowry, Nigel Morgan, and Nigel Palmer.
International Reference Guide to Space Launch Systems
Author : Steven J. Isakowitz
Publisher : AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics)
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
ISBN :
Book Description
This bestselling reference guide contains the most reliable and comprehensive material on launch programs in Brazil, China, Europe, India, Israel, and the United States. Packed with illustrations and figures, this edition has been updated and expanded, and offers a quick and easy data retrieval source for policy makers, planners, engineers, launch buyers, and students.
Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice
Author : Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Progressive taxation
ISBN :
Book Description
Trust in Numbers
Author : Theodore M. Porter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691210543
Book Description
A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
Energiya-Buran
Author : Bart Hendrickx
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2007-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 038773984X
Book Description
This absorbing book describes the long development of the Soviet space shuttle system, its infrastructure and the space agency’s plans to follow up the first historic unmanned mission. The book includes comparisons with the American shuttle system and offers accounts of the Soviet test pilots chosen for training to fly the system, and the operational, political and engineering problems that finally sealed the fate of Buran and ultimately of NASA’s Shuttle fleet.
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
Author : Mehdi Khosrow-Pour
Publisher : IGI Global Snippet
Page : 4292 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605660264
Book Description
"This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.
Ignition!
Author : John Drury Clark
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813599199
Book Description
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. Acclaimed scientist and sci-fi author John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise which eventually took men to the moon, missiles to the planets, and satellites to outer space. A classic work in the history of science, and described as “a good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.
