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Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative,...

Encyclopedic in scope, this volume is a multidisciplinary reference of engineering measurement tools, techniques, and applications. Whether engineers are attempting to state requirements quantitatively and demonstrate compliance; to track progress and predict results; or to analyze costs and benefits, they must use the right tools and techniques to...

The first of its kind uniquely devoted to the field of computational electrostatics, this book dives headfirst into the actual problems that engineers are expected to solve using method of moment (MoM), finite difference, and finite element techniques. Readers are guided step by step through specific problems and challenges, covering all aspects of...

This book helps develop the scientific understanding to support personal and professional decisions. Using a critical thinking approach, the book brings nutrition out of the classroom and allows students to apply the logic of science to their own nutrition concerns--both as consumers and as future scientists and health professionals. The text and...

This is an exhaustive and timely overview of renewable polymers from a respected chemist and successful author. The recent explosion of interdisciplinary research has fragmented the knowledge base surrounding renewable polymers. The Chemistry of Bio-based Polymers brings together, in one volume, the research and work of Professor Johannes Fink,...

This work offers an essential resource for all synthetic organic chemists. The content and topics covered are completely new from the Second Edition , providing the most useful reference on organometallics for practicing researchers. The coverage pairs background information about the organometallic class, various preparation methods, and their...