BOOKS with Alphabet T (Ta, Tb,Tc, Td, Te…... )

Overview: Discusses over four decades of the planning, delays and triumphs of the Hubble service missions.Focuses on the space operations and technological development of the Hubble telescope.Profiles workers a.The highly successful Hubble Space Telescope was meant to change our view and understanding of the universe. Within weeks of its launch in 1990, however, the space community was shocked to find out that the primary mirror of the telescope was flawed. It was only the skills of scientists and engineers on the ground and the daring talents of astronauts sent to service the telescope in Dec

Overview: Learn the possible threats affecting IoT devices and how developers and manufacturers can address these threats.Provides a practical approach with exercise and labs for IoT security.Covers the differeTake a practioner’s approach in analyzing the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the security issues facing an IoT architecture.  .You’ll review the architecture‘s central components, from hardware communication interfaces, such as UARTand SPI, to radio protocols, such as BLE or ZigBee. You‘ll also learn to assess a device physically by opening it, looking at the PCB, and identifying t

Overview: Marks the first book to offer a comprehensive history of the British horseracing film.Addresses the national attitudes towards the horseracing genre and how overseas input problematises the notion of This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and emotive power of the enduringly popular horseracing genre, its ideologically-inflected landscape and the ways in which hors

Overview: This is the first anthology designed to enhance the reader‘s understanding of the multiple dimensions of Islamic terrorism by presenting a cross-section of recent articles and selections from cutting-edge books on the subject.978-0-230-60864-1978-0-230-61650-9

Overview: In the advent of important crises of both climate change and energy supply (in)security, questions are being asked about changes in energy governance. Caroline Kuzemko explains how and why change takes place and discusses the convoluted UK energy governance system that has emerged between 2000 and the present day. She applies a complex theoretical approach based on new institutional concepts of policy paradigm change, but which also utilises concepts of (de)politicisation and securitization. UK energy governance, like energy policy elsewhere, is moving from one heavily influenced by

Overview: The first book about tropical cyclones in the South Pacific, one of the main global regions where cyclones occur.Brings a whole field of major new insight – explains the importance of the islands‘ phyaccommodate terrestrial flooding. In consequence, although the natural vegetation may be severely damaged, tropical cyclones may have less geomorphic impact. Low coral islands, such as those that occur on atolls, have the most vulnerable physical environments of all. They are little more than unconsolidated heaps of coralline sands and gravels resting on reef foundations, and are especia

Overview: Represents the most comprehensive summary of triboelectric nanogenerators for both scientific research and industrial production.Serves as a guide for researchers, students, and engineers.Written by w.This book introduces an innovative and high-efficiency technology for mechanical energy harvesting. The book covers the history and development of triboelectric nanogenerators, basic structures, working principles, performance characterization, and potential applications. It is divided into three parts: Part A illustrates the fundamental working modes of triboelectric nanogenerators wit

Overview: The role of trust in governing institutions has been disputed for years. Increasing uncertainty and people’s personal concerns about future perspectives seem to have created an increasing need for what we call trust. Simultaneously, the same uncertainty that induces this increased demand for trust seems to be undermining it.. . Marco Tulio Zanini examines the effects of different industry-specific institutional framework constraints on the level of trust within business organizations, particularly the possible differences in old and new economy. Based on the results of a survey carri

Overview: Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East.978-1-137-06285-7

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Overview: Takes the field significantly further in carefully mapping the changes over time and providing interesting interpretations of the findings and scope for further scholarship.Offers an innovative contri.This book presents a case study of the proliferation of .at risk.-language in .The Times. news coverage from 1785 to 2009, illuminating the changing social experience of risk...Zinn presents an historical examination of the forces which have shaped the language of risk over time, and considers how linguistic developments in recent decades are underpinned by issues such as cultural and s

Overview: This is the first book to tell the story of the diplomacy that has made the international trading system what it is today. It reveals how three major transformations over the past two centuries have shaped the way goods, services, capital and labour cross borders, as buyers and sellers meet in the global marketplace.978-1-137-54665-4Series ISSN 2662-2483 Series E-ISSN 2662-2491

Overview: Written by global experts working at state-of-art centers, and endorsed by the Asia Pacific Hernia Society(APHS).Provides a ready reference for the practicing herniologist.Supported with intra-operatiWritten by an international team of experts, and endorsed by the Asia Pacific Hernia Society (APHS), the main objective of this book is to provide and promote best practices in hernia surgery. It is intended for those surgeons who are already performing hernia repair surgeries, helping them update their surgical know-how in a landscape of rapidly improving techniques. Covering all the co

Overview: Takes an innovative approach to the study of tragedy, questioning commonly held assumptions about the genre.Considers how tragedy has impacted the presentation of temporality on screen.Looks at a rangThis book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames. In turn, it uncovers how performance and new media can challenge common assumptions about tragic causality and fate. Traditional tragedies may present us with a present when a calamity is staged, a decisive moment in which everything change

Overview: Provides a clear and accessible introduction to theorems relating to transcendental numbers.Aimed at upper undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers seeking to familiarize themselves.This book provides an introduction to the topic of transcendental numbers for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. The text is constructed to support a full course on the subject, including descriptions of both relevant theorems and their applications. While the first part of the book focuses on introducing key concepts, the second part presents more complex material, includ

Overview: The United Nations and Human Security highlights and analyzes the changing peace and security challenges faced by the United Nations in an evolving international environment that is no longer solely characterized by states and inter-state security. The authors, who comprise both scholars and UN practitioners, cover a wide range of pressing current issues - including refugees, international tribunals, the promotion of democracy, ethics, regional organizations, humanitarian intervention, conflict prevention and peacekeeping - that form a cutting-edge and controversial security agenda.9

Overview: Casts new light on specifically intercultural aspects of transcendence and immanence.Provides a global debate on transcendence and immanence.Presents the opinions and and findings of an intercultural This book presents detailed discussions from leading intercultural philosophers, arguing for and against the priority of immanence in Chinese thought and the validity of Western interpretations that attempt to import conceptions of transcendence. The authors pay close attention to contemporary debates generated from critical analysis of transcendence and immanence, including discussions

Overview: 978-3-540-17757-9978-3-642-45625-1Series ISSN 0075-8442 Series E-ISSN 2196-9957

Overview: The origin of granite has for long fascinated geologists though serious debate on the topic may be said to date from a famous meeting of the Geological Society of France in 1847. My own introduction to the subject began exactly one hundred years later when, in an interview with Profes­ sor H. H. Read, I entered his study as an amateur fossil collector and left it as a committed granite petrologist - after just ten minutes! I can hardly aspire to convert my reader in so dramatic a way, yet this book is an attempt, however inadequate, to pass on the enthusiasm that I inherited, and whi

Overview: The topic of stigma came to the attention of modern-day behav­ ioral science in 1963 through Erving Goffman‘s book with the engaging title, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Following its publication, scholars in such fields as an­ thropology, clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology, and history began to study the important role of stigma in human interaction. Beginning in the early 1960s and continuing to the present day, a body of research literature has emerged to extend, elaborate, and qualify Goffman‘s original ideas. The essays pre­ sented in this v