Category: World

By Charles F. Gritzner, Douglas A. Phillips

By Roderick Beaton and David Ricks

By World Bank Publications

By I. Mandia (auth.), Y. Epelboin, G. Filippini, H. Hashizume, I. L. Torriani, W. L. Duax (eds.)

The ninth variation of the World listing of Crystallographers and of different Scientists utilizing Crystallographic Methods, which includes 7907 entries embracing seventy two nations, differs significantly from the eighth version, released in 1990. The content material has been up to date, and the equipment used to procure the data awarded and to provide this re-creation of the Directory have concerned the newest advances in expertise. The Directory is now additionally on hand as an often up-to-date digital database, available through email, Telnet, Gopher, World-Wide net, and Mosaic. complete info are given in an Appendix to the broadcast variation.

By Stephen Charnock, James McCosh

Not like another reproductions of vintage texts (1) we've not used OCR(Optical personality Recognition), as this results in undesirable caliber books with brought typos. (2) In books the place there are pictures comparable to pix, maps, sketches and so on we've got endeavoured to maintain the standard of those pictures, so that they signify effectively the unique artefact. even if sometimes there is definite imperfections with those outdated texts, we consider they should be made to be had for destiny generations to take pleasure in.

By Peter C. Fenlon, John Ruemmler

The area of Vog Mur (Loremaster/Rolemaster)

By William E. Schrank, R. Leigh Mazany (auth.), William E. Schrank, Noel Roy (eds.)

This convention introduced jointly a world team of fisheries economists from academia, enterprise, executive, and inter-governmentalagencies, to contemplate a coordinated venture to construct an econometric version of the area alternate in groundfish. a few of the convention individuals had simply spent as much as six weeks at Memorial college of Newfoundland operating and getting ready papers at the undertaking. This quantity provides the papers that those students produced, plus extra papers ready through different convention contributors. additionally, numerous lectures and discussionswhich have been transcribed from tapes made from the complaints are incorporated. The introductory essay explains the genesis of the convention, describes the technique taken to modelling the groundfish exchange, very in short summarizes the technical papers, and describes destiny plans. The venture is constant as deliberate, and a moment convention was once held in St. John's in August 1990. The convention used to be a NATO complicated examine Workshop and we want to thank the ScientificAffairs department ofNATO for his or her monetary aid. extra monetary help was once bought from the Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation in St. John's, the dept of Fisheries and Oceans of the govt of Canada, the dept of Fisheries of the govt. of Newfoundland and Labrador, Memorial collage of Newfoundland and Air Nova; we recognize with appreciation their help.

By Charles Kingsley

By Dr. rer. nat. Dieter Gustav Altenpohl (auth.)

This is the 1st ebook in a brand new sequence - "Materials learn and Engineering" - dedicated to the technological know-how and expertise of fabrics. "Materials examine and Engineering" evolves from a prior sequence on "Reine und Angewand­ te Metallkunde" ("Pure and utilized Metallurgy"), which used to be edited via Werner Koster till his 80th birthday in 1976. even supposing the current sequence is an outgrowth of the sooner one, it may no longer and can't be considered as a continuation. There needed to be a shift of scope - and a transformation in presentation to boot. Metallurgy is not any longer an remoted artwork and technology. relatively, it truly is associated via its medical foundation and tech­ nological implications to non-metallic and composite fabrics, in addition to to tactics for construction, refining, shaping, floor remedy, and appli­ cation. hence, the recent sequence, "Materials learn and Engineering", will current updated details on medical and technological growth, in addition to on problems with basic relevance in the engineering box and commercial society. Premiering the hot sequence, the current booklet via Dieter Altenpohl provides the reader a truly common outlook, in truth, a place research of fabrics and the fabrics in the framework of our modern technological setting. It ventures, additionally, to forecast the alterations affecting this development in a dynamic, interdependent global. this can be an strange option to commence a systematic sequence - it's believed, however, to be a suitable one.

By Paul Ekins

Ekins combines a compendium of our planet's maximum ills with stirring, real-life examples of individuals breaking out of outdated moulds to turn into useful challenge solvers.