Category: Textbooks

Written in simple and easy to understand language, Prestressed Concrete Design to Eurocodes (PDF) will be the best ebook you buy on the topic! Ordinary concrete is strong in compression but weak in tension. Even reinforced concrete, where steel bars are used to take up the tension that the concrete

The Challenge of BRIC Multinationals, (ePub/PDF) explores a number of idiosyncratic elements in the internationalization strategies of BRIC MNEs and, especially, in their relationship with home country policies: 1. The theoretical challenge: do we need different or more particular theories of EMNEs to assess the phenomenon of BRIC multinationals? 2.

Forensic botany is the application of plant science to the resolution of legal questions. A plant’s ecological requirements and its anatomy are in some cases species specific and require taxonomic verification; correct interpretation of botanical evidence can give vital information about a suspect, crime scene or a victim. The use

Cardiovascular (heart) disease remains the chief cause of morbidity and mortality in adults in many parts of the world, and treatment and diagnosis are increasingly based on intracellular, cellular, and molecular parameters as well as systems analysis. Consequently, it is vital that medical students learn the fundamental physiology of the

As ecology turns into the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure—the modern alignment of the disciplines of urban planning, civil engineering, and landscape architecture— has become demanding. Predominant challenges facing urban territories and regions today—including shifting climates, population mobilities and material flows are addressed and strategized here. Replying