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Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 23.99This book argues that voters' willingness to hold lawmakers accountable produces insights into legislative organization, behavior and output. more...
Quantities for Dosimetry of Ionizing Radiations in Liquid
CRC Press 1996; US$ 199.95Intended as a reference handbook of quantities used in dosimetry of ionizing radiations in three major sections. more...
Handbook of Adhesion
Wiley 2006; US$ 395.00This second edition of the successful Handbook of Adhesion provides concise and authoritative articles covering many aspects of the science and technology associated with adhesion and adhesives. It is intended to fill a gap between the necessarily simplified treatment of the student textbook and the full and thorough treatment of the research monograph... more...
Aircraft system safety
Woodhead Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 255.00Demonstrating safety for the application of ever increasingly complex technologies is always a formidable task. In the event of an accident society want someone to blame. How would your records face up to legal scrutiny and how would you be able to demonstrate that you have taken reasonable care as a professional engineer/manager should you be faced... more...
Drowning Girls in China
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2008; US$ 23.99This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were worldwide phenomena from antiquity down to the nineteenth century when massive numbers of children were still being abandoned in Europe, China was unique in targeting... more...
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500?1800
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 23.99In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of backwardness toward modernization. However, this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compelling perspective in mind, D.... more...
The Detroit Electric Scheme
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 9.99Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancée, Elizabeth. He?s barely kept his job at his father?s company---Detroit Electric, 1910?s leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth?s new fiancé and Will?s one-time friend, John Cooper, asks Will to meet him at the car factory. He finds Cooper dead,... more...
Facebook and Philosophy
Open Court 2010; US$ 19.95Facebook and Philosophy is an entertaining, multi-faceted exploration of what Facebook means for us and for our relationships. With discussions ranging from the nature of friendship and its relationship to "friending," to the (debatable) efficacy of "online activism," this book is the most extensive and systematic attempt to understand Facebook... more...
Motor City Shakedown
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 24.99Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson?s friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will?s hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help save them, causes him constant pain, forcing him into a morphine addiction. He lives for... more...
Mr. Monk and Philosophy
Open Court 2011; US$ 19.95Mr. Monk and Philosophy is a carefully and neatly organized collection of eighteen chapters divided into exactly six groups of precisely three chapters each. Drawing on a wide range of philosophers?from Aristotle and Diogenes, to Siddhartha Gautama and St. Thomas Aquinas, to David Hume and Karl Popper?the authors ask how Adrian Monk solves his... more...









