Completely revised and updated, Introduction to Engineering Materials, Second Edition elucidates the fundamental science behind the classification of materials and their property limits in terms of temperature, strength, ductility, corrosion, and physical behavior, while emphasizing materials processing, selection, and property measurement methods. The book presents a balanced overview of the theoretical-scientific and practical-technical aspects of materials engineering. It discusses atomic structure and bonds, imperfections in crystalline materials, ceramics, polymers, composites, electronic materials, environmental degradation, materials selection, and more.
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Sustainable Forestry Management and Wood Production in a Global Economy examines emerging issues and key strategies for sustaining wood production while maintaining other forest resources. Internationally recognized forestry experts explore a broad range of topics on sustainable forestry at the local and global levels in the United States and around the world. Issues discussed include the development of conservation reserves in Australia; the silviculture of Scottish forests; barriers and opportunities in Central America; monitoring sustainable forest management in the Pacific Rim region; tropical Eucalypt plantations; and recent research projects in Europe
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El cuerpo desnudo de una joven inglesa es arrojado al mar cerca de Estambul; lleva al cuello un colgante con el sello del sultán derrocado. Esa muerte tiene rasgos en común con el asesinato de otra joven inglesa, un caso de asesinato sin resolver. Jaanan, una musulmana, relata con voz mística y voluptuosa sus relaciones con una de las mujeres muertas y su presunta asesina. Kamil Bajá, un magistrado de los nuevos tribunales seculares, se dispone a descubrir al asesino, pero su fe en la ciencia y en la modernidad se verá sacudida por la traición y el peligro creciente. Asesinatos políticos relacionados con el palacio o crímenes pasionalesJenny White describe, con todo lujo de detalles y sorprendente lirismo, la agitación social y política del imperio otomano en decadencia.

L. Michael White, uno de los mejores especialistas mundiales sobre los orígenes del cristianismo, nos ofrece la exhaustiva y asombrosa historia de cómo el cristianismo se desarrolló desde la visión personal de un humilde campesino judío que vivió en una remota provincia del Imperio romano hasta llegar a convertirse en la mayor religión institucionalizada del mundo.
White, que se nutre de las aportaciones hechas por la arqueología y la historia de la cultura, ha ambientado perfectamente la historia de los comienzos del cristianismo en su contexto histórico, tanto judío como grecorromano; en este sentido, la presente obra constituye una excepcional introducción al Nuevo Testamento; de hecho, es la introducción más categóricamente histórica que se ha escrito.

Este es el manual definitivo sobre animación digital. En él el lector encontrará el clásico temario que desvela muchas de las técnicas legendarias, además de información relevante sobre las posibilidades que ofrecen las tecnologías actuales. Todo lo que los animadores digitales contemporáneos necesitan saber se encuentra en este libro: animación para cine, TV, web y videojuegos; técnicas de producción tradicionales a la vez que digitales; principios clásicos sobre el movimiento, la realización cinematográfica y la dirección; software digital contemporáneo, herramientas y tecnología. Incluye un CD-Rom que presenta clásicos momentos de la historia de la animación mediante el homenaje personal que Tony White rinde a los dibujos animados, Especies en peligro de extinción. A través de clips animados y de imágenes fijas, White comparte el “making of” del diario de la película, detallando cada paso, con descripciones de cada escena y de cada técnica.

Oxford 2006. Una mujer aparece brutalmente asesinada y en lugar de su corazón tiene una moneda de oro antigua. Venticuatro horas después la policía encuentra otra mujer con una moneda de plata en el cráneo. Cuando Laura Niven, periodista, acude al escenario del crimen para acompañar al padre de su hija, Philip, fotógrafo de la policía, y ve el ensañamiento del asesin, llega a la conclusión de que es un asesinato ritual. Pero a medida que avanzan en la investigación descubren una misteriosa relacioón entre Isaac Newton y unas sectas cruentas.
Michael White ha sido músico profesional, columnista en un periódico, editor científico de la revista "GQ" y miembro del comité científico del Discovery Channel para la serie "The Science of the Impossible". Es autor de veinticinco libros. En 1998 obtuvo el Bookman Prize en USA por su biografía de Isaac Newton, "The Last Sorcerer" y en 2002 fue finalista del prestigioso Aventis Award con "Rivals".

This book covers a number of topics in linear algebra that are often not covered in first-year calculus, such as complex numbers and functions, matrices, algebraic systems, curve fitting, elements of linear differential equations, transform methods, and tools of computation. It introduces 2- and 3-D vectors and their products, connecting them to multivariate calculus using geometric and algebraic approaches. The author illuminates concepts through several applications, including steady state models, mixing tanks, heat diffusion, and pin-jointed structures. The text also incorporates exercises and MATLAB to help with more complex calculations.
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Techniques for optimizing large-scale IP routing operation and managing network growth 

• Understand the goals of scalable network design, including tradeoffs between network scaling, convergence speed, and resiliency
• Learn basic techniques applicable to any network design, including hierarchy, addressing, summarization, and information hiding
• Examine the deployment and operation of EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS protocols on large-scale networks
• Understand when and how to use a BGP core in a large-scale network and how to use BGP to connect to external networks
• Apply high availability and fast convergence to achieve 99.999 percent, or “five 9s” network uptime
• Secure routing systems with the latest routing protocol security best practices
• Understand the various techniques used for carrying routing information through a VPN

Optimal Routing Design provides the tools and techniques, learned through years of experience with network design and deployment, to build a large-scale or scalable IP-routed network. The book takes an easy-to-read approach that is accessible to novice network designers while presenting invaluable, hard-to-find insight that appeals to more advanced-level professionals as well.

Written by experts in the design and deployment of routing protocols, Optimal Routing Design leverages the authors’ extensive experience with thousands of customer cases and network designs. Boiling down years of experience into best practices for building scalable networks, this book presents valuable information on the most common problems network operators face when seeking to turn best effort IP networks into networks that can support Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-type availability and reliability.

Beginning with an overview of design fundamentals, the authors discuss the tradeoffs between various competing points of network design, the concepts of hierarchical network design, redistribution, and addressing and summarization. This first part provides specific techniques, usable in all routing protocols, to work around real-world problems. The next part of the book details specific information on deploying each interior gateway protocol (IGP)–including EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS–in real-world network environments. Part III covers advanced topics in network design, including border gateway protocol (BGP), high-availability, routing protocol security, and virtual private networks (VPN). Appendixes cover the fundamentals of each routing protocol discussed in the book; include a checklist of questions and design goals that provides network engineers with a useful tool when evaluating a network design; and compare routing protocols strengths and weaknesses to help you decide when to choose one protocol over another or when to switch between protocols.

“The complexity associated with overlaying voice and video onto an IP network involves thinking through latency, jitter, availability, and recovery issues. This text offers keen insights into the fundamentals of network architecture for these converged environments.”

–John Cavanaugh, Distinguished Services Engineer, Cisco Systems®

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press‚ which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.