Essays that illustrate how humor transformed 9/11 politics and 9/11 transformed humor With essays by: Gavin Benke Arthur Asa Berger Ted Gournelos Viveca S. Greene David Gurney David Holloway Lanita Jacobs Giselinde Kuipers Paul Lewis David Monje Michael Truscello Jamie Warner Aaron Winter A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and...

This book concerns the analysis and design of induction heating of poor electrical conduction...

The book presents the state of the art in high performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures. It covers trends in hardware and software development in general and specifically the future of vector-based systems and heterogeneous architectures. The application contributions cover computational fluid dynamics, fluid-st...

Die Klimabewegung ist eine erst vor wenigen Jahren entstandene soziale Bewegung. Zu ihren...

Dieses Buch bietet Ingenieuren und Werkstoffwissenschaftlern die Erklärung der komplexen Zusammenhänge zwischen zahlreichen Leichtbaumöglichkeiten. Es führt didaktisch von Anforderungsprofilen, Simulation und Bauteilentwicklung zu Materialauswahl, Formgebung und Fertigungstechniken. An mehreren Beispielen aus Transport und Rennsport werden die M...

"A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson" offers a wealth of new insights on the era of Andrew...

Organometallic chemistry is based on the reactions and use of a class of compounds (R-M) that contain a covalent bond between carbon and metal. They are prepared either by direct reaction of the metal with an organic compound or by replacement of a me ...

The problem of robotic and virtual interaction with physical objects has been the subject of research for many years in both the robotic manipulation and haptics communities. Both communities have focused much attention on human touch-based perception and manipulation, modelling contact between real or virtual hands and objects, or mechanism des...

"Putting Information First" focuses on Luciano Floridi's contributions to the philosophy of...