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Second Quarter, April–June 2009

ENGINEERING KEY TITLES

Second Quarter Newsletter Taylor & Francis Group/CRC PRESS

INSIDE:

♦ Electrical & Computer Engineering, Nanotechnology: Page 3 Helpful Definitions: Page 7

♦ Lasers, Optics, Photonics: Page 8

Helpful Definitions: Page 9

♦ Material Science, Chemical Engineering: 0


♦ Ergonomics/Human Factors/Manufacturing: Page 12


♦ Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology: Page 15


♦ Mechanical, Nuclear, Aerospace Engineering: Page 20


♦ Civil and Environmental Engineering: Page 24 Helpful Definitions: Page 27

♦ GIS and Remote Sensing: Page 28


NOW AVAILABLE!

Gabor L. Hornyak’s Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Introduction to Nanoscience, and Fundamentals of Nanotechnology are now published

with companion solutions manuals for each!

Have a look at what everyone has been waiting for! ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques is now available with a complete solutions manual! This high profile textbook is one‐of‐a‐kind; there is no competition on the market!

COMING SOON!

SPECIAL LEADS DATABASE

We’re now obtaining lists of domestic and international SPECIAL LEADS for every book publishing in

engineering! We’ll be forwarding these lists to market‐ing and sales on a monthly basis. Please note, these lists will be categorized by specific genre, and therefore may

be utilized for other books in the same area!

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ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques Author: Arm, Inc., William Hohl ISBN: 9781439806104 SM ISBN: 9781439815625 £48.99

Thank you all so, so much for all of your hard work with Introduction to Nanoscience, Fundamentals of Nanotechnology, and Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The books are selling beautifully and I have new items to share with you! New! Series of PDF Lectures for Introduction to Nanoscience available now! There will be a total of 35 lectures for this book, and each lecture is approximately 30+ slides! The infor‐mation found in the lectures is not included in the book – the author, Louis Hornyak, has done an amazing job with this and the feedback has been phenomenal! A password is required to obtain these lectures and a sample lecture (and all lectures) can be found by going to www.nanoscienceworks.org/textbookcommunity/introtonanoscience and either you or the professor (who needs to be a confirmed adopter) will need to contact Nora directly to obtain the password to access these lectures. The password will be provided only to confirmed adopters to obtain these lectures and the solutions manual/study guide. Forthcoming will be the lectures for Fundamen‐tals of Nanotechnology – I hope to start uploading these by 1 April in batches as they are completed and have all complete lectures for this book by 1 June. Our creative department has prepared a stunning four color brochure for Hornyak (which was too large to attach with this newsletter) so please contact Nora directly to obtain this bro‐chure which provides everything you need to know about these books! Please also keep in mind that I can provide all figures electronically, and a solutions manual/study guide is available.

Now, I need something from you! Can you please send me a note with any feedback or adoptions you have obtained on the Hornyak books and the soon to be received ARM Assembly book? Thanks very much as always! Please continue to push, push, push, these Hornyak books – there is absolutely nothing like them in our program here or on the market!

SPECIAL NOTES

Indian version available! As a side note, in addition to the above ISBN number (available world‐wide), this book will also have a specially priced Indian version and territorial rights. The Indian edi‐tion will only be made available in India, Bangladesh, Paki‐stan, and Sri Lanka. Gopi can be contacted directly for addi‐tional information on this version which will have a separate ISBN number.

Introduction to Nanosceince and Nanotechnology Gabor L. Hornyak

ISBN: 9781420047790 SM ISBN: 9781420079845

£77.99

Introduction To Nanoscience

Gabor L. Hornyak ISBN: 9781420048056

SM ISBN: 9781420079821 £39.99

Fundamentals of Nanotechnology Gabor L. Hornyak

ISBN: 9781420048032 SM ISBN: 9781420079838

£39.99

Confirmed contact list available! Please contact Nora directly to obtain your specific leads of those that will definitely have interest in this textbook from the following countries. Africa = 1

Argentina = 6 Australia = 8

New Zealand = 1 Brazil = 14 Canada = 8

India/Pakistan = 32 Indonesia = 1 Japan = 14 Korea = 3 Mexico = 1

Saudi Arabia = 2 Singapore = 1 Taiwan = 2

UK & Europe = 61

www.nanoscienceworks.org/textbookcommunity/introtonanoscience

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TEXTBOOK! Electrical Power Transmission System Engineering: Analysis and Design, Second Edition Turan Gönen – California State University, Sacramento ISBN: 9781439802540 SM ISBN: 9781439804216 Pub Date: 05/09 Pages: 624 Price: £49.95 Previous Edition: published by John Wiley in 1988 Primary Selling Market: • Power Engineering

• Antennas

• Microwaves

• Electromagnetics

• Industry Applications Course Level: Senior Undergraduate/First Year Graduate Can serve for a two-semester course by a judicious selec-tion – a single semester course Course Names: · Power System Analysis · Electric Power Transmission What’s New With this Edition: • New homework problems

• New sections to chapters 6 and 8

• MATLAB now included instead out outdated Fortran – this is key!!!!!

• How to use MATLAB is included in the appendix Key Selling Features: • Solutions manual

• Can be used for a one semester or two semester course

• 240 end – of – chapter problems

• 84 numerical examples

• Three new chapters and all chapters updated

Sell This Book With: Electric Power Distribution System Engineering, Second Edition Author: Gönen ISBN: 978142006200x Price: £44.99 Electric Machines Author: Gross ISBN: 9780849385810 Price: £39.99 Electric Energy: An Introduction, Second Edition Author: El-Sharkawi ISBN: 9781420062199 Price: £44.99 Competition: All competition is from CRC Press!

Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Nanotechnology

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REFERENCE! Metamaterials Handbook (two-volume set) Filippo Capolino, University of California, Irvine ISBN: 9781420053623 Pub Date: 06/09 Pages: 1248 Price: £103.00 International Contributions From: C.R. Simovski, Ismo V. Lindell, I.S. Nefedov, A.J. Viitanen, Ari Sihvola , S.A. Tretyakov, Ismo V. Lindell: Helsinki University of Technology Christophe Craeye and Xavier Radu: University Catholique de Louvain Alex G. Schuchinsky: Queens University of Belfast Sergiy Steshenko, Andrea Vallecchi, Alessandro Della Villa: University of Sienna Mario G. Silveirinha, Universidade de Coimbra; Paolo Bac-carelli, Paolo Burghignoli, Alessandro Galli, Paolo Lampa-riello, Giampiero Lovat, Simone Paulotto, Guido Valerio: Sapienza University of Roma M.C.K. Wiltshire, L. Solymar: Imperial College London R. Marques: Universidad de Sevilla F. Martin: Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona Koray Aydi: Bilkent University Irina Vendik, Orest Vendik, Mikhail Odit, O.G. Vendik, S.P. Zubko, Natalia Grigorieva, Boris Kalinikos: St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University M. Zedler, P. Russer: Munich University of Technology Cheng-Wei Qiu, National University of Singapore Islam A. Eshrah, Cairo University J.C Vardaxoglou,R. Lee, A. Chauraya, A.P. Feresidis, Chin-thana Panagamuwa, Yiannis Vardaxoglou: Loughborough University Mikhail Kostylev, University of Western Australia O. Sydoruk, O.Zhuromskyy, E. Shamonina: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Primary Selling Market: • Artificial Materials

• Antennas

• Microwaves

• Physics

• Nanotechnology

• Electromagnetics

• Lasers & Optics

Key Selling Features: • Author is the Editor for the IEEE Antennas & Propagation

Magazine • Author is the Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Metamate-

rials • 68 Chapters with strong international affiliations

• Heavily Referenced throughout

• Τhe most comprehensive and complete reference on the topic

• sold as a set or separately • Theory and Phenomena of Metamaterials (ISBN:

9781420054262) £60.99 696 pages • Applications of Metamaterials (ISBN: 9781420054248)

(£60.99) 552 pages Sell This Book With: Introduction to Nanoscience Author: Hornyak ISBN: 9781420048056 Price: £39.99 Electromagnetic Waves Author: Someda ISBN: 9780849395895 Price: £53.99 The RF and Microwave Handbook, Second Edition Author: Golio ISBN: 9780849372179 Price: £114.00 Competition: The following books are well-written, but they all only concentrate on a few aspect. Our book is truly the most comprehensive book(s) on the topic. Competition: Negative Refraction Metamaterials: Fundamental Princi-ples and Applications. Author: Eleftheriades Publisher: Wiley Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 440 Price: £53.50 Competition: Electromagnetic Metamaterials: Transmission Line Theory and Microwave Applications Author: Caloz Publisher: Wiley Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 376 Price: £65.99

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REFERENCE! Embedded Systems Handbook, Second Edition (two volume set) Richard Zurawski, ISA Group, California ISBN: 9781420074109 Pub Date: 06/09 Pages: 1160 Price: £89.00 International Contributions From: Stefan Dulman, Paul J.M. Havinga: Twente University Jan Blumenthal, Frank Reichenbach, Frank Golatowski, Ralf Behnke, Steffen Prutter, Dirk Timmermann: University of Rostock Lucia Lo Bello, Emanuel Toscano: University of Catania Guenter Schaefer: Technical University of Ilmenau Matthias Woehrle, Jan Beutel, Lothar Thiele: ETH Nicolas Navet, Francoise Simonot-Lion: Loria-INPL Roman Obermaisser: Vienna University of Technology Max Felser, Berne University of Applied Sciences Thilo Sauter, Austrian Academy of Sciences Andreas Willig: Technical University of Berlin Wolfgang Kastner, Georg Neugschwandtner, Vienna University of Technology Primary Selling Market: • Computer Engineering

• Communication Networks

• Embedded Systems

• Wireless Sensors and Technologies

• Automatic Control and Automation Engineers

• Instrumentation

• Mechatronics What’s New in this Edition: • Now includes “Networked” Embedded Systems

• Considerable attention given toautomotive electronics, industrial automated systems, and building automation and control

• Written by international experts in the field

• Sold as a two volume set or individually as:

• Networked Embedded Systems (ISBN: 9781439807613) £60.99 656 pages

• Embedded Systems Design and Verification (ISBN: 9781439807552) £60.99 656 pages

Sell This Book With: Automotive Embedded Systems Handbook Author: Navet/Simonot-Lion ISBN: 9780849380266 Price: £95.00 Electronic Design Automation Handbook Author: Lavagno ISBN: 9780849330964 Price: £105.00 The Circuits & Filters Handbook, Third Edition (five volume set) Author: Chen ISBN: 9781420055276 Price: £121.00 Competition: Handbook of Networked and Embedded Control Systems. Author: Hristu-Varsakelis/Levine Publisher: Birkhauser Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 822 Price: £89.00 Difference: Edited volume and the focus is on automatic control aspects (theory); limited coverage of networking and applications; nothing on practical aspects of embed-ded systems.

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REFERENCE! The Circuits & Filters Handbook, Third Edition (five volume set) Wai-Kai Chen, Freemont, CA, formerly of University of Illinois, Chicago ISBN: 9781420055276 Pub Date: 04/09 Pages: 3150 Price: £121.00 International Contributions From: Stanislaw Nowak, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow Tomasz W. Postupolski, Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Warsaw Josef A. Nossek, Munich University of Technology Chris Toumazou, A.G. Constantinides Imperial College Benedykt S. Rodanski, University of Technology, Sydney Zhen Yao, Roladn G. Wilson, Nasir M. Rajpoot University of Warwick David Tay, Latrobe University Nick G. Kingsbury, University of Cambridge Xiaojian Xu, Beihang University A.Enis Cetin, Bilkent University Yong Ching Lim, M.H. Er, Nanyabng Technological Uni-versity Sawasd Tantaratana, Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut and Phakphoom Boonyanant, Sirindhorn Internation Institute of Technology Tapio Saramaki, Tampere University of Technology Primary Selling Market: • Computer Engineering

• Circuits & Filters

• Embedded Systems

• Electronics

• Automation Engineers

• Communications Engineers

• Microelectronics

What’s New in this Edition: • More than half of the chapters are new or updated

• More than 150 internationally recognized contributors

• Entire section to key mathematical formulas, concepts, definitions, and derivatives included

• Sold as a five volume set or individually as:

• Fundamentals of Circuits and Filters (ISBN: 9781420058871) $99.95/£60.99 896 pages

• Feedback, Nonlinear, and Distributed Circuits (ISBN: 9781420058819) $99.95

• Analog and VLSI Circuits (ISBN:9781420058918) $99.95/£60.99 414 pages /£60.99 396 pages

• Computer Aided Design and Design Automation (ISBN: 9781420059182) $99.95/£60.99 400 pages

• Passive, Active, and Digital Filters (ISBN: 9781420058857) $99.95/£60.99 700 pages

Sell This Book With: Automotive Embedded Systems Handbook Author: Navet/Simonot-Lion ISBN: 978084830266 Price: £95.00 Electronic Design Automation Handbook Author: Lavagno ISBN: 9780849330963 Price: £105.00 The VLSI Handbook, Second Edition Author: Chen ISBN: 978084934199X Price: £121.00 Competition: Electronic Filter Design Handbook 4th Edition. Author: Williams/Taylor Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 775 Price: £74.99 Difference: Strong emphasis on filters with little attention to circuits and design automation.

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HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Nanotechnology

Metamaterials Artificial type of matter that behaves differently from other matter (usually prop‐erties) and are engineered by assembling microscopic and nanoscopic structures in unusual combinationa

Also commonly called Arti‐ficial Materials and their applications range from electronics and telecom‐munication to sensing, medical instrumentation and data storage.

Researchers and designers who wish to use artifical materials for electronic devices in the whole frequency spectrum, from MHz to optical frequencies.

Discipline Definition Everyday Uses Sell To

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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Lasers, Optics, and Photonics

Reference! Biochemical Applications of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy Vladislav V. Yakovlev-University of Wisconsin ISBN: 9781420068597 Pub Date: 5/20/09 Pages: 238 Price: £89.99 International Contributors From: Yair Andegeko: Michigan State University Rajan Arora: University of Wisconsin Christopher Bardeen: University of California at Riverside Virginijus Barzda: Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Richard Cisek –Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Marcos Dantus – Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University Tatsuya Fujino – Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University Japan Feruz Ganikhanov – Department of Physics, West Virginia University Catherine Greenhalgh - Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Kerry Hanson – Department of Chemistry, University of California at Riverside, Riverside Norihiko Hayazawa – Nanophotonics laboratory, Japan Corporation of Science and Technology, Japan Taro Ichimura—Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University, Suita, Japan Katsuyoshi Ikeda – Nanophotonics laboratory, Japan, Hokkaido University, Japan Satoshi Kawata – Nanophotonics laboratory, Japan Vishnu Krishnamachari – Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine Arkady Major – Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Winnipeg, Canada Marcus Motzkus – Fachbereich Chemie, Physikalische Chemie, Phillipps- Universität, Marburg, Germany Dmitry Pestov – Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University Georgi Petrov – Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin Eric Potma – Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine Nicole Prent –Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada

Valerica Raicu – Department of Physics and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin Daaf Sandkuijl –Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Marius Schmidt – Department of Physics and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin Vladislav Shcheslavskiy – Laboratory of Biomedical Optics, EPFL, Switzerland Michael Stoneman – Department of Physics and D epartment of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin Tahei Tahara – Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan Adam Tier –Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Bernhard von Vacano – Fachbereich Chemie, Physikalische Chemie, Phillipps- Universität,, Marburg, German

Primary Selling Market: •Spectroscopy

•Biomedical, Chemistry, Physics, Biophotonics

•Optical Science

•Nonlinear Optics

Course Level: Senior Undergraduate/First Year Graduate

Key Selling Features: •Contains a balanced mixture of materials including opti-cal science, biology, chemistry and physics. This book appeals to a broad range of audience. •International contributing chapter authors.

•This book focuses on practical applications including photon echo and nonlinear optics, two-dimensional IR and simulated Raman spectroscopy. This book has a real time practical value.

Sell This Book With: Terahertz Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications Author: Dexheimer ISBN: 9780849375255 Price: £105.00

An Introduction to Biomedical Optics Author: Splinter ISBN: 9780750309387 Price: £38.99

The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Third Edition - 3 Volume Author: Bronzino ISBN: 9780849321245 Price: £146.00

Competition: The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Third Edition - 3 Volume Author: Peiponen Publisher: Springer Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 130 Price: £100.00 Difference: This book covers theory, does not cover appli-cations as our book does.

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HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Lasers, Optics and Photonics

Spectroscopy Any measurement of a quantity as function of ei‐ther wavelength or fre‐quency.

Biomedical Imaging, Bio‐chemical Analysis

Optical Science, Biomedical Op‐tics, Biophotonics


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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Materials Science and Chemical Engineering

Polymer Nanocomposites Handbook Rakesh K. Gupta—West Virginia University Elliot Kennel—West Virginia University Kwang-Jea Kim—University of Akron, OH ISBN: 9780849397776 Pub Date: 04/09 Pages: 536 Price: £85.00 Primary Selling Market: • Composites

• Polymers

• Nanomaterials

• Materials Science

• Chemistry

• Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering

• Automotive

• Biomedical Engineering International Contributors From: Subhendu Bhattacharya, RMIT University, Melbourne,Australia Sati Bhattacharya, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Rahul K. Gupta, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Chang-Kook Hong, Chonnam National University, Gwanju, Korea Jin Kuk Kim, Gyeonsang National University, Jinju, Korea Marissa Pagalicawan, Gyeonsang National University, Jinju, Korea V. Sridar, Gyeonsang National University, Jinju, Korea Tatsuhiro Takahashi, Yamagata University, Japan Koichiro Yonetake, Yamagata University, Japan Key Selling Features: • Covers the synthesis of nanomaterials that act as build-

ing blocks of PNCs and polymers that act as matrix ma-terials

• Reviews atomic scale and large structures of the nano-scale building blocks and their interfaces

• Describes current processing and the difficulties of ob-taining good dispersion

Sell This Book With: Nanomaterials Handbook Author: Gogotsi ISBN: 9780849323089 Price: £98.00 Particulate Systems in Nano- and Biotechnologies Author: Sigmund ISBN: 9780849374364 Price: £95.00 Principles of Composite Materials Mechanics, Second Edition Author: Gibson ISBN: 9780824753894 Price: £66.99 Competition: Polymer Nanocomposites: Processing, Characterization, and Applications Author: Koo Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub Date: 2006 Pages: 272 Price: £95.00 Difference: This book comments only on the work of the authors, not the work of many experts in the field, as ours does since it is an edited book written by multiple experts who have made personal contributions to the material contained in that chapter. It is therefore not as compre-hensive in scope as ours, which is double the size of this book. Polymeric Nanocomposites: Theory and Practice Author: Bhattacharya et al. Publisher: Hanser Gardner Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 390 Price: £ Unavailable Difference: This book is limited to clay as the nanofiller. Our book has substantial material on nanocomposites made with carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers as well.

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HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Materials Science and Chemical Engineering

Polymer Nanocomposite

A material made up of a polymer with added nanoparticulates (such as ceramics, clays, or carbon nanotubes). The addition of these nanoparticulates can introduce new physical properties and novel be‐haviors to the polymer, such as flame retardancy and accelerated biodegrad‐ability.

Membranes, coatings, solar calls, electronic devices, sensing, medicine and structural applications, such as automobile parts

Materials Scientists, Chemists, Aerospace and Automotive Engi‐neers, Mechanical Engineers, Biomedical Engineers


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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Manufacturing Eng and Quality, Reliability & Industrial Eng, Ergonomics and Human Factors,

Operations Research, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Safety

REFERENCE! Writing and Designing Manuals and Warnings, Fourth Edition Author: Patricia A. Robinson – President-Coronado Con-sulting Services, LLC, AZ, USA ISBN: 9781420069846 Publication Date: 6/2/09 Pages: 352 Price: £54.99 Previous Editions: ISBN: 9781566703789 Publication Date: 2000 ISBN: 9780873714211 Publication Date: 1991 Primary Selling Market: • Industrial Engineering

• Instruction Writers

• Warnings Consultants

• Project Managers

• Design Engineers

• Human Factors and Ergonomics Engineers

• Communications Engineers

• Industrial Designers

• Congitive Engineers

• Manufacturing Engineers

• Product Engineers

• Safety Engineers

• Occupational Safety & Health Engineers

• Technical Writers

• Technical Editors

• Documentation Specialists

• Technical Artists

• Graphic Artists

• Technical Publications Specialists What’s New in this Edition: • 20-30% new material / 60-70% revised material, Table of

Contents reorganized • More emphasis on integrated product safety

• Expanded material related to industrial/technical prod-ucts rather than solely on consumer products

• Inclusion of the new ANSIZ535.6 standard for safety related material in manuals

• Research basis for recommendations will be more ex-plicitly stated

• Provides the most up-to-date information available to help buyers create manuals and warning that will add value to their company’s products, promote product safety, reduce liability, and improve customers satisfac-tion

Key Selling Features: Addresses the issue of product safety and liability preven-tion, which is a key concern of technical writers producing product documentation Covers writing for the global marketplace Defines the incredible increase in use of the internet for technical documentation Captures the importance of meeting standards, especially new standards for product manuals Illustrates the design of on-product warning labels Explains manuals as an integral part of safe product de-sign Sell This Book With: Guidelines for Developing Instructions Author: Inaba ISBN: 9780415322096 Price: £35.99 Handbook of Warnings Editor: Wogalter ISBN: 9780805847246 Price: £98.00 Content Preparation Guidelines for the Web and Infor-mation Appliances: Cross-Cultural Comparison Author: Guo/Liao/Savoy/Salvendy ISBN: 9781420067774 Price: £49.99 Competition: The Complete Guide to Writing and Producing Technical Manuals Author: Haydon Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9780471122814 Publication Date: 1995 Price: £72.45 Pages: 312 Difference: There are no other books similar in content to this book. The closest is Haydon’s, however it’s dated; the writing is bone-dry and not palatable. It lacks the topics of product safety and liability prevention which are key for technical writers. It also lacks any mention of increase use of the internet for technical documentation. Furthermore it doesn’t mention any standards for product manuals.

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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Manufacturing Eng and Quality, Reliability & Industrial Eng, Ergonomics and Human Factors,

Operations Research, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Safety

REFERENCE! The Universal Access Handbook Editor: Constantine Stephanidis – Professor – Dept. of Computer Science, University of Crete-Greece ISBN: 9780805862805 Publication Date: 6/09 Pages: 1,048 Price: £89.00 Primary Selling Market:

• Ergonomics & Human Fact ors Engineers

• Cognitive Engineers

• Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Engineers

• Human Performance Engineers

• Industrial Engineers

• Computer Science Engineers

• Systems Engineers

• Design Engineers

• Applied Psychologists

• Cognitive Psychologists

• Industrial & Organizational Psychologists

• Manufacturing Engineers

• Software Engineers

• Usability Engineers

• Product Design Engineers Key Selling Features: • Provides the historical roots of Universal Access through

the progressive elaboration of diverse and complemen-tary approaches to the accessibility of interactive appli-cations and services

• Explains the various dimensions of diversity in the user population, including, but not limited to various forms of disability

• Defines the implications of Universal access on user interface architectures and related components

• Presents examples, case studies and best practices of Universal access in new and emerging application do-mains

International Contributors From: Greece, United King-dom, Germany, Japan, Canada, France, Italy, Belgium, Finland, Austria, Sweden, Kenya, China Sell This Book With: Human-Computer Interaction Handbook Author: Sears & Jacko ISBN: 9780805858709 Price: £95.00 Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design Author: Endsley ISBN: 9780748409679 Price: £38.99 Ecological Interface Design Author: Burns ISBN: 9780415283748 Price: £59.99 Competition: Inclusive Design: Design for the Whole Population Author: Clarkson Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9781852337001 Publication Date: 2003 Price: no UK price found Pages: 607 Difference: This book addresses some aspects of Univer-sal Access related to design and accessibility, but doesn’t have the coverage that our book does. Universal Design Handbook Author: Preiser Publisher: McGraw-Hill ISBN: 9780071376051 Publication Date: 2001 Price: no UK price found Pages: 1,216 Difference: This book provides University Design in the built environment, interior design, and housing, with only one part dedicated to access to material.

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HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Manufacturing Eng and Quality, Reliability & Industrial Eng, Ergonomics and Human Factors, Operations Research, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health and Safety

Universal Access Refers to the ability of all people to have equal oppor‐tunity and access to a ser‐vice or product from which they can benefit.

Apple uses Universal Ac‐cess as their collective name for the Mac OS X technologies. Its features and components provide users with disabilities, access to Macintosh com‐puters. Includes voice‐independent speech recog‐nition technology, the Zoom view feature for us‐ers with vision impair‐ments, and the TextEdit component which can help users with learning dis‐abilities by reading a docu‐ment's text aloud using a synthesized voice.

Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineers, Cognitive Engineers, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Engineers, Human Per‐formance Engineers, Industrial Engineers, Computer Science Engineers, Systems Engineers, Design Engineers, Applied Psy‐chologists, Cognitive Psycholo‐gists, Industrial & Organizational Psychologists, Manufacturing Engineers, Software Engineers, Usability Engineers, Product De‐sign Engineers


HumanComputer Interaction (HCI)

The study of how humans interact with computers, with the intent of improv‐ing computer application and hardware designs.

HCI was a major factor at the Xerox Park Research Project in the 1970s, even if the people involved weren't quite sure initially what HCI was or the monumental impact it would ultimately have. Those researchers made pioneering efforts studying how people interacted with technology. They then redesigned software and computers to improve the "computing experience" boosting productivity. Mouse technology and "desktops" with icons, primitive as they were compared to today's stan‐dards, made it easier for people to work with tech‐nology that was soon to change the computing landscape of our daily lives.

Ergonomics and Human Factors Engineers, Cognitive Engineers. Those working in the areas of Human Computer Interaction, and Human Performance, Indus‐trial Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Computer Science Engineers, Systems Engineers, Design Engineers, areas of Psy‐chology (Applied, Cognitive, In‐dustrial & Organizational)

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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Biomedical and Biotechnology Engineering

PRIMARY TEXTBOOK Systems Biology & Bioinformatics: A Computational Approach Author: Kayvan Najarian ISBN: 9781420046502 Publication Date: 5/09 Pages: 190 Price: £44.99 Primary Selling Markets • Courses in Systems Biology

• Courses in Computational Biology

• Courses in Bioinformatics Key Selling Features: • Brief and concise

• Practical examples and experiments are included with real data

• Provides methods to integrate high level imaging data and molecular level measurements to model biological systems.

Sell This Book With: An Introduction to System Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits Author: Uri Alon ISBN: 9781584886426 Price: £36.99 Competition: An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits Author: Uri Alon Publisher: CRC Press Publication Date: July 2006 Difference: This book stresses the author’s own research. It is not generic in nature, which is the emphasis within Najarian

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PRIMARY TEXTBOOK! A Laboratory Course in Biomaterials Author: Wujing Xian ISBN: 9781420075823 Publication Date: 3/09 Pages: 216 Price: £36.99 Primary Selling Markets • Courses in Biomaterials Key Selling Features: • Detailed descriptions and explanations that are user-

friendly to students • Materials that instructors to set-up and teach the course

• Teaching materials reflect the progression of the fields

• Question and answers available Sell This Book With: An Introduction to Biomaterials Author: Scott Guelcher and Jeffrey Hollinger ISBN: 9780849322822 Price: £66.99 Biomaterials: A Nano Approach Author: Seeram Ramakrishna, Murugan Ramalingam, Sam-path Kumar, Winston O. Soboyejo ISBN: 9781420047813 Price: £44.99 Competition: There is no direct competition to this title. All other bio-materials texts are straight theory books and not intended specifically as lab manuals.

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MAJOR REFERENCE TITLE Biotechnology: A Comprehensive Training Guide for the Biotechnol-ogy Industry Author: Syed Haider ISBN: 9781420084481 Publication Date: 4/09 Price: £60.99 PRIMARY SELLING MARKETS Practitioners in the biopharmaceutical and biotechnology industries Key Selling Features • A valuable tool for training

• Time Saver

• skilled manpower

• Ready to use training procedures

• Regulatory compliance local and international

• Reduced product development failures

• Prevent re-inventing the wheel

• Optimize research and development expenses

• Avoid marketing delays

• Marketing edge over the competitors

• Quick response to the global requirement

• Improved company credibility

• Uninterrupted product supply

• Good public opinion

• Improved process efficiency

• Proactive R & D approach

• Reduced product recalls Sell This Book With: Cell Culture Technology for Pharmaceutical and Cell-Based Therapies Author: Ozturk-Hu ISBN: 9780824753344 Price: £127.00

Competition Biotechnology: An Introduction, Updated Edition Author: Barnum Publisher: Brooks-Cole Publication Date:April 2007 Difference: This is a primary text for introductory courses taught in community colleges. It isn’t intended primarily as a training manual.

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HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Biomedical and Biotechnology Engineering

Systems Biology This is a biology‐based interdiscipli‐nary study field that focuses on the systematic study of complex interac‐tions in biological systems, thus us‐ing a new perspective (holism in‐stead of reduction) to study them. Particularly from year 2000 on‐wards, the term is used widely in the biosciences, and in a variety of con‐texts. Because the scientific method has been used primarily toward re‐ductionism, one of the goals of sys‐tems biology is to discover new emergent properties that may arise from the systematic view used by this discipline in order to under‐stand better the entirety of proc‐esses that happen in a biological

A major application of systems biology is the ability to obtain, inte‐grate and analyze com‐plex data from multiple experimental sources using interdisciplinary tools, which might be in an area such as pro‐teomics (the study of proteins) as well as the analysis of complex can‐cer cells.

Senior/1st yr. graduate students in the biological sciences taking courses in systems biology and bioin‐formatics.


Bioinformatics A biomaterial is a nonviable material used in a medical device, intended to interact with biological systems. Successful design and development of biomaterials requires expertise in a broad range of subjects chief among them would be the biocom‐patibility of a material to perform with an appropriate host response in a specific application.

Common activities in bioinformatics include mapping and analyzing DNA and protein se‐quences, aligning differ‐ent DNA and protein sequences to compare them and creating and viewing 3‐D models of protein structures

Senior/1st yr. graduate students in the biological sciences taking courses in systems biology and bioin‐formatics.

Biomaterials A biomaterial is a nonviable material used in a medical device, intended to interact with biological systems. Successful design and development of biomaterials requires expertise in a broad range of subjects chief among them would be the biocom‐patibility of a material to perform with an appropriate host response in a specific application.

A common application of a biomaterial would be an orthopedic im‐plant used for a variety of conditions due to fractures and soft tissue injuries, resulting from trauma, arthritis, and degenerative disk dis‐ease. These devices are used to relieve pain, im‐prove function and ad‐dress deformity caused by these defects and diseases.

Senior'/1st yr. graduate students taking a course in biomaterials. It may be a separate lab course in bio‐materials or laboratory information is utilized within the standard bio‐material course.

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Discipline Definition Everyday Uses Sell To Biotechnology This is laboratory based techniques

derived from biological research, such as recombinant DNA. This term can also be used to describe the whole range of methods used to ma‐nipulate organic materials to meet the demands for food and drug pro‐duction. It combines the disciplines of genetics, molecular biology, bio‐chemistry, embryology and cell biol‐ogy.

One very common appli‐cation is the utilization of biological techniques to enhance food produc‐tion and crop safety from insects and dis‐ease.

Practitioners in the bio‐technology industry, par‐ticularly individuals and managers learning new biotechnology techniques. This would also be appro‐priate for the biopharma‐ceutical industry.

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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Mechanical, Aerospace, Nuclear, and Energy Engineering

TEXTBOOK! The Dynamics of Energy: Supply, Conversion and Utilization Horacio Perez-Blanco, Pennsylvania State University ISBN: 9781420076882 SM ISBN: 9781439808863 Pub Date: 04/09 Pages: 480 Price: £49.99 Primary Selling Market: • Senior/1st Yr Graduate courses in Energy offered in Me-

chanical Engineering • Senior/1st Yr Graduate courses in General Engineering,

Environmental Engineering • Professional working in energy engineering & policy Course Level: Senior Undergraduate/First Year Graduate Course Names: Energy Engineering Key Selling Features: • Emphasizes the dynamic modeling of energy production

& supply • Includes a bound-in CD with VisSim & example simula-

tion models • Provides a comparative look at various energy sources Sell This Book With: Guide to Energy Management 5th Edition Author: Capehart, Turner & Kennedy ISBN: 9780849338991 Price: £74.99 Fuel Cell Technology Handbook Author: Hoogers ISBN: 9780849308772 Price: £74.99 Handbook of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Author: Kreith & Goswami ISBN: 9780849317309 Price: £111.00

Competition: Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future 2/e Author: da Rosa Publisher: Elsevier/Academic Press Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 712 Price: £50.00 Difference: Strong coverage of scientific background con-cepts in energy engineering; does not include much on dynamics or computer simulation Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Policy Author: Boyle Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 464 Price: £39.00 Difference: Broad-based coverage of alternative energy – no emphasis on dynamics or modeling

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REFERENCE! BOILERS FOR POWER and PERFORMANCE Kumar Rayaprolu, Consultant – Pune, India ISBN: 9781420075366 Pub Date: 3/09 Pages: 758 Price: £77.99 Primary Selling Market: • Design engineers working in boiler technology

• Operational engineers working with industrial boilers

• Technical managers needing to evaluate various boiler technologies

Key Selling Features: • Provides integrated coverage of background concepts

for boilers • Includes concise descriptions of a wide range of boiler

technologies • Numerous tables are used to compare and contrast

boiler technologies Sell This Book With: Combustion & Gasification in Fluidized Beds Author: Basu ISBN: 9780849333965 Price: £92.00 Industrial Boilers & Heat Recovery Steam Generators Author: Ganapathy ISBN: 9780824708146 Price: £159.00 Handbook of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Author: Kreith ISBN: 9780849317309 Price: £111.00

Competition: Power Boiler Design, Inspection & Repair Author: Malek Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 628 Price: £52.00 Difference: Basely closely on ASME codes; not as compre-hensive as Rayaprolu, and not as up-to-date Boilers & Burners: Design & Theory Author: Basu, Kefa & Jestin Publisher: Springer Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 588 Price: £83 Difference: Covers a broad range of boiler designs, stan-dards & regulations; quite dated at this point in time Industrial Boilers & Heat Recovery Steam Generators Author: Ganapathy Publisher: CRC Press Pub Date: 2002 Pages: 646 Price: £139 Difference: Good coverage of design & performance fac-tors; not as up-to-date on boiler types as Rayaprolu

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REFERENCE! NUCLEAR ENGINEERING HANDBOOK Kenneth Kok, URS – Washington Division ISBN: 9781420053906 Pub Date: 6/09 Pages: 794 Price: £85.00 Primary Selling Market: • Engineers & researchers working in nuclear power

• Professionals working in other nuclear technologies

• Energy policymakers & industrial managers Key Selling Features: • Detailed, up-to-date contributed chapters from top nu-

clear engineering experts • Strong coverage of nuclear safety & nuclear waste man-

agement • Detailed coverage of fuel cycles & reactor designs

• Includes a chapter on nuclear power economics International Contributors: Romney B. Duffey, Principal Scientist, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, ON, Canada Paul J. Fehrenbach, Researcher Emeritus, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, ON, Canada Stephen W. Kidd, Director of Strategy & Research, World Nuclear Association, London, UK Yasuo Koizumi, Professor - Nagano University, Nagano, Japan John Luxat, Professor and NSERC/UNENE Industrial Re-search Chair in Nuclear Safety Analysis, Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada Alistair I. Miller, Researcher Emeritus, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, ON, Canada Edward G. Price, Consultant, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Oakville, ON, Canada Sell This Book With: Fundamentals of Nuclear Science & Engineering 2/e Author: Shultis ISBN: 9781420051353 Price: £66.99

Sell This Book With: Fuel Cell Technology Handbook Author: Hoogers ISBN: 9780849308772 Price: £86.00 Sell This Book With: Handbook of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Author: Kreith ISBN: 9780849317309 Price: £111.00 Competition: Introduction to Nuclear Energy 3/e Author: Lamarsh Publisher: Prentice-Hall Pub Date: 2001 Pages: 783 Price: £59.99 Difference: Lamarsh is mainly an undergrad textbook, covering the background science and technologies of nu-clear energy and power; does not provide a detailed over-view for professionals like Kok. Competition: Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices & Prospects 2/e Author: Bodansky Publisher: Springer Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 693 Price: £60.99 Difference: Up-to-date survey of nuclear power, with new sections on weapons, nuclear waste; not as detailed a resource for professionals as Kok. Competition: Nuclear Energy 6/e Author: Murray Publisher: Butterworth - Heinemann Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 552 Price: £39.99 Difference: Primarily an undergrad textbook, which does not presuppose knowledge of nuclear science or engineer-ing; not a professional reference.

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Boilers Boilers are closed vessels in which water or other fluids are heated, with vaporized fluid exiting the boiler pro‐viding power and/or heat for a variety of applications. Modern boiler technologies stress efficiency, use of al‐ternative fuel sources, and compactness. One impor‐tant boiler technology is HRSG (Heat Recovery Steam Generators), which utilize the heat rejected in other industrial processes, such as gas turbine com‐

Boilers are used to heat our homes, as well as to power huge power genera‐tion facilities and factories. These boilers are station‐ary, while the once‐common steam locomotive and steamboat are exam‐ples of a mobile boiler ma‐chine.

Sell our boiler books, including Rayaprolu's, to engineers in‐volved with the design of indus‐trial boilers; and to operational engineers who install, operate, control and monitor boilers in power plants and factories. In‐dustrial managers sometimes use reference books to make purchasing decisions


Nuclear

Engineering

Nuclear Engineering is a discipline that's gone through a renaissance over the past decade. Because it does not create greenhouse gases in significant quanti‐ties, nuclear power has value as a "green" alterna‐tive to coal and oil. Nuclear applications in medicine are important, and in Homeland Security radia‐tion detection is important in deterrence of terrorist attacks.

Nuclear Engineering appli‐cations affect us all, espe‐cially in the realm of nu‐clear power, for our elec‐tricity, and increasingly in medicine. Medical applica‐tions include imaging, cxancer treatment, and diagnostic testing. Many of the medical isotopes used are created at the Chalk River reactor in Ontario, Canada.

Sell our Nuclear Engineering Handbook to nuclear engineers and researchers working in the areas of reactor design, nuclear power generation, safety, waste disposal, medicine, radiation detection, nuclear weaponry, shipboard power systems, space application, and imaging tech‐nology. Scientists involved with nuclear energy policy are also potential buyers. In some cases the book may be appropriate for use in Nuclear Engineering col‐lege programs.


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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Civil and Environmental Engineering

NEW TEXTBOOK! The Environment: Science, Issues, and Solutions Mohan K. Wali- The Ohio State University Fatih Evrendilek- : Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey M. Siobhan Fennessy- Kenyon College ISBN: 9780849373879 Pub Date: 05/09 Pages: 604 Price: £49.99 Primary Selling Market: Undergraduate students in Environmental Science Course Level: Undergraduate Course Names: Introduction to Environmental Science Key Selling Features: • Strongly grounded in basic science, more so than other

texts in the field. • Back-to-basics approach based on the principles of ecol-

ogy. • Builds on strong scientific foundation to understand

how human population growth, increasing technology, and economic growth have altered ecosystems and led to environmental problems.

• Provides long-term solutions for the prevention and mitigation of environmental issues.

Sell This Book With: Principles of Ecotoxicology, Third Edition Author: Walker ISBN: 9780849336355 Price: £32.99 Fundamentals of Ecotoxicology, Third Edition Author: Newman ISBN: 9781420067040 Price: £57.99

Introduction to Environmental Toxicology: Impacts of Chemicals Upon Ecological Systems, Third Edition Author: Landis ISBN: 9781566706605 Price: £51.99 Competition: Environment, 6th Edition Author: Raven & Berg Publisher: Wiley Pub Date: 2008 Pages: 672 Price: £78.50 Difference:. Has much more ancillary material than our book, but is also considerably more expensive. Come with WileyPLUS: an integrated suite of learning resources, in-cluding an online version of the text; new 'Campus Envi-roNews' which connect current environment issues to students' lives on campus; and, additional information and resources, including real environmental news video footage from around the world. Environmental Science: Problems, Connections, and Solu-tions, 12th Edition Author: Miller Publisher: Cengage Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 528 Price: £72.50 Difference:. Purports to provide both sides of controver-sial issues, but rarely does so. Not as scientifically grounded as our book— reviewers have mentioned that “provacative” and "outrageous" statements used to make points. Comes with Online Test Bank, Instructor’s Manual, Powerpoint Lecture slides, InfoTrac links. Much more ex-pensive. Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future Author: Wright Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 528 Price: £72.99 Difference:. Reviewers mention inconsistencies and a lack of any references to support the data presented. Comes with a separate study guide.

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NEW EDITION! Principles of Hazardous Materials Management, Second Edition Roger D. Griffin- Griffin Environmental International ISBN: 9781420089707 Pub Date: 4/09 Pages: 264 Price: £65.99 Primary Selling Market: • Hazardous Materials professionals

• Mechanical Engineers designing the mechanical compo-nents of waste treatment/handling systems

• Control Systems Engineers

• Students in Environmental Engineering Course Level: Senior Undergraduate and Graduate Course Names: ENV 4351 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Management ENV 653 - Management of Chemical and Hazardous Waste Materials Key Selling Features: • Presents accurate, practical, and timely coverage of gov-

ernment regulations and industry practices in the area of hazardous materials management.

• Covers air pollution and airborne toxins, cancer risks, and government regualtions of air pollution.

• Describes practical tools to manage hazardous materials in a safe, legal, and economic manner.

• Addresses hydrogeolgic concerns, contaminated soil and groundwater; monitoring and mitigation.

• Discusses the packaging and transportation of hazard-ous materials and emergency response procedures.

New to this Edition: • Greatly expanded information and new technologies for

groundwater & remediation. • New material on transportation and hazmat incidents.

• More emphasis on actual management as a technique for reducing hazardous waste generation.

• The Epidemiological Model, found to be the unifying factor in HazMat management, is thoroughly examined.

Sell This Book With: Advances in Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment Author: Wang ISBN: 9781420072303 Price: £76.99 Waste Management Practices: Municipal, Hazardous, and Industrial Author: Pichtel ISBN: 9780849335259 Price: £92.00 Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treat-ment, Volume II Author: Wang ISBN: 9781420072198 Price: £148.00 Competition: Hazardous Materials And Waste Management, A Guide For The Professional Hazards Manager Author: Cheremisinoff Publisher: William Andrew Pub Date: 1996 Pages: 277 Price: £67.99 Difference:. Written at a lower level than our book- and 13 years older. Managing Hazardous Materials Author: Leonard Publisher: Institute of Hazardous Materials Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 700 Price: £N/A Difference:. A very basic book, meant to serve as a prep for the IHMM exam, but does cover some of the same material. Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste Management, Second Edition Author: Woodside Publisher: Wiley Pub Date: 1999 Pages: 488 Price: £100.00 Difference:. Deals with the management, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials and waste. Not nearly as comprehensive as our book.

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NEW REFERENCE! Solar Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment A title in the new series Energy and the Environment Robert Foster- New Mexico State University ISBN: 9781420075663 Pub Date: 06/09 Pages: 384 Price: £72.99 Primary Selling Market: • Practicing professionals in the photovoltaic/solar indus-

try • Senior undergraduate and graduate students in Energy

Engineering/Environmental Engineering Course Level: Senior undergraduate and graduate Course Names: ME 567 - Solar Energy Technology EET 598D - Photovoltaic (PV) System Design EGR 450 - Solar Engineering Analysis and Design CBT 182 - Solar Electric Systems ARCH 403 - Solar Utilization in the Built Environment Key Selling Features: • Provides key background, theory, and practical applica-

tions for solar/photovoltaic power. • Offers a useful comparative look at several different

renewable technologies, and weighs options, costs, practicality, etc.

• Describes useful scenarios and methodologies for PV implementation— remote site applications: residential electrification, lighting, small-scale irrigation, refrigera-tion, water pumping, and more.

• Provides analysis of the various photovoltaic generator characteristics: crystalline, thin film, and organic.

• Can also be used as a text: examples and case studies provided throughout. Homework problems will also be included in each chapter.

Sell This Book With: Wind Energy: Renewable Energy and the Environment Author: Nelson ISBN: 9781420075687 Price: £72.99 Wind and Solar Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Operation, Second Edition Author: Patel ISBN: 9780849315701 Price: £98.00 Energy Conversion Author: Goswami ISBN: 9781420044317 Price: £86.00 Competition: Solar Electricity, 2nd Edition Author: Markvart Publisher: Wiley Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 256 Price: £50.00 Difference:. Introduction to a range of photovoltaic appli-cations including rural electrification and grid connection issues.Will be nine years old when our book publishes. Practical Handbook of Photovoltaics: Fundamentals and Applications Author: Markvart Publisher: Elsevier Pub Date: 2003 Pages: 512 Price: £175.00 Difference:. Extremely expensive. Six years old and be-coming a bit dated already. Similar coverage to our book, however. Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Author: Luque Publisher: Wiley Pub Date: 2003 Pages: 1,168 Price: £195.00 Difference:. Extremely expensive. Much more comprehen-sive than our book. This Handbook supposedly is appro-priate for both beginners and experts.

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HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hazardous Materials

Hazardous material, also known as dangerous goods, is any gas, liquid, or solid that can harm people, other living organisms, property, or the environment by means of radioactive, flam‐mable, explosive, toxic, cor‐rosive, biohazardous, or other characteristics that cause it to be unsafe in par‐

Management of safety pre‐cautions during their transport, use, storage, and disposal. This includes wearing protective equip‐ment for those who handle such materials and observ‐ing chemical regulations.

Hazardous materials profession‐als such as health surveillance companies dealing with expo‐sure and monitoring occupa‐tional exposure limits, mechani‐cal engineers designing the me‐chanical components of waste treatment/handling systems, Control Systems Engineers, students in environmental engi‐neering


Solar Energy Solar energy technology pro-vides electrical generation by means of heat engines or photovoltaics (radiant light or heat by the sun).

Solar energy applications include but are not limited to: space heating and cool-ing through solar architec-ture, potable water via distil-lation and disinfection, day-lighting, hot water, thermal energy for cooking, and high temperature process heat for industrial purposes.

Practicing professionals in the photovoltaic/solar industry, senior undergraduate and graduate students in Energy En‐gineering/Environmental Engi‐neering

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Second Quarter Key Titles; AprilJune 2009 Remote Sensing and GIS, Environmental engineering, Environmental Law,

Environmental Modeling, Resource Management, and Soil Sciences

TEXTBOOK! Elements of Environmental Engineering: Thermodynamics and Kinetics, 3/e Kalliat T.Valsaraj - Cain Department of chemical engineer-ing, Louisiana State University USA ISBN: 9781420078190 Pub Date: 05/09 Pages: 468 Price: £49.99

Primary Selling Market: • Environmental Engineering,

• Environmental Chemistry,

• Environmental Chemodynamics.

Course Level: Undergraduate Junior / Senior

Course Names: CHE 3100: Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics for Environmental Processes

What’s New With this Edition: • 40% of the material has been changed, reorganized and

revised. • The topics covered have been reorganized and edited

for clarity, advanced topics have been reduced and basic aspects emphasized.

• New sections (e.g. Green Engineering) have been added, all 6 chapters updated and superfluous material re-moved.

• New examples have been added and others modified

• More exercise problems have been added, level of diffi-culty has been indicated

• Topical coverage for a one-semester course has been indicated

Key Selling Features:

• It specifically deals with the applications to the various environmental media (air, water, soil, biota) and how chemicals are transported between these media and react within each media.

• It demonstrates the theoretical foundations of chemical property estimations for environmental process model-ing.

• It adopts a multimedia approach to fate and transport modeling and in pollution control design options.

• There are numerous worked-out examples in each sec-tion and hundreds of problems that can be assigned as homework.

• A solutions manual is available Sell This Book With: Environmental Chemistry 8/e, Author: Stanley E. Manahan ISBN: 9781566706339 Price: £32.99

Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry, 2/e, , Author: Des W. Connell ISBN: 9781566706766 Price: £36.99

Environmental Toxicology Biological and Health Effects Pollutants, Author: Ming-Ho Yu ISBN: 9781566706704 Price: £72.99

Competition: Environmental Organic Chemistry, 2/e Author: Schwarzenbach, Gschwend, and Imboden Publisher: John Wiley Pub Date: 2002 Pages: 1000 Price: £66.45 Difference: Fewer worked problems and exercises; doesn’t have extensive coverage of either thermodynamics or kinetics; more focus on organic chemistry.

Introduction to Environmental Engineering & Science,2/e Author: Masters and Ela Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub Date: 6/2007 Pages: 720 Price: £44.64 Difference: A basic environmental engineering book that does not deal with either thermodynamics or kinetics in detail.

Introduction to Environmental Engineering Author: Davis and Cornwell Publisher: McGraw Hill Pub Date: 1/2007 Pages: 1024 Price: £44.64 Difference: No real discussion of thermodynamics or ki-netics.

Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering Author: James R. Mihelcic Publisher: John Wiley Pub Date: 12/1998 Pages: 352 Price: £60.32 Difference: Broad coverage of pollution in air, water and soil. Weak coverage of kinetics and thermodynamics. Few worked examples.

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TEXTBOOK! Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing Emilio Chuvieco - University of Alcala, Spain Alfredo Huete – University of Arizona, USA ISBN: 9780415310840 Pub Date: 06/09 Pages: 436 Price: £49.99 Primary Selling Market: • Environmental Engineering,

• Geography,

• Environmental Science,

• Earth Science,

• Forestry

• Remote Sensing & GIS Specialists,

• Land Use Planners. Course Level: Senior undergraduate and graduate students both M.S. and Ph.D. levels Course Names: Digital Image Processing of Remote Sensing Data Key Selling Features: • Integrated analysis of remote sensing principles for en-

vironmental applications • Covers both visual and digital image analysis

• Up to date coverage of new remote sensing technolo-gies (lidar, hyperspectral, radar…)

• Special emphasis on environmental applications of re-mote sensing

• Up to date review of satellite Earth observation missions

• Comprehensive coverage of visual and digital image interpretation

• More than 200 figures and image illustration

• Accompanying CD with extensive teaching material

Sell This Book With: Urban Remote Sensing, Author: Weng ISBN: 9780849391996 Price: £63.99 Signal Processing for Remote Sensing; Author: Chen ISBN: 9781420066661 Price: £59.99 GPS for Land Surveyors, 3rd Edition, Author: Van Sickle ISBN: 9780849391958 Price: £57.99 Competition: Introduction to Remote Sensing Author: J.B. Campbell Publisher: The Guilford Press Pub Date: 10/2008 Pages: 626 Price: £30.39 Difference: Limited development of digital image process-ing. Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective Author: J.R. Jensen Publisher: Prentice-Hall Pub Date: 5/2004 Pages: 544 Price: £49.58 Difference: Clear presentation of image processing meth-ods but it does not cover thematic applications, does not include visual analysis and it covers superficially physical basis and satellite missions Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation Author: Lillesand, Kiefer, Chipman Publisher: Wiley Pub Date: 11/2007 Pages: 768 Price: £29.80 Difference: Very comprehensive, covers airborne and sat-ellite remote sensing but it is too general in the presenta-tion of image processing methods.

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REFERENCE! Remote Sensing of Global Croplands for Food Security Prasad S. Thenkabail, John G. Lyon, Hugh Turral, and Chandrashekhar M. Biradar ISBN: 9781420090093 Pub Date: 6/09 Pages: 607 Price: £78.99 Primary Selling Market: • Remote Sensing and GIS Community

• Agricultural Sciences

• Irrigation Departments

• Water world

• Food security

• Universities

• International organizations

• Policy Institutes

• Government departments Course Level: Graduate level Course Names: • Remote Sensing and GIS courses

• Urban Planning Key Selling Features: • First ever satellite sensor based global irrigated and rain

fed croplands maps; • Comprehensive methods of mapping using remote sens-

ing; • Contributed by experts from around the World;

• Links croplands to water use and food security;

• Global perspective

Sell This Book With: GIS for Environmental Decision Making Author: Lovett & Appleton ISBN: 9780849374234 Price: £66.99 Land Use Change: Science, Policy, and Management Author: Aspinall & Hill ISBN: 9781420042962 Price: £66.99 Urban Remote Sensing Author: Weng & Quattrochi ISBN: 9780849391996 Price: £63.99 Competition: Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems for Resource Management Author: Alan S. Belward and Carlos R. Valenzu Publisher: Springer Pub Date: 5/1991 Pages: 520 Price: £205.00 Difference: This book is not based on papers, it is written by experts for hands on practical use. It is up to date and is focused on mapping irrigated and rainfed croplands through remote sensing. Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrol-ogy VII Author: European Optical Society Publisher: SPIE Pub Date: 1/2005 Pages: Price: £97.37 Difference:

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HELPFUL DEFINITIONS Remote Sensing and GIS, Environmental engineering, Environmental Law,


Discipline Definition Everyday Uses Sell To Thermodynamics Thermodynamics is the

study of the conversion of heat energy into different forms of energy (in particu‐lar, mechanical, chemical, and electrical energy); dif‐ferent energy conversions into heat energy; and its relation to macroscopic variables such as tempera‐ture, pressure, and volume

Environmental applications include atmospheric ther‐modynamics focused on wa‐ter and its transformations and studies such phenomena as properties of moist air, formation of clouds, atmos‐pheric convection, boundary layer meteorology, and ver‐tical stabilities in the atmos‐phere.

Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Chemody‐namics

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