Subject(s): Engineering -- Management | Infrastructure (Economics) -- Management | Life cycle costing | Engineering economy Summary: "This comprehensive resource provides thorough coverage of the tools and techniques used in planning, building, maintaining, and fixing civil infrastructure. Thoroughly updated throughout, Public Infrastructur

Subject(s): Online social networks -- Security measures Abstract: The enormous success and diffusion that online social networks (OSNs) are encountering nowadays is vastly apparent. Users' social interactions now occur using online social media as communication channels; personal information and activities are easily exchanged both for recr

Subject(s): Electric machinery -- Design and construction | Electric generators -- Design and construction | Electric motors -- Design and construction | Rotational motion Summary: "This book is an in-depth essential reference of rotating electrical machine design theory and application. In the first part of the book the general theory gov

Subject(s): Mobile robots -- Textbooks Scope and content: "Mobile Robotics offers comprehensive coverage of the essentials of the field suitable for both students and practitioners. Adapted from Alonzo Kelly's graduate and undergraduate courses, the content of the book reflects current approaches to developing effective mobile robots. P

Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Philosophy | Postmodernism and higher education | Holistic education Summary: "Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman's theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge,

Subject(s): Argentina -- History Study and teaching | Argentina -- Historiography Summary: "By repositioning democratic education not as something that can be achieved by following a certain, proven process, but as an inherently paradoxical enterprise in its dealings with the tension between schooling as the intentional production of citize

Subject(s): Data mining Summary: "In past decades, data mining has witnessed substantial advances by efforts from various communities. On the other hand, new research questions and practical challenges are continuously presented due to newly emerging topics and applications within the various fields closely related to human daily life, e.g.

Subject(s): British Library -- Exhibitions | Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul -- Exhibitions -- India | Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Exhibitions -- India | Miniature painting, Mogul -- Exhibitions -- India | Islamic miniature painting -- Exhibitions -- India | Calligraphy, Mogul -- Exhibitions -- India | Art, Mogul -

Subject(s): Uighur (Turkic people) -- Politics and government | Uighur (Turkic people) -- Ethnic identity | Uighur (Turkic people) -- Government relations | Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Politics and government | Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Ethnic relations | Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) -- Social conditions Summary: "The Uyghur

Subject(s): Educational accountability -- England | Education and state -- England Summary: "The French have a saying 'plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose'. The English colloquial equivalent 'same old same old' conveys a sense of the inevitable, a reminder that if we haven't learned the lessons of history we are