Search Results: Titles starting with A from GlobalAcademics

Chicago: American Concrete Institute, 1989. Comprehensive reference text contains detailed sections on inspection and testing of materials; fundamentals of concrete; concreting operations; pavement slabs and bridge decks; batching and mixing; architectural concrete; correction of defects in newly hardened concrete and repairs of older concrete; etc. 508 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's name on front endpaper.. Seventh Edition. Hard Cover. Excellent. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2004. Comprehensive text contains cutiing-edge and award-winning technical articles on a broad range of applications and topics in the computer graphics field. Topics covered include: curves and surfaces; band moire images; interactive digital images; Poisson matting; 3D texture; photo & video texture; dynamics & modeling; rigid fluid; RFIG lamps; target-driven smoke animation; animating visoelastic fluids; lighting & sampling; data driven character animation; shape & motion; video-based rendering; shape analysis; flash & color; capture from images; HDR and perception; user-interface software and technology; virtual reality software and technology; large meshes and GPU programming; lightfield acquisition & display; mesh parameterization; fixing models; etc. 928 pgs. Numerous full-color illustrations. Tiny nick on top corner of spine. Minimal shelfwear. Heavy item.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" -… Read More

Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. Comprehensive highly acclaimed professional text presents detailed topics covering Ada programming; array types; elementary data structures; packages and abstract data types; type extension and inheritance; generics; access and numeric types; input-output; program structure; subprograms; concurrency; system programming; real-time and distributed systems; terminology of the Ada reference manual; etc. Includes a New & Sealed CD-Rom containing the source codes; Ada compilers for several platforms; graphical syntax charts; and the Reference Manual. . First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1996. Scholarly text brings together seven research studies to provide a profile of the HIV prevention, surveillance and treatment needs of migrant workers. The three editors combine their own extensive work with that of nationally and internationally recognized experts to provide a comprehensive analysis of the HIV epidemic among migrant workers, looking at perceptions of risk, sexual beliefs and practices, effects of migration on changing risk profiles, prevention efforts, and policies and programmes that may stem the spread of HIV among this population. The book includes, in addition to researchers' views, the perspectives of migrant workers and policy-makers on HIV prevention policies and programmes. 214 pgs. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Academic Press, 1964. Classic comprehensive text is the first extensive treatment of the problems of implementing the internationally accepted programming language Algol 60 on computers. Includes in depth coverage of the Algol 60 Compiler originally developed for the English Electric KDF9 computer. 418 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's name on front endpaper. Dustjacket has a few minor edge creases and small in tact tears; in mylar. Minimal shelfwear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

American Medical Association , 1983. Comprehensive text provides a reference source for practical, comparative, evaluative information on drug therapy. Includes pharmacologic information, principles of therapeutics, and pathogenesis of diseases. 1884 pgs. Hardcover. Top corners sl. bumped. NOTE: Heavy Item.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989. Comprehensive text presents a large collection of imaginative and useful algorithms programmed in APL, including topics covering arithmetic and number; calculus; geometry and pattern; formulae and tables; probability and statistics; combinatorics; graphics; series; algebra and sets; etc. 185 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bonn, Germany: Gesellschaft Fur Informatik, 2006. Comprehensive text contains contributed technical papers from leading international scientists and field experts covering broad-based topics on hardware fault tolerance; terminology and modeling of dependable systems; dependable networks; reconfigurable optimization; architecture analysis; mechanisms for module-based reconfiguration; modeling and scheduling; organic and reconfigurable computing; tools and middleware; parallel programming; parallel hardware architectures; etc. 364 pgs. Illustrated. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Metals Park, OH.: ASM International, 1993. Comprehensive updated and revised standard reference text contains detailed sections on specific metals and alloys including aluminum, titanium, lead and lead alloys, uranium, zinc, wrought copper, refractory metals and alloys, precious metals, rare earth metals, etc., special-purpose materials; superconducting materials; pure metals; special engineering topics; recycling of nonferous alloys; toxicity of metals; etc. 1328 pgs. Illustrated with 1800 figures. Prior owner's name on front endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. Heavy item.. Third Printing. Pictorial Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Materials Park, Ohio: ASM International, 1996. Comprehensive reference text contains detailed coverage of steelmaking practices, general properties, classification, and applications of steels; with an emphasis on the relationships between microstructure and properties and the influence of modern steelmaking practices on the performanceof steels. 731 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. Heavy item.. First Edition. Pictorial Hard Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Short Hills, N.J.: AT & T, 1985. Classic publication includes detailed topics on jitter in repeaters; resource allocation; failure rate model; nonlocal input-output expansions; effects of channel impairment on the performance of an in-band data-driven echo canceler; waiting time convexity in the M/G/1 queue; etc. 144 pgs. Illustrated. Minor rubbing to edges. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Short Hills, N.J.: AT & T, 1985. Classic publication contains detailed topics in digital data transmission; single-tone location by cyclotomic filters; properties of continuous hidden Markov model representations; speech modeling and processing; nondiversity receivers for spread spectrum in indoor wireless communications; etc. 155 pgs. Illustrated. Minor rubbing to edges, and small rub mark on front cover.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Short Hills, N.J.: AT & T, 1984. Classic publication contains detailed papers dealing with topics on hidden Markov model and dynamic time warping for speech recognition; methods in traffic calculations; overload performance of engineered networks with nonhierarchical and hierarchical routing; velocity-saturated characteristics of short channel MOSFETs; capacity of sticky storage devices; etc. 206 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990. Comprehensive text provides electronics systems engineers concepts, measures, methods, and latest component reliability data based on more than 30 years of performance trials. Includes the first complete elucidation of AT&T's reliability model- the detailed table of component hazard rates from actual field data; system evaluation and performance monitoring; device assessment; physical and methematical derivations; etc. 223 pgs. Illustrated. Prior owner's name on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London U.K.: Holland Press, 1960. Classic invaluable reference text of early history and development of firearms and their accessories. Contains an appendix of inventors' names, a brief history of firearms, and a chronological list of of numerous inventions from 25 January, 1588 through 29 April, 1858. 323 pgs. Prior owner's name on endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar. Limited to 1000 copies. . Limited to 1000 Copies. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Comprehensive highly acclaimed text presents an entirely original study of the discovery of dynamics, covering the period of antiquity to the publication 300 years ago of Newton's "Principia". It includes a detailed discussion of the development of ancient Greek astronomy, the Copernican revolution, the discovery of the laws of planetary motion by Kepler, Galileo's first great discoveries in the study of terrestrial motions, and the important contributions of Descartes and Huygens. The latter part of the book is devoted to Newton and the clarification of the key dynamical concepts that he introduced. 746 pgs. Illustrated. Very minimal shelfwear. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

San Francisco, CA.: Holden-Day , 1964. Comprehensive classic text presents a historical survey of the problem of absolute stability, a systematic presentation of the main results obtained in the theory of absolute stability, and the authors' viewpoint of the present state of the problem. Text deals in detail with the preeminant work by Vasile-Mikhai Popov; A.I. Lur'e; R.E. Kalman; V.A. Yakubovitch; V.A. Pliss; and numerous other renown researchers in the field of stability theory. 172 pgs. Gilt spine. Prior owner's name on front endpaper. Minimal shelfwear. Translated from the original Russian by Elijah Polak. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Academic Press Ltd., 1962. Classic text contains a method for studying and analyzing chemisorption, applicable to almost all adsorbents, restricted to ferromagnetic absorbents such as nickel. Includes chemistry of non-vapor interfaces, measurement of saturation magnetization, magnetization- volume isotherms for hydrogen, etc. 189 pgs. Illustrated. Stamped on endpapers, pocket removal mark on front endpaper, small numerals stenciled on lower spine. Minimal shelfwear. . . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library.

Louisville, KY: Kentucky Quilt Project Inc., 1991. Compreensive text presents an autobiographical survey of the author's lifelong involvement in collecting, viewing, studying, lecturing and mounting exhibitions of quilts; tracing various exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad from the 1970's through the present time of publication. Includes 61 color plates and comments of the quilts; checklist and essay from the Whitney Museum of American Art catalogue, "Abstract Design in American Quilts"; exhibition schedule, American Pieced Quilts I & II, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1973-1974. Signed by the author on a presentation label pastedown on front endpaper certifying the first edition, numbered 560 out of 1000 limited edition signed copies, specially bound and boxed. 230 pgs. Tiny minor scuff mark to top of front cover; tiny mark to lower outer edge. Slipcase has a tiny corner crease on pictorial label pastedown; minimal rubbing to lower edge. Scarce.. Signed by… Read More

Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 1962. Classic text contains a series of lectures on abstract set theory given at the University of Notre Dame in 1957-58. Topics include: outlines of Cantor's theory; ordered sets- a theory of Hausdorff; axiomatic set theory; ordinals and alephs; functions of ordinal numbers; the notions "finite" and "infinite"; simple infinite sequence; set-theoretic relativism; simple theory of types; theory of Quine; predictive set theory; Lorenzen's operative mathematics; mathematics without quantifiers; intuitionist mathematics; etc. 70 pgs. Illustrated. Minor rubbing to edges; small slight crease on rear lower corner. Minimal shelfwear. Scarce.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.