This paperback edition of a work first published by Oxford in 1999 has a new final chapter, on the second phase in fiber optics, when stock in bandwidth technol...
The expanded fourth edition of the book that offers an essential introduction to laser technology and the newest developments in the field The revised and updat...
The whole story of laser weapons with a focus on its many interesting characters and sometimes bizarre schemesThe laser--a milestone invention of the mid-twenti...
Finally, a user&’s guide for people with entrepreneurial brains and those they work and live with.When your biggest superpower is also your most critical weak...
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As structural and technological boundaries are dismantled, a flat world of boundaryless organizations gives rise to a different type of boundary found in interg...
According to legend, a resourceful bride won a stay of execution by captivating a sultan with a series of fantastic tales--and after 1,001 nights, the sultan co...
In his brief and troubled life, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was as haunted by tragedy and loss as he was plagued by poverty, illness, and alcoholism. Poe's person...
Through his extraordinarily drawn interpretations of favorite fairy tales and fantastic literature, Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) remains an enduring legend of the...
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Every generation has a chance to rediscover the ageless tales from Arthurian myth. But who was King Arthur? Was he a great and noble king, a strong warrior chie...
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The Cobb-Douglas regression, a statistical technique developed to estimate what economists called a 'production function', was introduced in the late 1920s. Fo...
Texas Oil and Gas documents in postcards the rapid growth of the Texas petroleum industry from its beginnings near Corsicana in the 1890s through the next sever...
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