Fundamentals of Construction Management

Fundamentals of Construction Management: This is an important book invaluable to those who require knowledge on managing the construction process. The book is based on research, contemporary construction management and management literature, and the personal work experience of the author.

Introductory Lectures on Quantum Field Theory

Introductory Lectures on Quantum Field Theory: In these lectures we present a few topics in Quantum Field Theory in detail. Some of them are conceptual and some more practical. They have been selected because they appear frequently in current applications to Particle Physics and String Theory.

Time To Find A New Job

Time To Find A New Job: Proven advice, tips and strategies to help you through the job process. This includes: Resume Writing Strategies; The point of the Cover Letter; Creating professional image through your social networks; Preparing yourself for the job search; etc.

Foundations of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

Foundations of Descriptive and Inferential Statistics: These lecture notes were written to provide an accessible though technically solid introduction to the logic of systematical analyses of statistical data to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Social Sciences and Economics in particular.

Managing Diversity

Managing Diversity: This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of managing diversity. The book covers topics such as: the role of historical struggles in the development of managing diversity practice today, demographic and social change; etc.

Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Advanced Quantum Mechanics: Lecture notes by Professor F. J. Dyson for a course in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics given at Cornell University in the Fall of 1951 for the students who had courses in classical mechanics, electrodynamics and non-relativistic quantum theory.

Collider Physics within the Standard Model: a Primer

Collider Physics within the Standard Model: a Primer: These are graduate lecture notes on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and the theory of Electroweak (EW) Interactions, with main focus on Collider Physics. I hope that these lectures can provide an introduction to the subject for the interested reader.

Problems with and Without ... Problems!

Problems with and Without ... Problems!: This book is addressed to College honor students, researchers, and professors. It contains 136 original problems published by the author in various journals. The problems could be used to preparing for courses, exams, and Olympiads in mathematics.

Discrete Dynamical Systems

Discrete Dynamical Systems: This book covers important topics like stability, hyperbolicity, bifurcation theory and chaos, topics which are essential to understand the behavior of nonlinear discrete dynamical systems. The theory is illuminated by examples and exercises.

Thermal Power Plants: Advanced Applications

Thermal Power Plants: Advanced Applications: The book covers plant performance, energy efficiency, combustion, heat transfer, renewable power generation and environmental aspects of combustion residues. This book addresses issues related to both coal fired and steam power plants.

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management: In order to manage the wide variety of people working in an organization, it has become necessary to apply scientific and practical systems of managing people. This book provides an insight into the various elements of Human Resource Management.

Set Theoretic Approach to Algebraic Structures in Mathematics

Set Theoretic Approach to Algebraic Structures in Mathematics: This book brings out how sets in algebraic structures can be used to construct the most generalized algebraic structures, like set linear algebra / vector space, set ideals in groups and rings and semigroups, and topological set vector spaces.

The Physics of Ocean Waves

The Physics of Ocean Waves: This text is intended to be a general but comprehensive overview on physical phenomena associated with the marine environment. The author provides his own perspective on this field from his particular experiences and training.

Column Chromatography

Column Chromatography: Chromatography is the separation of a mixture of compounds into its individual components based on their relative interactions with an inert matrix. However, chromatography is more than a simple technique, it is an important part of science ...

Refrigeration: Theory And Applications

Refrigeration: Theory And Applications: This book covers the basic thermodynamic and heat transfer considerations of the vapour compression cycle followed by the major applications of refrigeration. The text is intended for use as an elective undergraduate paper for engineering students.

Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R

Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R: A textbook for an undergraduate course in probability and statistics. The prerequisites are two or three semesters of calculus and some linear algebra. Students attending the class include mathematics, engineering, and computer science majors.

Exploring the Biofluiddynamics of Swimming and Flight

Exploring the Biofluiddynamics of Swimming and Flight: Many organisms move through water or air in order to survive and reproduce. It is useful to analyze fluid motion as a collection of vortices: vortices interact with the moving organism, interact with each other, and evolve independently in time.

Advanced Maths for Chemists

Advanced Maths for Chemists: The third of a three part series of texts designed for a first-year university course. Tutorial questions with solutions are used to help the students to self-pace themselves. Colored molecular structures, graphs and diagrams bring the text alive.

Physics Quest: Understanding Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

Physics Quest: Understanding Relativistic Quantum Field Theory: From the table of contents: Relativistic foundations of light and matter Fields; Advanced treatment of the EM field; The relativistic matter wave equations; Foundations of Quantum Electro Dynamics; Non Abelian gauge theories.

Fluctuation-Dissipation: Response Theory in Statistical Physics

Fluctuation-Dissipation: Response Theory in Statistical Physics: General aspects of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation (FDR), and Response Theory are considered. We illustrate the relation between the relaxation of spontaneous fluctuations, and the response to an external perturbation.

Advanced High-School Mathematics

Advanced High-School Mathematics: An advanced mathematics textbook accessible by and interesting to a relatively advanced high-school student. Topics: geometry, discrete mathematics, abstract algebra, series and ordinary differential equations, and inferential statistics.

Working Capital Management: Theory and Strategy

Working Capital Management: Theory and Strategy: Although most companies still adhere to standard industry terms, we shall prove that if a company is unique with respect to its revenue function, access to the capital market and customer clientele, its optimal debtor policy will be unique.

Understanding Physics

Understanding Physics: Provides a thorough grounding in contemporary physics while placing physics into its social context. A course designed for students preparing to enter fields outside of science or engineering, including students planning to teach in K-12 classrooms.

Geometry and Screw Theory for Robotics

Geometry and Screw Theory for Robotics: Contents: Motion of a Rigid Body; Serial kinematic chain (Configuration kinematics, Differential kinematics of serial chains, Dynamics of serial chains); Interaction and Control; Projective geometry and kinematic; Introduction to Lie groups.

Intermediate Maths for Chemists

Intermediate Maths for Chemists: This volume is the second of a three part series of texts taken during a first-year university course. Tutorial questions with fully worked solutions structured on a weekly basis to help the students to self-pace themselves are used.