Other technologies and applied sciences

Military and defense-related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad spectrum of industries that account for an important share of United States industrial production.

Beam is the story of the race to make the laser, the three intense years from the birth of the laser idea to its breakthrough demonstration in a California laboratory.

City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network.

In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in twentieth-century physics.

Due to its nondestructive imaging power, scanning tunneling microscopy has found major applications in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.

The influence of light on the lives of living organisms is all-pervasive, affecting movement, vision, behavior, and physiological activity.

In addition to being a major area of research within International Relations, peacebuilding and statebuilding is a major policy area within the UN and other international and regional organizations.

Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilization efforts, and a primary tool for responding to civil war and insurgency.

Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilization efforts, and a primary tool for responding to civil war and insurgency.

An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace.

An exploration of how so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict and forge peace.

Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices.

Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices.

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact.

Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact.

How, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, do Maoist rebels in India quit an ongoing insurgency without getting killed?

How, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, do Maoist rebels in India quit an ongoing insurgency without getting killed?

A new theory of market power politics that explains when and why states will delay cooperation or even fight wars in pursuit of this elusive goal.

A new theory of market power politics that explains when and why states will delay cooperation or even fight wars in pursuit of this elusive goal.

Processing audio in the spectral domain has become a practical proposition for a variety of applications in computer music, composition, and sound design, making it an area of significant interest for musicians, programmers, sound designers, and researchers.

Processing audio in the spectral domain has become a practical proposition for a variety of applications in computer music, composition, and sound design, making it an area of significant interest for musicians, programmers, sound designers, and researchers.

Featuring 56 lessons by 49 music technology experts from around the world, The Music Technology Cookbook is an all-in-one guide to the world of music technology, covering topics like: composition (with digital audio workstations such as Ableton, Soundtrap, GarageBand); production skills such as recording, editing, and equalization; creating multimedia (ringtones, soundscapes, audio books, sonic brands, jingles); beatmaking; DJing; programming (Minecraft, Scratch, Sonic Pi, P5.

Featuring 56 lessons by 49 music technology experts from around the world, The Music Technology Cookbook is an all-in-one guide to the world of music technology, covering topics like: composition (with digital audio workstations such as Ableton, Soundtrap, GarageBand); production skills such as recording, editing, and equalization; creating multimedia (ringtones, soundscapes, audio books, sonic brands, jingles); beatmaking; DJing; programming (Minecraft, Scratch, Sonic Pi, P5.

Since the 1990s, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have intervened in civil wars around the globe.

Since the 1990s, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have intervened in civil wars around the globe.

This book provides a self-contained presentation of optical methods used to measure the structure and dynamics of complex fluids subject to the influence of external fields.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1907 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted increasing interest from researchers due to their superb power conversion efficiencies.

In this book the interaction of radiation and matter, and the principles of laser operation are treated at a level suitable for fourth-year undergraduate courses or introductory graduate courses in physics, chemistry or engineering.

The scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) was invented by Binnig and Rohrer and received a Nobel Prize of Physics in 1986.

In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law-and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and issues of copyright-has never been greater.

This book tells the human story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventures - how it came to be understood that light travels at a finite speed, so that when we look up at the stars, we are looking back in time.

This textbook reduces the complexity of the coverage of optics to allow a student with only elementary calculus to learn the principles of optics and the modern Fourier theory of diffraction and imaging.

MRI has emerged as a powerful way of studying in-vivo brain structure and function in both healthy and disease states.

MRI has emerged as a powerful way of studying in-vivo brain structure and function in both healthy and disease states.

Photomultipliers are extremely sensitive light detectors that can detect single photons.

Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) is an increasingly popular tool to study the brain.

Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) is an increasingly popular tool to study the brain.

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

Polymer electronics is the science behind many important new developments in technology, such as the flexible electronic display (e-ink) and many new developments in transistor technology.

Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe.

Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe.

Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world.

Noise is a widely recognized problem and health concern in the modern world.

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties.

Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist.

Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist.

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties.

This book offers a concise and up-to-date introduction to the popular field of quantum information.

Most previous texts on quantum optics have been written primarily for the graduate student market at PhD level and above.