Other technologies and applied sciences

This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams.

Analytical measurements at the single molecule level under ambient conditions have become almost routine in the past few years.

Rather different problems can be lumped together under the general term 'laser control of atoms and molecules'.

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been long illustrated by thought experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schrodinger's cat.

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

Holography exploded on the scientific world in 1964, but its slow fuse had been burning much longer.

This book stems from the worrying scale and intensity of conflicts, humanitarian crises, and human rights violations around the world, which can be seen in a wide range of global hotspots including Venezuela, Yemen, Syria, Myanmar, Sudan, Eritrea, and numerous others.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in unlocking Latin America's developmental aspirations.

This book addresses methods used in the synthesis of light alloys and composites for industrial applications.

This new fourth edition of the standard text on atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) retains previous material on the fundamentals of electron optics and aberration correction, linear imaging theory (including wave aberrations to fifth order) with partial coherence, and multiple-scattering theory.

This book gathers the outcomes of the second ECCOMAS CM3 Conference series on transport, which addressed the main challenges and opportunities that computation and big data represent for transport and mobility in the automotive, logistics, aeronautics and marine-maritime fields.

Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement in one, two or three dimensions.

Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics consists of the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School 101 held in August 2013.

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.

Holograms have been in the public eye for over a half-century, but their influences have deeper cultural roots.

Holograms have been in the public eye for over a half-century, but their influences have deeper cultural roots.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer?

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer?

Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic.

Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic.

Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments.

Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments.

Space is again in the headlines.

Essential reading on how technology empowers rogue actors and how society can adapt.

Essential reading on how technology empowers rogue actors and how society can adapt.

Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II.

Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II.

This series of fifteen books - The Food Service Professional Guide TO Series from the editors of the Food Service Professional magazine are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today.

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations.

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point.

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation.

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation.

Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis.

The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions.

The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions.

Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world.

Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

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.

Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition.