Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers

Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers
Author: Carl Branan
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2002
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780750675673

Fractionators, separators and accumulators, cooling towers, gas treating, blending, troubleshooting field cases, gas solubility, and density of irregular solids * Hundreds of common sense techniques, shortcuts, and calculations.

Python Scripting for Computational Science

Python Scripting for Computational Science
Author: Hans Petter Langtangen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3662054507

Scripting with Python makes you productive and increases the reliability of your scientific work. Here, the author teaches you how to develop tailored, flexible, and efficient working environments built from small programs (scripts) written in Python. The focus is on examples and applications of relevance to computational science: gluing existing applications and tools, e.g. for automating simulation, data analysis, and visualization; steering simulations and computational experiments; equipping programs with graphical user interfaces; making computational Web services; creating interactive interfaces with a Maple/Matlab-like syntax to numerical applications in C/C++ or Fortran; and building flexible object-oriented programming interfaces to existing C/C++ or Fortran libraries.

Visio 2003 For Dummies

Visio 2003 For Dummies
Author: Debbie Walkowski
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2004-01-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0764568671

Did you ever wish you could draw folks a picture of your business processes or the design of your database, but you just don’t have the graphics skills? Then Visio 2003 might be exactly what you’re looking for, and Visio 2003 For Dummies makes it easy for you to find out. Often, pictures do speak louder than words. Visio enables you to turn business and technical concepts into visual diagrams. Best of all, it doesn’t require you to possess any artistic talent! Visio 2003 For Dummies shows you how to Navigate the software and use the menus, toolbars, and task panes Create simple diagrams Use Visio drawings with other software programs Annotate your diagrams Post diagrams on the Web If you need to explain business goals and procedures, software concepts, or database designs to others, Visio 2003 For Dummies can get you going with this great software package in no time. Soon you’ll be able to Choose the appropriate type of drawing for your purpose, work with stencils, and add shapes Pan and zoom to fine-tune your diagram Set up your printer with Visio 2003, add headers and footers, and print an entire drawing or only selected parts Explore open and closed or one- and two-dimensional shapes, and manipulate them to demonstrate what you want to show Add color and text to enhance your drawings Create custom shapes, develop and use templates, and even add layers to provide more detail Integrate Visio with Excel, Word, Project, and Outlook Produce reports using data stored in Visio, update them, make them available for others to review, and even track changes Additional information and links to online Visio resources are available on the book’s companion Web site. Visio 2003 offers you an exciting new way to communicate business processes, information systems, database and software designs, or computer and telecommunications networks, and Visio 2003 For Dummies gives you the power to use this great tool quickly and easily.

Green Building Handbook: Volume 1

Green Building Handbook: Volume 1
Author: Tom Woolley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135811598

Environmentally responsible building involves resolving many conflicting issues and requirements. Each stage in the design process from the fundamental decisions about what, where and even whether to build has implications for the environment. Evolving out of the success of Green Building Digest, a publication described by Building Design as well-researched, authoritative and exhaustive, this practical new handbook considers the environmental issues which relate to the production, use and disposal of key building products and materials. It is designed to help specifiers and purchasers gain awareness of the potential environmental impact of their decisions. Chapter by chapter Green Building Handbook looks at a different sector of the trade from flooring to roofing, comparing the environmental effects of commonly available products with less well known green alternatives. A Best Buy section then ranks these products from lowest to highest impact.

Geological Field Techniques

Geological Field Techniques
Author: Angela L. Coe
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 144434823X

GEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES The understanding of Earth processes and environments over geological time is highly dependent upon both the experience that can only be gained through doing fieldwork, and the collection of reliable data and appropriate samples in the field. This textbook explains the main data gathering techniques used by geologists in the field and the reasons for these, with emphasis throughout on how to make effective field observations and record these in suitable formats. Equal weight is given to assembling field observations from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock types. There are also substantial chapters on producing a field notebook, collecting structural information, recording fossil data and constructing geological maps. Geological Field Techniques is designed for students, amateur enthusiasts and professionals who have a background in geology and wish to collect field data on rocks and geological features. Teaching aspects of this textbook include: step-by-step guides to essential practical skills such as using a compass-clinometer, making a geological map and drawing a field sketch; tricks of the trade, checklists, flow charts and short worked examples; over 200 illustrations of a wide range of field notes, maps and geological features; appendices with the commonly used rock description and classification diagrams; a supporting website hosted by Wiley-Blackwell is available at www.wiley.com/go/coe/geology

Draconomicon

Draconomicon
Author: Andy Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN: 9780786928842

An art-filled sourcebook for all things draconic in the Dungeons & Dragons world, this title includes information on playing dragons and dragon-like creatures, how to run a dragon in a fight, and how to both fight dragons and work with them as allies. The book itself is designed in a prestige format, with heavy use of art throughout and constructed of premium materials. (Games/Gamebooks/Crosswords)

Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics

Concepts in Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Author: William J. Spruill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Drugs
ISBN: 9781585283873

Table of contents: Lesson 1. introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics Lesson 2. basic pharmacokinetics Lesson 3. half-life, elimination rate, and auc Lesson 4. intravenous bolus administration, multiple drug administration, and steady-state average concentrations Lesson 5. relationships of pharmacokinetic parameters and Intravenous intermittent and continuous infusions Lesson 6. two-compartment models Lesson 7. biopharmaceutics: absorption Lesson 8. drug distribution and protein binding Lesson 9. drug elimination processes Lesson 10. nonlinear processes Lesson 11. pharmacokinetic variation and model-independent relationships Lesson 12. aminoglycosides Lesson 13. vancomycin Lesson 14. theophylline Lesson 15. phenytoin and digoxin.

The Council of Blades

The Council of Blades
Author: Paul Kidd
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786964146

A deadly new weapon may change the nature of war forever in this fifth installment in the Nobles series War cares little for the troubles of the aristocracy—as a motley crew of nobles and commoners, humans and other creatures are about to find out. Though the city states of Sumbria and Colletro, warring regions of the Blade Kingdom, have reached a truce, the battle is not yet over. As a terrible new weapon obliterates the age of courtly battle, an intelligent princess with burgeoning magical powers—along with an addled young inventor and kleptomaniac firebird—finds herself forced into a battle for survival in a world far deadlier than the one she has known.

Finder's Bane

Finder's Bane
Author: Kate Novak
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0786964081

The fate of one god hinges on the death of another—and the bravery of a rag-tag band of adventurers—in this classic Harpers novel When Joel became a priest of the new god Finder, he knew it meant forfeiting the honor and security of his position as a master bard. Now his freedom—and his very life—are at stake as the powers of evil embroil the priests of Finder in a struggle against a plot to resurrect the dead god Bane. Accompanied by freedom fighter Holly Harrowslough, the mysterious winged woman Jas, and the aging priest Jedidiah, Joel embarks on a mission to recover the Hand of Bane. His quest leads him from the Realms all the way to the extra-planar city of Sigil. There, Joel must rely on all his courage, wisdom, and strength to thwart the return of Bane the Tyrant and rescue the god Finder from imminent death. Finder’s Bane is the fifteenth book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers. It is also the first book in the Lost Gods trilogy.