Electromechanics of Particles is the first book to describe field-particle interactions in diverse areas of science and technology and to show that these quite different technologies are based on similar electromechanical phenomena. It is written in a clear and engaging style and includes numerous real-world examples and a general, easy-to-use predictive model useful to engineers and scientists who work with particles or powders and granular materials.

The focus of this book is on the interactions of small particles, in the size range of microns to millimeters, with electric or magnetic fields. This field has particularly useful practical applications, for instance in photocopier technology and lately in the characterization and manipulation of cells and DNA molecules. The author's objective is to bring together diverse examples of field-particle interactions from many areas of science and technology and then to provide a framework for understanding their common electromechanical phenomena. Using examples from dielectrophoresis, magnetic...

Gives an abundance of practical advice on how active learning techniques can be used by teachers across the disciplines. Using real-life examples, the authors discuss how various small-group exercises, simulations, and case studies can be blAnded with the technological and human resources available outside the classroom. The book is engagingly written for all classroom teachers.
--Stephen Brookfield, distinguished professor of education, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

Fresh out of graduate school and desperate to pay off her student loans, Nicole Adams joins the faculty at Higher State U, a small university with a dubious past located in the middle of the Midwest.

On her second day of classes as a new assistant professor of philosophy, still flustered and disoriented, Nicole is plunged into a campus-wide mystery. Someone has ransacked the office she shares with the ill-tempered R. Reynolds Raskin, the department's senior professor, and he has since disappeared.

Two weeks later, with Raskin still missing, Nicole receives a...

Despite flecks of the victim's blood and what looked like part of an eyebrow, one could make out the letters etched in an artistic, painstaking script that formed the killer's message:
Hippocrite

-Great. A perp who can't spell, - said Jarvis.
-So you think it's a student?-

Professor Roland Norris has been murdered in the early morning hours on the grounds of Valkommen University, and the discovery of the crime sets the scene for Thomas Jones' new campus mystery.

As two more murders rattle the university, St. Paul detectives LeRon...

Thinking Ahead for College Success: A First Year Student's Guide helps start your undergraduate career on the right track. Working through the book's chapters, you'll gain a useful understanding of the educated person ideal, liberal/general education requirements, and the importance of study in the humanities. You'll know what makes for good teaching and how to be a good student. Finally, you'll develop the ability to measure the substance of what you've learned over the course of a college education and appreciate the value of learning for a lifetime. If you are a first-year student, a high...