The field of materials science and engineering is rapidly evolving into a science of its own. While traditional literature in this area often concentrates primarily on property and structure, the Materials Processing Handbook provides a much needed examination from the materials processing perspective. This unique focus reflects the changing complexity of new and emerging materials such as cutting-edge semiconductors, smart materials, and materials based on spintronics.
This highly comprehensive work also presents groundbreaking coverage of the processes applied to a myriad of solid...

At the grand old age of 41 Shaw, still playing veterans soccer, suffered a routine hip injury which required invasive surgey for a new hip. Shortly after the operation caused by a post operative blood clot he suffered a massive stroke leaving him with paralysis of the left side, loss of speech and partial blindness. Weather the Storm is Shaw's account of how he dealt with the devastation of the sudden and unexpected tempest, how he climbed back onto his feet whilst the storm was raging and how he eventually managed to negotiate his way back to normal life via a series of small victories so...

This monograph is concerned with understanding the behaviours and land use practices associated with earlier Palaeolithic hominins in Syria, through consideration of key archaeological assemblages from two important regions: the Orontes and Euphrates Valleys. The focus here is on three temporal bands Earliest occupations (1.50 mya 0.80 mya); the Lower Palaeolithic (800 kya 350 kya); the Middle Palaeolithic (350 kya 50 kya. The areas of the Orontes and Euphrates Valleys possess some of the most significant artefact collections from Syria, and indeed, the wider Near East. This is due to the...