Technical literature, in heat conduction, in the competition to present the latest and state of the art knowledge in the subject, ends up being so advanced that beginners and students are lost before they even start. This book attempts to rectify this by i. starting every topic from the basics to the latest academic and practical, industrial application ii. providing a thorough and kaleidoscopic treatment of the concepts, theories, calculations methods and procedures, in heat conduction. iii. illustrating, in a question and answer format, several methods and procedures for the formulation and...

The opinions of armchair philosophers, to whom life is in black and white, are not often taken seriously, probably, because they are, often, too loudly expressed or, irritatingly, argumentative. These opinions arise, however, from social concern and from exasperation at the apparent lack of concern, by the rest of the population, about serious matters of human existence. Some armchair philosophers have, consequently, given up the world as mad or stupid and will turn to the sports, rather than read the news or opinion, pages of newspapers. Many issues of concern to armchair philosophers,...