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• ISBN:
• 185957484X
• Publisher:
• Smithers Rapra Press
• Authors:
• N. Mullineux

The tyre industry is the largest single rubber manufacturing industry in the world. The high performance demanded of tyres has led to extensive research and development in this field and constant innovation. This report takes an overview of the latest technology combined with the market situation worldwide. The report is designed as a systematic analysis of the passenger car industry. It begins with a broad view of the industry examining the...

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• ISBN:
• 0122154932
• Publisher:
• Academic Press
• Authors:
• Jean-Claude Diels, Wolfgang Rudolph

Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena serves as an introduction to the phenomena of ultrashort laser pulses and describes how this technology can be applied in areas such as spectroscopy, medical imaging, electromagnetism, optics, and quantum physics. Combining the principles with experimental techniques, the book serves as a guide to designing and constructing femtosecond systems. The second edition has updated and expanded its content, and includes...

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• ISBN:
• 0230601340
• Publisher:
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Authors:
• Jeffrey W. Barbeau

Barbeau reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840). Coleridge’s late system links four sources of divinity—the Bible, the traditions of the church, the interior work of the Spirit, and the inspired preacher—to Christ, the Word.  In thousands of marginalia and private notebook entries, Coleridge challenges traditional views of the formation and inspiration of the Bible,...

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• ISBN:
• 0231110170
• Publisher:
• Columbia University Press
• Authors:
• Katherine Hite

The unanticipated arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London on October 16, 1998 served to punctuate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the most cataclysmic event in Chilean history -a violent coup d´etat that abruptly ended decades of democratic rule. A steadily increasing series of explorations, interviews, and images in the popular press and media has begun to unearth the horrors of the dictatorship and its defenders and to reevaluate the...

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• ISBN:
• 0520242866
• Publisher:
• University of California Press
• Authors:
• Charles Tiefer

In this searing indictment of current administration policy, Charles Tiefer, a distinguished scholar of national legal affairs and former solicitor of the House of Representatives, argues that President George W. Bush methodically manipulates the law to promote right-wing causes. The beneficiaries of these machinations range from frontline pro-weapon and anti-women's rights groups to major industries that profit from lax environmental standards...