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Many human factors specialists lack the engineering knowledge to communicate possible modifications to their design team. Closing this gap between capability and expectation, Handbook of Digital Human Modeling provides a detailed description of the fundamentals, tools, and applications in the field ... More

This is a new book about multicomponent flow modeling concepts and methods that are used in applications in combustion, crystal growth, and chemical reactors. The goals are to provide a detailed presentation of the kinetic theory of gas and the analysis of the relevant models. In addition, numerical... More

The "Portrait of Gertrude Stein "was the first major work by Pablo Picasso to enter The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequeathed by Stein herself in 1946. A century after it was painted, this portrait remains one of the most powerful images of early-20th-century modernism.What was to be a lifelong fri... More

This book celebrates the unique collections of Yale University, chiefly of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on the occasion of the tercentenary of the city of St. Petersburg. They are unique in that we have here those accounts of early visitors to the capital of the Russian empire set ... More

The greatest prose writer of twentieth-century Polish letters, Witold Gombrowicz is also recognized as a figure whose literary standing is comparable to Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Musil, or Beckett. Yet his reputation in the United States and the English-speaking world has never been equal to his renown ... More

Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utpoianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of Western culture, politics and society. Yet, because he has not been one of the easiest writers to read, his full contributio... More