Completely revised and updated, written to be understandable for students, and practical in its coverage, this new edition features a range of new engineering applications, such as control of unman...

B. P. Lathi is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Lathi is renowned for his excellent writing, and each of his books has found significant ...

Jeff Stehney is the president and co-founder of Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que. Jeff first began competing in barbecue contests with his wife Joy in 1990. In the years since, the Stehneys’ team, Slaug...

Ceramic Masterpieces: Art, Structure andTechnology was first published by the Free Press in 1986. It won a publisher's award for art (American Publishers' Association, Scholarly and Technical, Hon...

Jerry B. Jenkins’ books have sold more than 70 million copies. Twenty-one of his titles have reached the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal best-seller lists. The...

Aaron B. Retish is Associate Professor of Russian History at Wayne State University, USA. He is the author of Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War (2008). He is also the co-editor of the j...

This completely revised edition has been rewritten to reflect the major changes in knowledge since the first edition. There are four additional chapters, on geological pioneers, engineering geology...