Pinch analysis and related techniques are the key to design of inherently energy-efficient plants. This book shows engineers how to understand and optimize energy use in their processes, whether large or small. Energy savings go straight to the bottom line as increased profit, as well as reducing emissions. This is the key guide to process ...
This guide has entries for booby-hatch, growler, jack in the basket, "tiddley", and throat seizing, it is also a readable reference work for the interested landlubber. Abridged from the "Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea", the book provides detailed explanations of nearly 1,500 sailing terms. As well as navigational and meteorological ...
This is a series of studies of individual operas written for the opera-goer or record-collector as well as the student or scholar. Each volume has three main concerns: historical, analytical and interpretative. There is a detailed description of the genesis of each work, the collaboration between librettist and composer, and the first performance ...
Provides a graphic account of the background to the assault, the men and equipment used, the tactics adopted, and how the battle evolved. Drawing upon contemporary source material and with the aid of artworks, this book provides an analysis of the raid, and its consequences.
In this study, Ian Kemp surveys the world of Sir Michael Tippett's musical and dramatic creation, combining biography with analysis of the composer's technical background and idiosyncratic rhythmic language.
During the interwar years the major European powers learned the military lessons of World War I. However, the erstwhile combatants had come to different conclusions about the nature of any future war. For the French, in particular, fearful of losing a further generation of men in another war, saw the creation of a major fortification--the Maginot ...
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