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  • 10 Dec 2020
    Ivana Maric, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Osvaldo Simeone

    Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond

    The editors of Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond discuss their new book which provides a detailed overview of the state-of-art approaches that led to realization of 5G.

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  • 16 Nov 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    Huge boost to the search for extraterrestrial life

    A decision has just been reached that will give an amazing boost to our capacity to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. On 12th November, member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) signed off on the proposed space telescope called ARIEL, which has thus been given the green light for construction and launch. There […]

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  • 11 Nov 2020
    Wole Soboyejo, Leo Daniel

    Q&A with the editors of ‘Bioinspired Structures and Design’

    What inspired Bioinspired Structures and Design? This book was inspired by a course entitled “Bioinspired Structures” (16,982) that was taught by Prof. Leo Daniel at MIT. This highly successful course, which was posted on MIT’s open courseware, attracted the attention of Cambridge University Press, and led eventually to a contract with Cambridge University Press to […]

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  • 21 Oct 2020
    Electronic Structure Basic Theory and Practical Methods. Second Edition
    Richard M. Martin

    Why do we need a second edition? An Author’s Explanation

    Why would anyone write a new edition of a book that is still selling after many years? The explanations of the basic theory in the first edition are still valid, and the methods are still the ones that are most widely used. However I still felt an update was required. Richard M. Martin, author ofElectronic Structure Basic Theory and Practical Methods. Second Edition gives his personal reasons for updating the original edition (2004)

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  • 20 Oct 2020
    Ana Barjau Condomines, Joaquim A. Batlle

    Q&A with the authors of ‘Rigid Body Kinematics’

    What inspired Rigid Body Kinematics? This book is the result of a whole professional life devoted to Newtonian Mechanics, both from an educational and a research point of view.

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  • 17 Sep 2020

    Finite Element Method: Teaching and Learning with Professor Mohamed Gadala

    Inspired by over 40 years’ industrial/academic experience in the field, Finite Elements for Engineers with ANSYS Applications by Mohamed Gadala is out now. This textbook targets users of the finite element method for design and analysis in both undergraduate and graduate fields with a step-by step methodology that addresses the mathematical challenges faced by current […]

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  • 4 Sep 2020
    Charles Baukal, Jr.

    A Q&A with Charles Baukal, Jr.: A Gallery of Combustion and Fire

    What inspired this book? The Central States Section of the Combustion Institute (CSSCI) has been hosting a combustion art contest at its meetings for many years.  Someone at Cambridge University Press found out about that and asked if we would be interested in producing a book similar to Cambridge’s A Gallery of Fluid Motion but […]

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  • 31 Aug 2020
    Wallace Arthur

    Are we alone in the Universe?

    Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.

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