This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period.

Huge collection of ebooks about Nanoscience (Encyclopedia, Nanochemistry, Nanomaterials, Nanomedicine, Nanobiology, Nanophysics, Nanoelectronics, Nanopolymers, Nanotechnology).

AlgoLab Photo Vector is a handy tool for designers and CAD/CAM professionals to cleanup, make fast corrections, edit color designs with or without further conversion to vector formats. It may be especially useful for designs on fabric, textile, jacquard, carpets, mats, vinyl and other materials. Photo Vector is your best choice to cleanup scanned designs and edit colors.

Perfect arcade simulator for fashionmongers. Baby Wendy kept her own studio in the outskirts, where she made up dresses and suits. But once a robber stole her mannequin and her granny's gift. Wendy realized that the robber had headed for London, and she had nothing to do but follow after him. But she needed money for a trip... In this game you have to help Wendy earn the money for the journey.The faster you make up suits and dresses which the customers order, the more clients will arrive, and the more tips they will leave. The money you earn you might use for the studio's accomplishment: buying new curtains, sofa covering, making new textile and suit models orderings. Going on the racket of adventurous freedom Wendy is taking a trip around Europe, occasionally mastering her designer skills, meeting new people and discovering ultra modish cuts. But who could steal granny's gift and the mannequin? You get to know it playing this colorful and amusing game. Create most modish studio, managing the path from outskirts till the capital of fashion.

Greasemonkey Hacks is an invaluable compendium 100 ingenious hacks for power users who want to master Greasemonkey, the hot new Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. With Greasemonkey, you can create scripts that make a web site more usable, fix rendering bugs that site owners can't be bothered to fix themselves, or add items to a web site's menu bar.

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Greasemonkey has achieved a cult-like following in its short lifespan, but its uses are just beginning to be explored. Let's say you're shopping on an e-commerce site. You can create a script that will automatically display competitive prices for that particular product from other web sites. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your Greasemonkey expertise. Greasemonkey Hacks can't help you with the imagination part, but it can provide the expert hacks-complete with the sample code-you need to turn your brainstorms into reality.

Polymer Solutions: An Introduction to Physical Properties offers a fresh, inclusive approach to teaching the fundamentals of physical polymer science. Students, instructors, and professionals in polymer chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, engineering, materials, and textiles will find Iwao Teraoka’s text at once accessible and highly detailed in its treatment of the properties of polymers in the solution phase.

Teraoka’s purpose in writing Polymer Solutions is twofold: to familiarize the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate student with basic concepts, theories, models, and experimental techniques for polymer solutions; and to provide a reference for researchers working in the area of polymer solutions as well as those in charge of chromatographic characterization of polymers. The author’s incorporation of recent advances in the instrumentation of size-exclusion chromatography, the method by which polymers are analyzed, renders the text particularly topical.
Subjects discussed include:

* Real, ideal, Gaussian, semirigid, and branched polymer chains
* Polymer solutions and thermodynamics
* Static light scattering of a polymer solution
* Dynamic light scattering and diffusion of polymers
* Dynamics of dilute and semidilute polymer solutions