Britain has led the world in aviation technology, thanks largely to the work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) with its H.Q. at Farnborough. These rare & often previously unreleased films from the Farnborough Air Sciences Trust film archive show the ground-breaking work of the RAE as they expanded the very frontiers of aviation. These films which pay tribute to Britain's aviation heritage were painstakingly restored from damaged original prints. ...

Constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 5th International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing & Applications, ISPA 2007, held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in August 2007 (see LNCS 4742). ...

Much work on the history of colonial medicine is concerned with demonstrating that medicine was an arm of colonial power & of capitalism. This text challenges this interpretation through investigation of the complicated relationship between medicine, politics & capital in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. ...

Much of what we know about atoms, molecules, & the nature of matter has been obtained using spectroscopy. This book describes work at the cutting edge of molecular spectroscopy. It describes methodology & applications, instrumental developments, & theory which is taking spectroscopy into new frontiers. ...

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history & culture over the past two decades. This first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities & cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul. ...