Fourteen chapters in two volumes, presented by Vandecasteele (former research director in microbiology at the Institut Francais du Petrole, France), detail major themes of the intersection of microbio
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Engineering in a Land-Grant Context is a volume of well-crafted essays that consider the federal government's first foray into higher education by examining engineering education at the nation's land-
The first edition of the Drilling Data Handbook was printed in 1950. In more than six decades, the book has been improved, adding lots of new technologies and equipment in its eight additional edition
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Vidal (Institute Francais du Petrole, France) has written a textbook on the use of thermodynamics in the petroleum industry that will be a resource for engineers as well as in the graduate level engin
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Luke Martin is a Christian man living in Georgia in the late 1850s, and he is among the few Georgians in the area who have a strong aversion to slavery; he owns a few he has inherited, but he’s not ha
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This book describes porous media and how their physical, petrophysical, mechanical, electric and superficial properties are determined. The different measuring methods and the corresponding equipment
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