Popular Photography Magazine now known as Popular Photography and Imaging, also called Popular Photography or Pop Photo, is a monthly American consumer magazine founded in 1937 and the world's largest imaging magazine, with an editorial staff twice the size of its nearest competitor profiles ensure all areas of photography are covered…

Dans les coulisses du plus grand restaurant chinois du monde, le West Lake Restaurant de Changsha, dans le Hunan, capable d'accueillir 5 000 clients ! C'est l'établissement de tous les superlatifs, un gigantesque laboratoire du goût, à la fois temple de la gastronomie et complexe de loisirs. 700 poulets, 1 400 canards sauvages, 200 serpents, 1 700 kilos de viande de porc, une tonne de piments… Il n'en faut pas moins chaque semaine aux 300 cuisiniers pour concocter les mets les plus raffinés. Mme Qin Linzi veille sur cette ruche. La propriétaire du West Lake Restaurant, dignitaire du parti communiste local, mène son personnel à la baguette, invitant ses 1 000 employés à entonner des chants révolutionnaires et à participer à des cérémonies bouddhistes. Plongée dans l'atmosphère fébrile du plus grand restaurant chinois du monde, à la découverte de quelques spécialités fameuses : la chèvre à la gelée de soja, le ragoût de tortue, le serpent cru…

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Principles of Economics (Sixth Edition) became a bestseller after its introduction and continues to be the most popular and widely used text in the economics classroom. Instructors found it the perfect complement to their teaching. A text by a superb writer and economist that stressed the most important concepts without overwhelming students with an excess of detail was a formula that was quickly imitated, but has yet to be matched. The sixth edition features a strong revision of content in all thirty-six chapters.

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Gaining momentum globally, sustainable development is beginning to significantly redefine the policies of corporations and governmental entities. Updated throughout, the second edition of this popular resource includes updates on LEED® measurement and verification and a new chapter on cities and carbon reduction. Clarifying critical issues, this volume examines proven approaches as well as problems with failed initiatives. It addition to core concepts and trends, it explores specific renewable energy and environmental solutions. It examines global inititiatives, local politics, and ways to effectively measure and track progress.

Despite being enmeshed in a culture steeped in technology and science, the magic and mysteries of the ancient world can still haunt our imagination.
Through their architecture, artefacts and deeds, ancient cultures speak to us across thousands of dusty years—from the labyrinthine palace of Knossos on Crete and the lofty pyramids of Egypt to the remotest jungle temples of Peru and the megalithic mystery of Stonehenge.

Microfluidics-based biochips combine electronics with biochemistry, providing access to new application areas in a wide variety of fields. Continued technological innovations are essential to assuring the future role of these chips in functional diversification in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and other industries.

Completely revised and updated to reflect recent advances in the fields of materials science and electromagnetics, Electromagnetics of Time Varying Complex Media, Second Edition provides a comprehensive examination of current topics of interest in the research community—including theory, numerical simulation, application, and experimental work. Written by a world leader in the research of frequency transformation in a time-varying magnetoplasma medium, the new edition of this bestselling reference discusses how to apply a time-varying medium to design a frequency and polarization transformer.

It was January 1968, a year that would be saturated in violence and historical change. Johnny Cash’s 1968 concert at Folsom State Prison in California and the ensuing album became a symbol of the late 1960s and transformed his career.

What once was just imagination is now real; what was once the distant future is now around the corner. The "Science Fiction" of the past has now simply become "Science". And the science of the future was strangely prophesied by a group of visionaries whose dreams once may have deemed them renegades and "mad scientists," have become reality! In 1950, the term "Robotics" was coined by author Isaac Asimov in his book I.ROBOT — and our collective imagination reeled. In the years since, literature, movies and television have allowed us to embrace the notion that the ideas of a few inspired visionaries could be made real.