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Momentum Press has published the following science, engineering and technology titles in recent months. Please browse and view the sample chapters on the book pages. Most of our titles are available in print and as a downloadable PDF.

Nanotechnology in Medicine: Emerging Applications

Nanotechnology in Medicine: Emerging Applications
Print Price: 
$59.95
E-book Price: 
$52.00
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$72.00
In Stock Date: 
01/13/2012

Gene Koprowski

This book will describe some of the most recent breakthroughs and promising developments in the search for improved diagnostics and therapies at the very small scales of living biological systems. While still very much a technology in the research and development stage, nanotechnology is already transforming today's medicine.

Bio-Inspired Engineering

Bio-Inspired Engineering
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$109.95
E-book Price: 
$99.00
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$132.00
In Stock Date: 
12/05/2011

Chris Jenkins, Ph.D

More and more, the patterns and scientific principles of natural living systems are being mimicked and exploited in man-made engineered systems and products. That trend is now starting to appear in the curricula design of engineering schools. This will be the first broad-based introduction to the influence of nature and biological systems in how things are designed and made, from new design paradigms and structural systems to “self-healing materials” and “smart” systems and robotics.

Social Media for Engineers and Scientists

Print Price: 
$39.95
E-book Price: 
$32.00
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$48.00
In Stock Date: 
11/18/2011

Jon DiPietro
Principal, Bridge-Soft, LLC and Domesticating IT, LLC

This book will explore the rising phenomena of internet-based social networking and discuss the particular challenges engineers and scientists will have in adapting to this new, content-centric environment.

Raw and Finished Materials: A Concise Guide to Properties and Applications

Raw and Finished Materials
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$69.95
E-book Price: 
$63.00
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$84.00
In Stock Date: 
11/09/2011

Brian Dereu

This book will be a single-source, easy-to-use reference work on the principal characteristics and uses for major common types of metals, composites, and plastics.

Chemical Sensors: Comprehensive Sensor Technologies, Vol. 6: Chemical Sensors Applications

Vol. 6: Chemical Sensors Applications
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$199.95
E-book Price: 
$180.00
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$240.00
In Stock Date: 
10/31/2011

Edited by Ghenadii Korotcenkov

The market of chemical sensors continues to grow at a rapid rate, reflecting the wide range of possibilities in improvement in technological processes in industry and agriculture and conditions of our life that can be enhanced by the use of chemical sensors. The military, medicine, airspace, and security markets also continue to drive the research and development in this area. At present it is hard to imagine the area, where chemical sensors would be useless.

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Plastics Technology Handbook, Vol. 2

Plastics Technology Handbook, Vol. 2
Print Price: 
$350.00
E-book Price: 
$315.00
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$420.00
In Stock Date: 
10/13/2011

Donald V. Rosato

This comprehensive handbook provides a simplified, practical, and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. It will expand the reader’s understanding of plastics technology by defining and focusing on past, current, and future technical trends.

Construction Estimating: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Successful Estimate

Construction Estimating: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Successful Estimate
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$39.95
E-book Price: 
$32.00
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$48.00
In Stock Date: 
09/30/2011

Karl F. Schmid

This pocket-sized book is a concise guide to the basics of estimating construction costs for residential and light commercial building projects. It provides a step-by-step guide to estimating the total cost of a construction project. It takes readers through five phases that lead to a successful estimate: initial assessment, work analysis, programming, costing and cost distribution and summarization.

Robust Control System Networks: How to Achieve Reliable Control After Stuxnet

Robust Control System Networks: How to Achieve Reliable Control After Stuxnet
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$79.95
E-book Price: 
$71.00
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$96.00
In Stock Date: 
09/15/2011

Ralph Langner

From the researcher who was one of the first to identify and analyze the infamous industrial control system malware "Stuxnet," comes a book that takes a new, radical approach to making Industrial control systems safe from such cyber attacks: design the controls systems themselves to be "robust." Other security experts advocate risk management, implementing more firewalls and carefully managing passwords and access. Not so this book: those measures, while necessary, can still be circumvented.

Chemical Sensors: Comprehensive Sensor Technologies, Vol. 5: Electrochemical and Optical Sensors

Vol. 5: Electrochemical and Optical Sensors
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$199.95
E-book Price: 
$180.00
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$240.00
In Stock Date: 
07/15/2011

Edited by Ghenadii Korotcenkov

Volume 5: Electrochemical and Optical Sensors in this outstanding series edited by Joe Watson, provides you with comprehensive coverage on two major groups of chemical sensors such as electrochemical and optical chemical sensors. In this one volume, you will find detailed description of electrochemical gas sensors, zirconia-based solid electrolyte gas sensors, electrochemical sensors for liquid environment, and ion selective FET-based sensors. Different optical and fiber-optic sensors are also included in this volume.

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Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now

Climate Change: The Fork at the End of Now
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$79.95
E-book Price: 
$72.00
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$119.00
In Stock Date: 
06/15/2011

Micha Tomkiewicz, Ph.D

There are many books on global warming written entirely from a layman’s perspective, and there is a great deal of scientific literature on this subject. But few if any books attempt to bridge the science to those who lack a rigorous background in mathematics, physics and chemistry—but who may be working on careers in environmental science and policy. The new text is designed to introduce the field of global climate change from a scientific perspective—but written in a way that is accessible to students with some or little science background.