Product Description: Focussing on occurrences of unstable vibrations, or Chatter, in machine tools, this book gives important insights into how to eliminate chatter with associated improvements in product quality, surface finish and tool wear.Covering a wide range of machining processes, including turning, drilling, milling and grinding, the author uses his research expertise and practical knowledge of vibration problems to provide solutions supported by experimental evidence of their effectiveness...read more

Product Description: A practical guide to identifying the source of vibration in machine tools and developing mitigation solutions Machine Tool Vibration Prevention: Effects, Sources, and Solutions describes the effect that machine stiffness has on self-excited vibration (chatter) and forced vibration...read more

Product Description: Developing Management Skills for Leadership is for anyone wishing to develop their ability to manage and lead.  Whether for final year students looking towards their first career, MBA students or for more experienced managers wishing to enhance their effectiveness, this book offers the ideal format for developing a portfolio of managment skills...read more

An anthology of eyewitness reports ranges from the Vikings reaching America and the Battle of Hastings to the flight of Apollo 11 and the funeral of Princess Diana (view table of contents)

Product Description: OOIS'95 (Object-Oriented Information Systems '95) contains contributions from leading researchers and practitioners working on object oriented technology and its application in information systems design and development. The book has a strong practical focus and contains much technical insight of particular relevance to professionals working in the field...read more

Product Description: King Arthur's Death

Product Description: This chronological study of Keats' work includes his early poems, narrative poems, the odes and his late shorter poems. The book is designed to be of interest to A-level and university students.

Product Description: This is an account of all Chaucer's narrative poems and most of the lyrics, offering a critical introduction in each case. The author encourages response to, and understanding of, Chaucer's achievement in narrative poetry, which accommodates extraordinary varieties of humour and genuine pathos...read more

Product Description: The Middle English poems in this book exemplify three major genres in medieval religious writing: saint's legend, Bible epic and religious debate. "St Erkenwald" tells how a bishop of London raised a pagan judge from the dead and sent his soul to heaven...read more