Product Description: This book is intended for those people who have a knowledge or understanding of rubber materials and processes but who wish to update their knowledge. It should be read in conjunction with Developments in Rubber Technology-l as that volume discussed developments in natural rubber and selected special purpose synthetic rubbers as well as additives...read more

Product Description: Because of the sheer size and scope of the plastics industry, the title Developments in Plastics Technology now covers an incredibly wide range of subjects or topics. No single volume can survey the whole field in any depth and what follows is, therefore, a series of chapters on selected topics...read more

Product Description: Concise yet comprehensive, Instant Notes in Immunology provides easy access to core areas in immunology. Topics covered include the immune system, cells and development of the immune system, lymphoid organs and tissues, antibodies, cytokines, antigen recognition, immune system response and regulation, infection, tumor immunology, transplant rejection, vaccination, immune system failure and overreaction, and much more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Over the years 1984 to 1989, we published a series of articles on the molding of thermoplastics, and of thermosetting materials, in the monthly magazine British Plastics and Rubber (B P & R). These articles were very well received and we also received a large number of requests for reprints...read more

Product Description: Aimed at production and design personnel in the plastics industry, this is a concise reference to the requirements and specifications of engineering thermoplastics in injection moulding. The book lists such specifications as temperature, finishing, injection pressure, and more.

Product Description: This volume, the fourth in a series which began in 1979, covers a greater variety of subjects than any previous single volume. The basis of selection has been topical interest; hence the tailor-making of polymers to develop specific properties, methods of improving com­ pound processability and the use of rubbers in the oil industry are featured alongside a discussion of safety aspects...read more

Product Description: Because of the sheer size of the plastics industry, the title Developments in Plastics Technology now covers an incredibly wide range of subjects or topics. No single volume can survey the whole field in any depth and so what follows is therefore a series of chapters on selected topics...read more

Product Description: Written in 1942-43, this book explores France and French culture at a time when France seemed cut off. The book is obsessed with the pleasures of life at a time when nearly all pleasures were forbidden. It proclaims its faith in the unity and continuity of Western culture in its moment of greatest crisis in the war years...read more

Product Description: In order to make the subject manageable the term 'injection moulding' has been restricted in its use so that only those processes which rely on thermal softening of the polymeric materials have been described and discussed in this book...read more

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