Product Description: This is the newest 30th edition of the standards. Don't miss out on all the latest standards in blood bank!

Product Description: This is the newest 30th edition of the standards. Don't miss out on all the latest standards in blood bank!

Explains the series of standards for ensuring quality defined by the International Organization for Standardization and offers advice for businesses on ISO registration

Product Description: A contextual historical examination of the civil rights movement and the artists who inspired it, this recollection depicts this storied era and how these artists signified the affecting change they helped create. The exploration details the development of the Black Arts Movement--from precursor activities such as the Umbra Workshop to transitional activities such as Ntozake Shange's choreopoem ""for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf""--and gives in-depth information about the role of prominent poets, such as Amiri Baraka, and the influence of black music...read more

Product Description: Image and Video Compression Standards: Algorithms and Architectures presents an introduction to the algorithms and architectures that underpin the image and video compression standards, including JPEG (compression of still images), H...read more

Product Description: This is a contributed reference work from international authors from both industry and academia. It deals with materials metrology and standards for engineering design. This includes examination of metrological considerations as well as investigating the many measurement and control techniques...read more

Product Description: The economic and political stakes in the current heated debates over “openness” and open standards in the Internet's architecture.Openness is not a given on the Internet. Technical standards―the underlying architecture that enables interoperability among hardware and software from different manufacturers―increasingly control individual freedom and the pace of innovation in technology markets...read more

Product Description: Daniel Blythe takes a trip down memory lane with his first book for Remember When, focusing on toys, games and gadgets from our youth; from Simon to the ZX Spectrum, from the Walkman to the boom-box, from the Bat mobile to Bond's Aston Martin and the TARDIS...read more

2,501 mechanisms and mechanical devices – at your fingertips! A one-of-a-kind pictorial directory, Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Third Edition, gives you drawings and descriptions of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices. A carefully compiled index lets you quickly find a specific component which may very well be the exact problem-solving answer you’ve been seeking. You can count on this guide to help you: * Recycle successful mechanical inventions into new products, with or without modifications * Design basic mechanisms from scratch with a chapter of tutorial text and formulas * Save time researching patents * Get a refresher on the design and function of bearings, belts, brakes, clutches, couplings, cranks, feeders, gears, genevas, joints, latches, linkages, pumps, screws, springs, and switches Stay on top of present and future trends in mechanical engineering and machine design, with up-to-date treatments of motion control systems; 2D and 3D CAD software; industrial robots and rapid prototyping (RP) systems; recent research and spinoffs of MEMS technology

Product Description: Change your nursing culture for the better. This book shows you how to define and measure shared governance so you can evaluate efficacy and analyze outcomes. Easy-to-implement strategies help you successfully introduce shared governance or revitalize an existing model.

Product Description: Answers the burning questions of the day-to-day management of maintenance activities. In a clear, straightforward manner, it presents the best practices from a broad cross-section of industrial, commercial, and government operations...read more

Product Description: This second edition of the Ove Arup & Partners' in-house manual has been revised in line with BS 8110. It provides a standard basis for communication between the design engineer, the detailer and the contractor, and will be invaluable for design offices involved in reinforced concrete design...read more

Product Description: The 26th edition of Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services details the latest standards of practice in blood banking and transfusion medicine, and includes a number of changes. Significant changes: Inclusion of pathogen inactivation to meet the requirement for bacteria detection...read more

Discusses how to use Web standards to create sophisticated Web sites efficiently, covering topics such as quality assurance, functionality, and accessibility guidelines.

Two monkeys on neighboring islands want to get together for banana milkshakes, but first they must figure out how to avoid the threatening sharks that live between their two homes.

Product Description: Understanding International Financial Reporting Standards is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students on accounting and business degrees, studying accounting standards, financial reporting, and international accounting.

Product Description: This volume addresses the emergence of multiple legal and law-like arrangements that alter the interaction between states, their delegated agencies, international organizations and non-state actors in international and transnational politics...read more

Product Description: "With the complete text of the 2006 edition of NFPA 1, Uniform Fire Code."