The essential guide or anyone navigating the often overwhelming world of email.Send—the classic guide to email for office and home—has become indispensable for readers navigating the impersonal, and at times overwhelming, world of electronic communication. Filled with real-life email success (and horror) stories and a wealth of useful and entertaining examples, Send dissects all the major minefields and pitfalls of email. It provides clear rules f...

Where are we as people going and how are we going to get there? Scientifically speaking we are doomed. It may take a million, a billion, or even several billion years but eventually the collection of knowledge and all the great things that people have been doing since they showed up on earth will be gone.Does it have to be that way? The characters in this book may have found a means in which all the knowledge mankind has been collecting can be preserved and maybe even "mankind" its...

Most space shows on TV have one thing in common: the fascination with the search for another habitable planet. Scientists know Earth cannot go on forever. Resources will run out, and mankind will become extinct. Relocating to another planet is our only hopebut thats impossible since we dont have the means to get there. Even if traveling one-tenth the speed of lightwhich we cant do yetit would take forty-three years to get to Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. Unless so...

Dinosaurs had an unbelievably long run. More importantly, there has been no indication that dinosaurs were in trouble when a meteor the size of Mt. Everest decided to hit just off the coast of what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. This book does not examine why the dinosaurs were successful except in the relationship of what humans do. The book looks at various area such as nature, industrialization, and agriculture. For instance, dinosaurs did not build homes, people do. Over a long period o...

This book provides in-depth theoretical and practical information on recent advances in micro-manufacturing technologies and processes, covering such topics as micro-injection moulding, micro-cutting, micro-EDM, micro-assembly, micro-additive manufacturing, moulded interconnected devices, and microscale metrology. It is designed to provide complementary material for the related e-learning platform on micro-manufacturing developed within the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci project 2013-3...

• When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up?• What is the crucial–and most often overlooked–line in an email?• What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending electronic bombshell?Enter Send. Whether you email just a little or never stop, here, at last, is an authoritative and delightful audiobook that shows how to write the perfect email anywhere. Send also points out the numerous (...

Stress-reducing defects and subsequent microcracks are a central focus during micromachining processes. After establishing the central process of micromachining Micromachining with Nanostructured Cutting Tools explains the underlying theories that describe chip formation and applies elementary cutting theory to machining at the microscale.Divided into three parts, the second half of Micromachining with Nanostructured Cutting Tools develops on this introduction; ex...

This engaging volume presents the exciting new technology of additive manufacturing (AM) of metal objects for a broad audience of academic and industry researchers, manufacturing professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, hobbyists, and artists. Innovative applications ranging from rocket nozzles to custom jewelry to medical implants illustrate a new world of freedom in design and fabrication, creating objects otherwise not possible by conventional means.The author describ...

This book introduces the basic concepts of contact mechanics, friction, lubrication, and wear mechanisms, providing simplified analytical relationships that are useful for quantitative assessments. Subsequently, an overview on the main wear processes is provided, and guidelines on the most suitable design solutions for each specific application are outlined. The final part of the text is devoted to a description of the main materials and surface treatments specifically developed for tribol...

This book provides a review of the latest research on emotion in engineering, with a particular focus on design and manufacturing.Topics include experience, happiness, cognitive science, neuroscience, additive manufacturing, universal design, branding, teamwork. Throughout the book, the emotions of the end users of engineering products are discussed, as well as the perspective of the expert.The book provides researchers, students, and practicing engineers with an opportunit...

This book contains selected papers presented at MAMM 2010, the First Workshop on Microactuators and Micromechanisms. This workshop has brought together scientists, industry experts and students and has provided a special opportunity for know-how exchange and collaboration in various disciplines referring to microsystems technology. The conference was organized by the Technical Committees of Mechanical Transmissions and Micromachines under the patronage of IFToMM, the International Federati...

This book focuses on emerging issues in ergonomics, with a special emphasis on modeling, usability engineering, human computer interaction and innovative design concepts. It presents advanced theories in human factors, cutting-edge applications aimed at understanding and improving human interaction with products and systems, and discusses important usability issues. The book covers a wealth of topics, including devices and user interfaces, virtual reality and digital environments, user and...