Book Review: Principles of Practice Management

Book review for “Orthognathic Surgery: Principles, Planning and Practice”

Editorial Recently, my close friend, Farhad Naini (London, UK), published a textbook entitled “Orthognathic Surgery: Principles, Planning and Practice” [1]. Though there have been many textbooks for orthognathic surgery, this textbook is unique. There are 61 chapters and 95 contributing authors. The book begins with a wonderful introductory chapter on the historical background of orthognathic s...

Book Review: Computer Forensics: Principles and Practices

Book review of Amanda Perry-Kessaris. 2009. Law in the Pursuit of Development: Principles into Practice

Book Review Elizabethan London and Scientific Practice

The jewel house is a nuanced analysis of the community of gardeners, instrument makers, engineers, alchemists and mathematics teachers in Elizabethan London whose empirical practices, Harkness argues, ‘set the stage for the Scientific Revolution’ via the practice of what she terms vernacular ‘science’. Although her employment of the term ‘science’ may seem an anachronism, she demonstrates that ...

AUTOMATICA BOOK REVIEW Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics

A practicing engineer involved in a mobile robotics project, specially if he or she must integrate a, say, automated manufacturing system rather than designing the robotic devices, is supposed to pose certain questions: Is a positioning system like GPS suitable for an indoor manufacturing system?, Is the state-of the art in computer vision suitable for my needs, or even affordable?. Answers to ...