This work covers the basic elements of linguistics in a lucid style, packed with clear explanations, charts, tables, and illustrations, plus some 600 practice problems and exercises. It takes the generally considered complicated subject of linguistics and makes it accessible to virtually anyone who needs a basic understanding: specialists in the fields of speech-language pathology, experimental phonetics, communications, education, English as a Second Language, composition, and more.
FEATURES
- 100 practice problems with answers, plus 500 exercises for checking understanding of the text and ensuring comprehension of the concepts.
- English examples throughout illustrating the theoretical concepts.
- Applied chapters focusing on areas of interest and use to professionals in fields neighboring linguistics.
- Practical tables and charts illustrating the concepts.

Tissue Mechanics

Reference

Cowin, Stephen C.

Doty, Stephen B.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Springer

The structures of living tissues are continually changing due to growth and response to the tissue environment, including the mechanical environment. Tissue Mechanics is an in-depth look at the mechanics of tissues. Tissue Mechanics describes the nature of the composite components of a tissue, the cellular processes that produce these constituents, the assembly of the constituents into a hierarchical structure, and the behavior of the tissue’s composite structure in the adaptation to its mechanical environment. 
Organized as a textbook for the student needing to acquire the core competencies, Tissue Mechanics will meet the demands of advanced undergraduate or graduate coursework in Biomedical Engineering, as well as, Chemical, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering.
 Key features:
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<li>Detailed Illustrations</li>
<li>Example problems, including problems at the end of sections</li>
<li>A separate solutions manual available for course instructors</li>
<li>A website (http://tissue-mechanics.com/) that has been established to provide supplemental material for the book, including downloadable additional chapters on specific tissues, downloadable PowerPoint presentations of all the book's chapters, and additional exercises and examples for the existing chapters.</li>
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About the Authors: 
Stephen C. Cowin is a City University of New York Distinguished Professor, Departments of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering, City College of the City University of New York and also an Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics, at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, New York. In 1985 he received the Society of Tulane Engineers and Lee H. Johnson Award for Teaching Excellence and a recipient of the European Society of Biomechanics Research Award in 1994. In 1999 he received the H. R. Lissner medal of the ASME for contributions to biomedical engineering. In 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and he also received the Maurice A. Biot medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
Stephen B. Doty is a Senior Scientist at Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York and Adjunct Professor, School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY. He has over 100 publications in the field of anatomy, developmental biology, and the physiology of skeletal and connective tissues. His honors include several commendations for participation in the Russian/NASA spaceflights, the Spacelab Life Science NASA spaceflights, and numerous Shuttle missions that studied the influence of spaceflight on skeletal physiology. He presently is on the scientific advisory board of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Houston, Texas.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

This informative volume summarizes what is known about bone mechanics. It describes the methods used to acquire that knowledge and suggests the nature of future research on this topic. This easy-to-read book keeps mathematical notation simple and minimal and presents data in summary form. Bone Mechanics is concerned with the mechanical behavior and functional stress adaptation of whole bones as structural elements, the mechanical behavior and functional adaptation of bone tissue as material, and the physiological significance of the mechanical properties of bone and the biological response of bone to applied stress. Orthopaedic surgeons, dentists, anatomists, biologists, biomedical engineers and physiologists are among those who will find this volume to be of interest.

Bone Mechanics

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

CRC-Press

This book describes the methods of formulating continuum models for biological tissue. A problems solution manual is available with the text. The material includes a rigorous and comprehensive introduction to continuum mechanics oriented toward biomechanics.

Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials

Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials(CMAM) presents an entirely new and unique development of material anisotropy in the context of an appropriate selection and organization of continuum mechanics topics. These features will distinguish this continuum mechanics book from other books on this subject. Textbooks on continuum mechanics are widely employed in engineering education, however, none of them deal specifically with anisotropy in materials. For the audience of Biomedical, Chemical and Civil Engineering students, these materials will be dealt with more frequently and greater accuracy in their analysis will be desired. Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials' author has been a leader in the field of developing new approaches for the understanding of anisotropic materials.

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Tissue Mechanics

Tissue Mechanics

Bone Mechanics

Tissue Mechanics

Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials

Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials