With this book practitioners responsible for analyzing, specifying or evaluating RCS imaging systems will be able to define performance limits using basic physical and mathematical principles. Information on instrumentation systems for acquiring data and two new chapters on applications of new techniques are included. The emphasis of the book is on imaging as applied to radar cross-section measurements. With it the reader will learn how to use the latest techniques to perform RCS imaging in laboratory or outdoor test ranges. This book is suitable for self-study or for use in a short course for practising engineers.

2 Books in 1! Grab a pencil to put your skills to the test! Improve Your Memory, Concentration, Creativity, Reasoning, and Problem-Solving Skills Esteemed puzzle master David Millar along with American Mensa(R), the smartest brand in the world, bring you logic and problem-solving puzzles in the form of both word and number challenges. The range of puzzle types include: Mazes Sudoku Story logic Blank-filling puzzles Riddles And more! The hours of brain-training fun will help you improve your memory and exercise those mind-muscles. This book can be used and appreciated by anyone who wants to keep their mind sharp and in tip-top shape--something absolutely everyone will benefit from.

Improve your mind's power and unlock your full potential with the first in Mensa's new brain-training series. This full-colour book guides you through eight chapters, each focussed on a different aspect of your brain's ability to concentrate, from creativity and problem-solving to lateral and logical thinking. Every chapter takes you through the science behind how your brain works, gives instruction on how to improve your concentration skills, and provides you with a series of puzzles and exercises to get you started on your brain-training journey!

Test your powers of deduction against more than 200 devilishly difficult Killer Sudoku puzzles. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together a supreme test of logic. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys a difficult mental challenge.

Improve your powers of memory and recall and unlock your full potential with this brand-new title in Mensa's brain-training series. This full-colour book guides you through eight chapters, each focussed on your memory, how it works, and how you can both maintain and improve it. From tricks of visualisation and linking to mnemonics and mind palaces, as you progress your memorization skills will improve in both the short and long-term. The book will take you through the science behind memory, give instruction on how to improve yourself, and provide you with a series of puzzles and exercises to get you started on your memory-improving journey!

More than 200 variations of the world's favourite puzzle have been created to test your Sudoku skills. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together a supreme test of logic. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys mental gymnastics. As well as traditional Sudoku, many varieties such as Samurai Sudoku and 3D Sudoku have been included to provide a further stern examination.

One morning as they parted, Victor Menza’s daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder why rabbits had been their symbol of visitation: “How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence?�   Through philosophy, history, education, art, and personal musing on everyday uncanny experiences, Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love. Menza considers human nature and how we are undone by separation—both from each other and from our childhood selves. Surprising allies in these non-traditional philosophical wanderings include Ludwig Wittgenstein, Elizabeth Bowen, Albert Murray, Beatrix Potter, Donald Winnicott, Sterling Stuckey, and Lev Vygotsky.   Menza examines what symbols are and how they work, the value of dialect, and the subversive lesson of animal fables, alongside his thoughts on language learning, memory, and slavery. Only now did he see that he’d taken to Brer Rabbit early on. Just as the Uncle Remus tales displayed the small hero’s virtues in warm dialogues, The Rabbit Between Us shows we abound in talents and moves when we “lean like Socrates did to the Aesop in us.� Gentle and political at once, this unique book will appeal to any intellectually curious reader.  

One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature become such a powerful way of feeling your presence?" Through philosophy, history, education, art, and personal musing on everyday uncanny experiences, Menza reveals why people have long found rabbits our special kin and emblems of love. Menza considers human nature and how we are undone by separation--both from one another and from our childhood selves. Surprising allies in these non-traditional philosophical wanderings include Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bowen, William Turner, Albert Murray, Beatrix Potter, Henry Koster's film Harvey, Jean Toomer, Donald Winnicott, Leopold Senghor, and Lev Vygotsky. Menza offers examinations of what symbols are and how they work, the value of dialect, and the subversive lessons in animal fables, alongside his thoughts on language learning, memory, and slavery. Only now did he see that he'd taken to Brer Rabbit early on. Just as the Uncle Remus tales displayed the small hero's virtues in warm dialogues, The Rabbit Between Us shows how we abound in talents and moves when we 'lean like Socrates did to the Aesop in us'. Gentle and political at once, this unique book will appeal to any intellectually curious reader.

How to Excel at IQ Tests is a complete practical course in how to boost your IQ score. It starts by explaining exactly what IQ is and how it is measured. Then moves through some of the most common types of IQ questions and how they work. You will be trained to increase not only your accuracy but also, vitally, your speed (which is the key factor in attaining a high score). It also gives you valuable tips on test strategy (there are plenty of people who get poor scores just because they panic and don't know the basic rules for taking an IQ test). Written by people who have unique experience of the highly intelligent; it could help you to join them. Contents: A series of IQ-style tests with the aim of specifically improving various aspects of your problem solving and pattern recognition. All solutions and explanations are supplied, as well as details and tips on how to get the best score you can.

Challenge yourself against this varied compilation of more than 200 puzzles designed to test your brainpower to its limit. The revered intelligence organisation, Mensa, have worked with Gareth Moore to put together a supreme test of reasoning. These brand-new puzzles will provide hours of entertainment for anyone who enjoys a rigorous mental workout. With a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional logic puzzles, from Battleships and Masyu to Slitherlink and Skycraper, you will find a fresh challenge on every page.

Between the military takeover of 1952 and the collapse of the Mubarak regime in 2011, the political system of Egypt depended upon a variety of mechanisms and structures to establish and consolidate its powerbase. Among those, an intricate web of what could be described as 'patronage politics' emerged as one of the main foundations of these tools. Throughout the post-1952 era, political patrons and respective clients were influential in Egyptian politics, shaping the policies implemented by Egypt's rulers, as well as the tactics orchestrated by the wider population. On a macro level Patronage Politics in Egypt examines the activities of the NDP (ruling party from 1978-2011) and its opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood. On a micro level, the book uses the area of Misr Al Qadima as a case study to examine the factors that ensured the durability of patronage networks within the Egyptian polity. By examining how the local links into macro-level politics, this book portrays the socio-economic and political contexts that set the stage for the January 25 Revolution. This topical study will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and researchers of the Middle East and Islam as well as those with a more general interest in politics.

Between the military takeover of 1952 and the collapse of the Mubarak regime in 2011, the political system of Egypt depended upon a variety of mechanisms and structures to establish and consolidate its powerbase. Among those, an intricate web of what could be described as patronage politics emerged as one of the main foundations of these tools.

Throughout the post-1952 era, political patrons and respective clients were influential in Egyptian politics, shaping the policies implemented by Egypt's rulers, as well as the tactics orchestrated by the wider population. On a macro level "Patronage Politics in Egypt" examines the activities of the NDP (ruling party from 1978-2011) and its opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood. On a micro level, the book uses the area of Misr Al Qadima as a case study to examine the factors that ensured the durability of patronage networks within the Egyptian polity.

By examining how the local links into macro-level politics, this book portrays the socio-economic and political contexts that set the stage for the January 25 Revolution. This topical study will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and researchers of the Middle East and Islam as well as those with a more general interest in politics.

Stun your school friends and amaze your parents with your awesome brainpower as you work your way through these mind-twisting challenges. Packed with tricky logic problems these brain-busting puzzles will keep you entertained for hours. Level 3 in the series of three books.

Mensa's Most Difficult Maths Tests provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers. This full-colour book features a huge variety of numerical brainteasers that will test even the most mathematical of minds. With puzzles ranging from the familiar – such as kakuro and killer sudoku - to the exotic – such as sum skyscraper and calcudoku – this fiendish puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours. Are you up to the challenge?

Prove your logical and arithmetical prowess by solving the exceptionally tricky problems in Mensa's Most Difficult Number Puzzles. This full-colour book features a huge variety of numerical conundrums that are certain to test even the most adept of puzzlers. Some puzzles – such as sum skyscraper and calcudoku – will test your mental maths, while others – such as touchy and bridges – will provide a trial for your logical and lateral thinking. Are you up to the fiendish challenge?

Global Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area. Global Health is a growing area that reflects the increasing interconnectedness of health and its determinants. Major socio-economic, environmental and technological changes have produced new challenges, and exacerbated existing health inequalities experienced in both developed and developing countries. This textbook focuses on managing and preventing these challenges, as well as analysing critical links between health, disease, and socio-economic development through a multi-disciplinary approach. Featuring learning objectives and discussion points, Global Health Lecture Notes is an indispensable resource for global health students, faculty and practitioners who are looking to build on their understanding of global health issues.

Mensa Publishing presents: The Bathroom Thinker--the ultimate book of 5,000 facts curated by the World's smartest brand. Perfect to expand any curious mind! Whether gearing up for a big trivia night or simply wanting to give your brain something interesting to think about, this big book of 5,000 facts from the smartest brand in the world fits the bill. These facts will make you think. They'll make you wonder. You may even want to research more about some of these topics. Most of all, you'll have a ton of fun learning about everything from Thomas Edison's attempts at mind reading to Dr. Lucy King's beehive fences that scare elephants from destroying farms. We cover as many topics as possible, including facts that got our attention while weeding out the stuff that made us yawn or go, "Yeah, yeah, I've heard that one a million times." Topics include: Flora, Fauna, and Funga Science and Technology World Culture History and Philosophy Art and Literature Music and Entertainment Sports and Leisure Bizarre but True The Mensa Bathroom Thinker is the perfect gift for learning new and exciting facts whenever you have a spare moment or two.

Stun your school friends and amaze your parents with your awesome brainpower as you work your way through these mind-twisting challenges. Packed with tricky logic problems these brain-busting puzzles will keep you entertained for hours. Level 2 in the series of three books.

The book contains a series of workouts specifically designed by Mensa's finest puzzle setters to stretch and mould your mind muscle. There are 20 tests consisting of 40 puzzles each, focussing mainly on logic puzzles both traditional and non-traditional, from Skyscrapers and Number Pyramids to more exotic puzzles like Kropki and Hashi. Mensa Test Your Mind has exactly what you need to make your brain healthier, fitter and faster - leading to benefits in all areas of your life.

A new edition of an interactive pack with over 200 puzzles, games and activities designed to give your brain the ultimate mental workout. This pack contains a set of ingenious games, puzzles and activities designed by Mensa, the international high IQ society, to hone your mental powers until they're razor sharp. There is a book containing series of puzzles that will test both your speed of thought and mental agility. In addition there is a board game that will provide the whole family with hours of puzzle-solving fun, and another that helps to build vocabulary. There are 3D puzzles that will put you through many hours of mental struggle as you try to reach seemingly impossible solutions. But you don't have to be a genius to enjoy this pack – all the puzzles will yield to a bit of logical thinking and persistence.

Mensa's Most Difficult Logic Problems provides an exceptional challenge for even the most adept of puzzlers. Sound reasoning and logical thinking are foundations of all types of puzzle solving, and you will need to be first-rate at both to work these conundrums out successfully. With classic logic puzzles like Sudoku to tricky narrative lateral thinking-style puzzles, this colourful puzzle book will keep you entertained for hours.

THE SAVAGE Nellakawi is uprooted from the life she has known and sent to an Indian reservation in East Texas. A teenage Indian girl who has lived with and worked for a white family after her parents died, she does not fit in with the Indians there. Her language, clothes, and ideas are too much like those of the white people. Jacob Jonathan Lyon is a plantation owner in East Texas. The Civil War begins, and he is facing a difficult decision: will he join the Confederate army to fight for the only way of life he has ever known, or will he stay behind to care for his family and plantation. His wife has not regained her strength after her last pregnancy and his two children are little. The decisions these two people make eventually involve them in each other's lives. There are those in East Texas who feel that Blacks are inferior and Indians are savages. These prejudices affect the lives of both Nellakawi and Jacob Jonathan.

Designed by some of Mensa's most cunning minds, this is a brain-training interactive puzzle pack crammed full of games and conundrums of many varieties, certain to challenge your linguistic and numerical abilities.

The Mensa Brain Games Pack contains a range of different activities, including eight separate games, so you'll be able to enjoy it again and again, on your own or with your family and friends. With a range of fiendish questions to enthral puzzlers of every level of ability, this a great purchase for anyone looking for a new challenge.

Mensa Brain Games Pack contains:

• Puzzle cards
• Board
• Counters
• Dice
• Fully illustrated book

Test your wits with this all-new collection of mindbusters from Mensa, the high-IQ society. Master puzzler Abbie Salny provides a fun brainteaser, logic twister, math mystery, or word game for every day of the year. Whether you're mathematically, verbally, or visually inclined, you're sure to find twelve months' worth of exciting challenges inside.Included with each puzzle's solution is the percentage of Mensa members who answered it correctly, so you can score yourself against the people with the high IQs. With a puzzle for every date and an extra for leap years, you can match wits with Mensa 366 days out of every year Here are a couple of sample questions, and the percentage of Mensans who answered correctly: February 24: Can you make three words from the letters LGNEA? (100%) May 14: You have fifty coins that total $1.00. If you lose one coin, what is the chance that it was a quarter? (15%)