Published: 2011
Total Pages: 1600
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This collection of peer-reviewed papers brings together the latest advances and applications in the fields of composites, micro-/nano-materials, steel and iron, ceramics, metal-alloy materials, polymer materials, optical/electronic/magnetic materials, materials physics and chemistry, structural materials and functional materials. Review from Book News Inc.: Ghilchik, a surgeon from the UK, documents women's struggles to train and practice as surgeons in the UK. She relates the lives and careers of the first 200 female Fellows to the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1911, when it was first obtained by Eleanor Davies-Colley, to 1970. She describes the contributions these women made in different fields, the impact of the two World Wars, their work in the UK and abroad, how they lived, the difficulties they faced, and the choices they made, as well as hospitals staffed by and for women only. Distributed in North America by Enfield.