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Climate Change Resilience in the Urban Environment (Second Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby Tristan Kershaw (Author)This book provides a detailed overview of the risks of climate change for urban areas including those risks to human health. This second edition provides fresh perspective to the material in the first edition, and includes additional material on green and blue infrastructure in urban areas, the influence of urban geometry on comfort, heat islands and energy usage. Number of Pages: 226 Dimensions: 0.48 x 10 x 7 I...

Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes

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Report copyright infringementby Roger W. Caves (Author), J. Barry Cullingworth (Author)Extensively revised, this textbook continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, it explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, and approached.Author BiographyRoger W. Caves is Professor Emeritus of City Planning at the S...

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Report copyright infringementby D. K. Salunkhe (Author), S. S. Deshpande (Author), Salunkhe (Author)Plant Production and Consumption Trends.- References.- 1. Cereals.- Production and Distribution.- Origin and Botanical Classification.- Anatomical Structures of Seeds.- Nitrogen Fixation.- Breeding Approaches.- Physiological Considerations.- Agronomy.- Diseases and Pests.- Chemical Composition and Nutritional Quality.- Processing and Products.- Future Research Needs.- References.- 2. Legumes.- ...

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Report copyright infringementby David Hudson (Author)Global Finance and Development describes and explains the variety of relationships between finance and development. Finance is broken down into its various aspects in separate chapters on aid, debt, portfolio investment, FDI, microfinance and remittances. The text will help the reader develop a critical understanding of the nature of finance and development. Throughout the text the reader is encouraged to see financial processes as embedded...

The Wealth of Oceans: Environment and Development on Our Ocean Planet

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Report copyright infringementby Michael L. Weber (Author), Judith A. Gradwohl (With)For thousands of years humanity has seen the oceans as a mysterious and limitless source of treasures to be fished, harvested, mined, and salvaged. Now accelerating developments in ocean studies offer a new understanding of the oceans, their role in a global ecosystem, and their vulnerability to threats from human action. Drawing on the latest research this book offers a fascinating tour of the complex reaches...

Sapiens. de Animales a Dioses / Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Paperback

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by Yuval Noah Harari (Author)El libro de no ficción del AÑOUn best seller internacional con más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos.Lúcido e iluminador: la historia de la humanidad en un solo volumen.Este es el fascinante relato de nuestra extraordinaria historia: de simios sin importancia a amos del mundo. Cómo logró nuestra especie imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en n...

Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

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Report copyright infringementby Lester Russell Brown (Author), Linda Starke (Editor)To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as fo...

Introduction to Econophysics: Contemporary Approaches with Python Simulations

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Report copyright infringementby Carlo Requião Da Cunha (Author)Econophysics explores the parallels between physics and economics and is an exciting topic that is attracting increasing attention. Author BiographyCarlo R. da Cunha is an associate professor of physics and engineering physics at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and has been since 2011. Dr. da Cunha received his M.Sc. Degree from the West Virginia University in 2001 and his Ph.D. degree from Arizona State Uni...

Illustrated Human Anatomy: The Authoritative Visual Guide to the Human Body - Hardcover

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by Sharat Vayttaden (Author), Dana Gustafson (Author), Sebastian Kaulitzki (Illustrator) The world's most precise scientific illustrations of the human body Packed with astonishing facts and superb quality 3-D illustrations, Illustrated Human Anatomy is a state-of-the art guide to the human body that is destined to become the definitive illustrated human anatomy reference Accessible text and detailed annotations give the names of organs and structures throughout the skeletal, muscular, lymp...

Energy and Organization: Growth and Distribution Reexamined

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard C. Beaudreau (Author)In the aftermath of the stock market crash, Irving Fisher pointed to the electrification of the U.S. industry as one of the underlying causes of the stock market boom. Earlier, in 1927, Brookings Institution economists had lamented the scant attention energy had received from economists. Today, some 60 years later, power remains the forgotten factor input. In this book, the author incorporates energy into the corpus of economic anal...

Electricity in the American Economy: Agent of Technological Progress

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Report copyright infringementby Sam H. Schurr (Author), Calvin C. Burwell (Author), Warren D. Devine (Author)Electricity has penetrated deeply into virtually every aspect of American life, be it in industry, the home, or in the rapidly growing commercial and service sectors. This book documents and analyzes the existence of a strong, and growing, synergy between technological progress and the use of electrified production techniques in the United States during the twentieth century. The autho...

Electricity in Economic Development: The Experience of Northeast Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Kennon Breazeale (Author), Yoon Hyung Kim (Editor), Kirk R. Smith (Editor)This landmark study is the result of a collaborative research effort among the East-West Center and a group of institutions in China (Taipei), Japan, and Korea, in consultation with experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Electric Power Research Institute of California. The first project of its kind to mobilize senior power experts in the three major countries of Nort...

Energy Policy and Third World Development

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Report copyright infringementby Pradip K. Ghosh (Editor), Pradip K. Ghosh (Other)In designing policies to help resolve its energy problems, every country faces a unique set of conditions. Contributors to this volume profile the energy situation in the developing countries, assess the role of energy policy in Third World development, and discuss the global energy situation in relation to these countries' consumption, production, trade, and resource endowment. The rest of the volume provides re...

Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature - Paperback

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by Richard Rhodes (Author)A masterful and timely biography of the hugely influential biologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientists of our time--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Few biologists have been as productive, ground-breaking, or controversial as Edward Osborne Wilson. At 92 years old, he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field today. Fascinated from an early age by the natural ...

Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception (First Three Books of Alhacen's de Aspectibus), Volume Two--English Translation: Transactions, American Philosop - Paperback

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by A. Mark Smith (Author)Sometime between 1028 and 1038, Ibn al-Haytham completed his monumental optical synthesis, Kitab al-Manazir ("Book of Optics"). By no later than 1200, and perhaps somewhat earlier, this treatise appeared in Latin under the title De aspectibus. In that form it was attributed to a certain "Alhacen." These differences in title and authorial designation are indicative of the profound differences between the two versions, Arabic and Latin, of the treatise. In many ways, in...

Babylonian Horoscopes: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 88, Part 1) - Paperback

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by Francesca Rochberg (Author)Emerging for the first time in the 5th cent. B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the idea and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. Whereas an omen focuses on a single astronomical phenomenon, the horoscope takes into account the positions of the moon, sun, and five planets at the moment of a birth. As such, Babylonian horoscopes presuppose the concept of the ecliptic and a methodology for obtaining the positions of heavenly bodi...

Ptolemy and the Foundations of Ancient Mathematical Optics: A Source Based Guided Study, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 89, Part 3 - Paperback

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by A. Mark Smith (Author)Contents: (I) Ancient Theories of Visual Perception: The Physics of Vision; The Physiology of Vision; The Psychology of Visual Perception; (II) Optics Proper: Analysis of Direct Vision: The Visual Cone; The Visual Perception of Physical Space; Binocular Vision; (III) Catoptrics: Analysis of Vision by Reflected Rays: The Law of Equal Angles; Multiple Reflections and Multiple Images; The Principles of Image-Location; Image-Formation and Distortion; Visual Effecs from Co...

Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. II: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 214) - Paperback

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by Marshall Clagett (Author)The 2nd of 3 vols. by Prof. Marshall Clagett on Ancient Egyptian Science. Contents: Part I: Intro. to Egyptian Calendars; Parker's Account of the Old Lunar Calendar; The Later Lunar Calendar; The Origin of the Civil Calendar; Sothic Dates & the Ebers Calendar; The Night Hours; Decanal Clocks; Transit Decanal Clocks; The Ramesside Star Clock; Outflow Water Clocks; Inflow Water Clocks; Shadow Clocks; Egyptian Sundials; Traces of a 24-hour Day with Equal Hours; As...

California Rocks!: A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State - Paperback

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by Katherine J. Baylor (Author)Californians live on the edge . . . of a tectonic plate, that is. In this geologically tenuous location, where a tsunami, earthquake, or volcanic eruption is just another hazard, the rocks and landforms are dynamic too. From erupting geysers and boiling mud pots to collapsing sea arches and crawling landslides, California is a land in motion. In fact, rocks on the west side of the San Andreas Fault have moved northward nearly 200 miles in the last 20 million yea...

Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. III: A Source Book, Ancient Egyptian Mathematics, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 232) - Paperback

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by Marshall Clagett (Author)Continues Clagett's studies of the various aspects of the science of Ancient Egypt. Like its predecessors, it has two main objectives: first to summarize & analyze the principal features of a nascent & yet important part of that science, namely its mathematics, & second to present in English six of the most important mathematical documents on which the preceding analysis was based. Thus we find treated in the first part of the work Egyptian measurement ...

Greek Horoscopes: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 48) - Hardcover

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by H. B. Van Hoesen (Author), Otto Neugebauer (Author)This is a print on demand publication. What we know about Greek astronomy is dominated by Ptolemy's "Almagest" (written c. 140 A.D.) & closely related works like Theon's "Handy Tables" (end of 4th C.) but we have only very little info. about the practice of computing the positions of sun, moon, & planets during any period of antiquity. Now, the Greek horoscopes are available for study as a group which could be expected to reflect t...

The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization - Paperback

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by Vince Beiser (Author)A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's t...

The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides - Hardcover

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by Mariano Sigman (Author)From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answers to these and many other age-old questions. Over the course of his 20-year career inve...

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Planning, Implementation, and Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby David L. Weimer (Author)Author Biographyimer /f David /i Leo Number of Pages: 229 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 19, 1982

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Morgan Highsmith (Author), J. Granville Jensen (Author), Robert D. Rudd (Editor)The book contains a systematic and reasoned appraisal of the extent and character of the nation's resources, the evolution of their use and misuse, and present conservation practices in the light of their adequacy for the future.Author Biographyghsmith /f Richard /i Morgan /s Jr. sen /f J. /i Granville d /f Robert /i D. /r ed. Number of Pages: 424 D...

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Brown (Author)In today's culture of insatiable freedom, many believe that to be human is to be an insatiable self-actualizer. Yet insatiable is not sustainable. In order to solve today's crisis of environmental sustainability--and human sustainability--we must let go of our obsession to constantly be more. The desire to have all that we can have comes, Brown argues, from a cultural norm that has evolved to become an economic, social, and moral imperativ...

Effective Environmental Regulation: Learning from Poland's Experience

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Report copyright infringementby Halina Szejnwald Brown (Author), David Angel (Author), Patrick G. Derr (Author)Challenging views prevalent among Western and Polish scholars, this book explains Poland's surprising success in developing effective environmental and occupational regulatory systems while achieving remarkable socioeconomic growth, despite the toxic legacy of the Communist era. It offers rich insights into the questions of how one can achieve both economic growth and improved enviro...

Integrating Economic and Ecological Indicators: Practical Methods for Environmental Policy Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby J. Walter Milon (Author), Walter J. Milon (Author), J. Walter Milon (Editor)Recent international appeals for sustainable development policies have renewed efforts to explore the common ground between economics and ecology. This volume presents a collection of papers from leading researchers around the world, who evaluate the analytical foundations and empirical systems that are being developed to integrate economic and environmental indicators. These specialist...

Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values

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Report copyright infringementby Brent Steel (Editor)The use of public lands in the western United States has become the focus of international, national, and regional debate. Public concern for wildlife, fish, wilderness, recreation, and other values associated with these lands has increased substantially since the 1960s. And that concern has clashed with the more user/extraction orientation of traditional interests. The priorities for management of these lands have become the subject of incr...

Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop - Hardcover

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by Paula Whyman (Author)With humor, humility, and awe, one woman attempts to restore 200 acres of farmland long gone-to-seed in the Blue Ridge Mountains, facing her own limitations while getting to know a breathtaking corner of the natural world. When Paula Whyman first climbs a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a home in the country, she has no idea how quickly her tidy backyard ecology project will become a massive endeavor. Just as quickly, she discovers how l...

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by Patrik Svensson (Author)Part H Is for Hawk, part The Soul of an Octopus, The Book of Eels is both a meditation on the world's most elusive fish--the eel--and a reflection on the human conditionRemarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scientists and philosophers have, for centuries, been obsessed with what has become known as the "eel question" Where do eels come from? What are they? Are they fish or some other kind of creature altogethe...

In Pursuit of Technological Excellence: Engineering Leadership, Technological Change, and Economic Development

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Report copyright infringementby Ernst G. Frankel (Author)This work examines the relationships among engineering leadership, technological change, and economic development. Specifically, it reviews the role and contribution of engineers--through their education and work--in the pursuit of excellence and effectiveness in our increasingly pervasive technological development. The relationship between the rate of technological development, technological diffusion, and success in its application, a...