Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work
Towards More Effective Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to better inform conservationists and decision makers of the role ICDPs play in conservation and management and analyzes their successes and shortcomings.
South Africa and the Global Hydrogen Economy
The Strategic Role of Platinum Group Metals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
South Africa and the Global Hydrogen Economy is the publication of a MISTRA research project on the use of strategic minerals in the global putative hydrogen economy. The book highlights the global significance of platinum group metals (PGM) and explores the strategic opportunities that arise out...
by D. Newland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
One of the first engineering books to cover wavelet analysis, this classic text describes and illustrates basic theory, with a detailed explanation of discrete wavelet transforms. It examines joint probability distributions, ensemble averages, and correlation, Fourier analysis, spectral density and excitation response relations for linear systems, more. 1993 edition.
by Steven Weinberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
One of the world’s most captivating scientists challenges us to think about nature’s foundations and the entanglement of science and society. Steven Weinberg, author of The First Three Minutes, offers his views on fascinating aspects of physics and the universe, but does not seclude science behind disciplinary walls, or shy away from politics.
Researching Sustainability
A Guide to Social Science Methods, Practice and Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues. Real-world sustainability problems cross many boundaries, and this is the first book to guide students and practitioners through the practical...
Climate Change and Cities
Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The Urban Climate Change Research Network's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk, adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly seeks to explore the implications of changing...
Nature's Ghosts
Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized—and worried about—the problem of human-caused extinction.
As Mark...
Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities
Technical Report for the U.S. Departmof Energy in Support of the National Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Hurricane Irene ruptured a Baltimore sewer main, resulting in 100 million gallons of raw sewage flooding the local watershed. Levee failures during Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive flooding which did not recede for months. With temperatures becoming more extreme, and storms increasing in magnitude,...
Complexity
A Guided Tour
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides...
by Dirk Helbing
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The rapidly progressing digital revolution is now touching the foundations of the governance of societal structures. Humans are on the verge of evolving from consumers to prosumers, and old, entrenched theories – in particular sociological and economic ones – are falling prey to these rapid developments....
by 丹尼爾．列維廷(Daniel J. Levitin)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 9, 2017
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Bitter Roots
The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped...
La forêt, un milieu menacé
(Les Dossiers d'Universalis)
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2015
La forêt n'est pas immuable : elle évolue, par des stades progressifs, vers une formation stable à laquelle s'oppose une évolution régressive conduisant à l'installation de landes, de savanes, de garrigues... La forêt participe à la protection des sols contre le ruissellement et contrôle...
by Nanette J. Pazdernik, David P. Clark, BA (honors)Christ's College Cambridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Molecular Biology, Second Edition, examines the basic concepts of molecular biology while incorporating primary literature from today’s leading researchers. This updated edition includes Focuses on Relevant Research sections that integrate primary literature from Cell Press and focus on helping...