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Eco-Innovation
When Sustainability and Competitiveness Shake Hands
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Eco-Innovation considers the impact industry has on our environmental surroundings whilst exploring the need for more sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development and the general understanding of the interdependence of the environment and the economy are both examined in this thought-provoking new book.
Bridging the High School-College Gap
The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Concurrent enrollment programs offer high-achieving high school students the opportunity to take college credit-bearing courses taught by college-approved high school teachers. This low-cost, scalable model brings accelerated coursework to urban, suburban, and rural students. In this book, scholars...
Avoiding Corporate Breakdowns
The Nature and Extent of Managerial Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Avoiding Corporate Breakdowns focuses on prescribing a preventative strategy for managerial actors who face economic, social and environmental disasters. Prevention is basically simple, but it will require a considerable broadening in both the nature and the extent of managerial responsibility.
The Ex-Offender's 30/30 Job Solution
Quickly Find a Lifeboat Job Close to Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Designed for ex-offenders re-entering the free world, this unique book outlines a powerful 30-day program for finding a lifeboat job within 30 miles of any location in the United States. Filled with step-by-step advice on everything from identifying employers, writing resumes, and composing emails...
Politics of Educational Innovations in Developing Countries
An Analysis of Knowledge and Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
In the educational arena, new ideas often compete as solutions to recurrent problems, making the concept of "innovations" a widespread discursive term. While expectations are substantial for each innovation, implementation of ideas has shown them to be more modest in practice. This book...
Snake Robots
Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impossible. Future applications of such robots...
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work...
by Joop Hermens, Antoon Opperhuizen, Dirk T.H.M. Sijm
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment. Volume 2, Part E of this series is dedicated to ozone photochemistry, nonenzymatic oxydation systems, QSAR in environmental chemistry and biotransformation of chemicals in fish.
Promoting Reflective Thinking in Teachers
50 Action Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
This expanded bestseller integrates the latest research and technology with tried-and-true methods for strengthening practitioners' problem-solving and decision-making skills.
by Paul P.L. Regtien
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field combining Mechanical, Electronic, Computer, and other Engineering fields to develop intelligent processes and products. Based on thirty years of extensive work in industry and teaching, this book provides an overview of the sensors and sensor systems required...
Marine Ecosystems
Human Impacts on Biodiversity, Functioning and Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Ecosystem services are emerging as a key driver of conservation policy and environmental management. Delivery of ecosystem services depends on the efficient functioning of ecosystems, which in turn depends on biodiversity and environmental conditions. Many marine ecosystems are extremely productive...
by M.L. Occelli, P. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2001
Catalyst production for the transformation of crudes into gasoline and other fuel products is a billion dollar/year business and fluid cracking catalysts (FCCs) represent almost half of the refinery catalyst market. During the cracking reactions, the FCC surface is contaminated by metals (Ni, V, Fe,...
by P. L. Simmonds
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This volume contains a detailed and informative guide to the cultivation of hops in England, Europe, America, Australasia and India. Full of invaluable information and useful tips, this book is highly recommended for those with a practical interest in brewing, and it would make for a worthy addition...
Implementing Collaboration Technologies in Industry
Case Examples and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book provides practitioners with detailed experiences from industry on the implementation and use of collaboration technologies. Despite the increasing range of applications available - such as video and desktop conferencing systems, workflow management systems and on-line meeting schedulers...