Pergamon imprint: 338 books
Energy for Rural and Island Communities Ii
Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Held at Inverness, Scotland, 1-4 September 1981
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Energy for Rural and Island Communities II is a collection of papers that covers various exploitable energy sources in rural areas. The materials of the book are organized according to the main topic they cover.
The coverage of the text includes various energy sources such as wind, hydro, biofuels,...
Solar Energy in Developing Countries
An Overview and Buyers' Guide for Solar Scientists and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Solar Energy in Developing Countries is a documentation report with bibliography on solar energy research and development in developing countries such as those in Asia, Central and South America, Africa, and Middle East. Institutions in developed countries with solar activities of interest to developing...
Fuels and Fuel Technology
A Summarized Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Fuels and Fuel Technology: A Summarized Manual provides concise and accurate summary of existing knowledge and literature concerning fuel technology. The book discusses several kinds of fuels and topics relating to them, such as their properties, theories, composition, types, and classifications.
The...
Thermal Energy Storage
The Report of a NATO Science Committee Conference Held at Turnberry, Scotland, 1st-5th March, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Thermal Energy Storage is a collection of papers that tackles various areas of concerns in thermal energy storage.
The materials in the text are primarily concerned with addressing issues regarding conservation, efficiency, and applicability of thermal energy storage. The coverage of the title includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Energy & Resource Development of Continental Margins is a collection of papers that addresses issues in the development of energy technology and exploration of energy sources.
The title first covers concerns in geological and geochemical explorations. Next, the selection deals with the issues...
Tall Buildings
The Proceedings of a Symposium on Tall Buildings with Particular Reference to Shear Wall Structures, Held in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southampton, April 1966
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings. This book presents the advances in structural analysis, in methods of design, in methods of construction, and in the properties of materials.
Organized into three sections encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an...
Europe's Nuclear Power Experiment
History of the OECD Dragon Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Europe's Nuclear Power Experiment: History of the OECD Dragon Project discusses the achievements of the Project, which is regarded as one of Europe's most successful collaborations in applied science and certainly the most important multinational technical collaboration in the field of nuclear energy....
by I. Pop, Derek B Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1998
Research into thermal convection in porous media has substantially increased during recent years due to its numerous practical applications. These problems have attracted the attention of industrialists, engineers and scientists from many very diversified disciplines, such as applied mathematics,...
Trophic Regulation of the Basal Ganglia
Focus on Dopamine Neurons
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Trophic Regulation of the Basal Ganglia: Focus on Dopamine Neurons examines neurotransmitters.
The book first discusses the role of fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) and ganglioside GM1 and the trophic regulation of the basal ganglia. Biochemical and histochemical studies on the cellular localization...
Passive and Low Energy Ecotechniques
Proceedings of the Third International PLEA Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 6–11 August 1984
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Passive and Low Energy Ecotechniques (PLEA) presents the proceedings of the Third International PLEA Conference held in Mexico City, Mexico on August 6-11, 1984. The book includes papers on state-of-the-art selected topics aimed at providing a basic knowledge; country and regional or personal monographs...
Passive and Low Energy Architecture
Proceedings of the Second International PLEA Conference, Crete, Greece, 28 June-1 July 1983
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Passive and Low Energy Architecture contains the proceedings of the Second International PLEA Conference held in Crete, Greece, on June 28 to July 1, 1983.
The book is organized into four parts as the topics of the conference. The first part brings together papers dealing with case studies of individual...
by A. M. Mayer, A. Poljakoff-Mayber
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The Germination of Seeds, Third Edition discusses topics concerning seed germination. The book is comprised of seven chapters that tackle subjects relating to the field of germination.
Chapter 1 discusses the structure of seeds and seedlings, while Chapter 2 covers the chemical composition of seeds....
Proceedings of the Sixth New England Bioengineering Conference
March 23-24, 1978, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Proceedings of the Sixth New England Bioengineering Conference
by D.R.H. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The first book of Failure Analysis Case Studies selected from volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the journal Engineering Failure Analysis was published by Elsevier Science in September 1998. The book has proved to be a sought-after and widely used source of reference material to help people avoid or analyse engineering...