Science and Technology

With increased public and scientific attention driven by factors such as oil price spikes, the need for increased energy security, and concerns ove...

Biofuel Crop Sustainability brings together the basic principles of agricultural sustainability and special stipulations for biofuels, from the eco...

A new edition of a unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts―with focus on climate change sea-level ris...

A complete all-in-one reference on the important interdisciplinary topic of Battery Systems Engineering Focusing on the interdisciplinary area of ...

This book describes the basic principles of plasticity for students and engineers who wish to perform plasticity analyses in their professional liv...

The first atlas in many years giving researchers a good visual reference of the status of their cell lines. Given the increasing importance of well...

This textbook treats Hydro- and Fluid Dynamics, the engineering science dealing with forces and energies generated by fluids in motion, playing a v...

This book addresses the fundamentals and practical implementations of antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) In this book, the au...

This textbook offers an introductory course to structural mechanics for architects, including problems and solutions. It follows a completely diffe...

The third edition of this popular reference covers enabling technologies for building up 5G wireless networks. Due to extensive research and comple...

In this first comprehensive compilation of review chapters on this hot topic, more than 30 experts from around the world provide in-depth chapters ...

Fully updated and expanded from the previous edition, A Practical Guide to Database Design, Second Edition is intended for those involved in the de...

Biophotonics is a burgeoning field that has afforded researchers and medical practitioners alike an invaluable tool for implementing optical micros...

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management provides interdisciplinary analysis on how particular sets of conditions may occur in the future by eval...

Extensively updated evaluation of current and future network technologies, applications and devices This book follows on from its successful pred...

3D cell culture is yet to be adopted and exploited to its full potential. It promises to upgrade and bring our understanding about human physiology...

International institutions and structures are crucial to the management of the global environment. The present arrangements are failing to cope ade...

Biodiversity - the planet's natural capital - is undergoing a dramatic collapse: its 'Sixth Extinction'. The losses, which are due to human activit...

In the opening year of the new millennium, an astonishing one in every thirty people on the planet were affected by floods, storms, earthquakes, vo...

Water Management In The Hill Regions Evidences From Field Studies by K. Palanisami, 9382563490, 9789382563495, Bloomsbury

This essential guide to studying geography has been updated to ensure it remains a valuable resource for all those on geography courses, as well as...

Earth science forces, including earthquakes, fossils, the Earth's spheres, the Big Bang Theory, El Nino, and the atmosphere, are presented at a lev...

Written for students beginning a formal study of chemistry, this volume encompasses many different topics in and approaches to introductory chemist...

introduces the general public to the microbial universe; explains in non–technical language the nature of microbial life and how microbes interact ...

This up-to-date and comprehensive reference presents the fundamentals of environmental planning, incorporating theory, practice and case studies. T...

Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for ...

Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for ...

Evidence of rising temperatures, melting ice, rising sea levels, and damage to flora and fauna on land and in the oceans has been accumulating for ...

Cities have a huge impact on the local climate and require vast quantities of energy to keep them functioning. The urban environment has a big impa...

Studying in an engineering college provides an opportunity for students to transition into adulthood through a continuous development of their beli...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Waste has always been associated with human activity and is a necessary evil in any developmental process. Today, the sheer quantity and diversity ...

Water is a prime renewable national asset and a precious natural resource. It is essential for existence of life and is used for various purposes—d...

Water is a prime natural resource and a basic necessity for sustaining life on earth. Supplying adequate amount of potable water to the global popu...

No crop can be grown without being adequately supplied with the requisite amount of water at the proper time. A thorough knowledge of the hydrologi...

Networking and communication has created a global village in terms of immediacy within which people across the world can share audio, video and tex...

With the development process, there are dangerous risks to future well-being posed by acid rain, ozone depletion and green-house effects. The time ...

The essays collected in this book deal with various aspects of food security in a developing country like India, which is house for a large number ...

The proposed book aims to give a detailed description of the biology behind the formation of free radicals, their scavenging in the body and their ...

Biotechnology is a multi-disciplinary course, having its foundations in many fields including biology, microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biolog...