Science and Technology

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Hi...

The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe; innovations within the arts and sciences, business,...

The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, widespread initiatives within civil society and bus...

Provides Step-by-Step Instruction Structural Analysis: Principles, Methods and Modelling outlines the fundamentals involved in analyzing engineeri...

Rural Development is a textbook that critically examines economic, social and cultural aspects of rural development efforts both in the global nort...

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive re...

Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life...

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create...

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resource...

Viruses interact with host cells in ways that uniquely reveal a great deal about general aspects of molecular and cellular structure and function. ...

This book offers an essential introduction to the linear and non-linear behavior of solid materials, and to the concepts of deformation, displaceme...

In programming courses, using the different syntax of multiple languages, such as C++, Java, PHP, and Python, for the same abstraction often confus...

The new edition presents the themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, with no previous knowledge of theor...

This book provides a highly accessible introduction to anatomy and physiology. Written for students studying the subject for the first time, it cov...

Introducing Human Geographies is a ‘travel guide’ into the academic subject of human geography and the things that it studies. The coverage of the ...

This revised edition has more breadth and depth of coverage than the first edition. Information Technology: An Introduction for Today’s Digital Wor...

Environmental stories have all the elements that make for a good drama-villains that plunge us into danger, and heroes that fight for positive chan...

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encour...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

Written by an educator with close to 40 years of experience in developing and teaching design and manufacturing courses at the graduate and undergr...

Governing Climate Change, Second Edition, provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse...

Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform t...

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War a...

This introduction to descriptive geometry and contemporary drafting guides the student through the essential principles to create engineering drawi...

Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenge...

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiver...

This textbook explains the principles of fuzzy systems in some depth together with information useful in realizing them within computational proces...

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to foundational topics in sound design for embedded media, such as physical computing; interactio...

Facilities management continues to expand and develop in terms of the volume and diversity of commercial activity, with a significant influence upo...

Highly Commended at the BMA Book Awards 2013 Extreme Tissue Engineering is an engaging introduction to Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicin...

This book is aimed at students taking courses on evolution in universities and colleges. Its approach and its structure are very different from pre...

Dynamic objects move in mysterious ways. Their analysis is a difficult subject involving matrices, differential equations and the complex algebra o...

Over the last 60 years, we have recognized increasingly that our world is connected, and the impacts of environmental catastrophes and economic cri...

The field of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to n...

This fully updated third edition of the classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevent...

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this student-friendly text follows a two-pronged approach to help readers understand the globalizing...

Ecosystem Dynamics focuses on long-term terrestrial ecosystems and their changing relationships with human societies. The unique aspect of this te...

If the whole world wanted to live like people in the United Kingdom we would need the resources of three planets like Earth. If the United States w...

Ecological Applications presents a broad range of methods and techniques for managing environmental sustainability. This book examines ecological t...

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, in...

DNA technology is evolving rapidly, with new methods and a fast-growing vocabulary. This unique dictionary offers current, detailed and accessible ...

Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of...

What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ over the last few decades, but they have ...

The first edition of Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology provided an accessible and thorough resource for evaluating plant ecology data, based on t...

Human geographers have been at the forefront of research that examines the relationships between space, culture and society. This volume contains t...

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to m...

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This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change. Using clear language and powerf...