Science and Technology

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...

Industrial Applications of Machine Learning shows how machine learning can be applied to address real-world problems in the fourth industrial revol...

Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessm...

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...

This two-volume set was developed to help researchers and practitioners select measures to be used in the evaluation of human/machine systems. It c...

The second edition of a highly acclaimed handbook and ready reference. Unmatched in its breadth and quality, around 100 specialists from all over ...

This book presents a guide to navigating the complicated issues of quality and process improvement in enterprise software implementation, and the e...

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...

Introduction to green chemistry Concepts and trends in green analytical chemistry "Greening" sample preparation Green instrumental analysis "Greeni...

Often described as a "miracle material", graphene's potential applications are extraordinary, ranging from nanoscale 'green' technologies, to senso...

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 Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical appr...

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...

The first book to cover the fundamentals of solar energy, photovoltaic or photovoltaic thermal technologies, energy security and climate change.

Making extensive use of examples, this textbook on Java programming teaches the fundamental skills for getting started in a command-line environmen...

This text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students covers the fundamental relationships between the structure and properties of materials a...

Fuel cells are expected to play a major role in the future power supply that will transform to renewable, decentralized and fluctuating primary ene...

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

The updated seventh edition of the classic text on wood science and forestry The seventh edition of Forest Products and Wood Science: An Introduct...

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...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 has identified four priority areas for Disaster Risk Reduction: understanding disaster r...

Exploratory Data Analysis Using R provides a classroom-tested introduction to exploratory data analysis (EDA) and introduces the range of "interest...

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...

Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental qu...

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...

Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: A Casebook for Environmental Professionals introduces a decision-making model constructed from the viewpoi...

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

The aim of this book is to help the readers understand the concepts, techniques, terminologies, and equations appearing in the existing books on en...

This exhaustive listing of almost all marine natural products known to date adopts a unique approach in its classification of the compounds by biol...

An increase in major natural disasters―and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities―has led to hei...

A practical guide for solving real-world circuit board problems Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engine...

Electrical Power Systems Technology, Fourth Edition covers a wide range of technologies and systems used in the generation, distribution, control, ...

Details energy and exergy efficiencies of all major aspects of bioenergy systems Covers all major bioenergy processes starting from photosynthesis...

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...