Scienza e tecnica

Materials Challenges in Alternative and Renewable Energy: Ceramic Transactions

di George G. Wicks, Jack Simon & Ragaiy Zidan

This useful, one-stop resource for understanding the most important issues in materials challenges in alternative and renewable energy. The logically organized and carefully selected articles give insight into...

Data Analysis: What Can Be Learned from the Past 50 Years

di Peter J. Huber

This book explores the many provocative questions concerning the fundamentals of data analysis. It is based on the time-tested experience of one of the gurus of the subject matter. Why should one study data...

Generic Inference: A Unifying Theory for Automated Reasoning

di Marc Pouly & Juerg Kohlas

This book provides a rigorous algebraic study of the most popular inference formalisms with a special focus on their wide application area, showing that all these tasks can be performed by a single generic inference...

Handbook of Sustainability for the Food Sciences

di Rubén O. Morawicki

Many books on sustainability have been written in the last decade, most of them dealing with agricultural systems, communities, and general business practices. In contrast, Handbook of Sustainability for the...

Exoplanet Atmospheres: Physical Processes

di Sara Seager

Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and...

Embedded Systems Hardware for Software Engineers

di Ed Lipiansky

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HARDWARE FUNDAMENTALS

Embedded Systems Hardware for Software Engineers describes the electrical and electronic circuits that are used in embedded systems, their functions, and how they can...

Build Your Own Free-to-Air (FTA) Satellite TV System

di Dennis C. Brewer

LEGALLY TAP INTO ABSOLUTELY FREE SATELLITE TV!

Replace or expand your paid TV services with Free-to-Air television programming with ease. Build Your Own Free-to-Air (FTA) Satellite TV System shows how to affordably...

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

di Randolph M. Nesse & George C. Williams

The answers are in this groundbreaking book by two founders of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine, who deftly synthesize the latest research on disorders ranging from allergies to Alzheimer's and from...

Water: Visual Media and the Eccentricity of the Past

di Antoine Frerot & Angel Gurria

The fastest dwindling and most valuable resource in the world today is not oil, it's water--clean, safe, fresh water

The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future

di Tom Wessels

A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective

The Sustainable Learning Community: One University's Journey to the Future

di John Aber, Tom Kelly & Bruce Mallory

Case studies from the University of New Hampshire explore all the dimensions of sustainability in campus life, combining frugality and creativity

Avian survivors: The History and Biogeography of Palearctic Birds

di Clive Finlayson

The impacts of global warming are of concern to all of us. Thepotential responses of birds to climate change have come increasinglyto the fore, and are of particular interest to the ornithologicalcommunity....

Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety: Risks, Regulation and Management

di Matthew Hull & Diana Bowman

This book tackles the debate over nanotechnology's environmental, health and safety (EHS) by thoroughly explaining EHS issues, financial implications, foreseeable risks (i.e. exposure, dose, hazards of nanomaterials),...

Conversations with Frank Gehry

di Barbara Isenberg

An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had...

The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness

di Lee Alan Dugatkin

In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution...

New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice

di Duncan Cartlidge

(Reviews of the second edition)

'An essential guide for all surveying professionals' - RICS Business

'A modern classic' - QS News

In the 1990s, many pundits said that Quantity Surveyors were going the way of...

New Perspectives on Construction in Developing Countries

di George Ofori

Developing countries face the challenge of maintaining economic growth and socio-economic development, at the core of which sits the construction industry. Considerable research on construction in developing...

BIOS Instant Notes in Biochemistry

di David Hames & Nigel Hooper

BIOS Instant Notes in Biochemistry, Fourth Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with...

BIOS Instant Notes in Immunology

di Peter Lydyard, Alex Whelan & Michael Fanger

BIOS Instant Notes in Immunology, Third Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with...

BIOS Instant Notes in Neuroscience

di Alan Longstaff

BIOS Instant Notes in Neuroscience, Third Edition, is the perfect text for undergraduates looking for a concise introduction to the subject, or a study guide to use before examinations. Each topic begins with...