Defrosting Ancient Microbes: Emerging Genomes in a Warmer World by Scott Rogers, ISBN-13: 978-0367223502 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (September 23, 2019) Language: English 254 pages ISBN-10: 0367223503 ISBN-13: 978-0367223502 Ice is melting around the world and glaciers are disappearing. Water, which has been solid for thousands and even millions of years, is being released into streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. Embedded in this new fluid water, and now being…
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The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook by Jaroslav Mysiak, ISBN-13: 978-1844077922 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (November 11, 2009) Language: English 216 pages ISBN-10: 1844077926 ISBN-13: 978-1844077922 The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions…
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Ecological Biochemistry: Environmental and Interspecies Interactions by Gerd-Joachim Krauss, ISBN-13: 978-3527316502 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (January 12, 2015) Language: English 440 pages ISBN-10: 3527316507 ISBN-13: 978-3527316502 The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems. Ecological biochemistry refers to the interaction of organisms with their abiotic environment and other organisms by chemical means. Biotic and…
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Nanotechnology, Food Security and Water Treatment 2018 Edition by K. M. Gothandam, ISBN-13: 978-3319701653 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2018 edition (January 23, 2018) Language: English 350 pages ISBN-10: 9783319701653 ISBN-13: 978-3319701653 This book reviews advanced nanotechnology in food, health, water and agriculture. In food, nanobiosensors display an unprecedented efficiency for the detection of allergens, genetically modified organisms and pathogens. In agriculture, nanofertilisers improve plant nutrition by releasing nutrients slowly and…
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Sustainability Principles and Practice 2nd Edition by Margaret Robertson, ISBN-13: 978-1138650244 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Routledge; 2nd edition (March 13, 2017) Language: English 418 pages ISBN-10: 9781138650244 ISBN-13: 978-1138650244 This new and expanded edition builds upon the first edition’s accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping the student with both conceptual understanding and technical skills for the workplace. Each chapter explores one…
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Principles of International Environmental Law 4th Edition by Philippe Sands, ISBN-13: 978-1108431125 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 4th edition (March 21, 2018) Language: English 1032 pages ISBN-10: 1108431127 ISBN-13: 978-1108431125 This new and fully updated edition of Principles of International Environmental Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of one of the fastest growing areas of international law: the principles and rules relating to environmental protection. Introducing the reader to the…
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Modern Control Systems 13th Edition by Richard C. Dorf, ISBN-13: 978-0134407623 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Pearson; 13th edition (January 5, 2016) Language: English 1032 pages ISBN-10: 0134407628 ISBN-13: 978-0134407623 Developing Problem-Solving Skills Through Integrated Design and Analysi. The purpose of Dorf’s Modern Control Systems, Thirteenth Edition is to present the structure of feedback control theory and to provide a sequence of exciting discoveries. The book demonstrates various real-world, global engineering problems while touching…
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Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives 6th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1506358154 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: CQ Press; 6th edition (May 16, 2017) Language: English 584 pages ISBN-10: 9781506358154 ISBN-13: 978-1506358154 In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authors Michael…
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Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives 7th Edition by Michael E. Kraft, ISBN-13: 978-1544374611 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: CQ Press; 7th edition (January 14, 2020) Language: English 546 pages ISBN-10: 1544374615 ISBN-13: 978-1544374611 With the right information, we can develop public policies that work better. All too often, public policy textbooks offer a basic grounding in the policy process without the benefit of integrating the use of policy analysis. Michael E. Kraft and…
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Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee, ISBN-13: 978-1610399500 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: PublicAffairs (November 12, 2019) Language: English 432 pages ISBN-10: 1610399501 ISBN-13: 978-1610399500 The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today’s critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater…
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The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management 2nd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0367174286 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: CRC Press; 2nd edition (March 25, 2019) Language: English 472 pages ISBN-10: 0367174286 ISBN-13: 978-0367174286 The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. With contributions from international experts, this timely and fully updated second edition of The Great Barrier Reef describes the animals, plants and other organisms…
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Energy Economics: Markets, History and Policy by Roy L. Nersesian, ISBN-13: 978-1138858374 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (March 8, 2016) Language: English 652 pages ISBN-10: 1138858374 ISBN-13: 978-1138858374 Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up. Energy Economics covers the role of each fossil and renewable energy source in today’s world, providing the information and tools that will…
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