Critical and Primary Sources
Textiles: Critical and Primary Sources is a major multi-volume reference work that draws together 93 seminal texts on textiles. Textile culture stretches geographic, historical, methodological and disciplinary boundaries, and defies chronological ordering....
2012, A & C Black Publishers ...
Book, Quantity pack, 4 items/volumes
One central and enduring image of the social science researcher is of an individual who commits a great deal of time to collecting original, primary data from a field of enquiry. This approach is often underpinned by a sincerely held belief that key research ...
2012, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 4 items/volumes
Analytical Methods in Supramolecular ...
The second edition of "Analytical Methods in Supramolecular Chemistry" comes in two volumes and covers a broad range of modern methods and techniques now used for investigating supramolecular systems, e. g. NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, extraction methods, crystallography,...
2012, Wiley-VCH
Book, Hardback, 2 items/volumes
Charpentier, Jean-Michel; Francois,...
Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia ...
2012, Walter de Gruyter
eBook, PDF, Electronic book
Although the study of the 'Self' has been a major theme throughout the history of psychology, it has really come in its own during the last half century. Because the nature of human selfhood remains both fascinating and elusive, many different approaches ...
2011, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 4 items/volumes
Charpentier, Jean-Michel; Francois,...
Linguistic Atlas of French Polynesia ...
This is the first linguistic atlas ever produced on the indigenous languages of French Polynesia. By providing each word with its translation in 20 different islands, its more than 2000 maps constitute an important reference for anyone interested in Polynesian languages....
2012, de Gruyter Mouton
Book, Hardback
Biographical research may take a range of forms and may vary in its application and approach but has the unified and coherent aim to give 'voice' to individuals. The central concern of this collection is to assemble articles (from sociology, social psychology, education, health,...
2012, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 4 items/volumes
The automation of visual inspection is becoming more and more important in modern industry as a consistent, reliable means of judging the quality of raw materials and manufactured goods and elsewhere for processes like security scanning and traffic enforcement....
2012, Springer, Berlin
Book, Hardback, 3 items/volumes
Shah, Pallav; Singh, Suveer
Atlas of Flexible Bronchoscopy
This unique and comprehensive atlas by an expert practioner provides an innovative pictorial guide to flexible bronchoscopy, one of the most exciting and challenging procedures in respiratory medicine today. *Includes the very latest procedures and techniques *Comprehensive coverage,...
2011, Hodder Education
Book, Hardback
Thanks to the progress made in instruments and techniques, the methods in physical chemistry have developed rapidly over the past few decades, making them increasingly valuable for scientists of many disciplines.
These two must-have volumes meet the needs ...
2012, Wiley-VCH
Book, Hardback, 2 items/volumes
Sage Visual Methods. 4 Volumes.
In contemporary Western societies, the visual domain has come to assume a hitherto unprecedented cultural centrality. Daily life is replete with a potentially endless stream of images and other visual messages: from the electronic and paper-based billboards of the street,...
2012, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Gebunden
Institutional Theory in Organization ...
Institutional explanations have been, and continue to be, one of the most important means of understanding the choices made by governments and other actors in society. This four volume set brings together a collection of the key readings in institutional theory and its applications to political phenomena....
2012, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 5 items/volumes
Reports of Overseas Private Investment ...
This comprehensive two-volume work is a collection of determinations from OPIC, the US governmental political risk insurance provider, in the form of its Memoranda of Determinations from 1966 through to 2010. An important part of international investment ...
2011, Oxford University ...
Book, Hardback, 2 items/volumes
This new handbook covers the world of biophotonics not only geographically -- with the editors coming from different continents -- but also in terms of content, since the authors come from the whole spectrum of biophotonic basic and applied research. Designed to set the standard for the scientific community,...
2012, Wiley-VCH
Book, Hardback, 3 items/volumes
Theoretical Psychology - Contemporary ...
This four-volume collection picks up the story of theoretical psychology in the 1980s, as it becomes a legitimate form of enquiry in its own right, and follows it as it develops through alternative and critical streams into the newfound fields of 21st-century psychology,...
2012, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 4 items/volumes
Dieses mehrbändige Werk, herausgegeben von einem international renommierten Experten, behandelt die Membrantechnologie aus stark praxisbezogener Sicht; ein Schwerpunkt ist die Anwendung synthetischer Membransysteme. In die Diskussion von Aspekten der Lebenswissenschaften,...
2012, Wiley-VCH
Book, Hardback, 6 items/volumes
Hemingway, Ernest
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway:...
With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899 1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and actions of one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century in his own words....
2011, Cambridge University ...
Book, Hardback
The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic ...
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection fills a long-standing gap in the fields of Olympic studies and sports sociology by applying a critical lens to a wide range of issues and controversies that have surrounded the Olympic movement. Mapping the past,...
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
Book, Hardback
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What are "sustainability" and "sustainability science?"
In this context, sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely even as global population increases toward 10 billion. The term, in its environmental usage, refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet's climatic system, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry, and fisheries, fresh water and human communities and the built environment in general and the various systems on which they depend in balance with the impacts of our unsustainable or sustainable design. It is clear that future sustainability will have to be achieved while many natural resources, including fossil fuels, are either depleted or become scarce relative to population. The US National Research Council coined the term "sustainability science," and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) publishes a section dedicated to Sustainability Science. The Editor of PNAS Sustainability Science, William C. Clark, acknowledges that the title can be controversial, potentially suggesting a "mature discipline with shared conceptual and theoretical components" which do not exist. On the other hand, "the science of sustainability conveys the notion of multiple sciences addressing a common theme" according to Clark, and is the sense in which the term is used in PNAS Sustainability Science and in this Encyclopedia. Why this Encyclopedia? It is increasingly recognized that science and innovation must be conducted and applied in the context of a sustainable future. "Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology" (ESST) will bring together many top leaders in key areas of fundamental and applied science to create an authoritative single source for understanding the potential and challenges of sustainability. The Encyclopedia will be a foundation work for green and sustainability initiatives worldwide and a roadmap across all of the relevant disciplinary boundaries, including the critical contributions of the physical sciences and engineering. Therefore, the purpose of this Encyclopedia is to provide a detailed roadmap for sustainability science and technology as the objective of the physical, health, environmental, and social sciences as well as engineering, architecture, economics, and of course business. There are a number of web-based and even some print encyclopedic treatments attempting to cover this broad subject (see below), but none rise to the university or professional scientist and engineer level needed to support real progress in sustainability. We purposely avoid the term "sustainable development" in the title. "Sustainable development" is typically defined without reference to the number of people and at what standard of living both human and environmental needs would be met. However, sustainability science implies that the goal of sustainable development is essential and must be integrated into all areas of science and technology. ESST will serve as a touchstone against which to evaluate the contribution of specific research and development efforts. (continued in Editorial Comments)
Table of Content Air Pollution Sources, Statistics and Health Effects: Animal Breeding and Genetics for Food Production.- Batteries: Climate Change Mitigation.- Climate Change Modeling Methodology: Crop Science and Technology, Earth System Monitoring (Global Earth Observation System), Ecological Systems.- Electric, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Vehicles.- Environmental Radioactivity and Ecotoxicology of Radioactive Substances.- Environmental Toxicology: Fossil Fuels, Fossil Fuel Electric Power Stations, Fresh Water Resources, Water Purification and Desalinization.- Fuel Cells Science and Technology: Geoenvironmental Engineering, Geothermal Power Stations.- Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering: Hazardous Waste Characterization and Disposal, Hydrogen Production Science and Technology, Infectious Diseases Science and Technology, Intelligent Vehicles Technology, Mass Transit Science and Technology.- Nuclear Energy: Ocean Energy, Ocean Farming and Sustainable Aquaculture Science and Technology.- Oceans and Human Health, Photovoltaics.- Renewable Energy From Biomass.- Soil and Groundwater Pollution and Remediation.- Solar Radiation (Solar Insolation): Solar Thermal Energy, Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling, Sustainable Built Environment.- Sustainable Landscape Design and Green Roof Science and Technology.- Transgenic Livestock for Food Production.- Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment: Transport Electrical Transmission Systems and Smart Grids, Waste to Energy, Wind Power. |
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