"Institutionalism" (SAGE 2007) captured a good deal of the literature at the time it was published; however, there have been numerous excellent contributions to the literature since that time. These newer articles merit another readily-available collection,...
2012, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 3 items/volumes
Handbook of Computational Chemistry...
The role the Handbook of Computational Chemistry is threefold. It is primarily intended to be used as a guide that navigates the user through the plethora of computational methods currently in use; it explains their limitations and advantages; and it ...
2012, Springer Netherlands...
Book, Hardback, 3 items/volumes
Early years literacy research represents the foundation of literacy education, influencing the trajectory of literacy development as far as the high school years. This collection features key discussions and debates about the application of particular methods within the field,...
2011, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 4 items/volumes
Bresinsky, Andreas; Korner, Christian;...
This famous book on botany was published for the first time in 1894 by Eduard Strasburger and his co-workers. The present edition is based on a translation of the 36th edition of the German "Strasburger" and contains additional contributions by renowned experts in the field....
2012, Springer Berlin
Book, 2 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
Encyclopedia of Sustainability ...
Sustainability in environmental usage refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet's climate system, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry, fisheries and the ocean, and fresh water, together with the impact of human communities,...
2012, Springer New York
eBook, Epublication "content package", Electronic book, 12 items/volumes
Dorband, Bernd; Muller, Henriette;...
Handbook of Optical Systems: Metrology ...
Metrology of Optical Components ...
Herbert Gross, born in 1955, joined Carl Zeiss in 1982 after finishing his physics degree as specialist for optical design. Since 1995 he has been working as head of the department of optical design, while also teaching as a lecturer in Aalen and Lausanne. The new handbook is an intuitive,...
2012, Wiley-VCH
Book, Hardback
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
Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture,...
Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas
Islamic intellectual thought is at the center of this collection of articles honoring Dimitri Gutas by friends, colleagues, and former students. The essays cover three main areas: the classical heritage and Islamic culture; classical Arabic science and philosophy;...
2011, Brill
Book, Hardback
Modern Crop Protection Compounds
This one-stop reference for everyone working in the agrochemical business is the leading reference in the field, with first-class authors from all major crop protection companies, including Bayer, Dow, Syngenta and BASF. In three volumes, one each on herbicides, fungicides and insecticides,...
2011, Wiley-VCH
Book, Hardback, 3 items/volumes
Oxford Dictionaries
The Oxford Latin Dictionary is the world's most authoritative dictionary of classical Latin, with comprehensive coverage of the language from its beginnings until AD 200. More than fifty years in the making, and originally published in a series of fascicles (parts) from 1968,...
2012, Oxford University ...
Book, Hardback
![[Set of Handbook and Bibliography]](/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738333131303237323732377C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1 "Villars, Pierre; Cenzual, Karin; Penzo, Marinella")
Villars, Pierre; Cenzual, Karin;...
[Set of Handbook and Bibliography]
Since the discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1913 over 100.000 different inorganic substances (also called compounds or phases) have been structurally characterized. The information has been published in over 72.000 publications spread over 1.000 different scientific journals....
2011, de Gruyter
Book, Hardback, 3 items/volumes
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists and psychologists. But the topic of Risk also leads to more fundamental questions such as: What is Risk? What can decision theory contribute to the analysis of Risk?...
2012, Springer Netherlands...
Book, Hardback, 2 items/volumes
Chen, Harold
Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and ...
Dr. Chen shares his almost 40 years of clinical genetics practice in a comprehensive pictorial atlas of almost 250 genetic disorders, malformations, and malformation syndromes. The author provides a detailed outline for each disorder, describing its genetics, basic defects,...
2011, Springer, Berlin
Book, Hardback, 3 items/volumes
Collection: Power and Organizations ...
Power theory, as a burgeoning field of study, has had, and continues to have, a huge impact across the social sciences. In particular, there has been considerable innovative work in the fields of organization studies and politics which in turn has fed research in a wide array of related fields,...
2012, SAGE Publications Ltd...
Book, Hardback, 8 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
Berghaus, Gunter; Berghaus, G Nter
International Futurism 1945-2009
A Bibliographic Handbook
Dieser Band enthält eine umfassende bibliographische Aufbereitung von über 25.000 Publikationen und ist als Orientierunghilfe konzipiert für Studenten und Forscher, die Monogaphien und Aufsätze zu den bedeutensten Künstlern und Literaten der futuristischen Kunstbewegung suchen....
2012, de Gruyter
Book, Hardback
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Sustainability in environmental usage refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet's climate system, systems of agriculture, industry, forestry, fisheries and the ocean, and fresh water, together with the impact of human communities, transportation systems, and the built environment in general on these natural services. 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 9 billion by 2050 and fossil fuel supplies pass their peak. Although definitions of "sustainable development" are often stated without reference to the number of people to be supported and at what standard of living, it is clear that we face something like a 50% increase in food demand as early as 2030, while global energy and materials use is expected to grow by 300% over this period. At the same time, the proportion of the population that lives in an urban environment will rise from about 47% to 60%.Up until now, economic development, growth, and sustainability strategies such as the "green revolution" were heavily dependent on large inputs of fossil fuels. In addition, about 70% of available freshwater is used by agriculture. Many of these approaches no longer appear sustainable as many natural resources, including petroleum, are poised to become scarce relative to population. Sustainability science and technology is not a discipline, but is the grand challenge of our time. Top-down approaches to controlling population growth, maintaining biodiversity, modeling large-scale systems, etc. certainly do exist, and perspectives on a number of these issues can be found in a complementary work, Springer's "Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science." However, science and technology and the resulting innovation economy is also a bottom-up affair involving myriad individuals and research teams in publicly funded scientific laboratories and private corporations.This process of innovation is essentially unpredictable resulting in a great range of promising technologies that are individually dwarfed by the scope of the sustainability challenge but represent essential contributions to this goal. The Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) is founded on this assumption. An indispensable resource for scientists and engineers in developing new technologies and for applying existing technologies to sustainability, ESST is presented at the university and professional level needed for scientists, engineers, and their students to support real progress in sustainability science and technology. Although the emphasis is on science and technology rather than policy, the Encyclopedia is also a comprehensive and authoritative resource for policy makers who want to understand the scope of research and development and how these bottom-up innovations map on to the sustainability challenge. ESST is also unique in gathering many of the world's most respected scientists, including several Nobel Laureates and a Crafoord Prize winner to advise, edit, and write on more than 600 separate topics in 42 sections.Among the topics are green chemistry for industry, water use and recovery, crop production including precision farming, genetic modification of crops, forestry and fisheries. all types of energy production, electric utility as well as small scale electricity generation, mass and personal transportation with fuel modification, power source variation, pollution control and waste disposition, solid waste utilization, recycle and disposition, urban planning and the built environment, environmental quality, engineering mitigation, adaptation and forecasting of global warming and any possible cooling due to solar-earth insolation and dimming, geoengineering of global warming mitigation measures, measurement and observation systems (terrestrial and from space), indoor pollution and industrial hygiene, epidemiology and disease prevention, as well as modeling methodologies for all of the above individually and in aggregate earth model formats.ESST is prepared by scientists and engineers for other scientists and engineers in a succinct yet authoritative format that provides students and non-specialists with a detailed understanding of the multidisciplinary landscape of sustainability science and technology. /Provides unprecedented peer-reviewed coverage of sustainability science and technology with contributions from nearly 1000 of the world's leading scientists and engineers /Edited by renowned Encyclopedia editor Robert Meyers with guidance from an Advisory Board of Nobel Laureates, a Crafoord Prize winner, and other prominent experts /Addresses the grand challenge for science and engineering today /Establishes a foundation for the many sustainability and policy evaluations being performed in institutions worldwide /Written in an authoritative yet accessible style for readers from undergraduate students through non-specialist professionals
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