Category: Engineering, Science and Technology
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Ecology, Planning, and Management of Urban Forests
Original price was: $179.00.$143.20Current price is: $143.20.Add to cartUrban forests play a fundamentally important role in building ecological cities. They improve the environmental quality of the urban environment and the aesthetics of urban landscapes, and in many developed and developing countries, the evolution of urban forestry has been recognized as an essential means of maintaining urban ecosystem health, improving human living conditions, fostering …
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Environmental and Quality Systems Integration
Original price was: $180.00.$144.00Current price is: $144.00.Add to cartGlobal competition, corporate downsizing and corporate restructuring have forced many firms to re-evaluate their operating methods. Today, corporations must do more with less while still watching the bottom line and improving profitability. ISO 14000 and ISO 9000, because of their similar management system requirements and auditing procedures, are good candidates for integration. This comprehensive guide …
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Environmental Hydrogeology
Original price was: $134.95.$107.96Current price is: $107.96.Add to cartLooming global threats such as overpopulation, pollution, ozone depletion, and other major risks to the planet have created an increasing need for well-trained, experienced geoscientists who understand environmental hydrology and can apply its precepts to tackle these intimidating planetary problems.Written by the senior staff of a respected environmental consulting firm, Environmental Hydrogeology is a complete …
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Environmental Magnetism
Original price was: $121.00.$96.80Current price is: $96.80.Add to cartMagnetism is important in environmental studies for several reasons, the two most fundamental being that most substances exhibit some form of magnetic behavior, and that iron is one of the most common elements in the Earth’s crust. Once sequestered in a suitable material, magnetic particles constitute a natural archive of conditions existing in former times. …
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Environmental Science and Technology
Original price was: $91.95.$73.56Current price is: $73.56.Add to cartThis broad overview covers the four traditional spheres of the environment: water, air, earth, and life, and introduces a fifth sphere – the “anthrosphere” – which the author defines as the sphere of human activities, especially technology, that affect the earth. Environmental Science and Technology is organized into six major areas; one for each of …
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Estuary Restoration and Maintenance
Original price was: $280.00.$224.00Current price is: $224.00.Add to cartThis timely volume examines the work of the National Estuary Program, the most comprehensive federally-funded initiative in the USA dealing with pollution and other anthropogenic impacts on estuarine ecosystems. Written by a leading estuarine scientist, the book focuses on the technical and management issues involved in four regionally based program studies across the United States. …
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Ethnobotany
Original price was: $171.50.$137.20Current price is: $137.20.Add to cartInterest in ethnobotany has increased dramatically in recent years. The search for new medicines by the pharmaceutical industry has turned to plant natural products and to ethnobotanical studies as a first step in bioprospecting. These studies are making a valuable contribution to the cataloguing of biological diversity and hence to the conservation of endangered ecosystems …
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Evolution of Wild Emmer and Wheat Improvement
Original price was: $339.00.$271.20Current price is: $271.20.Add to cartThis book is about the contribution to evolutionary theory and agricultural technology of one of humankind’s most dramatic imitations of the evolu tionary process, namely crop domestication, as exemplified by the progenitor of wheat, Triticum dicoccoides. This species is a major model organism and it has been studied at the Institute of Evolution, University of …
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Experimental Rock Mechanics (Geomechanics Research)
Original price was: $240.00.$192.00Current price is: $192.00.Add to cartFracture and flow of rocks under stress and their geophysical and seismological implications raise fundamental questions in rock mechanics, particularly in the areas of tectonophysics and seismology. This text exclusively addresses the deformation and fracture of rock specimens under general triaxial compression, in which all three principal stress
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Experimentation with Animal Models in Space
Original price was: $195.00.$156.00Current price is: $156.00.Add to cartExposure to space flight has been shown to results in changes in many physiological systems, including the musculoskeletal system, the cardiovascular system, the immune system, and the neurovestibular system. These changes could negatively impact the ability of humans to undertake long-term habitation and exploration of space. However, there are limits to the studies that can …
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Exploitation of fungi
Original price was: $131.99.$105.59Current price is: $105.59.Add to cartThe fungi are a highly diverse kingdom of eukaryotic microbes. Recent advances in molecular genetics, together with the release of whole genome sequences of an increasing number of fungi, are facilitating their exploitation and commercialisation. Fungi have the ability to secrete large quantities of proteins of commercial value, and their complex secondary metabolic pathways produce …
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Exploring Agriscience
Original price was: $132.95.$106.36Current price is: $106.36.Add to cartThis full-color exploratory approach to agriscience helps students develop a firm intellectual and skill-based foundation for further career exploration in Agriscience. Its easy-to-follow format accommodates a middle school student s need for a broad introduction to such subjects as horticulture, animal science, environmental science, biotechnology, and careers in these and agricultural-related fields. Numerous hands-on exercises …
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Faulting in Brittle Rocks
Original price was: $259.00.$207.20Current price is: $207.20.Add to cartThis book provides an introduction into the mechanics of faulting in the brittle crust of the Earth. It developed from my annual two-semester course on tectono mechanics for graduate students of engineering geology and of rock engineering at the Technical University of Graz (Austria). In this course, it is not my task to present a …
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Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Polar Fishes
Original price was: $144.00.$115.20Current price is: $115.20.Add to cartVolume 22 of the Fish Physiology Series is entirely devoted to fishes of high latitudes (Arctic and Antarctic). Three central themes comprise the book: the uniqueness of the physiology of fishes that live in cold polar environments, a comparative analysis of physiological patterns exemplified by fishes that live poles apart and, how fishes differ from …
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Fluid Mechanics for Marine Ecologists
Original price was: $99.00.$79.20Current price is: $79.20.Add to cartThe future quality of life on Earth fundamentally depends on trends in world climate. The oceans playa dominant role in regulating global climate by help ing to control greenhouse gases, global heat transfer and weather patterns. If we also consider the energy and other resources oceans offer, their essential importance to human existence become obvious. …
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Fluorine Chemistry at the Millennium
Original price was: $480.00.$384.00Current price is: $384.00.Add to cartThis volume brings together contributions by leading researchers covering a wide scope so characteristic of fluorine chemistry. It is a monograph of historical character comprising personalized accounts of progress and events in areas of particular interest.There is also much to interest and instruct chemists from other disciplines as a good proportion of the chapters contain …
