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Soil in the Environment

Crucible of Terrestrial Life

by Daniel Hillel
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007

INSTRUCTORS, interested in requesting a review copy? Register at http://textbooks.elsevier.com today!Key for every course in soil science, earth science, and environmental disciplines, this textbook engages students to critically look at soil as the central link in the function and creation of the terrestrial...
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Principles and Practice of Soil Science

The Soil as a Natural Resource

by Robert E. White
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013

Principles and Practice of Soil Science, Fourth Editionprovides a current and comprehensive introduction to soil science for students in the fields of environmental and agricultural science, ecology, soil and land management, natural resource management and environmental engineering. Covers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science provides a compact and comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science. This book covers major concepts of ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, and energetics. It addresses, contrasts, and compares both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It combines...
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by Peter A. Wilderer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

Water quality and management are of great significance globally, as the demand for clean, potable water far exceeds the availability. Water science research brings together the natural and applied sciences, engineering, chemistry, law and policy, and economics, and the Treatise on Water Science seeks...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

The utilisation of biomass is increasingly important for low- or zero-carbon power generation. Developments in conventional power plant fuel flexibility allow for both direct biomass combustion and co-firing with fossil fuels, while the integration of advanced technologies facilitates conversion of...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011

Membrane materials allow for the selective separation of gas and vapour and for ion transport. Materials research and development continues to drive improvements in the design, manufacture and integration of membrane technologies as critical components in both sustainable energy and clean industry...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012

Silicone Surface Science offers a survey of the major topics concerning the properties and behavior of silicone surfaces. It covers all main aspects of the subject, including: polydimethylsiloxane, spread monolayers, self-assembled monolayers, hydrophobicity and super-hydrophobicity, coupling agents,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Based on the “International Symposium of Molecular Environmental Soil Science at the Interfaces in the Earth’s Critical Zone,” this book focuses on the Critical Zone supporting life at the Earth’s surface with emphasis on the new and emerging subject area of molecular environmental soil science....
Cover of Materials Science and Engineering of Carbon: Fundamentals
by Michio Inagaki, Ph.D., Feiyu Kang
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

Materials Science and Engineering of Carbon: Fundamentals provides a comprehensive introduction to carbon, the fourth most abundant element in the universe. The contents are organized into two main parts. Following a brief introduction on the history of carbon materials, Part 1 focuses on the fundamental...
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Materials

engineering, science, processing and design; North American Edition

by Michael F. Ashby, Hugh Shercliff, David Cebon
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013

Materials, Third Edition, is the essential materials engineering text and resource for students developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications. This new edition retains its design-led focus and strong emphasis on visual communication while expanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018

An excellent one-volume resource for understanding the most important current issues in the research and advances in materials science for environmental and energy technologies This proceedings volume contains a collection of 20 papers from the 2016 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T'16)...
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by Milton Ohring
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2001

This is the first book that can be considered a textbook on thin film science, complete with exercises at the end of each chapter. Ohring has contributed many highly regarded reference books to the AP list, including Reliability and Failure of Electronic Materials and the Engineering Science of Thin...
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by Alfred Rudin, Phillip Choi, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

The Elements of Polymer Science and Engineering, Third Edition, is a textbook for one- or two-semester introductory courses in polymer science and engineering taught primarily to senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in a variety of disciplines, but primarily chemical engineering and...
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Earth System Science

From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Changes

by Michael Jacobson, Robert J. Charlson, Henning Rodhe
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2000

Over the last decade, the study of cycles as a model for the earth's changing climate has become a new science. Earth Systems Science is the basis for understanding all aspects of anthropogenic global change, such as chemically forced global climate change. The work is aimed at those students interested...
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