Applied Sciences category: 551 books
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Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: October 14, 2014
La notion de services écosystémiques s’est récemment imposée comme un mot d’ordre de la gouvernance environnementale. Rejetée en bloc ou adoptée de manière acritique, cette notion fait le buzz dans la science globale. Suivant une démarche de political ecology qui combine des approches...
by Antoine-Augustin Cournot, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Extrait : "Si nos philosophes et nos savants arrangeaient un monde à leur guise, comme le paysan de la fable, il est à croire que, voulant y faire entrer un être dont les facultés intellectuelles trancheraient tout à fait avec celles des animaux, ils lui donnent une organisation par laquelle il...
Environmental Conservation, Clean Water, Air & Soil (CleanWAS)
International Conference Proceedings 26 -28 August, 2016, China
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
As we embark into the 21st century, we need to address new challenges ranging from population growth, climate change, and depletion of natural resources to providing better health care, food security and peace to humankind, while at the same time protecting natural ecosystems that provide the services...
Plastic
A Toxic Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
“This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics” (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011).
From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize...
by James D. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles...
Environmental Soil Physics
Fundamentals, Applications, and Environmental Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1998
Environmental Soil Physics is a completely updated and modified edition of the Daniel Hillels previous, successful books, Introduction to Soil Physics and Fundamentals of Soil Physics. Hillel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, one of the true leaders in the field of environmental sciences. The new...
by Dr. Georg Stehli
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A world of pleasure, excitement and new knowledge awaits one who learns to use the microscope — a world in which table salt crystals appear as jewels, a drop of water swarms with life, a butterfly's wings reveal a cascade of multicolored particles. This book is for anyone who would like to enter that...
by Emmet Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This concise book provides an introduction to Current Good Manufacturing Practices (aka cGMP). It introduces those who wish to work in regulated industries to GMP, highlighting key areas and practices. It is also a useful refresher for those with previous experience of cGMP. At less than 90 pages,...
by Bhisham C. Gupta, Irwin Guttman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A solutions manual to accompany Statistics and Probability with Applications for Engineers and Scientists
Unique among books of this kind, Statistics and Probability with Applications for Engineers and Scientists covers descriptive statistics first, then goes on to discuss the fundamentals...
Talking Renewables
A Renewable Energy Primer for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Renewable energy (RE) is a subject of great interest today. It is one of the two main means for implementing climate change mitigation programmes, and presently the only perceived means for replacing the declining global fossil fuel reserves. It also helps fight poverty and assists in the global quest...
Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) rely on the efficient generation of reactive radical species and are increasingly attractive options for water remediation from a wide variety of organic micropollutants of human health and/or environmental concern. Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment...
Bedtime Thoughts
Excerpts from the Power of Control Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
What is Control Thought?
As explained in author Roy Messiers The Power of Control Thought, it is learning to listen to the type of thoughts we are having and then learning how to control them. When our mind accepts an idea as true, it then becomes true for us. We have the power within to make...
The Cell
Discovering the Microscopic World that Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Your body has trillions of cells, and each one has the complexity and dynamism of a city. Your life, your thoughts, your diseases, and your health are all the function of cells.
But what do you really know about what goes on inside you?
The last time most people thought about cells in...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Universe and Solar System Series: The Earth and Moon System Having Trouble on Physics? Need to learn more about our Earth and Moon? This eBook looks into detail about our Earth and Moon System. Other such information, which are contained in this eBook; are: 1: Moon Phases. 2: Characteristics of out...