Science Technology category: 45382 books
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rockets
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space,...
Thirteen
The Apollo Flight That Failed
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
An “exciting” minute-by-minute account of the Apollo 13 flight based on mission control transcripts from Houston (The New York Times).
On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through...
Rocket Men
The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
A New York Times Bestseller
"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."
-The Wall Street Journal
Restoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig...
Spaceplane HERMES
Europe's Dream of Independent Manned Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This is the first comprehensive book on the European Hermes program. It tells the fascinating story of how Europe aimed for an independent manned spaceflight capability which was to complement US and Soviet/Russian space activities. In 1975, France decided to expand its plans for automated satellites...
The Future of National Infrastructure
A System-of-Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Infrastructure forms the economic backbone of modern society. It is a key determinant of economic competitiveness, social well-being and environmental sustainability. Yet infrastructure systems (energy, transport, water, waste and ICT) in advanced economies globally face serious challenges. For the...
by Pratima Bajpai
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Pulp and paper mill industries are always associated with the disposal problem of highly contaminated sludge or bio-solids.
The development of innovative systems to maximize recovery of useful materials and/or energy in a sustainable way has become necessary.
The management of wastes,...
Limits to Growth
The 30-Year Update
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental...
Tourism and the Environment
Regional, Economic and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The issue of maintaining a balanced relationship between tourism and the environment has received considerable attention since the 1970s. However, only in the 1980s and 1990s did it become a topic of systematic academic inquiry and research, distinguished from the broader area of the environmental...
Transition Towards 100% Renewable Energy
Selected Papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book contains selected papers presented during technical and plenary sessions at the World Renewable Energy Congress, the world’s premier conference on renewable energy and sustainable development. All papers were rigorously peer reviewed.The Congress, held at Murdoch University in Perth, Western...
Geofuels
Energy and the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Our energy use and its consequences (including climate change) motivate some of the most contentious and complex public debates of our time. Although these issues are often cast in terms of renewable versus non-renewable energy, in reality both depend on finite Earth resources. The evolution of the...
Waste to Energy
Opportunities and Challenges for Developing and Transition Economies
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Solid waste management is currently a major issue worldwide with numerous areas reaching critical levels. Many developing countries and countries in transition still miss basic waste management infrastructure and awareness. It is here that many of the solid waste management problems and challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
NATO Advanced Research Workshop “The Black Sea: Strategy for Addressing its Energy Resource Development and Hydrogen Energy Problems” was held in order to evaluate the Black Sea Region’s environment, discuss the ways and means of protecting it, and to evaluate the methods of production of the...
by Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at different levels in each country and that our knowledge...
A Strategy for Using Multicriteria Analysis in Decision-Making
A Guide for Simple and Complex Environmental Projects
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
This book develops a whole strategy for decision-making, with the full participation of the decision-maker and utilizing continuous feedback. It introduces the use of the very well-known and proven methodology, linear programming, but specially adapted for this purpose. For this, it incorporates a...