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Greening Cities
Forms and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology....
Trade, the WTO and Energy Security
Mapping the Linkages for India
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The linkages between WTO rules governing trade and energy security with a certain degree of focus on India are the main subject of this book. The edited volume brings together the views of academics, policymakers and experts with extensive experience covering WTO and international trade issues. The...
Smart Cities in the Mediterranean
Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic,...
Phenomenology of the Winter-City
Myth in the Rise and Decline of Built Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact. It builds on Merleau-Ponty’s contention that mind, the human body and the environment are intertwined in a singular composite, and on Walter Benjamin’s suggestion that mind and city-form, in...
Cruise Tourism and Society
A Socio-economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
The growth and increased popularity of cruises is accompanied by a number of sustainability issues concerning the environment, the port economies and societies; on board and at shore. The sustainability imperative ultimately leads to operational, economical as well as image-related challenges for...
Corporate Governance in Banking and Investor Protection
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book explores the status quo of corporate governance in banking and investor protection from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Bringing together original conclusions with a regional and international focus, it provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the effectiveness of corporate...
Women on Corporate Boards of Directors
International Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Both the practitioner and academic communities have voiced strong opinions regarding the progress of women in reaching the executive suite and the corporate boardroom. Proponents on each side of the current debate offer evidence suggesting the accuracy of their respective positions. One view holds:...
The Large Hadron Collider
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
It may at first seem that the world of subatomic physics is far removed from our every day lives. Isn’t it all just a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Hopefully, all who read this book will come to a different conclusion. Collider physics is all about our origins, and this aspect alone makes...
by Neale Monks
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies is the first book specifically written for amateur astronomers who own, or who are about to purchase, a computer-controlled ‘go-to’ telescope. The advantage of the ‘go-to’ capability is enormous – the telescope can be aimed at any object in the sky with...
Time Machine Tales
The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject....
Mediterranean Climate
Variability and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Mohamed Larbi Selassi Deputy Director of the National Meteorology, Morocco Welcome address (translated from French) WMO, WCRP, Medias-France and scientific institutions representatives, ladies and gentlemen, to thank WMO and MEDIAS-France, who have honoured us by I want first organizing the two workshops,...
by Mark A. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This undergraduate textbook discusses the nature of the microscopic universe from a modern perspective, based on Einstein's notions of relativity and Noether's proof of the emergence of conservation laws from symmetries of the equations of motion. These ideas drove the development of the Standard...
Building Habitats on the Moon
Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Designing a habitat for the lunar surface? You will need to know more than structural engineering. There are the effects of meteoroids, radiation, and low gravity. Then there are the psychological and psychosocial aspects of living in close quarters, in a dangerous environment, far away from home....
Observing Photons in Space
A Guide to Experimental Space Astronomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
An ideal resource for lecturers, this book provides a comprehensive review of experimental space astronomy. The number of astronomers whose knowledge and interest is concentrated on interpreting observations has grown substantially in the past decades; yet, the number of scientists who are familiar...