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Clean Energy
Hydrogen/Fuel Cells Laboratory Manual(with DVD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This manual is designed for the use of hydrogen as a fuel in the fuel cells. The turn of the century has seen a realization of moving towards clean energy due to a variety of considerations ranging from global warming, anxiety to living in a healthy atmosphere, depletion of fossil fuels, oil slick...
Teaching Children to Love Problem Solving
A Reference from Birth through Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book was developed with the caring and concerned adult in mind and is a one-stop for anyone who would like to help a child develop problem solving thinking. They will become adept at the use of problem solving strategies over the course of their development from birth. For each age range, this...
by John Smithin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive overview, in the form of eight long essays, of the evolution of monetary theory over the three-quarters of century, from the time of Keynes to the present day. The essays are originally based on lecture notes from a graduate course on Advanced Monetary Economics...
Islamic Globalization
Pilgrimage, Capitalism, Democracy, and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Islamic Globalization examines the Muslim world's growing importance in creating a more inclusive international system that is increasingly multipolar and multicultural. The author describes an emerging pattern of Islamic globalization as a series of transformations in four interrelated areas —...
One Currency, Two Europes
Towards a Dual Eurozone
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The aftermath of the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 saw its influence spread around the world, including Europe. The European crisis turned out to be longer, deeper and more resilient than anticipated. An unexpected consequence was the increasingl
Struggling with Success
Challenges Facing the International Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Globalization, by which is meant the increasing economic interdependence among nations, has been a critical ingredient in enabling enormous improvement in mankind's condition. While progress has not always been smooth, and has not come without dislocation for some, the economic policy challenge has...
The Global Challenge of Malaria
Past Lessons and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Malaria is one of the most important “emerging” or “resurgent” infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, this mosquito-borne infection is a leading cause of suffering, death, poverty, and underdevelopment in the world today. Every year 500 million people become severely...
Regulation of Foreign Investment
Challenges to International Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules. Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and contentious issues with the view of appraising the prospects...
The Limits of Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
The Significance of Gödel's Incompleteness Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these...
The Energy Trail — Where It is Leading
Do You Know Enough to Care?
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
This book describes the effect that hydrocarbon energy (oil, gas and coal) has had on human evolution, how we got to the stage we are at today, what we are doing about it and where it will lead us in the not-too-distant future.
The book is not speculation, but rather a collection of provable...
by Ralph Pettman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
International political economy (IPE) is a highly complex discipline, drawing not only from the fields of politics and economics, but also those as varied as philosophy, history and anthropology. Now widely accepted as a key dimension to contemporary world affairs, it is no longer possible to talk...
by Suren Basov
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Microeconomics studies the choices made by individuals under conditions of scarcity of resources and time and the interaction between different decision makers. Scarcity forces economic actors to choose one opportunity among many. Microeconomics with Spreadsheets starts with the mathematical preliminaries...
Climate Finance
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
How is the struggle against climate change financed? Climate Finance: Theory and Practice gives an overview of the key debates that have emerged in the field of climate finance, including those concerned with efficiency, equity, justice, and contribution to the public good between developed and developing...
An Introduction to Knowledge Information Strategy
From Business Intelligence to Knowledge Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This book discusses the essence, concepts, techniques, and applications of business intelligence. It also explores different aspects of crisis management, knowledge management and knowledge sciences, the applications of business intelligence in contingencies and crises, environmental issues and group...