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Corrosion in Systems for Storage and Transportation of Petroleum Products and Biofuels
Identification, Monitoring and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This book treats corrosion as it occurs and affects processes in real-world situations, and thus points the way to practical solutions. Topics described include the conditions in which petroleum products are corrosive to metals; corrosion mechanisms of petroleum products; which parts of storage tanks...
Studies in Temporal Urbanism
The urbanTick Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This book is very much about what the name urbanTick literally says, about the ticking of the urban, the urban as we experience it everyday on the bus, in the park or between buildings. It is about the big orchestrated mass migration of commuters, the seasonal blossoms of the trees along the walkway...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
The two volumes of the second edition of the International Handbook of Educational Change comprise a totally new, and updated collection of the most critical and cutting-edge ideas in educational change.
Written by the most influential thinkers in the field, these volumes cover educational...
Migration in China and Asia
Experience and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia. The chapters presented in this volume offer variety in not only theme but in approach to migration in Southeast and East Asia. Particularly...
Mediterranean Urbanism
Historic Urban / Building Rules and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This book brings together historic urban / building rules and codes for the geographic areas including Greece, Italy and Spain. The author achieved his ambitious goal of finding pertinent rules and codes that were followed in previous societies for the processes that formed the built environment of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable. After 150 years, time has come to assess his legacy. The book fills a void in existing literature, by letting top scholars with diverse outlooks flesh out and discuss Austin’s...
Landscape Perspectives
The Holistic Nature of Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured...
by M.W. Fenner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is about the regeneration of plants from seed under field conditions. It attempts to give a reasonably balanced overview of the many aspects of this broad topic. The first chapter introduces some general ideas about reproduction in plants. Subsequent chapters deal with the early stages in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Structural irregularities are one of the most frequent causes of severe damages in buildings, as evidenced by the numerous earthquakes in recent years. This issue is of particular importance, since real structures are almost all irregular. Furthermore, structural irregularities depend on several...
Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting
With Special Emphasis on Existing Low Rise Structures
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Many more people are coming to live in earthquake-prone areas, especially urban ones. Many such areas contain low-rise, low-cost housing, while little money is available to retrofit the buildings to avoid total collapse and thus potentially save lives. The lack of money, especially in developing countries,...
RILEM Recommendations for the Prevention of Damage by Alkali-Aggregate Reactions in New Concrete Structures
State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 219-ACS
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This book contains the full set of RILEM Recommendations which have been produced to enable engineers, specifiers and testing houses to design and produce concrete which will not suffer damage arising from alkali reactions in the concrete. There are five recommended test methods for aggregates (designated...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Performance-based Earthquake Engineering has emerged before the turn of the century as the most important development in the field of Earthquake Engineering during the last three decades. It has since then started penetrating codes and standards on seismic assessment and retrofitting and making headway...
by A.S. Grey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Econometric Analysis of Carbon Markets
The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and the Clean Development Mechanism
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Through analysis of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), this book demonstrates how to use a variety of econometric techniques to analyze the evolving and expanding carbon markets sphere, techniques that can be extrapolated to the worldwide...