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The degree to which human conditions and the natural environment are vulnerable to the potential effects of climate change is a key concern for gov...

Effective global response to climate change requires the development and transfer of environmentally sound technologies between and within countrie...

Over the last 20 years, developments in climatology have provided an amazing array of explanations for the pattern of world climates. This textbook...

We all rely on a familiar set of indicators - interest rates, unemployment, inflation, the Dow Jones index, and GDP, for example - to gauge the per...

What Shape is Space? is a question with surprisingly far-reaching implications for our understanding of the very nature of reality and our place wi...

The Sixth Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Applications covered the most active topics in basic nuclear physics which were grouped into four bro...

'An inspirational and motivational must-read, packed with practical tips to push for positive change' Zanna van Dijk The climate is changing, so w...

Adaptive signal processing (ASP) and iterative signal processing (ISP) are important techniques in improving receiver performance in communication ...

Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems, Second Edition provides an exciting and challenging laboratory component for an undergraduate digital logic d...

Are you new to computers? Does new technology make you nervous? Relax! You're holding in your hands the easiest guide ever to computers - a book th...

A guide for students new to digital illustration as well as computer graphics and arts teachers and working graphic artists looking for fresh ways ...

The world trade of plants and plant products is gradually increasing in both quantity and variety. This book presents a number of recent scientific...

No other AutoCAD reference guide on the market is more up-to-date or provides details for as many commands and functions as this comprehensive reso...

It's in magazines and newspapers, it's on television and radio, it's on buses and billboards and pretty much everywhere you look. The iPad is the t...

This book describes innovative techniques and the theoretical background for design and analysis of high performance RF/Microwave transmitters. It ...

ALL THE CRAZIEST HIGHLIGHTS FROM FORTNITE'S LATEST SEASONS IN THE BRAND-NEW OFFICIAL ANNUAL Fortnite has seen another year of incredible changes, ...

An understanding of mechanical behavior is crucial for a wide variety of thin-film technologies such as semiconductor devices and packaging (includ...

'A fascinating and delightfully written book about some very smart people who may not, or may, be about to transform humanity forever' JON RONSON ...

Awesome Game Creation: No Programming Required, Second Edition teaches aspiring game developers how to create their own computer games without prog...

Lexical semantics has become a major research area within computational linguistics, drawing from psycholinguistics, knowledge representation, comp...

Optical networks based on wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) tech- nology offer the promise to satisfy the bandwidth requirements of the Inter-...

This eagerly-awaited volume has been edited by two academic researchers with extensive and reputable experience in this field. Emphasis is given to...

This book includes detailed examples and step-by-step instructions to introduce readers to the creative possiblities of Paint Shop Pro's graphics a...

Get ready to make music that rocks using the amazing new features of Ableton Live 4. This comprehensive guide is designed to help you take full adv...

Citroen Berlingo Multispace and Van (inc. First) and Peugeot Partner Combi and Van (inc. Origin). Petrol: 1.4 litre (1360cc) and 1.6 litre (1587cc)...

Visual Basic is the standard programming language for Windows. Well over a million applications are in commercial use, so anyone who wants to becom...

Internet traffic is increasing by at least 200% per year and this is the first book to report on the current state-of-the-art of packet-switching a...

This book focuses largely on enabling technologies for network convergence. A principal aim is to show where parallel functions exist in fixed and...

Toachieve design, implementation,and servicing ofcomplex systems and struc- tures in an efficient and cost-effective way,a deeper knowledge and und...

A must-have for any shoe or fashion addict, Shoes A-Z tells the story of sixty years of shoes. This fun yet authoritative book covers more than 350...

With his legendary flair and innovation, Trevor Sorbie launches bridal hairdressing into the twenty-first century with this revolutionary range of ...

A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home craft...

Urban Farms provides in-depth profiles of approximately 20 established and emerging urban farm leaders across America, from Brooklyn to LA. The typ...

This book is aimed at giving the reader a working knowledge of ColdFusion. It provides instructional advice and explains how ColdFusion works with ...

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Dairy Processing Food Cycle Technology Source Books By UNIFEM Practical Action Publishi...

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Energy Efficiency for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises Energy and Environment Technol...

Taking the form of a write-in student workbook Transmission, Chassis and Related Systems, together with Engines, Electronics and Related Systems, f...

The virtual organization is a new and dynamic form of organization which is threatening to challenge more conventional forms of business organizati...

This exceptional, full-color Maya Press title - produced by Alias, the software's creators - is a comprehensive mid-cycle revision that uses the aw...

This volume examines the classical aspects of biotechnology: the application of biological principles for the purpose of converting foodstuffs into...

Everybody involved in biotechnology will appreciate having this volume at their fingertips. It contains the biological background material which is...

Volume 10 on Special Processes completes the Second Edition of the Biotechnology series providing an overview on innovative and special fields of b...

This book details a systematic characteristics-based finite element procedure to investigate incompressible, free-surface and compressible flows. S...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Symposium on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, FSEN 2007. The topics includ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007. Coverage in the papers include...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed ...

This book constitutes the ninth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup, documenting presentations at the RoboCup 2005 International Sympo...

Reinhard Wilhelm's career in Computer Science spans more than a third of a century. This Festschrift volume, published to honor him on his 60th Bir...