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Book SynopsisTransformative Artificial Intelligence provides a comprehensive overview of the latest trends, challenges, applications, and opportunities in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The book covers the state of the art in AI research, including machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics, and explores how these technologies are transforming various industries and domains, such as healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment.The book also addresses the challenges that come with the widespread adoption of AI, including ethical concerns, bias, and the impact on jobs and society. It provides insights into how to mitigate these challenges and how to design AI systems that are responsible, transparent, and trustworthy.The book offers a forward-looking perspective on the future of AI, exploring the emerging trends and applications that are likely to shape the next decade of AI innovation. It also provides practical guidance for businesses and individuals on how to leverage the power of AI to create new products, services, and opportunities.Overall, the book is an essential read for anyone who wants to stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence and understand the impact that this transformative technology will have on our lives in the coming years.

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Book SynopsisThe threats to the electricity grid are on the rise at the same time as society is increasing its dependence on electricity for every aspect of our personal, social, and economic lives. We are accelerating that dependence – looking to the electrification of transportation and buildings as a way to stem the threats of climate change. Those threats have now arrived (in the form of more extreme weather, droughts, and wildfire) and they are joined by increasing threats from an aging grid and cyberattacks. The grid we rely on is experiencing increasingly vulnerable external forces.We aren’t helpless. Effective planning around these threats can dramatically reduce the havoc they engender on the electric grid. At every level, from a single building, to a city, to the electric grid and the federal government, steps can be taken to improve our resilience to threats to the electricity system. When those efforts are coordinated, their benefits multiply. This book aims to provide every level of decision-maker with tools and best practices for reducing the risk of and from electricity loss. It is written in non-technical language, with a focus on actionable, easily implemented steps.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Energy Resilience Principles 1. The Energy Resilience Imperative 2. Energy Resilience Concepts Part 2: Energy Resilience Strategies and Tactics 3. The Energy Resilience Planning Process 4. Resilience Metrics and Maturity Model Part 3: Energy Resilience at Every Level 5. Energy Resilience at the Grid Level 6. Energy Resilience at the Local Level 7. Government Resilience: Policy and Programs

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Book SynopsisThis book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and how this can be enhanced by using emerging technology enabling a citizen to share their personal data, adding value.It provides answers for those within a smart city, advising their mayors or leaders on introducing new technology. We will cover the topic so as to enable many different public officials to be able to understand the situation from their own perspective, be they lawyers, financial people, service providers, those looking at governance structures, policy makers, etc.We are contributing to the new model for the European Data Economy. Case studies of existing best practice in the use of data are augmented with examples of embracing a citizen’s personal data in the mix, to enable better services to develop and potential new revenue streams to occur. This will enable new business models and investment opportunities to emerge.We will address the topic of how to put a value on data and will conclude by looking at what new technologies will be emerging in the coming years, to help cities with carbon-neutral targets to have more chance of succeeding.Table of Contents1. Peril on the Road to Utopia – Opportunities and Risks of Infusing Personal Data into the Smart City Ecosystem 2. The Principal Projects Underpinning this Work 3. Best Practice in the General Use of Data in a City 4. Case Studies Involving the Use of Personal Data in a Smart City 5. The Local Data Economy 6. Technical Components 7. Interoperability and the Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms 8. Health Data in a Smart City 9. Personal Data Management and MIM4 10. Standards for Citizens 11. Business Models 12. (Digital) City Financing Platforms 13. The Governance of Personal Data for the Public Interest: Research Insights and Recommendations 14. Data Valuation and its Applications for Smart Cities 15. Does Everything Conform to Legal, Ethical and Data Protection Principles? 16. Data-driven and Citizens’ Inclusive Smart Cities: Top Down and Bottom Up Approaches to Tackle Societal and Climate Challenges 17. What Next?

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Book SynopsisIn the era of propelling traditional energy systems to evolve towards smart energy systems, including power generation, energy storage systems, and electricity consumption have become more dynamic. The quality and reliability of power supply are impacted by the sporadic and rising use of electric vehicles, domestic loads, and industrial loads. Similarly, with the integration of solid state devices, renewable sources, and distributed generation, power generation processes are evolving in a variety of ways. Several cutting-edge technologies are necessary for the safe and secure operation of power systems in such a dynamic setting, including load distribution, automation, energy regulation & control, and energy trading. This book covers the applications of various big data analytics,artificial intelligence, and machine learning technologies in smart grids for demand prediction, decision-making processes, policy, and energy management. The book delves into the new technologies for modern power systems such as the Internet of Things, Blockchain for smart home and smart city solutions in depth.Technical topics discussed in the book include:• Hybrid smart energy system technologies• Smart meters• Energy demand forecasting• Use of different protocols and communication in smart energysystems• Power quality and allied issues and mitigation using AI• Intelligent transportation• Virtual power plants• AI based smart energy business models• Smart home solutions• Blockchain solutions for smart grids.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Smart Energy Systems and Recent Trends 2. An Overview of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Internet of Things for Future Energy Systems 3. LoRa: A New Technology for Smart Grid Applications 4. Clustering Hybrid Application for Load Forecasting in Smart Grids 5. Big Data Analytical Techniques for Electrical Energy Forecasting in the Smart Grid Paradigm 6. A Review of Smart Grid Planning Approaches and a New Proposal for operational Planning of a Smart Grid with Smart Homes 7. Smart Meter Data Analytics Case Study: Identification of LV Distribution Network Topology to Design Optimal Planning Solutions 8. Build Smart Grids on Artificial Intelligence: A Real-world Example 9. Artificial Intelligence Enabled Energy-efficient Technologies for Secured Smart Homes 10. A Review of Technologies in Net Zero Energy Building for Islanded Operation

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Book SynopsisImplantable devices are a unique area for circuit designers. A comprehensive understanding of design trade-offs at the system level is important to ensure device success. Circuit Design Considerations for Implantable Devices provides knowledge to CMOS circuit designers with limited biomedical background to understand design challenges and trade-offs for implantable devices, especially neural interfacing.Technical topics discussed in the book include: Neural interface Neural sensing amplifiers Electrical stimulation Embedded Signal Analysis Wireless Power Transmission to mm-Sized Free-Floating Distributed Implants Next Generation Neural Interface ElectronicsTable of ContentsCircuit Design Considerations for Implantable Devices

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state. It is an engaged study, which fills important analytical gaps and addresses real-world concerns, exploring the uplands as components of national and global systems of meaning, power, and production. It offers a significant re-assessment of concepts, processes, histories, relationships and discourses, many of which are not unique to either the uplands or Indonesia, making the book essential and compelling reading for both scholars and practitioners.Trade Review"An important overall theme of the book is the ways in which political, social and economic marginality is constituted, expressed and sustained....Overall the quality of the contributions to the volume is high; Li's editorial introduction and her first chapter on marginality, power and production are especially useful....Several of the chapters...provide excellent historical and ethnographic detail."Table of ContentsMarginality, power and production - analyzing upland transformations; constituting the uplands - economies and traditions; maize and tobacco in upland Indonesia; culturalizing the Indonesian Uplands; "It's Not Economical" - the market roots of a moral economy in highland Sulawesi; representing the Uplands - traditional knowledge and environments reconsidered; forest knowledge, forest transformation - political contingency, historical ecology and the renegotiation of knowledge in central Seram; becoming a tribal elder, and other green development fantasies; representations of the "Other" by others - the ethnographic challenge posed by planters' views of peasants in Indonesia; changing agrarian relations - commodity production and state agendas; nucleus and plasma - contract farming and the exercise of power in upland West Java. (Part contents).

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Book SynopsisThis work covers topics such as a water quality management plan for the Dutch portion of the North Sea, estimating discharges under 1980 conditions, and estimating effects of discharges on ambient water quality.

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Book SynopsisIn the context of an aging society and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring a healthy life expectancy has become a pressing social concern. Amidst the pandemic''s impact on medical systems worldwide, the need for advancements in early diagnosis, minimally invasive treatments, and infectious disease countermeasures has been reaffirmed. The demand for practical solutions, including new drugs, medical devices, and healthcare systems, is vocalized by healthcare professionals. To address these challenges, engineering researchers play a crucial role in swiftly translating their technological innovations into medical applications.In this book, cutting-edge researchers introduce biomedical engineering from materials, devices, imaging, and information. The chapter contributors are major members of the Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, Japan. This text discusses topics on biomaterials (Chapters 1 to 3), medical devices (Chapters 4 to 11), basic medicine and dentistry (Chapters 12 to 15), and medical systems (Chapters 16 and 17). All of the topics are important areas in biomedical engineering.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the emerging applications of different computational and optimization techniques in order to achieve a sustainable agriculture. A sustainable agricultural management requires tools in providing integrated, area-specifi c, and interpreted prediction or forecasting and guidance in every aspect in agriculture.

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Book SynopsisSince the publication of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessor, TWI programs have seen steady growth in usage. As a true understanding of Standard Work has developed, the need for the TWI skills as fundamental tools to achieve Lean objectives has been solidified.The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors, Second Edition has been completely updated to the latest terminology and practice. This edition includes revised forms and tools, as well as new examples that illustrate current day TWI practice. Emphasizing the importance of accident and injury prevention, this edition includes an entirely new section on Job Safety, a fourth TWI module that was developed in Japan using the identical TWI methodology of the original three programs introduced in the original work. This updated edition includes new chapters on: Four Steps of Job Safety: Preventing Accidents before They Happen Two Key Aspects to Safety: Things and People PractiTrade Review"As you probably know, Robert Wrona has been the primary driving force behind spreading the Training Within Industry (TWI) concepts in North America and around the globe for the past couple of decades, in conjunction with the TWI Institute. In Patrick Graupp you have, without a doubt, the finest TWI master instructor in the English language around the world. The first edition of their workbook was of tremendous value, and the latest version is even better. ... Spend time carefully thinking about the first principles and fundamental elements in this material, like Taiichi Ohno and others inside of Toyota did more than 60 years ago. The fundamentals have provided value to American companies before and after World War II. The concepts have provided decades of value to Toyota and other companies around the world as well. I am certain if you study the content and apply it diligently and patiently, you will find success as well."—From the Foreword by Art Smalley, President, Art of Lean, Inc. Table of ContentsTWI Fundamentals. Job Instruction. Job Methods. Job Relations. Job Safety.

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Book SynopsisA textbook in the field of forest ecology. It provides a survey of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests with an emphasis on ecological concepts across scales that range from global to landscape to microscopic. It is intended for advanced students of forest science, ecology, environmental studies, forest ecologists, foresters, and land managers.Trade ReviewIn this revised edition, Perry has added leading scientists Oren and Hart to the authorship of this large volume, the most comprehensive book on forest ecosystem ecology so far... The work is easily readable and very exciting... This well-written volume is a must read for graduate students, ecologists, and managers in forestry, ecosystem ecology, and forest management. Choice 2009Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction1.1. Why Study Ecosystems?1.2. State of the World's Forests1.3. The Study of Nature: Balance and Flux1.4. A Brief Overview of the Book1.5. Summary2. Basic Terminology and Concepts2.1. Some Basic Concepts2.2. The Subdisciplines of Ecology2.3. The Nature of Systems2.4. Summary3. Forests as Part of the Global Ecosystem3.1. A Brief Look at the Global Ecosystem3.2. Ecosystem Services Provided by Forests3.3. Forests and Human Health3.4. Summary4. Major Forest Types and Their Climatic Controls4.1. The Influence of Climate on Forest Type4.2. Latitudinal Gradients in Forest Characteristics4.3. How Will Global Climate Change Affect the Distribution of Forests?4.4. Summary5. Local Variation in Community Type: The Landscape Mosaic5.1. A Case History5.2. Topoedaphic Influences on Vegetation Patterns5.3. The Emergent Landscape: Integration of Topography, Soils, and Disturbance5.4. Vegetation Classification5.5. Summary6. Change in Time: An Overview6.1. Earth Music6.2. Summary7. Disturbance in Forest Ecosystems7.1. The Complex Nature of Disturbance7.2. Fire7.3. Wind7.4. Tectonic Activity7.5. Flooding7.6. Invasive Species7.7. Summary8. Patterns and Mechanisms of Succession8.1. Historical Notes8.2. Compositional and Structural Change during Succession8.3. Mechanisms of Succession8.4. Ecosystem Changes during Succession8.5. The Emergent Landscape Revisited8.6. Summary9. The Structure of Local Ecosystems9.1. Forest Structure9.2. Habitat and Niche9.3. Food Webs: Pathways of Energy Flow within Ecosystems9.4. Niche Overlap and Diversification9.5. The Tradeoff between Dominance and Diversity9.6. Scales of Diversity9.7. Summary10. How Biodiversity Is Created and Maintained10.1. Forces That Generate and Maintain Diversity within Communities10.2. The Variation of Species Richness amongEnvironments10.3. Relationships between Forest Structure and the Diversity of Animals and Microbes10.4. Forces Producing Diversity in Trees and Other Forest Plants10.5. Summary11. The Biological Web: Interactions among Species11.1. The Structure of Relationships within Communities11.2. Interactions between Two Species: Basic Concepts11.3. Mutualisms11.4. Competition11.5. Higher-Order Interactions11.6. Summary12. Size-Density Relationships in Forests over Time and across Space12.1. Self-Thinning: An Orderly Process12.2. Size-Density Relationships in Forests: The Spatial Dimension12.3. Summary13. Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects of Species Interactions13.1. The Role of Biotic Interactions in Evolution13.2. Community and Ecosystem Genetics13.3. The Selection of Cooperation within Groups13.4. Summary14. Soil: The Fundamental Resource14.1. What Is Soil?14.2. The Soil Profile14.3. Physical Properties of Soils14.4. Chemical Properties of Soils14.5. Biological Properties of Soils14.6. Soil Development14.7. Soil Classification14.8. Summary15. Primary Productivity15.1. Light Capture and Gas Exchange in Canopies15.2. Respiration by Trees and Ecosystems15.3. Net Primary Productivity15.4. Carbon Allocation in Different Environments15.5. The Limiting Factors of the Environment15.6. Trees Are Not Prisoners of the Environment15.7. Productivity in the Twenty-first Century15.8. Summary16. Forest Nutrition16.1. The Essential Nutrients and Their Physiological Roles16.2. Nutrient Requirements and Limitations16.3. Diagnosing Nutrient Deficiencies16.4. The Concept of Relative Addition Rate16.5. Summary17. Biogeochemical Cycling: Nutrient Inputs to and Losses from Local Ecosystems17.1. An Overview of Nutrient Inputs to Local Ecosystems17.2. Atmospheric Inputs17.3. Inputs from Weathering of Primary Minerals17.4. Biological Nitrogen Fixation17.5. Nutrient Losses from Undisturbed Forests17.6. Nutrient Losses from Disturbed Forests17.7. Summary18. Biogeochemical Cycling: The Intrasystem Cycle18.1. Overview of the Intrasystem Nutrient Cycle18.2. The Contribution of Nutrient Cycling to Primary Productivity18.3. Detritus18.4. The Intratree Nutrient Cycle18.5. Throughfall and Stem Flow18.6. Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling: Some Basic Concepts18.7. Broad Patterns of Decomposition: The k Value18.8. Factors Controlling the Rate of Decomposition18.9. Effects of Food-Chain Interactions on Decomposition, Immobilization, and Mineralization18.10. Biodiversity Affects Decomposition18.11. A Closer Look at Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur Cycles18.12. Plant Uptake18.13. Nutrient Cycling through Succession18.14. Global Change and Nutrient Cycling18.15. Summary19. Herbivores in Forest Ecosystems19.1. Effects of Herbivory on Primary Productivity19.2. Factors Controlling Herbivores19.3. Coevolutionary Balance in Forests19.4. Summary20. Ecosystem Stability I: Introduction and Case Studies20.1. Stability of What?20.2. Resistance, Resilience, Robustness20.3. Pollution20.4. Degrading Forests through Mismanagement20.5. Loss of Bioregulation: Breaking the Links between Plants and Soils20.6. Loss of Bioregulation: Breaking the Top-Down Links20.7. Balls, Dancers, and Dances20.8. Summary21. Ecosystem Stability II: The Role of Biodiversity21.1. May's Paradox21.2. Intensive Forest Management Simplifies Natural Ecosystems21.3. Does Biodiversity Stabilize Ecosystems? Yes, But . . .21.4. Understanding Stabilization Requires Understanding Structure-Function Interactions21.5. Summary22. Ecosystem Stability III: Conserving Species22.1. Conserving Species Means Protecting Habitat22.2. What Kind of Habitat? A Matter of Balance22.3. Fine Filters, Coarse Filters, and Pluralism22.4. Viable Populations22.5. Landscape Patterns: Fragmentation, Variegation, and Permeation22.6. Summary23. The Future23.1. The Implications of Global Warming23.2. Maintaining Biological Diversity in Managed Forests23.3. Coda: The New and the Renewed23.4. SummaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such asTrade Review“[A] wonderful, demanding, and courageous book. . . . It offers a theoretically informed perspective on social movements in the global South, anchored in questions specific to these actors and in dialogue with them. With his book, Escobar contributes an innovative method to the study of social movements.” - Pierre Hamel, American Journal of Sociology“This book, magisterial in its command of an impressive range of theory and literature, is a provocative and cutting-edge guide to thinking about place, capital, nature, development, identity, and networks. . . . [I]n the sheer power, depth, and complexity of the analysis and in the author’s ethical engagement and belief in the possibility of ‘worlds and knowledges otherwise,’ the book is a superb achievement.” - Peter Wade, Hispanic American Historical Review“Territories of Difference will become a classic . . . . [I]t is a mesmerizingly ambitious and provocative inquiry into social, cultural, biological, and economic life in the 21st century. It is also a highly original approach to the study of contemporary forms of domination and resistance that challenges Eurocentric conceptions of capitalist globalization and calls for alternatives to modernity.” - Ulrich Oslender, American Ethnologist“A wonderful, massive tour de force by one of today’s leading anthropologists. Arturo Escobar links his ethnography to a series of larger pressing debates about globalization and development, biology and nature, and social movements and network theory. The result is a book of astonishing virtuosity, range, and insight. It is nothing less than a model for the dense, interdisciplinary, polyglot theoretical analysis needed to understand experience anywhere in the world today.”—Orin Starn, author of Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian and co-editor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics“Books, like wines, take time to mature and develop their full strength. Then they are a delight, and not just for specialists. Arturo Escobar’s eloquent, engaged, and extremely well informed narrative of the Afro-Colombian movements in their struggles to defend their territories and ways of life is, to my mind, the best book on social movements to have appeared in years. It combines, in a unique way, the minutely traced complexity of the struggles and their evolving contexts with much broader issues that appeal to and impact all of us, such as biodiversity, alternatives to development, sustainability of life on earth, and social and cognitive justice. We, academics, students, activists of social movements, cannot but be powerfully interpellated by this landmark book, and can only honor it by reading it attentively, as one savors a good wine.”—Boaventura de Sousa Santos, editor of Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies“Books, like wines, take time to mature and develop their full strength. Then they are a delight, and not just for specialists. Arturo Escobar’s eloquent, engaged, and extremely well informed narrative of the Afro-Colombian movements in their struggles to defend their territories and ways of life is, to my mind, the best book on social movements to have appeared in years. It combines, in a unique way, the minutely traced complexity of the struggles and their evolving contexts with much broader issues that appeal to and impact all of us, such as biodiversity, alternatives to development, sustainability of life on earth, and social and cognitive justice. We, academics, students, activists of social movements, cannot but be powerfully interpellated by this landmark book, and can only honor it by reading it attentively, as one savors a good wine.”—Boaventura de Sousa Santos, editor of Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies“The product of a lifetime of work on the pitfalls of development, Arturo Escobar’s new book is an engaging and engaged effort to bring together knowledge from Western academia and from Afro-Colombian activists. Through his own blend of discursive theory, he makes academia listen, in the words of one of his local interlocutors, to the ‘drumming’ of a place subjected to capital but resistant to it, brightly illuminating at once the geopolitics of knowledge and of modern empires.”—Fernando Coronil, author of The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela“This book invites us all into alternative projects of world-making. Never losing sight of the forces pushing back at us or the colonizing power of Western thinking, Arturo Escobar marshals an extraordinary array of intellectual resources and social networks to galvanize hopeful action. He grounds his honest yet truly inspiring vision in the place-based knowledge and global activism of his longstanding collaborators, the and resilient and resourceful Afro-Colombian activists of the Pacific region.”—J. K. Gibson-Graham, authors of A Postcapitalist Politics and The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy“Arturo Escobar brings his signature commitments—a focus on the materiality of place, nature, and environmental politics, and a recognition of difference and the inescapable histories of coloniality—to an analysis of regional ecological and cultural struggles in Colombia. It is a singularly original contribution, both empirically and theoretically, which forces us to confront the real complexities of capitalism, identities, and political struggle. This book should be required reading for everyone interested in contemporary forms of globalization and economies, as well as the social movements organized against them.”—Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Territories of Difference will become a classic . . . . [I]t is a mesmerizingly ambitious and provocative inquiry into social, cultural, biological, and economic life in the 21st century. It is also a highly original approach to the study of contemporary forms of domination and resistance that challenges Eurocentric conceptions of capitalist globalization and calls for alternatives to modernity.” -- Ulrich Oslender * American Ethnologist *“[A] wonderful, demanding, and courageous book. . . . It offers a theoretically informed perspective on social movements in the global South, anchored in questions specific to these actors and in dialogue with them. With his book, Escobar contributes an innovative method to the study of social movements.” -- Pierre Hamel * American Journal of Sociology *“This book, magisterial in its command of an impressive range of theory and literature, is a provocative and cutting-edge guide to thinking about place, capital, nature, development, identity, and networks. . . . [I]n the sheer power, depth, and complexity of the analysis and in the author’s ethical engagement and belief in the possibility of ‘worlds and knowledges otherwise,’ the book is a superb achievement.” -- Peter Wade * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series vii Preface ix Acknolwedgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Place 27 2. Capital 69 3. Nature 111 4. Development 156 5. Identity 200 6. Networks 254 Conclusion 299 Notes 313 References Cited 381 Index 417

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Book SynopsisThoughtfully illustrated, carefully written, and covering a broad spectrum of topics, this classic text clarifies a subject that is often misunderstood and oversimplified.Trade ReviewThis well-illustrated (in three colors), reasonably priced volume is a worthwhile acquisition. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface1. The Science of Hydrology2. Precipitation and Evapotranspiration3. The Basis for Analysis in Physical Hydrology: Principles of Fluid Dynamics4. Open Channel Hydraulics5. Catchment Hydrology: Streams and Floods6. Groundwater Hydraulic7. Groundwater Hydrology8. Water in the Unsaturated Zone9. Ecohydrology: Interactions between Hydrological Processes and the Biota10. Catchment Hydrology: The Hillslope-Stream Continuum11. Water, Climate, Energy, and FoodAppendixes1. Units, Dimensions, and Conversions2. Properties of Water3. Basic Statistics in HydrologyAnswers to Example ProblemsGlossaryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA call for wildlife conservationists to transcend the boundaries of locality, share best practices, and unite with a common voice to influence global policy. Habitat loss, disease management, predator-human conflict, illegal tradethese are among the many conservation challenges faced by wildlife experts around the world. But how wildlife professionals approach these issues has historically been geographically fragmented. By providing a broad perspective on issues faced by wildlife on an international scale, the authors of International Wildlife Management make vital connections, drawing attention to underlying causes and strategies for mitigation that may look surprisingly similar from Montana to Zimbabwe. Bringing together wildlife professionals from around the globe to discuss shared challenges, International Wildlife Management examines widespread patterns of wildlife loss covers key conservation strategies, including species reintroduction, community engagement, and wildlife commTrade ReviewAs one who often finds himself reading news reports, commentary, and other material on a wide range of wildlife conservation issues, many of which seem mind-bogglingly perplexing in their complexity and – from an amateur's perspective – wholly beyond human capability to solve, I am very excited to see such a book as this now available that can provide not only an insight into how wildlife management professionals approach such challenges, but also that potential solutions are not only possible but are in fact already being tested and implemented in the field.—Johannes E. Riutta, The Well-Read NaturalistInternational Wildlife Management is an excellent book containing 16 chapters, including a 6 page index.—John A. Bissonette, Department of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, Journal of Wildlife ManagementTable of ContentsList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. International Wildlife: A Global PerspectiveJohn L. Koprowski, Paul R. Krausman, Dun Wang2. Culture, Values, and Governance: Foundations to Systems of Global Wildlife ConservationRonald J. Regan, Shane P. Mahoney, Basile van Havre, Colman O Criodain, Deborah M. Hahn3. Invasive Species: The Challenges of Nonnative Species Establishment and Spread to Native Wildlife PopulationsSandro Bertolino, Lucas A. Wauters, Adriano Martinoli4. Appreciation, Encouragement, and Rating of Wildlife and Nature Conservation on Private LandsDelwin E. Benson, Wouter van Hoven, Yves Lecocq, Bob van den Brink5. Habitat Loss and FragmentationHsiang Ling Chen, Gabrielle Beca, Mauro Galetti, Chiachun Tsai, Wei Hua Xu, Jing Jing Zhang, Patrick Zollner6. Consequences of Climate Change for Wildlife Marta A. Jarzyna, Victoria L. Atkin Dahm, Benjamin Zuckerberg, William F. Porter7. Global Energy Sprawl: Scale and SolutionsJoseph M. Kiesecker, David E. Naugle8. Wildlife Disease Management in the Global ContextSamantha M. Wisely9. The Effects of Wildlife-Based EcotourismWalt Anderson, Marissa C. G. Altmann10. Carnivores, Coexistence, and Conservation in the AnthropoceneDavid Christianson, Menna Jones11. Moving Animals in the Right Direction: Making Conservation Translocation an Effective ToolRonald R. Swaisgood, Carlos Ruiz-Miranda12. Poaching, Illegal Wildlife Trade, and Bushmeat Hunting in India and South AsiaShekhar K. Niraj, Shreya Sethi, S. P. Goyal, Amar N. Choudhary13. Management of Migratory Wildlife and Others Influenced by BorderlandsAndrea Santangeli, Shambhu Paudel14. International Organizations and Programs for Wildlife ConservationJohn F. Organ, Gonzalo Medina-Vogel, Tsuyoshi Yoshida15. Local Approaches and Community-Based ConservationJohn L. Koprowski, José F. González-Maya, Diego A. Zárrate-Charry, Uday R. Sharma, Craig Spencer16. Getting Involved: Advice for Students and Wildlife ProfessionalsRobert A. McCleery, Julie T. Shapiro, Karen Bailey, Thomas K. FrazerIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the March to the East. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.

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Book SynopsisWith In the Shadow of the Palms, Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant. As Chao notes, it is no secret that the palm oil sector has destructive environmental impacts: it greatly contributes to tropical deforestation and is a major driver of global warming. Situating the plant and the transformations it has brought within the context of West Papua’s volatile history of colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion, Chao traces how Marind attribute environmental destruction not just to humans, technologies, and capitalism but also to the volition and actions of the oil palm plant itself. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, Chao rethinks capitalist violence as a multispecies act. In the process, Chao centers hoTrade Review“[In the Shadow of the Palms] is a beautiful read, a brilliantly executed thesis. . . . [Chao’s] explanations of the Marind life-worlds are grounded thoroughly in lived-experience shared through cohabitation, active-listening, and situated entangled interaction.” -- Robert Wolfgramm * Pacific Circle Newsletter *"In the Shadow of the Palms is a brave, compelling piece of ethnographic work, cleverly structured and delightful in its elegant yet accessible prose, offering a new, powerful take on the longstanding issue of agribusiness expansion in Indonesia." -- Silvia Pergetti * ANUAC - Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale *"This is a brilliant book—beautifully written—based on rigorous and sensitive ethnography and sharp theoretical analysis that seamlessly blends ethnography with theory. Chao’s respect and admiration for her interlocutors shines through the text and brings to life Marinds kinship with sago and more-than-human becomings—and how this is under threat by the oil palm as an actor of multispecies violence. In the Shadow of the Palms is an important contribution to environmental anthropology and will be of interest to those interested in extractive agriculture, posthumanism, indigenous studies and settler colonialism, decolonising anthropology, political ecology and development studies—both within and beyond Southeast Asia and Papuan Oceania." -- Camelia Dewan * Anthropology Book Forum *"In the Shadow of the Palms offers a haunting and novel perspective on themes of dispossession and alienation wrought by the expansion of oil palm agribusiness in Indonesia. . . . In the Shadow of the Palms stands out for its courageous attempt to apprehend and translate the internal experience of the Marind community. Meticulous descriptions of interactions with various animal and plant species evidence a profound intersubjectivity of human and environment in the Marind world." -- Carter Beale * Forest and Society *"This was a story that needed to be told. A counter-narrative to the development agenda that promises a rosy future, without elaborating on the destruction and loss that it entails. . . . Chao's deeply thought-provoking and riveting tome is both theoretical and real, development economics and the anthropology of slow violence. It is a homage to an indigenous community with their own means of resistance—until they too finally fall prey to oil palm." -- Serina Rahman * Journal of Southeast Asian Economies *"In sum, this book is beautifully written, deeply researched, and deserves to be read widely. Not only by students and scholars of Indonesia, but for all those interested in Southeast Asia and environmental politics. In the Shadow of the Palms may well become a classic in both anthropological studies and studies of Southeast Asia. No mean feat for a first book." -- Tomas Cole * Asian Studies Review *“[In the Shadow of the Palms] is ethnographically rich, analytically incisive, and politically engaged. . . . Chao brings people, plants, and animals into a muddled assemblage to explore relationships, interdependencies, oppression, and generation with great effect. . . . This book will appeal greatly to scholars of more-than-human worlds and global capitalism.” -- Sebastian Antoine * Journal of Anthropological Society of Oxford *“As a reader, I laud Chao’s caring analysis and description; her eye for trouble—abu-abu—and her unrelenting commitment to thinking with rather than for the Marind. This accessible yet in-depth account of Marind ontologies, their fracturing, and their tentative remaking in the face of the oil palm is an important volume for diverse scholars and students in different fields, for instance those engaged with plantation ecologies, multispecies thought, and indigenous ontologies.” -- Irene van Oorschot * Etnofoor *“In the Shadow of the Palms represents, above all, a deeply ethical project—in the sense of giving voice to otherwise marginalised and silenced people; and ethical in its broader existential ambitions. This is a book we all need to read: it speaks to the current predicaments facing all of us.” -- Warwick Anderson * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"In the Shadow of the Palms is a wonderful book that will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and activists. This includes those whose work is specifically focused on the necrobiopolitics of the Plantationocene, as well as anyone who might be having trouble finding possibilities for hope in this moment of planetary undoing." -- Kevin Burke * American Ethnologist *"Chao has a superpower — her writing. ... You’d have to search long and hard for a book that better captures the ineluctable violence of our times, that makes the damage feel so poignant, so inexorable, so real." -- Danilyn Rutherford * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPrologue ix Introduction 1 1. Pressure Points 33 2. Living Maps 51 Interlude: Lost in the Plantation—The Dream of Yustinus Mahuze 75 3. Skin and Wetness 77 4. The Plastic Cassowary 95 Interlude: Metamorphosis—The Dream of Yosefus Samkakai 115 5. Sago Encounters 117 6. Oil Palm Counterpoint 143 Interlude: The Empty Sago Grove—The Dream of Agustinus Gebze 165 7. Time Has Come to Stop 167 8. Eaten by Oil Palm 183 Interlude: Black Waters of the Bian—The Dream of Elena Basik-Basik 201 Conclusions 203 Epilogue: Endings—The Author's Dream 219 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 227 References 269 Index 311

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Book SynopsisIn This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of network climate actionthe idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those close to us. Through this spread of climate-conscious practices, our individual actions become collective ones that can eventually effect widespread change.Weaving examples of everyday climate-forward initiatives in with insights on behavioral and structural change, Krasny demonstrates how we can scale up the impact of our efforts through leveraging our community connections. Whether by inviting family, friends, or colleagues to a plant-rich meal or by becoming activists at climate nonprofits, we can forge the social norms and shared identities that can lead to change. With easy-to-follow dos and don''ts, In This Together shows us a practical and hopeful

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of environmental economics that is based on a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. Students will not only leave the course with a firm understanding of environmental economics, but they will also be exposed to a number of case studies showing how underlying economic principles provided the foundation for specific environmental and resource policies. This key text highlights what insights can be derived from the actual experience.Key features include: Extensive coverage of the major issues, including climate change, air and water pollution, sustainable development, and environmental justice Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics, including externalities, experimental and behavioral economics, benefit-cost analysis, and methods for valuing the services provided by the environment Boxed

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Book SynopsisWork has never been as safe as it seems today. Safety has also never been as bureaucratized as it is today. Over the past two decades, the number of safety rules and statutes has exploded, and organizations themselves are creating ever more internal compliance requirements. At the same time, progress on safety has slowed to a crawl. Many incident- and injury rates have flatlined. Worse, excellent safety performance on low-consequence events tends to increase the risk of fatalities and disasters. Bureaucracy and compliance now seem less about managing the safety of the workers we are responsible for, and more about managing the liability of the people they work for. We make workers do a lot that does nothing to improve their success locally. Paradoxically, such tightening of safety bureaucracy robs us of exactly the source of human insight, creativity and resilience that can tell us how success is actually created, and where the next accident may well happen. It Trade Review'Having been a safety professional for 28 years I am absolutely appalled at this man’s attitude towards the safety profession. My work colleagues and I could not believe it when he referred to health and safety professionals as ‘Safety Nazi’s’ and HR as ‘Human Remains’. Does this man honestly believe that 250 years after the industrial revolution safety professionals have made little or no difference to reducing the risk of injury in workplaces…what a disgrace!! And then he goes on to say that if a worker gets killed at work he must have been a good worker, is he serious? I was absolutely gobsmacked at his comment. What a waste of money. Let’s hope he never returns to our State.''Best work on health and safety I have ever seen. Thoroughly researched, real-life examples and common sense. Dekker avoids all the usual garbage and bureaucratese that is so counterproductive to safety, and which completely bedevils the safety profession and regulators.' — Audience responses to Safety Anarchist lecture, 2016'There is deep and meaningful content in here – though the articulations on issues such as authoritarian high modernism, synoptic legibility and the superiority of rationality certainly had this reviewer reaching for a reference book. As respite, the book closes with suggestions on a new way forward – each well-positioned, timely and relevant.' — Andrew Sharman CFIOSH, IOSH Magazine 'This book should appeal to anyone working in organizations, and although the topic is safety, I suspect that things are not much different for any functional discipline in a large organization. If you are a safety professional, I’d suggest taking a deep breath, opening your mind and thinking critically about your current role while reading. If you then decide you want to make changes, I’m sure you’ll get support by passing a few copies of the book around your management team.' — David J. Provan, School of Humanities, Griffith UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1: A Case for ChangeChapter 2: We know what’s best for youChapter 3: Authoritarian High ModernismChapter 4: The safety bureaucracyChapter 5: What gets measured, gets manipulatedChapter 6: The infantilization of usChapter 7: A new religionChapter 8: A non-deterministic worldChapter 9: Anarchy versus anarchismChapter 10: Ways outReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisPrinciples of Environmental Engineering is intended for a course in introductory environmental engineering for sophomore- or junior-level students. This text provides a background in fundamental science and engineering principles of environmental engineering for students who may or may not become environmental engineers. Principles places more emphasis on scientific principles, ethics, and safety, and focuses less on engineering design. The text exposes students to a broad range of environmental topicsincluding risk management, water quality and treatment, air pollution, hazardous waste, solid waste, and ionizing radiation as well as discussion of relevant regulations and practices.The book also uses mass and energy balance as a tool for understanding environmental processes and solving environmental engineering problems.

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Book SynopsisThe eleven lessons in this tutorial introduce you to the design capabilities of Creo Parametric 9.0. Major topics include part and assembly creation, and creation of engineering drawings. This book has been written specifically with students in mind.

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Book SynopsisThe oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. This title offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject.Trade Review"This easy-to-read illustrated book, filled with both data and accessible mathematical equations demonstrating the impact of the oceans on the Earth's climate, offers practitioners and stakeholders' state-of-the-art scientific analysis of how the oceans and climate interact that is both user friendly to the non-expert yet scientifically rigorous enough as bridge material for graduate students as they grapple with the compelling field of climate science and oceanography... These books at Princeton Primers in Climate are a superb resource to find meticulous, detailed, and clearly presented facts on climate change science."--Gabriel Thoumi, MongaBay.com "This is an excellent primer on the physical processes that control interactions within and between the atmosphere and ocean... It is a quick read that would be appropriate for scientists looking for information on the salient points of ocean-atmosphere interactions and climate. It would also serve as a useful complementary resource for an introductory-level course in oceanography."--Choice "I absolutely recommend this book. Those expecting a primer on oceans and climate will be rewarded with much more than a book that teaches the basics of a subject. I have taught about the ocean for more than 20 years and I still found plenty of insights in this text that will enhance my own teaching of undergraduate and graduate students."--Susan Lozier, Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter 1: Basics of Climate 1 Chapter 2: The Oceans: A Descriptive Overview 22 Chapter 3: A Brief Introduction to Dynamics 41 Chapter 4: The Ocean Circulation 75 Chapter 5: The Ocean's Overall Role in Climate 105 Chapter 6: Climate Variability from Weeks to Years 128 Chapter 7: Global Warming and the Ocean 156 Notes 205 Further Reading 211 Glossary 215 References 223 Index 229

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Book SynopsisThis book takes the reader through the process of learning and creating data visualisation, following a unique journey with questions every step of the way, ultimately discussing how and when to bend and break the rules to come up with creative, unique, and sometimes unconventional ideas. Each easy-to-follow chapter poses one key question and provides a selection of discussion points and relevant data visualisation examples throughout.Structured in three parts: Section I poses questions around some fundamental data visualisation principles, while Section II introduces more advanced questions, challenging perceived best practices and suggesting when rules are open to interpretation or there to be broken. The questions in Section III introduce further themes leading on to specific ideas and visualisation projects in more detail.Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation will appeal to any reader with an interest in creaTrade Review"It’s a common experience for newcomers in visualization to be a bit disoriented. Here are some questions we’ve all asked ourselves at some point: Am I doing things correctly? Should I use this type of chart or that other type? Is this color palette appropriate? Will my intended audience understand the point I’m trying to make with this graphic? Will they be able to use the graphic’s interface? Am I breaking any rule of visualization? And so many others. The difference between Neil Richards and the rest of us is that Neil has written an entire book about his posing those questions to himself, and about the journey towards trying to answer them. Spoiler alert: the journey is often circuitous, and sometimes lacks a clear destination. But who cares? The journey, and not where it leads, is what can make us wiser as professionals; the process of reasoning to disentangle complex design choices has a value of its own.Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, walking that path along someone as friendly and personable as Neil makes the experience exciting and joyful."– Alberto Cairo and Tamara Munzner, Series Editors, AK Peters Visualization Series"Questions in Dataviz is an amazing resource for data visualisation folks looking for different and more creative design ideas - instead of following the norms of business data visualisation it asks the questions that challenge conventional practices to inspire new ideas to develop your own style and data visualisation philosophy. Neil introduces us to the concepts, inspirations and designers that inspired him, and encourages you to ask questions to find your own design driven journey into more creative design-driven output."– Giorgia Lupi, Pentagram"Beyond technical skills, statistical knowledge, and creative talent, one of the most vital attributes in data visualisation is to be curious. Before a chart comes data. Before the data comes a question. Questions fuel one’s understanding about anything and in this super new book, Neil Richards eloquently demonstrates his amazing flair for being curious. He answers the questions he had – and that anyone else should have – about the journey towards successfully mastering data visualisation. He delightfully unpacks the whys, the why nots, and the hows of this complex subject, in a wonderfully engaging and perfectly nuanced way."– Andy Kirk, Visualising Data Ltd."Neil writes about the 'why' behind his own chart design decisions in an engaging way that will give any new practitioner a glimpse inside the brain of a data visualization designer, with examples that showcase how an individual designer's style evolves and changes over time. For the experienced practitioner, Neil's book offers a tour through the many questions about our motivations and design decisions in data visualization that have emerged over the past decade or more. In some ways, the ideas feel like a delightful highlights reel of debates and discussions born out on Twitter and in various slack channels, summarized neatly and without judgement around the ways we may come to different answers to those questions."– Amanda Makulec, Executive Director, Data Visualization Society"Neil is a luminary in the field and his work clearly pushes the boundaries of data visualization. This book will help people push past the "standard" chart types and consider different, alternative visualizations that they may not have considered before."– Jonathan Schwabish, Urban Institute and PolicyViz“When do we break the rules? What are the exceptions? What is the decision making process that goes into creating dataviz and how do you bend the universal principles based on specific circumstances? This book explores these questions in an open-minded way.”– Valentina D'Efilippo, Award-winning data designerTable of ContentsPreface. Author. Introduction. SECTION I First Questions. Chapter 1.1 Should the data drive the visualisation? Chapter 1.2 What’s in a colour? Chapter 1.3 What does data visualisation have in common with psychology? Chapter 1.4 Do data visualisations have to tell a story? Chapter 1.5 Is it OK to steal? Chapter 1.6 Is white space always your friend? Section II Challenging. Questions Chapter 2.1 Why do we visualise data? Chapter 2.2 Why do we visualise using triangles? Chapter 2.3 Does it matter if shapes overlap? Chapter 2.4 What is data humanism? Chapter 2.5 What is design-driven data? Chapter 2.6 Do we take data visualisation too seriously? Chapter 2.7 Why create unnecessary data visualisations? Chapter 2.8 When are several visualisations better than one? Chapter 2.9 What can I do when data is impossible to find? Section III Idea Questions. Chapter 3.1 What is the third wave of data visualisation? Chapter 3.2 What alternative ways are there for visualizing timelines? Chapter 3.3 Why do I use flowers to visualise data? Chapter 3.4 What are Data Portraits? Chapter 3.5 How can I take inspiration from album covers? Chapter 3.6 How many ways can you tile the United States? Chapter 3.7 Is it possible to tile the world? Chapter 3.8 Can you create visualisations using only numbers? Chapter 3.9 How do you visualise music? Chapter 3.10 What are Truchet tiles? Chapter 3.11 How do you create 31 visualisations in a month? Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim. It emphasizes the inextricable relationship between fundamental freedoms and social justice, and their connection with peace and security. The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping the UDHR constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der konzeptionellen Umsetzung der Hochwasservorbeugung und zur Effektivierung des praktischen Handelns im integrierten Hochwasserrisikomanagement. Dem Autor ist es ein Anliegen, auch den bisher noch nicht von Hochwasser betroffenen Akteuren anhand praktischer Beispiele vor Augen zu führen, dass sie bei vorausschauendem Handeln viele unnötige Hochwasserschäden verhindern können und gleichzeitig einen Beitrag zur Umsetzung der EG-Hochwasserrisikomanagementrichtlinie leisten. Table of ContentsEinleitung - Integriertes Hochwasserrisikomanagement - EG-Hochwasserrisikomanagementrichtlinie - Wasserwirtschaftliche Ausgangslage - Hochwasserereignis 2002 - Risikomanagement während des Ereignisses - Schäden und Sofortmaßnahmen - Hochwassernachsorge und Wiederaufbau - Hochwasservorbeugung - Fachliche Umsetzung der EG-Hochwasserrisikomanagementrichtlinie - Zusammenfassung - Ausblick

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Book SynopsisIn a world of increasing variability and complexity, companies seem to persist in using outdated and inadequate organizational models and work patterns. Despite the available technologies and the most innovative time management techniques, we work more and more, with less results and more stress. Lean Lifestyle Strategy addresses the key problem of every professional, manager, and entrepreneur leading companies of all sizes: how to combine the need to produce more and more results, in less and less time, working better, and leading, at the same time, a lifestyle that generates prosperity and well-being. The time is ripe for lean work to become a strategy to achieve a true workâlife balance and express the best of people in the company without having to choose between operational efficiency or personal fulfilment. In this book, in addition to numerous examples, tools, and step-by-step methodologies, useful to begin to apply independently the principles of the Lea

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Book SynopsisIn order to gain accreditation, every laboratory must have a superior quality assurance program. The keys to a successful program are the operational and technical manuals and associated documents which define the program and its various components. Written by experts with global experience in setting up laboratories, Implementing Quality in Laboratory Policies and Processes: Using Templates, Project Management, and Six Sigma provides templates for the various policies, procedures, and forms that should be contained in the quality assurance, operational, and technical manuals of a laboratory seeking accreditation.Templates for the entire project life cycleThe book begins with a general introduction and overview of quality assurance and then moves on to cover implementation strategies. It contains best practices and templates for the project management of the design and implementation of the laboratory operational and teTrade Review...The authors do deserve applause for preventing repetitions, which are the norm, rather than exceptions, in books of this kind ... it is an important book which describes how quality has to be managed in any laboratory... —Puneet Setia and Avneesh Gupta, in Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Volume 11, Number 2, July - December 2010Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. POLICY TEMPLATES. Quality Assurance Program Overview. Audits, Inspections and Reviews. Document Control. Equipment and Chemicals. Personnel. Evidence. Laboratory Information Management Systems. Issue Management. Forms. CRITERIA FILES. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate guide to the smells of the universe – the ambrosial to the malodorous, and everything in between – from the author of the acclaimed culinary guides On Food and Cooking and Keys to Good CookingFrom Harold McGee, James Beard Award-winning author and leading expert on the science of food and cooking, comes an extensive exploration of the long-overlooked world of smell. In Nose Dive, McGee takes us on a sensory adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the fruit-filled Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of phenol and formaldehyde escape between the keys. We'll sniff the ordinary (wet pavement and cut grass) and the extraordinary (ambergris and truffles), the delightful (roses and vanilla) and the challenging (swamplands and durians). We'll smell one another. We'll smell ourselves. Through it all, McGee familiarizes

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to introduce the reader to the design, development, and evaluation processes of new Green Chemistry methodologies. A comprehensive introductory text, it takes a broad view of the subject and integrates a wide variety of topics. Topics covered include: alternative feedstocks, environmentally benign synthetic methodologies, designing safer chemical products, new reaction conditions, alternative solvents and catalyst development, and the use of biosynthesis and biomimetic principles. The reader is introduced to the new evaluation process that encompasses the health and environmental impact of a synthetic pathway from choice of starting materials through to target molecule. Throughout the text, comparisons and contrasts with classical methodologies are offered as illustrative examples. This accessible text is aimed at all those involved with the design, manufacture, use and disposal of chemicals and their products - especially synthetic chemicals at the graduate and professiTrade ReviewAs the summary of a vision, the book is brilliant. One can feel the enthusiasm of the authors throughout...I see it as a vehicle for initiating a fruitful dialogue between chemical producers and regulatory enforcers without the confrontation, which often characterizes such interactions. * Martyn Poliakoff, Green Chemistry, February *Its is an introductory text taking a broad view and intergrating a wide range of topics including synthetic methodologies, alternative solvents and catalysts, biosynthesis and alternative feedstocks. There are exercises for students and the last chapter deals with future trends' AslibTable of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. What is Green Chemistry? ; 3. Tools of Green Chemistry ; 4. Principles of Green Chemistry ; 5. Evaluating the Impacts of Chemistry ; 6. Evaluating Feedstocks and Starting Materials ; 7. Evaluating Reaction Types ; 8. Evaluation of Methods to Design Safer Chemicals ; 10. Future Trends in Green Chemistry

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Book SynopsisThe cryosphere encompasses the Earth's snow and ice masses. It is a critical part of our planet's climate system, one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. This title introduces readers to the cryosphere and the role it plays in our global climate system.Trade Review"In this work, part of the Princeton Primers in Climate series, glaciologist Marshall examines the nature of ice and snow (the cryosphere) in all its various forms... This book is accessible to interested readers with a background in physics; it could also serve as a textbook in a senior undergraduate or graduate-level course."--Choice "[E]vidence of the author's expertise shines through... The book ends with a succinct and thoughtful summary of cryospheric changes in recent history."--R.J. Galley, Arctic "I recommend this book for anyone seeking a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the physical processes governing the primary components of the global cryosphere. This text offers more than enough information for a new student in the field, and provides a great jumping-off point for those seeking higher understanding of a particular area of cryospheric science."--Gina R. Henderson, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society "[T]he quality of the book's content is beyond question. In its 288 pages The Cryosphere manages to provide an overview of all aspects of the Earth's cryosphere while, at the same time, leaving the reader feeling that he or she has gained significant technical insight into many of its key characteristic processes."--B. Hubbard, Antarctic ScienceTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter 1: Introduction to the Cryosphere 1 Chapter 2 Material Properties of Snow and Ice 11 Chapter 3 Snow and Ice Thermodynamics 36 Chapter 4 Seasonal Snow and Freshwater Ice 65 Chapter 5 Sea Ice 104 Chapter 6 Glaciers and Ice Sheets 127 Chapter 7 Permafrost 165 Chapter 8 Cryosphere-Climate Processes 180 Chapter 9 The Cryosphere and Climate Change 201 Chapter Glossary 241 Notes 249 Annotated Bibliography 251 Index 285

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Book SynopsisProviding a systematic and self-contained treatment of excitation, propagation and re- emission of electromagnetic waves guided by density ducts in magnetized plasmas, this book describes in detail the theoretical basis of the electrodynamics of ducts. The classical dielectric-waveguide theory in open guiding systems in magnetoplasma is subjected to rigorous generalization. The authors emphasize the conceptual physical and mathematical aspects of the theory, while demonstrating its applications to problems encountered in actual practice. The opening chapters of the book discuss the underlying physical phenomena, outline some of the results obtained in natural and artificial density ducts, and describe the basic theory crucial to understanding the remainder of the book. The more specialized and complex topics dealt with in subsequent chapters include the theory of guided wave propagation along axially uniform ducts, finding the field excited by the source in the presence of a duct, excitation of guided modes, the asymptotic theory of wave propagation along axially nonuniform ducts, and mode re-emission from a duct. The full wave theory is used throughout most of the book to ensure consistency, and the authors start with simpler cases and gradually increase the complexity of the treatment.Table of Contents1. The Basic Equations 2. Integral Representation of Source-excited Fields on a Duct 3. Modal Representation of Source-excited Fields on a Duct 4. Wave Re-emission from a Density Duct 5. Modes in Axially Uniform Ducts 6. Radiation from Given Sources in a Uniform Unbounded Magnetoplasma 7. Wave Propagation Along Axially Non-uniform Ducts

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Book SynopsisAre we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth''s history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction events look like and how does life on Earth recover from them? The fossil record reveals periods when biodiversity exploded, and short intervals when much of life was wiped out in mass extinction events. In comparison with these ancient events, today''s biotic crisis hasn''t (yet) reached the level of extinction to be called a mass extinction. But we are certainly in crisis, and current parallels with ancient mass extinction events are profound and deeply worrying. Humanity''s actions are applying the same sorts of pressures - on similar scales - that in the past pushed the Earth system out of equilibrium and triggered mass extinction events. Analysis of the fossil record suggests that we still have some time to avert this disaster: but we must act now.Trade Review'… a useful and succinct summary of the research into the reality and timing of mass extinctions from the early concepts to recent research - it brought me up-to-date with current thinking on mass extinctions. I admire his 'sceptical' stance: attempting to discriminate what a mass extinction actually is - outside the biggest three - is not as easy as has been assumed. The mass extinctions of the past clearly have relevance to the current approaching catastrophe in the Anthropocene, and the careful appraisal of exactly where we are in comparison with previous extinctions will be of great concern to those interested in the 'long view'. I particularly appreciated the focus on the notion of the interconnectedness of Earth systems.' Richard Fortey, author of Life: An Unauthorised Biography History and Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution'Despite its somber title and topic, Extinctions is an exuberant road trip through the history of life on Earth, led by a friendly and knowledgeable guide who knows all the locals along the way. Visiting so many ancestral Earthlings and vanished ecosystems is heady - and deeply humbling.' Marcia Bjornerud, Lawrence University, author of Timefulness and Reading the Rocks'Most of life may well be extinct, because of the huge age of the Earth, but Michael Hannah shows vividly in this book that the 8.7 million species on Earth today are profoundly at risk; the lessons of the fossil record tell us what will surely happen if we continue pushing species after species to the brink.' Michael Benton, University of Bristol, author of Dinosaurs Rediscovered'Without death, there can be no change. And, as Michael Hannah makes clear in his engaging new book, mass extinctions on various scales have been key shapers of the world as we know it. Had the dinosaurs not abruptly disappeared, we humans would not be here today. But as Hannah also shows, there is something dreadfully menacing about the massive species loss and climate change the world is currently experiencing, making his book a balanced yet deeply unsettling account of what humans are unwittingly doing to the world.' Ian Tattersall, American Museum of Natural History, co-author of The Accidental Homo sapiens'An accessible and authoritative guide to the past, present, and future of extinctions. Michael Hannah dives into the fossil record and surveys the great mass extinctions of Earth history, from the death of the dinosaurs to the demise of the woolly mammoth, and explains how they are relevant to understanding the predicament we are in today, and to plotting a better future.' Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh and New York Times/Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs'Michael Hannah's book expertly examines the geological record of mass extinction events. It asks us to consider whether we wish to join asteroid strikes and massive volcanic eruptions as causes of mass extinction. Or whether we can change our relationships with the wonderful diversity of life around us to avoid such an ignominious outcome.' Mark Williams, University of Leicester'… measured, thought-provoking analysis.' Andrew Robinson, NatureTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Further reading; Introduction; 1. The Anthropocene and the Earth system; 2. A short detour: the fossil record and the geological time scale; 3. The origin of animals and the emergence of the Earth system; 4. Documenting ancient biodiversity; 5. Mass extinctions – the basics; 6. Causes of the End-Permian and End-Cretaceous extinction events; 7. Time heals all – recovering from a mass extinction; 8. The late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions; 9. Surviving the Anthropocene; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn Architectural Record Notable BookA fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environmentModern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships?In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book provides the necessary tools for modern managers to help manage technology and engineering operations. The second edition adds more contemporary topics, such as Ethics, Globalization, Creativity and Innovation."—David Ben-Arieh - Kansas State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction to Management Challenges for Engineers. THE FUNCTIONS OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT. Planning. Organizing. Leading. Controlling. BUSINESS ESSENTIALS FOR ENGINEERING MANAGERS. Cost Accounting for Engineering Managers. Financial Accounting and Management for Engineering Managers. Marketing Management for Engineering Managers. ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. Engineers as Managers/Leaders. Creativity and Innovation. Ethics in Engineering Management and Workplace. Operational Excellence. Globalization. Engineering Management in the New Millennium. Appendix: Selected Engineering Management and Business Cases.

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Book SynopsisHow will the world be powered in ten years' time? Not by fossil fuels. Energy experts are all saying the same thing: solar photovoltaics (PV) is our future. Reports from universities, investment banks, international institutions and large investors agree. It's not about whether the switch from fossil fuels to solar power will happen, but when. Solar panels are being made that will last longer than ever hoped; investors are seeing the benefits of the long-term rewards provided by investing in solar; in the Middle East, a contractor can now offer solar-powered electricity far cheaper than that of a coal-fired power station. The Switch tracks the transition away from coal, oil and gas to a world in which the limitless energy of the sun provides much of the energy the 10 billion people of this planet will need. It examines both the solar future and how we will get there, and the ways in which we will provide stored power when the sun isn't shining. We learn about artificial photosynthesis from a start-up in the US that is making petrol from just CO2 and sunlight; ideas on energy storage are drawn from a company in Germany that makes batteries for homes; in the UK, a small company in Swindon has the story of wind turbines; and in Switzerland, a developer shows how we can use hydrogen to make 'renewable' natural gas for heating. Told through the stories of entrepreneurs, inventors and scientists from around the world, and using the latest research and studies, The Switch provides a positive solution to the climate change crisis, and looks to a brighter future ahead.Trade ReviewA highly readable book * Financial Times *

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