Author: Ozni Porter HoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lignite
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Investigations of the Preparation and Use of Lignite, 1918-1925
Author: Ozni Porter HoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lignite
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Warfare in a Fragile World
Author: Stockholm International Peace Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"Among the crucial problems that confront mankind today are those associated with a degraded environment. This book examines the extent to which warfare and other military activities contribute to such degradation. The military capability to damage the environment and to cause ecological disruption has escalated, and there is no sign that the level of conflict in the world is decreasing. The military use and abuse of each of the several major global habitats -- temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular, and oceanic -- are evalusated separately in the light of the civil use and abuse of that habitat"--Dust jacket.
Geology and Paleontology of Five Cores from Screven and Burke Counties, Eastern Georgia
Author: Lucy E. EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures
Author: Steven H. KosmatkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Portland Cement Association reference, dealing with fundamentals, cold weather concreting, curing, admixtures, aggregates, mixing, and much more.
Germany
Author: Library of Congress. Federal Research DivisionPublisher: Bernan Press(PA)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
On October 3 1990 Germany's unification brought together a people separated for more than four decades by the division of Europe into hostile blocs, in the aftermath of World War II. This study attempts to review Germany's history and treat, in a concise and objective manner, its dominant social, poltical, economic and military aspects.
Industrial Gas Handbook
Author: Frank G. KerryPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420008269
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Drawing on Frank G. Kerry's more than 60 years of experience as a practicing engineer, the Industrial Gas Handbook: Gas Separation and Purification provides from-the-trenches advice that helps practicing engineers master and advance in the field. It offers detailed discussions and up-to-date approaches to process cycles for cryogenic separation of
Energy and the Wealth of Nations
Author: Charles A.S. HallPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319662198
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
In this updated edition of a groundbreaking text, concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that drive our “petroleum economy.” Hall and Klitgaard explore the relation between energy and the wealth explosion of the 20th century, and the interaction of internal limits to growth found in the investment process and rising inequality with the biophysical limits posed by finite energy resources. The authors focus attention on the failure of markets to recognize or efficiently allocate diminishing resources, the economic consequences of peak oil, the high cost and relatively low EROI of finding and exploiting new oil fields, including the much ballyhooed shale plays and oil sands, and whether alternative energy technologies such as wind and solar power can meet the minimum EROI requirements needed to run society as we know it. For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, energy and matter are completely recycled in these transactions, and economic activity is seemingly exempt from the Second Law of Thermodynamics. As we enter the second half of the age of oil, when energy supplies and the environmental impacts of energy production and consumption are likely to constrain economic growth, this exemption should be considered illusory at best. This book is an essential read for all scientists and economists who have recognized the urgent need for a more scientific, empirical, and unified approach to economics in an energy-constrained world, and serves as an ideal teaching text for the growing number of courses, such as the authors’ own, on the role of energy in society.
Biotechnology: Prospects and Applications
Author: R.K. SalarPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 8132216830
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Biotechnology: Prospects and Applications covers the review of recent developments in biotechnology and international authorship presents global issues that help in our understanding of the role of biotechnology in solving important scientific and societal problems for the benefit of mankind and environment. A balanced coverage of basic molecular biology and practical applications, relevant examples, colored illustrations, and contemporary applications of biotechnology provide students and researchers with the tools and basic knowledge of biotechnology. In our effort to introduce students and researchers to cutting edge techniques and applications of biotechnology, we dedicated specific chapters to such emerging areas of biotechnology as Emerging Dynamics of Brassinosteroids Research, Third generation green energy, Bioremediation, Metal Organic Frameworks: New smart materials for biological application, Bioherbicides, Biosensors, Fetal Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Animal forensics. Biotechnology: Prospects and Applications will be highly useful for students, teachers and researchers in all disciplines of life sciences, agricultural sciences, medicine, and biotechnology in universities, research stations and biotechnology companies. The book features broader aspects of the role of biotechnology in human endeavor. It also presents an overview of prospects and applications while emphasizing modern, cutting-edge, and emerging areas of biotechnology. Further, it provides the readers with a comprehensive knowledge of topics in food and agricultural biotechnology, microbial biotechnology, environmental biotechnology and animal biotechnology. The chapters have been written with special reference to the latest developments in above broader areas of biotechnology that impact the biotechnology industry. A list of references at the end of each chapter is provided for the readers to learn more about a particular topic. Typically, these references include basic research, research papers, review articles and articles from the popular literature.
Possibilities for the Commercial Utilization of Peat
Author: Osborn MonnettThailand's Macroeconomic Miracle
Author: Peter G. WarrPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821326541
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 345. Focuses on financial sector reforms in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia and provides a detailed assessment of where each country stands relative to European Union requirements for financial sector integration. The paper reviews current trends and changes in the countries' banking systems, the development of their capital markets, and the effects of changes in their legal and regulatory systems on banking supervision.