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Biodegradation: Science and Technology (Hardcover): William Chang Biodegradation: Science and Technology (Hardcover)
William Chang
R2,514 R2,292 Discovery Miles 22 920 Save R222 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Wildflower Girl - A Lifelong Journey Beyond the Trail (Hardcover): Dana Quinney Wildflower Girl - A Lifelong Journey Beyond the Trail (Hardcover)
Dana Quinney
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Microsystems for Bioelectronics - Scaling and Performance Limits (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Victor V. Zhirnov, Ralph K. Cavin III Microsystems for Bioelectronics - Scaling and Performance Limits (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Victor V. Zhirnov, Ralph K. Cavin III
R3,798 Discovery Miles 37 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The advances in microsystems offer new opportunities and capabilities to develop systems for biomedical applications, such as diagnostics and therapy. There is a need for a comprehensive treatment of microsystems and in particular for an understanding of performance limits associated with the shrinking scale of microsystems. The new edition of Microsystems for Bioelectronics addresses those needs and represents a major revision, expansion and advancement of the previous edition. This book considers physical principles and trends in extremely scaled autonomous microsystems such as integrated intelligent sensor systems, with a focus on energy minimization. It explores the implications of energy minimization on device and system architecture. It further details behavior of electronic components and its implications on system-level scaling and performance limits. In particular, fundamental scaling limits for energy sourcing, sensing, memory, computation and communication subsystems are developed and new applications such as optical, magnetic and mechanical sensors are presented. The new edition of this well-proven book with its unique focus and interdisciplinary approach shows the complexities of the next generation of nanoelectronic microsystems in a simple and illuminating view, and is aimed for a broad audience within the engineering and biomedical community.

Hydrocarbon: Exploration and Production (Hardcover): Allegra Smith Hydrocarbon: Exploration and Production (Hardcover)
Allegra Smith
R2,090 Discovery Miles 20 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development (Hardcover): John Grin, Jan-Pieter Smits, Frank Veraart Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development (Hardcover)
John Grin, Jan-Pieter Smits, Frank Veraart
R1,844 Discovery Miles 18 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Feeding Everyone No Matter What - Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe (Paperback): David Denkenberger, Joshua M... Feeding Everyone No Matter What - Managing Food Security After Global Catastrophe (Paperback)
David Denkenberger, Joshua M Pearce
R1,129 R1,007 Discovery Miles 10 070 Save R122 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

NB: Due to the inadvertent assignment of a previously used ISBN, this book was originally published under an incorrect identifying number. The book has now been given its own unique ISBN and is otherwise identical in every way to the original publication. Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production. The primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up enough food to feed everyone would take a significant amount of time and would increase the price of food, killing additional people due to inadequate global access to affordable food. Humanity is far from doomed, however, in these situations - there are solutions. This book provides an order of magnitude technical analysis comparing caloric requirements of all humans for five years with conversion of existing vegetation and fossil fuels to edible food. It presents mechanisms for global-scale conversion including: natural gas-digesting bacteria, extracting food from leaves, and conversion of fiber by enzymes, mushroom or bacteria growth, or a two-step process involving partial decomposition of fiber by fungi and/or bacteria and feeding them to animals such as beetles, ruminants (cows, deer, etc), rats and chickens. It includes an analysis to determine the ramp rates for each option and the results show that careful planning and global cooperation could ensure the bulk of humanity and biodiversity could be maintained in even in the most extreme circumstances.

Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics - Responding to the Climate Challenge (Hardcover): Jonathan M Harris, Neva R. Goodwin Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics - Responding to the Climate Challenge (Hardcover)
Jonathan M Harris, Neva R. Goodwin
R3,699 Discovery Miles 36 990 Out of stock

The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in the twenty-first century.What are the likely economic effects of climate change? What are the costs of substantial action to avert climate change? What economic policies can be effective in responding to climate change? The debate has broad implications for public policy. However, it also raises fundamental questions about economic analysis itself, and moves issues of environmental policy from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic level. Taking global climate change seriously requires a re-examination of macroeconomic goals. Economic growth has been closely linked to expanded use of energy, primarily fossil fuels. The assumption of continuing economic growth, in turn, leads economists to discount future costs, including the generational impacts of climate change. Challenging conventional concepts of growth implies different development paths both for rich and poor nations. This volume brings together contributions from scholars around the world to address these issues. Scholars, researchers and students of economics and development studies along with policymakers and non-governmental organizations will find this insightful book of great interest.

Warden Force - The Worst of the Worst and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 101-114 (Hardcover): Terry Hodges Warden Force - The Worst of the Worst and Other True Game Warden Adventures: Episodes 101-114 (Hardcover)
Terry Hodges
R586 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Climate Change and Clean Energy (Hardcover): Dieter H Otterbach Climate Change and Clean Energy (Hardcover)
Dieter H Otterbach
R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries... Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries (Hardcover)
Saul Guerrero
R5,706 Discovery Miles 57 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Silver by Fire, Silver by Mercury: A Chemical History of Silver Refining in New Spain and Mexico, 16th to 19th Centuries, Saul Guerrero combines historical research with geology and chemistry to refute the current prevailing narrative of a primitive effort dominated by mercury and its copious emissions to the air. Based on quantitative historical data, visual records and geochemical fundamentals, Guerrero analyses the chemical and economic reasons why two refining processes had to share production, creating along the way major innovations in the chemical recipes, milling equipment, mercury recycling practice, and industrial architecture and operations. Their main environmental impact was lead fume and the depletion of woodlands from smelting, and the transformation of mercury into calomel during the patio process.

Organic Waste Management (Hardcover): Victor Bonn Organic Waste Management (Hardcover)
Victor Bonn
R2,296 R2,100 Discovery Miles 21 000 Save R196 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Rethinking Global Value Chains and Corporate Social Responsibility (Hardcover): Peter Lund-Thomsen Rethinking Global Value Chains and Corporate Social Responsibility (Hardcover)
Peter Lund-Thomsen
R2,518 Discovery Miles 25 180 Out of stock

This innovative book sets out to rethink corporate social responsibility (CSR) in global value chains. Peter Lund-Thomsen considers how CSR is often framed and promoted by key actors in the Global North, the home of many large retailers and brands, in ways that overlook the unique challenges and broader circumstances faced by suppliers and countries in the Global South. He instead proposes that CSR must be understood as an evolving, context-dependent, and contested term that can best be viewed through multiple perspectives. Developing an integrated analytical model of buyer, supplier, and worker perspectives on CSR in global value chains, the book draws out future research and policy implications of this analysis in the areas of governance, human rights, the circular economy, and climate change. This book will be a critical resource for scholars and students with an interest in corporate social responsibility, critical management studies, management and sustainability, and responsible consumption and production. Practitioners and policy makers in business, government, international organizations, and NGOs will also benefit from the book's re-evaluation of CSR in global value chains.

Global Climatic Changes & Weather Modification Technologies (Hardcover, St ed.): I.V Murali Krishna, Valli Manickam Global Climatic Changes & Weather Modification Technologies (Hardcover, St ed.)
I.V Murali Krishna, Valli Manickam
R3,080 R2,596 Discovery Miles 25 960 Save R484 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The sensational humanity guide - A little book of ideas (Hardcover): Marty Stone The sensational humanity guide - A little book of ideas (Hardcover)
Marty Stone
R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Familiar Fish, Their Habits and Capture - A Practical Book on Fresh-Water Game Fish (Hardcover): Eugene McCarthy Familiar Fish, Their Habits and Capture - A Practical Book on Fresh-Water Game Fish (Hardcover)
Eugene McCarthy
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Technological Solutions for Sustainable Business Practice in Asia (Hardcover): Patricia Ordonez De Pablos Technological Solutions for Sustainable Business Practice in Asia (Hardcover)
Patricia Ordonez De Pablos
R5,085 Discovery Miles 50 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Central Asian countries play a geostrategic role in world economy and politics. As a result, efforts are being made to establish an effective channel of communication between academic and research institutions, policymakers, government agencies, and individuals concerned with the complexities of Asian business, information technologies, sustainable development, and globalization. Technological Solutions for Sustainable Business Practice in Asia provides an in-depth analysis on Asian economy, business, and management with a clear international and interdisciplinary approach. This comprehensive resource is beneficial for academics, PhD students, policymakers, and government officials.

Recent Advances in Crop Physiology Vol. 1 (Hardcover): Amrit Lal Singh Recent Advances in Crop Physiology Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Amrit Lal Singh
R2,679 Discovery Miles 26 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Environmental Issues Surrounding Human Overpopulation (Hardcover): Rajeev Pratap Singh, Anita Singh, Vaibhav Srivistava Environmental Issues Surrounding Human Overpopulation (Hardcover)
Rajeev Pratap Singh, Anita Singh, Vaibhav Srivistava
R5,061 Discovery Miles 50 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

There are many factors to be considered when examining the current state of environmental problems in the modern world. By addressing these causes, the preservation of ecosystems and environmental resources can be maintained. Environmental Issues Surrounding Human Overpopulation is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the depletion of natural resources due to overpopulation and presents insights on how these environmental threats can be addressed. Highlighting technological, economic, and social perspectives, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, researchers, academics, students, and practitioners interested in better understanding the current state of the global environment.

Ring of Fire - An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim's Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes (Hardcover): Bethany D Rinard... Ring of Fire - An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim's Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes (Hardcover)
Bethany D Rinard Hinga
R2,904 Discovery Miles 29 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author examines natural disasters around the Pacific Rim throughout history together with scientific data context to produce enlightening-and highly readable-entries. On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's coast, triggering a powerful tsunami. The massive destruction that resulted proved that not even sophisticated, industrialized nations are immune from nature's fury. Written to take some of the mystery out of the earth's behavior, this encyclopedia chronicles major natural disasters that have occurred around the Pacific Rim, an area nicknamed the "Ring of Fire" because of the volatile earth that lies above and below. The encyclopedia offers descriptions of deadly earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis through time. The entries provide in-depth information that promotes an understanding of the structure of the earth and earth processes and shares the insights of scientists whose work helps clarify the causes and effects of these cataclysmic events. At the same time, the work examines how the people and cultures of the Pacific Rim view this active part of the earth, how they live with the threat of disaster, and how they have been affected by major events that have occurred. Readers will come away with a holistic view of what is known, how this knowledge was gained, and what its implications may be. Features approximately 100 alphabetically arranged entries with insights into specific disasters, technology, key geographic features of the area, significant people, cultural beliefs, and more Includes a general introduction and overview of the geography and tectonic activity in the Pacific Rim countries Offers both historical and scientific information Explains complex natural phenomena and scientific concepts using nontechnical language and clear illustrations Provides relevant cross-references to related topics as well as to articles, books, and websites that offer further information

Dreams On The Green - Seven Mile River Ranch (Hardcover): David J. Bell Dreams On The Green - Seven Mile River Ranch (Hardcover)
David J. Bell
R1,757 Discovery Miles 17 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Technological Change and Environmental Policy - A Study of Depletion in the Oil and Gas Industry (Hardcover, illustrated... Technological Change and Environmental Policy - A Study of Depletion in the Oil and Gas Industry (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Shunsuke Managi
R2,702 Discovery Miles 27 020 Out of stock

This important book provides a comprehensive analysis of technological change and environmental policy within the oil and gas industry. It identifies and measures the impact of technological change, both in market and environmental output sectors and takes steps to identify key causal relationships. The author focuses on the design and implementation of environmental policies that encourage technological progress in the face of the depletion of natural resources and the increasing stringency of environmental regulations. Detailed policy scenarios provide quantitative assessments indicating the significance of the potential benefits of technological change and well-designed environmental policy. With a sophisticated description of innovations within the oil and gas industry, this book will be of great interest to postgraduate students in economics, as well as in public policy, business administration and engineering. It will also appeal to practitioners in the energy industry and energy and environmental policymakers as it demonstrates how successful market and environmental policies can contribute to efficiency by encouraging, rather than inhibiting, technological innovation.

More Ways to Look for the Good In Each Day - World Adventures Journal Inspirations (Hardcover): Debi Snyder More Ways to Look for the Good In Each Day - World Adventures Journal Inspirations (Hardcover)
Debi Snyder
R800 Discovery Miles 8 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disaster Management (Hardcover): C.A. Brebbia Disaster Management (Hardcover)
C.A. Brebbia
R4,612 Discovery Miles 46 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Recent major earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods and other natural phenomena have resulted in huge losses in terms of human life and property destruction. A new range of human-made disasters have afflicted humanity in modern times; terrorist activities have been added to more classical disasters such as those due to the failure of industrial installations. It is important to understand the nature of these global risks to be able to develop strategies to prepare for these events and plan effective responses in terms of disaster management and the associated human health impacts. The selected papers contained in this book have been written by academics and professionals and represent some of the latest developments in the field.

Science and Public Policy - The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Aynsley... Science and Public Policy - The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Aynsley Kellow
R2,736 Discovery Miles 27 360 Out of stock

This book is an examination of a neglected form of scientific corruption - corruption by political attachment to noble causes. We are used to hearing that economic interests have corrupted scientific findings, but the possibility that science might be corrupted by noble causes is largely overlooked. This book shows that this danger is real, that values can often lead to poor science, and that we are more likely to accept lower quality science when it lends support to our political preferences. Using the examples of biodiversity and climate science and the attack on Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist on these two issues, Aynsley Kellow reveals how the reliance of environmental science on mathematical models and the infusion of values into its conduct have produced a preference for virtual over observational data. It argues that both sides of politics are capable of exerting such an influence, but suggests some reasons why those on the political Left seem to be more prone to do so at present, to the detriment of public policy. Science and Public Policy is a unique and challenging book. It does not argue that any one political persuasion exerts a corrupting influence on science policy, instead it makes extensive use of peer-reviewed literature to explore scientific controversies and the role of politics in them. This fascinating book will appeal to high-level general readers as well as to scholars and researchers at all levels of academe working in environmental politics and policy; and science policy.

A Liveable Future is Possible (Paperback): Noam Chomsky, C. J. Polychroniou A Liveable Future is Possible (Paperback)
Noam Chomsky, C. J. Polychroniou
R295 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time

In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his insights on the pressing challenges facing humanity. A Liveable Future is Possible addresses artificial intelligence and the potential for such programs to surpass humans in cognitive awareness; what lies ahead for a world engulfed in a deadly climate crisis; the rise of neo-fascism internationally, and why we should organize across borders to confront it and the striking similarities between Trump and Biden's foreign policies.

Noam Chomsky has been an incomparable model of moral clarity and intellectual courage during his many decades as a scholar, political activist and social critic. A Liveable Future Is Possible is not only an urgent and informative book, it is a call-to-action for those hoping to help carry the torch of one of history’s greatest minds.

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