Filter by
Facing Up to Global Warming What is Going on and How You Can Make a Difference?
In this volume, Professor N.F. Gray offers a comprehensive primer on climate change, sustainability, and how the two concepts are related. This book consists of fifteen chapters, each treating a specific aspect of the current global crisis, including scientific background as well as an up to date appraisal of the issue at hand. It covers the reasons behind climate change and the effect it will …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-20146-7
- Collation
- 28 b/w illustrations, 155 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Facing Trajectories from School to Work Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth …
This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve the social conditions of the most socially vulne…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11436-1
- Collation
- 15 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Logic, Rewriting, and Concurrency: Essays Dedicated to José Meseguer on the …
This Festschrift volume contains 28 refereed papers including personal memories, essays, and regular research papers by close collaborators and friends of José Meseguer to honor him on the occasion of his 65th birthday. These papers were presented at a symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 23-25, 2015. The symposium also featured invited talks by Claude and …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-23165-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Facets of Uncertainties and Applications ICFUA, Kolkata, India, December 2013
Since the emergence of the formal concept of probability theory in the seventeenth century, uncertainty has been perceived solely in terms of probability theory. However, this apparently unique link between uncertainty and probability theory has come under investigation a few decades back. Uncertainties are nowadays accepted to be of various kinds. Uncertainty in general could refer to differen…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-81-322-2301-6
- Collation
- 61 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Eco-friendly polymer nanocomposites : chemistry and applications
This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches. The book aims at explaining bas…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788132224730
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 540
Ecological economics and harmonious society
This book is mainly about the examination of shifting in the field of ecological economics resulting from its evolution over the past three decades. It discusses the theory and methodology of ecological economics and development of ecological economics and related policies. It also analyzes the empirical study of ecological economics and the value of and compensation for ecological system servi…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811004612
- Collation
- 288 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.927
Ecological impacts of tsunamis on coastal ecosystems : lessons from the Great…
This book focuses on the ecological impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunamis, a rare and extremely large disturbance event, on various coastal ecosystems in Japan's Tohoku area, including sub-tidal and tidal animal communities, sand dune plant communities and coastal forests. The studies presented here describe not only how species and populations in these ecosystems we…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9784431564485
- Collation
- xi, 410 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 577.51
Ecology and conservation of mountaintop grasslands in Brazil
This book is a pioneer attempt to bring forward the first synthesis on the most diverse and threatened mountain top vegetation of South America, the rupestrian grasslands. It brings to light the state of the art information on this ecosystem geology, soil formation and distribution, environmental filters that lead to biodiversity, species interactions and their fine tuned adaptations to survive…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319298085
- Collation
- xxiii, 567 pages
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 578.7
Statistics for Non-Statisticians
This book was written for those who need to know how to collect, analyze and present data. It is meant to be a first course for practitioners, a book for private study or brush-up on statistics, and supplementary reading for general statistics classes. The book is untraditional, both with respect to the choice of topics and the presentation: Topics were determined by what is most useful for pra…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-49349-6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- 14 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
- Call Number
- XXI, 185
Ecology of blue straggler stars
The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution. Such stars should have exhausted their nuclear fuel and evolved long ago to become cooling white dwarfs. They are found to exist in globular clusters, open clusters, dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group, OB associations and as …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783662444344
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 523.8
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography