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The staircase :history and theories
John Templer has written the first theoretical, historical, and scientific analysis of one of the most basic and universal building elements: the stair. Together, these two volumes present a detailed study of stairs and ramps--the art and science of their design, their history, and their hazards.For the designer and the art and architectural historian, the first volume treats the fascinating hi…
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- 0262367807
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages :illustrations)
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The staircase :history and theories
John Templer has written the first theoretical, historical, and scientific analysis of one of the most basic and universal building elements: the stair. Together, these two volumes present a detailed study of stairs and ramps--the art and science of their design, their history, and their hazards.For the designer and the art and architectural historian, the first volume treats the fascinating hi…
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- 0262367807
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages :illustrations)
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Smokestack diplomacy :cooperation and conflict in East-West environmental pol…
Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a c…
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- 9780262271196
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- 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages).
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Urban air pollution modeling
This book brings together the methods, models and formulae used for estimating air pollution concentrations in urban areas.From the Foreword The visible effects of pollution in most cities in the developed countries have been reduced dramatically in the past thirty years. This has been achieved to a large extent by the replacement of most of the low-level sources, which burnt raw coal, by more …
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- 0262310961
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- 1 online resource (1 PDF (420 pages).).
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Water Resource Economics Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation i…
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that India is the largest user of groundwater both for irrigation and for drinking purposes, pumping t…
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- 978-81-322-2479-2
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Life Cycle Impact Assessment
This book offers a detailed presentation of the principles and practice of life cycle impact assessment. As a volume of the LCA compendium, the book is structured according to the LCIA framework developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)passing through the phases of definition or selection of impact categories, category indicators and characterisation models (Classifi…
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- 978-94-017-9744-3
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- Air Industri
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- 551.23
Sharpening the Sword of State : Building executive capacities in the public s…
Sharpening the Sword of State explores the various ways in which 10 jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific enhance their administrative capabilities through training and executive development. It traces how modern governments across this region look to develop their public services and public sector organisations in the face of rapid global change. For many governments there is a delicate balance be…
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- 9781760460723
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- 352.669 POD s
How to Read a Folktale : The ‘Ibonia’ Epic From Madagascar
How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytal…
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- 9781909254077
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- 163 halaman
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- 800 HAR h
Student Politics in Africa : Representation and Activism
The second volume of the African Higher Education Dynamics Series brings together the research of an international network of higher education scholars with interest in higher education and student politics in Africa. Most authors are early career academics who teach and conduct research in universities across the continent, and who came together for a research project and related workshops and…
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- 9781928331223
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- 280 halaman
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- 370 STU
Air Quality Integrated Assessment: A European Perspective
air quality; air pollution; environmental analysis
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- 9783319333496
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