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Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power
Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power

In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex. Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict domains?land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a larger...

Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Exploration
Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Exploration

This heavily illustrated book contains descriptions and geologic interpretations of photographs (mostly aerial) illustrating the power and magnitude of repeated Ice Age flooding in the Pacific Northwest, as recently as 14,000 years ago. The scale of Ice Age floods was so huge that today it is often difficult to see and...

Geospatial Technologies for Land Degradation Assessment and Management
Geospatial Technologies for Land Degradation Assessment and Management

The constant growth of the world’s population and the decline of the availability of land and soil resources are global concerns for food security. Other concerns are the decrease in productivity and delivery of essential ecosystems services because of the decline of soil quality and health by a range of degradation processes....

Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage
Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste,...

Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern...
Riots I Have Known
Riots I Have Known

“Dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious, Riots I Have Known is one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year.”—NPR

“Chapman establishes himself as a master of wit, satire, and heart.”—Apple Books

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Disaster and Respiratory Diseases (Respiratory Disease Series: Diagnostic Tools and Disease Managements)
Disaster and Respiratory Diseases (Respiratory Disease Series: Diagnostic Tools and Disease Managements)
This book provides valuable data on the outbreak, aggravation, treatment and prevention of respiratory diseases based on prior experiences of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Poor hygiene and air pollution can lead to the onset of pneumonia and other respiratory disease, while a lack of medical supplies aggravates...
Solar Resources Mapping: Fundamentals and Applications (Green Energy and Technology)
Solar Resources Mapping: Fundamentals and Applications (Green Energy and Technology)
This book presents methods for optimising the spatial and network configuration of solar radiation measuring stations. Various physical and mathematical models are demonstrated, which together with high quality measurements, provide the essential tools to generate and validate solar resource estimates to improve the mapping of solar...
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis in Environmental Economics (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (34))
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis in Environmental Economics (New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives (34))
This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering. The book illustrates effective economic and environmental policies for environmental challenges and factors...
Development of a Society on Wheels: Understanding the Rise of Automobile-dependency in China (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path)
Development of a Society on Wheels: Understanding the Rise of Automobile-dependency in China (Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path)
Using quantitative research, this volume investigates the characteristics, problems and trends of the automobile society in China’s mega cities and large cities. It also addresses topics related to cars and cities, traffic safety and cars’ consumption.

China has experienced more than 30 years of rapid
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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter...

Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems
Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems

It's easy to capture packets with Wireshark, the world's most popular network sniffer, whether off the wire or from the air. But how do you use those packets to understand what's happening on your network?

With an expanded discussion of network protocols and 45 completely new scenarios, this extensively...

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