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Climate Change (Global Viewpoints)Global interdependence has become an undeniable reality. Mass media and technology have increased worldwide access to information and created a society of global citizens. Understanding and navigating this global community is a challenge, requiring a high degree of information literacy and a new level of learning sophistication.
Building... | | Groundwater in the Environment: An Introduction
This accessible new textbook provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of groundwater systems and their management. Using straightforward language and analogies to everyday experiences, it explains the origins, nature, and behavior of subsurface water without resorting to complicated mathematics.
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Global Issues: An Introduction
Now reorganized and updated throughout, the fifth edition of this well-regarded introductory global issues text continues to reflect the most important aspects of an increasingly globalized world.
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Reorganized into more accessible chapters better suited to semester-long courses, with new sections covering development,...
| | Digital Preservation for Heritages: Technologies and Applications
Cultural heritages include rich information related to social, historical and
cultural values. Affected by climate, environmental and other factors, some
valuable heritage information is threatened through destruction or disappearance,
and some is still not utilized sufficiently. How to investigate and utilize
such information... | | 101 Investment Tools for Buying Low & Selling High
More than just an investment dictionary, 101 Investment Tools for Buying Low and Selling High analyzes in a concise style various investment vanes-from stock indexes to measures of affordable housing to leading economic reports.
Learn what these measures are, who's compiling them, where they are easily found, and how they can, or... |
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| | | | Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility: Oil Multinationals and Social ChallengesCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important approach for addressing the social and environmental impact of company activities. Yet companies are increasingly expected to go beyond this. They are now often expected to assist in addressing many of the world's most pressing problems, including climate change, poverty and... |
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Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice
Although our planet is characterized by water, the extent to which water in its
frozen state plays a role in the functioning of the Earth is perhaps underappreciated.
Snow and ice cover about a sixth of the Earth’s surface, as snow
lying on the ground, as glaciers and larger masses of terrestrial ice, including
the huge... | | Understanding Renewable Energy Systems* Provides technical details on different renewable energy systems plus background information on climate change and related economics * Contains free CD-ROM, including simulation software and figures from the book * Ideal as a student text, including worked examples
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