Learn IT - Books tags conservation

Guide to Energy Management

Fairmont Press, 2005

Manager's guide to the most important areas of energy cost cutting. Basic objectives of energy management are insightfully. Examines the most effective techniques and tools for achieving results. DLC: Energy conservation

Three leading experts guide you every step of the way in planning and implementing energy management strategies...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management

University of Nebraska Press, 2006

From before the time Raven stole the sun and shed light on the world below, the Gitxaa/la people have lived in their territories along the north coast of British Columbia. Gitxaa/la laws (Ayaawk) and history (Adaawk) describe in precise detail the relationships of trust, honor, and respect that are appropriate for the well-being and continuance of...

CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering (Mechanical Engineering Handbook Series)

CRC Press, 1999

To be successful in the international marketplace, corporations must have access to the latest developments and most recent experimental data. Traditional handbooks of heat transfer stress fundamental principles, analytical approaches to thermal problems, and elegant solutions to classical problems. The CRC Handbook of Thermal Engineering is not a...

HVAC Fundamentals

Fairmont Press, 2007

HVAC Fundamentals covers the full range of HVAC systems used in today’s facilities. This is a comprehensive book providing the reader a detailed description of how HVAC systems operate. The HVAC systems are divided into components and controls for air, water, heating, ventilating and air conditioning to clearly illustrate the way in which...

Ecology of Marine Sediments (Oxford Biology)

Oxford University Press, 2009

Marine sediments provide the largest habitat on planet earth, yet knowledge of the structure and function of their flora and fauna continues to be poorly described in current textbooks. This concise, readable introduction to benthic ecology builds upon the strengths of the previous edition but has been thoroughly revised throughout to incorporate...

Post-Oil Energy Technology: The World's First Solar-Hydrogen Demonstration Power Plant

CRC Press, 2008

A solution to the climate and energy crisis

Demonstrating the feasibility of a clean, renewable global energy future, Post-Oil Energy Technology: The World’s First Solar-Hydrogen Demonstration Power Plant describes the detailed design of the first 1,000 megawatt solar power plant with hydrogen storage.

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Radio Antennas and Propagation: Radio Engineering Fundamentals

Newnes, 1998

This is the most modern, comprehensive and system-oriented text on radio engineering in print, by a pioneer in the field. Engineers and students need to use this book, which covers the physics of radio systems from a quantum mechanical point of view and offers a unique insight into radio engineering by showing not only how but why radio systems...

Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings: .

Taylor & Francis, 2009

...I can recommend the book as good reading for students of surveying and architecture, for developers and for those involve with refurbishment of historic buildings..
–Dr. Jagjit Singh, Director, Environmental Building Solutions Ltd, Journal of Architectural Conservation No. 3, November 2001

...the...

An Introduction to Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution: Time and Space (Ecological Methods and Concepts)

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Students often find it difficult to grasp fundamental ecological and evolutionary concepts because of their inherently mathematical nature. Likewise, the application of ecological and evolutionary theory often requires a high degree of mathematical competence.

This book is a first step to addressing these difficulties, providing a broad...

Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies

For Dummies, 2009

Sustainable Landscaping For Dummies provides hands-on, how-to instruction for realizing the benefits of a sustainable landscape, from selecting sutainable hardscape materials to installing a rain-water catchment system to choosing native plants.

Create a beautiful, sustainable landscape that's easy on your...

Offshore Wind Energy: Research on Environmental Impacts

Springer, 2006

The accompanying ecological research for using wind energy in the German North and Baltic Seas is part of a series of research projects in the German Government's Investment Programme for the Future. It has brought out a variety of results about possible effects on the marine environment. This book provides an overview of the state of the...

Faith and Place: An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology

Oxford University Press, 2009

Faith and Place takes knowledge of place as a basis for thinking about the relationship between religious belief and our embodied life.

Recent epistemology of religion has appealed to various secular analogues for religious belief - especially analogues drawn from sense perception and scientific theory construction. These approaches tend...

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