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Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment

Auerbach Publications, 2003

Hard drives and disk management receive scant attention from the industry press, yet recent surveys have identified disk failure as the #1 source of server downtime. Combine this fact with the skyrocketing TCO of data storage management, and it is apparent that server disk management is a subject deserving of much more scrutiny.

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Encyclopedia of World Cultures: South Asia

Macmillan Technical, 1992

Contemplation of the huge numbers of people now living in South Asia prompts me to point out that this volume deals with about 20 percent of the world's population (which stood at almost 5 billion in 1986, the year in which the population of South Asia passed the 1 billion mark). The rough geographic limits encompassing this mass of people and...

Environment and Economy (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)

Routledge, 2020

Nothing is more important to our world than finding a more comfortable relationship between the economy and the environment. While issues such as species loss, nitrate pollution, water scarcity and climate change are now attracting the political attention they deserve, their origin in the way our economy is organized is less...

Utilizing Information Technology Systems Across Disciplines: Advancements in the Application of Computer Science (Premier Reference Source)

Information Science Publishing, 2009

In the information technology age coupled with computer advances, information systems have become an integral part of many disciplines; accordingly, business, marketing, medicine, communication, banking, geography, physics, chemistry, aviation, pilots, forensics, agriculture, and even traf.c lights have one thing in common called...

Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries (Premier Reference)

IGI Global, 2007

The simulation of social behavior in a variety of domains is an increasingly important technological tool.

eference survey of social simulation work, Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries comprehensively collects the most exciting developments in the field. Drawing research contributions from a vibrant...

Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics: Modeling, Rendering and Animation

Morgan Kaufmann, 2002

Even as developments in photorealistic computer graphics continue to affect our work and leisure activities, practitioners and researchers are devoting more and more attention to non-photorealistic (NPR) techniques for generating images that appear to have been created by hand. These efforts benefit every field in which illustrationsthanks to...

The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005

With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler has established himself as one of the great commentators on American space and place. Now, with The Long Emergency, he offers a shocking vision of a post-oil future. As a result of artificially cheap fossil-fuel energy, we have...

Alternative Capitalisms: Geographies of Emerging Regions (Hodder Arnold Publication)

Arnold, 2003

This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in the 'emerging regions' of Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia by looking at development trajectories and the pathways of both economic and political change. This is a unique approach in...

Restoration and Development of the Degraded Loess Plateau, China (Ecological Research Monographs)

Springer, 2013

This book presents state-of-the-art scientific evidence and technological innovations to restore lands on the Loess Plateau of China, known worldwide for its serious land degradation and desertification problems. Supported by a rapidly developing Chinese economy and the dissemination of effective technology, the Grain-for-Green Project and...

Natural Hazards GIS-Based Spatial Modeling Using Data Mining Techniques (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)

Springer, 2018

This edited volume assesses capabilities of data mining algorithms for spatial modeling of natural hazards in different countries based on a collection of essays written by experts in the field. The book is organized on different hazards including landslides, flood, forest fire, land subsidence, earthquake, and gully erosion. Chapters were...

Handbook of Environmental Health, Fourth Edition, Volume II: Pollutant Interactions in Air, Water, and Soil

CRC Press, 2002

The book is filled with figures and diagrams. … largely well thought out and useful aids to understanding. … The authors clearly have a very detailed understanding of the relevant laws and provide a comprehensive overview of the links between these and environmental health. … clearly a useful and important reference text. Its...

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

W W Norton, 2019

National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

From the best-selling,...

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