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Quantifying and Controlling Catastrophic Risks

Academic Press, 2008

The perception, assessment and management of risk are increasingly important core principles for determining the development of both policy and strategic responses to civil and environmental catastrophes. Whereas these principles were once confined to some areas of activity i.e. financial and insurance, they are now widely used in civil and...

Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)

Springer, 2008

Knowledge Cartography is the discipline of mapping intellectual landscapes.

The focus of this book is on the process by which manually crafting interactive, hypertextual maps clarifies one’s own understanding, as well as communicating it.

The authors see mapping software as a set of visual tools for reading and writing in a...

Basic Ship Theory Volume 1, Fifth Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001

Rawson and Tupper's Basic Ship Theory, first published in 1968, is widely known as the standard introductory text for naval architecture students, as well as being a useful reference for the more experienced designer.
The fifth edition continues to provide a balance between theory and practice. Volume 1 discusses ship geometry and...

Guerrilla Travel Tactics: Hundreds of Simple Strategies Guaranteed to Save Road Warriors Time and Money

AMACOM, 2004

" This book has given me countless ideas for making my next trip easier and less expensive."

Guerrilla Travel Tactics is the most comprehensive book ever written on finding travel bargains. It will help any business traveler survive the rigors of the road, optimize logistics, and get the most for every...

The Swarm: A Novel

William Morrow, 2006

For more than two years, one book has taken over Germany's hardcover and paperback bestseller lists, reaching number one in Der Spiegel and setting off a frenzy in bookstores: The Swarm.

Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in...

The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 (Great Historic Disasters)

Chelsea House Publications, 2008

At approximately 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a powerful earthquake ripped through the city of San Francisco. Roadways rose and fell like ocean waves. Crumbling walls and chimneys rained glass and bricks onto sidewalks and streets, and crowded rooming houses suddenly vanished into heaps of splintered wood. Yet San Francisco's ordeal had only begun....

Beginning Jenkins Blue Ocean: Create Elegant Pipelines With Ease

Apress, 2018

Dive deep into Jenkins Blue Ocean and discover how easy creating a pipeline can be. You’ll see how Blue Ocean provides a better user experience when designing, running, and visualizing pipelines. This book shows you its intuitive user interface and its powerful pipeline editor and how this makes it a tool for everyone....

Basic Ship Theory Volume 2, Fifth Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001

Rawson and Tupper's Basic Ship Theory, first published in 1968, is widely known as the standard introductory text for naval architecture students, as well as being a useful reference for the more experienced designer.

The fifth edition continues to provide a balance between theory and practice. Volume 2 expands on the material in Volume...

The Lucent Library of Science and Technology - Energy Alternatives

Lucent Books, 2004

Energy drives all life and is a key component to how humanity works, lives, and sustains itself. Due to the depletion of existing energy sources and the damage being done to the earth's ecosystems, renewable, non-polluting energy sources such as solar, wind, and geothermal power, are being developed and implemented.

The twentieth-century...

Mapping Antarctica: A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery (Springer Praxis Books)

Springer, 2013

Antarctica was to be the greatest discovery of them all! It was never to be a tripping over of a piece of useless land: the Greek philosophers had predicted a polar land- mass of geophysical importance! The question was rather whether or not man could bridge the "torrid equatorial zone" that was thought to separate the...

Pediatric Secrets: with STUDENT CONSULT Access (4th Edition)

Mosby, 2005

The Secrets Series® is breaking new ground again. This best-selling volume in the very popular Secrets Series® is back in an exciting, updated, and completely redesigned 4th Edition! With a new, two-color page layout, a more portable size, a list of the "Top 100 Secrets" in pediatrics, and access to the entire book and more...

Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas

Springer, 2018

A wide variety of marginal basins, ranging from polar to equatorial regions, and a few sizeable enclosed basins, can all be included among the Asian Seas. The Arctic Ocean shelf seas off Siberia; the sheltered basins along the Pacific Ocean’s western rim; the coastal seas of the northernmost Indian Ocean, including the semi-enclosed Red...

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