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Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability

Palgrave Pivot, 2018

In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world’s Energy. Increasing consumption, dwindling reserves, climate warming and developing technologies are expected to push energy-related activities ever further into the previously inaccessible north. Within this...

Ageing and Life Extension of Offshore Structures: The Challenge of Managing Structural Integrity

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

A comprehensive overview of managing and assessing safety and functionality of ageing offshore structures and pipelines
A significant proportion, estimated at over 50%, of the worldwide infrastructure of offshore structures is in a life extension phase and is vulnerable to ageing processes. This book captures the central...

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World

Princeton Press, 2019

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today

This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by...

Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

W W Norton, 2019

Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.

If you were asked when America became polarized, your answer would likely depend on your age: you might say during Barack Obama’s presidency, or with the post-9/11 war on terror, or the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s, or...

The Art and Science of Seismic Interpretation (SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences)

Springer, 2019

Seismic data is one of the fundamental tools used to interpret subsurface geology with application to understanding of earth processes, tectonic evolution, and energy exploration in particular. This book is written for technical specialists who are new to seismic geophysics. It introduces the seismic data set including how the data...

Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Cornell University Library, 2019

Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects?artifacts, structures, and archaeological...

Active Vibration Control and Stability Analysis of Flexible Beam Systems

Springer, 2019

Control of flexible beam systems constitutes an important benchmark problem in many application areas, such as flexible manipulators for grasping, marine mooring lines for station keeping, marine risers for oil transportation, and crane cables for positioning the payload. Flexible systems have a number of advantages...

Metal and Metal Oxides for Energy and Electronics (Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World, 55)

Springer, 2020

Energy is a key world issue in the context of climate change and increasing population, 'calling for alternative fuels, better energy storage, and energy-saving devices. This books reviews the principles and applications of metals and metal oxides for energy, with focus on batteries, electrodes, nanomaterials, electronics,...

CO2 Injection in the Network of Carbonate Fractures (Petroleum Engineering)

Springer, 2020

This book presents guidelines for the design, operation and monitoring of CO2 injection in fractured carbonates, with low permeability in the rock matrix, for geological storage in permanent trapping.

CO2 migration is dominated by fractures in formations where the hydrodynamic and geochemical effects induced by the...

Waste Recycling Technologies for Nanomaterials Manufacturing (Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering)

Springer, 2021

This book discusses the recent advances in the wastes recycling technologies to provide low-cost and alternative ways for nanomaterials production. It shows how carbon nanomaterials can be synthesized from different waste sources such as banana fibers, argan (Argania spinosa) seed shells, corn grains, camellia oleifera shell, sugar cane...

America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present

Knopf, 2021

An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America, and the first book to examine, in all its aspects, the rich and fraught relations between these two powers--once allies, now adversaries. By an admired historian and the author of Untapped:...

The Scandinavian Skincare Bible: the definitive guide to understanding your skin

Scribe Publications, 2021

We get goosebumps if someone strokes our skin gently. The reason for this is that a tiny hair-erector muscle — the arrector pili, located deep in each hair follicle — responds to nerve signals from the brain. Our hairs stand on end, and the layer of air they trap protects us against the cold. The skin, our...

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