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Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture
The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot...
Sketchbook Pro Digital Painting Essentials
Sketchbook Pro Digital Painting Essentials

Create stunning professional grade artwork using Sketchbook Pro

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  • Discover tricks and techniques that will help you make the most out of Sketchbook Pro
  • Packed with practical examples that help you create expressive sketches ranging from cartoons to portraits
  • A...
Food Composition and Analysis: Methods and Strategies
Food Composition and Analysis: Methods and Strategies

This book covers methods and strategies related to food composition and analysis. Topics include antioxidant activity of maize bran arabinoxylan microspheres; active packaging based on the release of carvacrol and thymol for fresh food; enzymes for the flavor, dairy, and baking industries; membrane technology in food processing; tenderization...

Handbook of Herbs and Spices: Volume 2
Handbook of Herbs and Spices: Volume 2

Herbs and spices are among the most versatile and widely used ingredients in food processing. As well as their traditional role in flavouring and colouring foods, they have increasingly been used as natural preservatives and for their potential health-promoting properties. The Handbook of Herbs and Spices Volume 2 provides an essential...

Emerging Markets For Dummies
Emerging Markets For Dummies
We live in a big world. Most of the people who share space on this planet live in countries that are less developed than the United States or such other big industrialized nations as Australia, Canada, England, France, and Japan. Instead, they live in Brazil, China, India, Russia, or any of the other nations that are manufacturing goods,...
Transition to Renewable Energy Systems
Transition to Renewable Energy Systems

In the wake of global climate change and increasing geopolitical instability of oil supply an accelerated transition to renewable energy system gets increasingly important, if not unavoidable.

This book encompasses reports of select energy strategies as well as in-depth technical information of the already or potentially involved...

Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making
Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making

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Weygandt, Managerial Accounting, 6th Edition gives students the tools they need to succeed, whether as accountants or in other career paths. The authors present the fundamental concepts of managerial accounting in an easy-to-understand fashion in a decision-making
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Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry (Soil Biology)
Geomicrobiology and Biogeochemistry (Soil Biology)

Over the past 4 billion years, microorganisms have contributed to shaping the earth and making it more habitable for higher forms of life. They are remarkable in their metabolic diversity and their ability to harvest energy from oxidation and reduction reactions. Research on these microbiological processes has led to the newly evolving fields...

Design and Analysis of Materials and Engineering Structures (Advanced Structured Materials)
Design and Analysis of Materials and Engineering Structures (Advanced Structured Materials)

The idea of this monograph is to present the latest results related to design and analysis of materials and engineering structures. The contributions cover the field of mechanical and civil engineering, ranging from automotive to dam design, transmission towers and up to machine design and exmaples taken from oil industry. Well known experts...

Fracking: The Operations and Environmental Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing (Energy Sustainability)
Fracking: The Operations and Environmental Consequences of Hydraulic Fracturing (Energy Sustainability)
Hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking, fracing, or worse) of rock deep beneath the surface to release petroleum product has become a contentious subject across the globe. This practice is not to be confused with drilling or extraction. Fracking is the process of using fluid power to fracture rock to release gas (and...
Advances in Bioethanol (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
Advances in Bioethanol (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
Disadvantages of fossil fuel derived transportation fuels (greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, resource depletion, unbalanced supply-demand relations) are strongly reduced or even absent with biotransportation fuels. Of all biofuels, ethanol is already produced on a fair scale. It produces slightly less greenhouse emissions than...
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management

This is a practical tutorial written in a clear and easy-to-understand style taking the reader through relevant, real-world examples that can be put into practice immediately. It contains detailed instructions and plenty of screenshots to make it easier for readers to understand Oracle E-Business Suite and work on it effectively. This book is...

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