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Urban Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries: Policies, Projects, and Scenarios

Springer, 2019

This book describes the risks, impacts, measures, actions and adaptation policies that have developed globally as a result of the severe impacts of global climate change. In-depth chapters focus on climate change assessment (CCA) in terms of vulnerabilities and reflection on the built environment and measures and actions for...

Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Springer, 2009

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has recently been adopted as a term referring to a multidisciplinary subject which embraces a variety of pre-existing fields of computer science and engineering. Given the diversity of potential applications this relationship naturally extends to other areas of science, such as education, health and social care,...

Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Applications: Volume 31 NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - D: Information and Communication Security

IOS Press, 2011

This book is a collection of six articles arising from the meeting of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) ''Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Applications,'' which was held at the University of Montreal in June 2006. This ASI consisted of seven series of five one-hour lectures and one series of four one-hour...

Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world ? and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.

Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of...

Sams Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours

Sams Publishing, 2002

There currently no books on the market that offer to teach FreeBSD to a novice. This book will be very attractive to the rushed and impatient, as well as to those who simply have a desire to learn the benefits of FreeBSD when compared to other proprietary operating systems. The book covers the most beneficial uses of FreeBSD, as well as the...

Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks

John Wiley & Sons, 2014

Biomass is a renewable resource, whose utilization has received great attention due to environmental considerations and the increasing demands of energy worldwide. Since the energy crises of the 1970s, many countries have become interested in biomass as a fuel source to expand the development of domestic and renewable energy sources, reduce...

Alzheimer's Disease: A Century of Scientific And Clinical Research (Stand Alone)

IOS Press, 2006

This publication is a landmark work commemorating the centennial of Alois Alzheimer's discovery of what would be known as Alzheimer's disease (AD). The centennial of Alois Alzheimer's original description of the disease that would come to bear his name offers a vantage point from which to commemorate the seminal discoveries in the...

Self-Sufficiency Bible

Watkins Publishing, 2013

In today's economic climate, self-sufficiency is increasingly seen as a viable means of taking control of our lives and safeguarding for the future - this is the book that will help every householder do just that. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on key topics for living a more self-sustainable life, with practical information and...

Smart Economy in Smart African Cities: Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous (Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements)

Springer, 2019

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social...

The Serving Leader: 5 Powerful Actions That Will Transform Your Team, Your Business, and Your Community (Ken Blanchard)

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003

At a time of increasing concern about ethics at the top, The Serving Leader makes the case for an approach to leadership that is both more moral and more effective than the ruthless, anything-for-the-bottom-line approach that has brought disgrace—and often ruin—to many once-mighty organizations.

The Serving...

Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe: Challenges, Solutions and Collaborations (Lecture Notes in Mobility)

Springer, 2018

In order to build a sustainable transport system for people and goods that meets the needs of all users, a truly integrated and seamless approach is needed, and the full potential of transformative technologies has to be exploited. This can only be achieved if user-centeredness, cross-modality and technology transfer become the...

Antenna Theory and Design

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

The first edition of Antenna Theory and Design was published in 1981 and the second in 1998. This three-decade span has seen major expansions of antenna application areas, mainly in wireless communications. Along with technology advances has come public awareness of the presence and importance of antennas. Base station antennas are...

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