This timely book provides authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow coverage of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques on the use of process integration to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes.
Antarctic Climate Evolution is the first book dedicated to furthering knowledge on the evolution of the world's largest ice sheet over its ~34 million year history.
Data accumulation, analysis, and interpretation technology are critical in hydrocarbon exploration and extraction to maximize petroleum recovery and development.
Landscape Evolution in the United States is an accessible text that balances interdisciplinary theory and application within the physical geography, geology, geomorphology, and climatology of the United States.
Unconventional Petroleum Geology is the first book of its kind to collectively identify, catalog, and assess the exploration and recovery potential of the Earth's unconventional hydrocarbons.
Globally, mineral exploration has grown significantly in recent years, driven by the rapid acceleration in prices for gold and diamonds since 2004 and the emergence of a middle class in both China and India-aggressively increased demand.
Written by one of Korea's most respected earth scientists, Geology and Sedimentology of the Korean Peninsula analyzes sedimentary facies, basin evolution, and sequence stratigraphy to provide answers to depositional processes and environmental changes through the Earth's history, including tectonic events, climate changes, and sea-level fluctuations.
The first work of its kind, Volcanic Reservoirs in Petroleum Exploration summarizes the current research and exploration techniques of volcanic reservoirs as a source of oil and gas.
A spectacularly illustrated journey into the intimate communities that native trees share with animals, insects, fungi, and microbesYou can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps.
An exciting look at the essential roles that parasites play in Earth's ecosystemsThis book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth.
Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology-such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity-with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity.
The essential insider's guide for ecologists at all career stages-now completely updated and expandedMost books and courses in ecology focus on facts and concepts but do little to explain the process of research.
WINNER: 2023 Goody Business Book Awards - Business - EnvironmentSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2024 - Change & Sustainability CategoryFINALIST: Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2024 - Social ChangeIn the face of our climate emergency, we desperately need solutionists working to fix the future.
En 'Asilvestración' Isabella Tree cuenta la historia del "experimento Knepp", un proyecto pionero de rewilding en West Sussex que utiliza animales de pastoreo en libertad para crear nuevos hábitats para la fauna.
Esta obra recorre y analiza la urbanización de Bariloche –con sus particularidades como destino turístico–, entre las políticas urbanas desplegadas por el Estado y los procesos de producción del hábitat de diferentes actores sociales.
Explore Earth's natural treasures, from their primeval origins to traditional uses and modern-day appeal with this illustrated guide to rocks, minerals, crystals, gems and more!
The latest edition of this highly successful and popular textbook has been completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in biogeography.
WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.
- Una amplia visión de las aplicaciones actuales de la madera en la construcción, los automóviles, la aeronáutica, los textiles, la acústica, la salud y la energía, en beneficio de la sostenibilidad del planeta y como fundamento de la bioeconomía circular.
- Una àmplia visió de les aplicacions actuals de la fusta a la construcció, els automòbils, l'aeronàutica, els tèxtils, l'acústica, la salut i l'energia, en benefici de la sostenibilitat del planeta i com a fonament de la bioeconomia circular.
A tour de force' - Robert Macfarlane'Some of the best environmental writing I have read' - Amitav Ghosh'Brilliant and evocative' - Pradip Krishen'Luminously written' - Paul Salopek'A book for the ages' - Ed KashiAN ENVIRONMENTALIST'S JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA'S PRECIOUS YET VULNERABLE LANDSCAPES.
Estudios geográficos y naturalistas, siglos XIX y XX presenta nueve capítulos que rescatan, analizan e interpretan la memoria histórica en torno a la serie de trabajos geográficos y naturalistas que en los siglos XIX y XX fueron desplegados por diversos actores de las ciudades mexicanas e incluso por extranjeros después de la Independencia y hasta su consolidación después de la Revolución Mexicana.
Descubre las maravillas de este fabuloso país con Atlas del Perú , el primer y único atlas ilustrado para niños con reseñas de lo mejor y másrepresentativo de cada región.
The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs.
