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Handbook of Power Electronics in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles

Handbook of Power Electronics in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles provides advanced knowledge on autonomous systems, electric propulsion ...

Private Spaces in Public Places - Comfort Stations, Fitting Rooms, Public Baths, and Locker Rooms in America, 1880-1930

"This work takes a unique slant on the concept of privacy-not in terms of threats or law, but as it manifested in physical spaces"--

Climate Justice and the University - Shaping a Hopeful Future for All

A radical exploration of how higher education can advance transformative climate justice. Amid the worsening climate crisis and intensify...

Fundamentals of Environmental Sampling and Analysis, 2e Set

This book introduces a comprehensive overview on the fundamentals and applications of environmental sampling and analysis for students in...

Segregated Species - Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910-1948

"This work describes how pests have shaped the production of knowledge, in addition to their relationship with nature in rural South Afri...

Industrial Scale Inhibition: Principles, Design, and Applications

Learn the synthesis, characterization, scaling mechanisms, and applications of green antiscalants to be utilized in modern industrial pla...

The Biology and Conservation of Animal Populations

A foundational text on animal population conservation featuring practical applications and case studies. The study of animal populations ...

Saving the World - How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change

An illuminating history of the forgotten concept of climatic botany that underscores how vital forests are to our future. Saving the Worl...

North American Odyssey - 12,000 Miles Across the Continent by Kayak, Canoe, and Dogsled

From the acclaimed authors of A Year in the Wilderness, an extraordinary account of a 12,000-mile, human-powered journey across the conti...

Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World

"In May 2016, the city of Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, burned to the ground, forcing 88,000 people to flee their homes. It was the l...

The Serviceberry - An Economy of Gifts and Abundance

As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers ...

Overview: A New Perspective of Earth

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Preface Publishing, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, London"--Colphon.

Client Earth

Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest i...

The Book of Wilding - A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Get this great guide and be inspired' - STEPHEN FRY 'A han...

Fire Weather - A True Story from a Hotter World - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

*WINNER of the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* ***AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** 'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one o...

Fevered Planet - How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature

A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction o...

The Paradox of Svalbard - Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic

Climate change has meant that the future of the Arctic is important to the future of the world. This book is a glimpse into the changes a...

Dust - The Modern World in a Trillion Particles

'Dust is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance.' Robert Macfarlane 'Sup...

RHS Step-by-Step Veg Patch - A Foolproof Guide to Every Stage of Growing Fruit and Veg

Guidance on bringing about a thriving, appetising, attractive and potentially exotic vegetable patch, with different themes to suit each ...

Security and Conservation - The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade

Biodiversity conservation is increasingly identified as a critical contributor to national and global security as illegal wildlife trade ...

The Existential Toolkit for Climate Justice Educators - How to Teach in a Burning World

"The authors put language to many of the ways students and educators are traversing this moment in planetary history. The perspectives pr...

Food Planet Future - The Art of Turning Food and Climate Perils into Possibilities

Food Planet Future takes the reader on an extraordinary visual tour of everyday foods and in the process, connects us more deeply to the ...

Our Fragile Moment - how lessons from the Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis

An Independent Climate Book of the Year 2023 In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of T...

Chaos in the Heavens - The Forgotten History of Climate Change

POLITICIANS AND SCIENTISTS HAVE DEBATED CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CENTURIES IN TIMES OF RAPID CHANGE

Cognitive Predictive Maintenance Tools for Brain Diseases - Design and Analysis

Various Cognitive Predictive Maintenance Tests with help of tools like vibration analysis tools, Ultrasonic analysis tools, Infrared anal...

The Language of Climate Politics - Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

The Language of Climate Politics offers readers new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help get fossil fuels out of our econ...

How to Save Your Planet One Object at a Time

A stylish guide to one-hundred ways in which everyday objects and processes can be replaced with more environmentally friendly and sustai...

Making Nature Social - Towards a Relationship with Nature

This book explores how lived experience is vital to our relationship to nature through interviews with people working in different nature...

Eco-Concepts - Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought

This book provides critical engagements with recent environmental scholarship, incorporating key concepts in ecological thinking, the pat...

Reclaiming Our Planet - How Environmental History Can Help Solve the Climate Crisis

The climate crisis has been portrayed as deadly to humans, and it could be. However, serious environmental and resulting public health cr...

Proven Climate Solutions - Leading Voices on How to Accelerate Change

This game-changing action plan comes from 15 world-leading climate experts. It reveals the struggles and best practices of climate heroes...

The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands - Be transported by the most exciting debut of 2024

The Great Trans-Siberian Express comes to life in a novel of wild imagination, perfect for fans of Piranesi, Babel, The Night Circus and ...

We Will Not Be Saved - A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest

'Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring' EMMA THOMPSON 'One of the most effective leaders for indigenous rights and envir...

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates - Keys to Fauna of the Australian Bioregion

Infrastructure and Built Environment for Sustainable and Resilient Societies - Proceedings of Ibsr 2023

This book presents the select proceedings of the Annual Conference on "Infrastructure and Built Environment: Towards Sustainable and Resi...

The Forests Handbook, Volume 1 - An Overview of Forest Science

The future of the world's forests is at the forefront of environmental debate. Rising concerns over the effects of deforestation and clim...

Science Denial - Why It Happens and What to Do about It

How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children, or wear a mask during a pandemic? I...

Tenacious Beasts - Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals

"Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is reboundi...

The Contamination of the Earth - A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age

The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the...

Carbon Capture

A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway. The burning...

Bioplastics and Biocomposites - A Practical Introduction

We rely upon plastics for a great many functions in everyday life, from the cases of consumer electronics to disposable cutlery, plastics...

Six Energy Policies to Save the Planet

"With a Foreword by Dr Fatih Birol Hirst provides a wide-ranging account of international energy strategies to counter climate change. He...

Nature on Paper - Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press's Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series.

Religious Horror and the Ecogothic

This book illuminates the ways in which Christianity gothicizes humanity's response to the environment through a survey of Ecogothic text...

Digressions in Deep Time - Ecocritical Approaches to Literature and the Arts

Digressions in Deep Time is the first collection of essays which considers the multifarious representations of deep time across literatur...

Sustainable Resilient Built Environments - Proceedings of Srbe 2022, India

The proceedings of Sustainable Resilient Built Environments are based on the SRBE 2022 conference held in December 2022. It focuses on th...

Economic Futures - Climate Change and Modernity

The life of our planet has reached a critical stage. Its survival depends on our ability to rethink our relationship with ecology and cre...

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics - Urban Economics Volume 2

This second volume of the Handbook presents professional surveys of all the important topics in urban economics. The first section contai...

Climate Change and the Future of Boston

An in-depth analysis of the climate impacts facing Boston and the city's efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.

Methods in Stream Ecology - Volume 2: Ecosystem Function

Methods in Stream Ecology: Volume 2: Ecosystem Structure, Third Edition, provides a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in ...

Gender Aspects of Climate Change and Sustainable Development - A Global Overview

This book addresses how sustainability discourse and advocacy can translate to impactful policies especially when bridging the divide bet...

Environmental Chemodynamics: Movement of Chemicals in Air, Water, and Soil, - Movement of Chemicals in Air, Water, and Soil

This book updates a successful and widely-used text that is "the most authoritative source in the field of environmental chemodynamics." ...

Protected Species and Biodiversity - A Guide for Planners and Ecologists

This book looks at the need for properly collected protected species surveys data to accompany planning applications. In the detailed tab...

Water Management in Developing Countries and Sustainable Development

This book provides information on sustainable water resource management strategies that present innovative ways to conserve both quality ...

Global Justice and the Biodiversity Crisis - Conservation in a World of Inequality

The challenge this book grapples with is how biodiversity might be conserved without producing global injustice.

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

This book covers main fiber lasers and amplifier devices based on rare-earth-doped silicia and flourozirconate fibers. It describes the e...

Smart Cities, Energy and Climate - Governing Cities for a Low-Carbon Future

Collective insight of key thought leaders in the field, combining theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge Smart Cities, Ener...

Conservation Physiology - Applications for Wildlife Conservation and Management

This novel textbook provides the first consolidated overview of the scope, purpose, and applications of conservation physiology with a fo...

Algae as a Natural Solution for Challenges in Water-Food-Energy Nexus - Toward Carbon Neutrality

This book provides an overview of challenges and opportunities for algal management to mitigate climate change. This book offers new pers...

Seismic Performance of Corroded Reinforced Concrete Structures Retrofitted with Frp

This monograph is written based on the author's research on seismic assessment and retrofitting of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete ...