Ciencias y técnicas / Tecnología e Ingeniería

RF Circuit Design

de Richard C. Li

Summarizes the schemes and technologies in RF circuit design, describes the basic parameters of an RF system and the fundamentals of RF system design, and presents an introduction of the individual RF circuit...

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

de Steven Johnson

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson,...

Digital Control Engineering: Analysis and Design

de M. Sami Fadali & Antonio Visioli

Digital controllers are part of nearly all modern personal, industrial, and transportation sytems. Every senior or graduate student of electrical, chemical or mechanical engineering should therefore be familiar...

Common Well Control Hazards: Identification and Countermeasures

de Sun Xiaozhen

Heavily illustrated with 900 pictures of actual well control sites, Common Well Control Hazards: Identification and Countermeasures provides a visual representation of 177 common well control hazards and how...

Human Resource Management in Construction Projects

de Andrew Dainty & Martin Loosemore

The construction sector is one of the most complex and problematic arenas within which to manage people. As a result, the applicability of much mainstream human resource management (HRM) theory to this industry...

Urban and Environmental Economics: An Introduction

de Graham Squires

The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers,...

To Scale: One Hundred Urban Plans

de NoContributor

How big is Moscow's Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there fewer public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might be found in the plan of Savannah, Georgia's historic district? ...

The Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London, 10-15 October 1910

de William Whyte & Helen Meller

In October 1910 the Royal Institute of British Architects hosted the first ever international conference on Town Planning. The Transactions of this critical event in the development of planning as a profession...

A Handbook on Low-Energy Buildings and District-Energy Systems: Fundamentals, Techniques and Examples

de Danny Harvey

Winner of Choice Magazine - Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 Buildings account for over one third of global energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Reducing energy use by buildings...

Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines

de Martin O L Hansen

Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines is the established essential text for the fundamental solutions to efficient wind turbine design. Now in its second edition, it has been entirely updated and substantially extended...

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007

de Un-Habitat

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It...

Lessons from Forest Decentralization: "Money, Justice and the Quest for Good Governance in Asia-Pacific"

de Carol Colfer Pierce J, Ganga Dahal Ram & Doris Capistrano

The decentralization of control over the vast forests of the world is moving at a rapid pace, with both positive and negative ramifications for people and forests themselves. The fresh research from a host of...

The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings Healthy and Comfortable

de Philomena M. Bluyssen

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly...

Global Environmental Forest Policies: An International Comparison

de Constance McDermott, Benjamin Cashore & Peter Kanowski

Market globalization and the globalization of environmental concerns have spurred demand for greater international accountability for forest stewardship. In response, a range of multi-lateral governmental and...

The Renewable Revolution: How We Can Fight Climate Change, Prevent Energy Wars, Revitalize the Economy and Transition to a Sustainable Future

de Sajed Kamal

Our environment and society is threatened by fuel shortages, a changing climate and energy wars. In our race for survival we are awakened to the simple truth that the essential condition of sustainability lies...

Integral Sustainable Design: Transformative Perspectives

de Mark DeKay

This book offers practical and theoretical tools for more effective sustainable design solutions and for communicating sustainable design ideas to today's diverse stakeholders. It uses Integral Theory to make...

The World of Organic Agriculture: Statistics and Emerging Trends 2008

de Helga Willer & Minou Yussefi

The new edition of this annual publication (previously published solely by IFOAM and FiBL) documents recent developments in global organic agriculture. It includes contributions from representatives of the organic...

Agricultural Investment and Productivity: Building Sustainability in East Africa

de Randall Bluffstone & Gunnar K?hlin

Agricultural Investment and Productivity provides a deep and systematic look at the opportunities for and constraints to investments in sustainable agriculture in East Africa, offering important insights into...

Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State

de Michael Sorkin

Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces...

Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work: Proceedings of the International Conference, Oxford, September 1992

de F. M. Jardine & R. I. McCallum

This book is the record of the conference held in Oxford in 1992 organised by CIRIA, and co-sponsored by the Health and Safety Executive, The British Tunnelling Society and the Medical Research Council's Hyperbaric...