‘Disciples of Flora’
‘Disciples of Flora’ explores gardens as sites of meaning and identity where culture and nature meet. Spanning ancient Rome to the present, this collection of essays revises garden histories, revealing alternative landscapes and contesting memories.
“What is the Earthly Paradise?”
The Caribbean faces an ecological crisis born from natural disasters and historical degradation. This book provides a double insight, examining both the region’s environmental problems in practice and the cultural responses from writers like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul.
10th Anniversary of Sentinel Asia
This book provides a case study of Sentinel Asia, a collaboration applying satellite remote sensing to assist disaster management. It details its history, framework, and achievements in supporting over 450 disasters, offering a useful example for international disaster response.
IMVIP conferences bring together academics and practitioners to share cutting-edge research in image processing. These proceedings contain papers from the 14th event, hosted by the University of Limerick, Ireland in 2010.
This book analyzes joint German-Turkish collaboration in interior architecture. It explores how to strengthen cooperation for research and education, and attract students through integrated studies hosted by both countries.
A first-of-its-kind guide to 3D printing PLA-based Self-Reinforced Polymer Composites (SRPC). Learn how Fused Deposition Model process parameters affect a composite’s mechanical properties. This is an easy-to-read guide for students and hobbyists using desktop 3D printers.
3D printing is a swiftly evolving technology revolutionizing manufacturing and medicine. This book elucidates its history and process, focusing on its applications and recent advances in the field of dentistry, which have enhanced patient survival and life expectancy.
The triple bottom line is a framework for achieving economic and social balance while maintaining ecological systems. This volume details the state of the art of this approach, indicating where there is debate, overlooked theory, and unresolved problems.
This volume explores humankind’s relationship with the cosmos, a source of awe since civilization began. The first of its kind for a general audience, it introduces (C)osmosis Art, a new conceptual framework inspired by the interactions between art, science and technology.
This book contributes to a better understanding of the environment and climate change, assisting students in scoring higher marks in competitive exams. It covers environmental ecology, bio-diversity, natural hazards, disaster management, climate change, and other key topics.
This book is a systematic study of modern engineering sciences, exploring current trends and future developments. Areas covered include artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMs).
This book is an introduction to computational methods in physics. It details how to make a physical problem computable, using numerous examples and solved problems from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, and directly teaches the reader how to implement these techniques.
This user-friendly text uses illustrations and college math to analyze dynamic phenomena in everyday life. It presents dynamics as a unified framework, showing how simple concepts expand to complex design formulae for engineering structures.
A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications
This book covers a vast range of mathematics, from logic, number theory, and algebra to calculus, topology, and geometry. It includes complex analysis, differential equations, and matrices, with applications in the natural and social sciences, from physics to economics.
Entropy generation minimization is widely used in thermal problems, sometimes as a unified theory. Is this really the case? This book answers this question, showing the theory has limitations and a definite application scope, beyond which it may provide incorrect results.
A Global Approach to Data Value Maximization
A multitude of approaches and techniques can be applied to extract the maximum informative value from complex data sets, many of which are discussed here. Dell’Aversana begins with the domain of geosciences, before moving on to various other scientific and engineering sectors.
At last, a clear path through quantum mechanics. This book intuitively unravels entanglement and wave-particle duality, revealing a profound truth: the objectivity of reality is not a simple yes-or-no question.
This book presents 10 actions for practical results in seismology. Through statistical analysis, we can estimate the probability of the next earthquake and identify foreshocks. From seismic waves, we can deduce an earthquake’s energy, magnitude, and the fault’s orientation.
This volume highlights West Africa’s abundant clean energy resources. It shows the pace at which the renewable energy sector is growing and its contribution to mitigating global warming, detailing resources, the business environment, and the development of solar and hydro power.
This book describes the world’s vineyards and wines, with the science behind viticulture and winemaking. It is an essential reference for students, teachers, and professionals in the wine trade, from growers and winemakers to sommeliers.