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Oil and gas projects have special characteristics that need a different technique in project management. The development of any country depends on the development of the energy reserve through inves……続きを見る

Eine der ältesten Kulturpflanzen der Erde könnte helfen, die Menschen ausreichend mit Kleidung, Papier, Öl, Brennstoff, Nahrung, Baumaterial und vielen Medizinen zu versorgen. Binnen weniger Jahre w……続きを見る

Protected areas spearhead our response to the rapidly accelerating biodiversity crisis. However, while the number of protected areas has been growing rapidly over the past 20 years, the extent to wh……続きを見る

Even though the idea of altering an existing building is presently a well established practice within the context of adaptive reuse, when the building in question is a 'mnemonic building', of recogn……続きを見る

THE NEUROETHOLOGY OF PREDATION AND ESCAPE To eat and not get eaten is key to animal survival, and the arms race between predators and prey has driven the evolution of many rapid and spectacular beha……続きを見る

This book describes the n and p-channel Silicon Nanowire Transistor (SNT) designs with single and dual-work functions, emphasizing low static and dynamic power consumption. The authors describe a pr……続きを見る

College teaches you to be a good engineer. But it's likely that your college engineering courses didn't have time to teach you how to effectively contribute your ideas or how to transition to manage……続きを見る

Dieses Buch zeigt auf unterhaltsame Weise auch dem bisher Unerfahrenen, wie eine Präsentation pragmatisch vorbereitet und mit medialer Unterstützung durchgeführt werden kann. Behandelt werden graphi……続きを見る

Advances in Genetics provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of th……続きを見る

The complex and long-drawn war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended with the defeat of the Tigers in 2009. This book provides a military history of……続きを見る

Competing and winning in today�s competitive marketplace requires a strategy that includes sustainability. Business leaders who embrace it and convey a strong sense of purpose behind their strategy ……続きを見る

Molecules to Medicine with mTOR: Translating Critical Pathways into Novel Therapeutic Strategies is a one-stop reference that thoroughly covers the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR). mTOR, also……続きを見る

A true story of acceptance, perseverance, and the possibility of love and redemption as evocative, charming, and powerful as the New York Times bestseller Following Atticus. From the author of Follo……続きを見る

Winner, 2018 Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, sponsored by the Native Plant Society of Texas The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is home to a variety of big game species, including desert mule deer, prong……続きを見る

From simple reflexes to complex choreographies of movement, all animal behavior is governed by a nervous system. But what kind of government is itーa dictatorship or a democracy? Nervous systems con……続きを見る

“The Practical Gold-Worker” is a comprehensive handbook designed for goldsmiths and jewellers, containing information on alloying, melting, reducing, colouring, collecting, refining, and much more. ……続きを見る

This book's purpose is to serve as a text or reference book for students of plant science who are seeking a proper foundation upon which to build a scientific knowledge of how plants grow. It is ass……続きを見る

This is a classic guide to farm machinery, with a special focus on machinery used for producing grain. It provides detained descriptions and explanations of the machinery dealt with, as well as info……続きを見る

This book contains a classic guide to wine making, concentrating on growing wine grapes in California. With chapters on everything from selecting the grapes to maintaining the vines, this volume con……続きを見る

This book provides a hands-on, practical guide to understanding derivatives pricing. Aimed at the less quantitative practitioner, it provides a balanced account of options, Greeks and hedging techni……続きを見る

An ever increasing number of local and regional ecological catastrophes plague humanity. They are symptoms of an environmental crisis which is in the process of transforming at an accelerated pace i……続きを見る

Through close readings of individual serials and books and archival work on the publication history of the Gardener’s Magazine (1826-44) Sarah Dewis examines the significant contributions John and J……続きを見る

The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad scie……続きを見る

Change is constant in everyday life. Infants crawl and then walk, children learn to read and write, teenagers mature in myriad ways, the elderly become frail and forgetful. Beyond these natural proc……続きを見る

In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, ……続きを見る

The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational……続きを見る

This book presents basic stochastic processes, stochastic calculus including Lévy processes on one hand, and Markov and Semi Markov models on the other. From the financial point of view, essential c……続きを見る

This lively book lays out a methodology of confidence distributions and puts them through their paces. Among other merits, they lead to optimal combinations of confidence from different sources of i……続きを見る

Vaastu and Feng Shui offer a multi-disciplinary approach to ways of living. These sciences make sweet things sweeter and bitter less bitter. Nature has five fundamental elements that affect everybod……続きを見る

Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the modern and contemporary architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the r……続きを見る