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100 Per Cent Renewable
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 39.95The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution possible. The global economy and its financial system are in jeopardy, running hot on overtly cheap yet increasingly costly and fast depleting oil.... more...
10th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering - PSE2009
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 585.00This book contains the proceedings of the10th edition of a series of international symposia on Process Systems Engineering (PSE) initiated in 1982. The special focus of PSE09 is how PSE methods can support sustainable resource systems and emerging technologies in the areas of green engineering. * Contains fully searchable CD of all printed contributions... more...
11th International Congress on Catalysis - 40th Anniversary
Elsevier Science 1996; US$ 795.00These proceedings contain 145 papers - 7 plenary lectures and 138 submitted papers selected for oral presentation. The plenary lectures include five overviews of vital research areas by highly respected researchers and two overviews of advances in the science and technology of catalysis made during the last 40 years. The first group explores the forces... more...
11th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering - PSE2012
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 630.00While the PSE community continues its focus on understanding, synthesizing, modeling, designing, simulating, analyzing, diagnosing, operating, controlling, managing, and optimizing a host of chemical and related industries using the systems approach, the boundaries of PSE research have expanded considerably over the years. While early PSE research... more...
2004 New And Renewable Energy Technologies For Sustainable Development
World Scientific Publishing Company 2007; US$ 127.40New and renewable energy systems will play an important role in the sustainable development of a future energy strategy. Recent development in this field has proved that the virtual energy system including new and renewable energy sources is feasible. The promotion of renewable sources of energy is a high priority, for security and diversification... more...
2004 Survey of Energy Resources
Elsevier Science 2004; US$ 505.00* Clear and concise, information is analysed and presented in both a resource-by-resource and country-by-country approach * Comprehensive, the outlook for seventeen energy resources including all major fossil and renewable resources is evaluated * Free CD-Rom will help electronic navigation of this comprehensive resource The Survey of Energy Resources... more...
2009 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 14.99The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2009 presents evidence on the World Banks efforts in two areas. Part I tracks the outcomes of Bank projects and country programs and the evolution of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Part II examines the Banks support for environmentally sustainable development compatible with economic growth... more...
2030 The Coming Tumult
Algora Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95The short-term benefits of unlimited growth are driving the American economic and social model right off a cliff. The author shows how corporations drown out scientists and global elites prosper during economic collapse. He explores the role of monotheistic religions in abetting population growth and downplaying human agency in the current unprecedented... more...
The 2030 Spike
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear... more...
21st Century Dissent
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 110.0021st Century Dissent contends that anarchism has considerably influenced the modern political landscape. Curran explores the contemporary face of anarchism as expressed via environmental protests and the anti-globalization movement. more...









