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A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains

The Great Plains of North America is a major global breadbasket but its agriculture is stressed by drought, heat spells, ...

A Mathematical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory

The first part of this book gives a detailed, self-contained and mathematically rigorous exposition of classical conformal ...

A Software-Defined GPS and Galileo Receiver

Satellite navigation receivers are used to receive, process, and decode space-based navigation signals, such as those provided ...

Advanced Design and Manufacture to Gain a Competitive Edge : New Manufacturing Techniques and their Role in Improving Enterprise Performance

Advanced Design and Manufacture to Gain a Competitive Edge collects together papers from the 2008 International Conference ...

Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization

The book gathers contributions related to the following topics: theoretical developments in metaheuristics; adaptation of ...

African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

Examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating ...

Agile Software Engineering

This textbook presents the crucial issues in software engineering using the agile approach to software development - one ...

An Introduction to Global Spectral Modeling

Numerical weather prediction is receiving increased attention as weather forecasters aim to improve the numerical models ...

An Introduction to the Heisenberg Group and the Sub-Riemannian Isoperimetric Problem

This book provides an introduction to the basics of sub-Riemannian differential geometry and geometric analysis in the Heisenberg ...

An Invitation to Morse Theory

This treatment of Morse Theory focuses on applications and is intended for a graduate course on differential or algebraic ...

Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health : From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice

This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies ...

Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective

This book provides an accessible introduction to the mechanics of international development and global health text for policy-makers ...

Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects

This book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies ...

Aquaponics Food Production Systems

This book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive ...

Asian Century… on a Knife-edge

This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's ...

Asian Economy and Finance:

Topicality of Asian economy has refused to fade for almost four decades; if anything it has been levitating. The Asian economy ...

Assessing Climate Change : Temperatures, Solar Radiation, and Heat Balance

The chapters of the book attempt to answer a number of essential questions in relation to global warming and climate change. ...

Asymptotics for Dissipative Nonlinear Equations

Many of problems of the natural sciences lead to nonlinear partial differential equations. However, only a few of them have ...

Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

This book explores bioeconomy and bioenergy policies across South America, Asia and Europe. It discusses how a transition ...

Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development

This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...

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