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Entropy and Energy

Entropy and Energy- a Universal Competition" is a students textbook as well as a scientific monograph. The concepts of entropy ...

Equilibrium Statistical Physics : Phases of Matter and Phase Transitions

This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of ...

Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability : Orientations for Contemporary Research

The contents are organized in three sections reflecting important focal points of Boserup’s own work: Long-Term Socio-Ecological ...

Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

This book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic ...

Ferro- and Antiferroelectricity

Solid-state systems are frequently classi?ed according to their physical, str- tural or chemical properties. Such schemes ...

Field and Service Robotics : Results of the 6th International Conference

This book presents the results of the sixth edition of Field and Service Robotics, FSR07, held in Chamonix, France, on 9th ...

Financial Market Imperfections and Corporate Decisions

The book presents the results of an empirical investigation of the behaviour of Hungarian firms during the transition process ...

Financing Clean Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa Risk Mitigation Strategies and Innovative Financing Structures

This book analyses barriers and challenges associated with the financing of clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. By ...

Fiscal Equalization : Challenges in the Design of Intergovernmental Transfers

These original essays highlight the state of knowledge in intergovernmental transfer design. They represent creative new ...

Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century

The objective of this book is to broadly illustrate the key aspects of water governance, mapping the spectrum of decision-making ...

From Nucleons to Nucleus : Concepts of Microscopic Nuclear Theory

From Nucleons to Nucleus deals with single-particle and collective features of spherical nuclei. Each nuclear model is introduced ...

From microphysics to macrophysics : Methods and applications of statistical physics ; Volume 1

Volume 1 discusses in detail the probabilistic description of quantum or classical systems, the Boltzmann-Gibbs distributions, ...

Fundamentals of Electrical Drives

This brings us to the purpose of this book namely to help students and engineers appreciate and understand the fundamental ...

Global Energy Supply and Emissions

offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...

Hartree-Fock-Slater Method for Materials Science

Molecular-orbital calculations for materials design such as alloys, ceramics, and coordination compounds are now possible ...

Human Reliability and Error in Transportation Systems

Each year billions of dollars are being spent to develop, manufacture, and operate transportation systems such as aircraft, ...

ITIL® Version 3 at a Glance : Information Quick Reference

The desk reference’s unique graphical approach will take otherwise complex textual descriptions and make the information ...

Impact of Institutions on Lending

Chuluunbaatar Enkhzaya examines the "inadequate" behaviour of banks in Mongolia by analysing the institutional framework ...

Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education

This book brings together contributions by researchers, scholars, policy-makers, practitioners, professionals and citizens ...

Innovations in Macroeconomics

Modern macroeconomics suffers from an unclear link between short-term Keynesian analysis and long-term growth modelling. ...

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