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  • Dates

    Postharvest Science, Processing Technology and Health Benefits

    by Salah M. Aleid, Adel A. Kader ...
    Dates are an important fruit, especially in many African, Middle-Eastern and Asian countries. In recent years this fruit has gained significant importance in terms of global commerce. During the period 1990–2009, global production of dates saw an increase of 219% and this trend is expected to continue as per FAO projections. Some of the major challenges confronting date fruit production and ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Onco-Palliative Care Essentials

    by Azar Naveen Saleem, Azza Adel Hassan, Ayman Abdel Kader Allam ...
    Onco-Palliative Care Essentials gives insight into the much-needed specialty to improve the quality of life of cancer patients. With a strong focus the fundamental essentials of onco-palliative care, the book covers real-life cases with challenging cultural, existential, and social aspects. Onco-Palliative Care Essentials introduces the field of Onco-Palliative care to the reader, focusing on ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

  • Ecocities Now

    Building the Bridge to Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Jennie Moore, Sahar Attia, Adel Abdel-Kader, Aparajithan Narasimhan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents a selection of the best papers submitted to the International Ecocity World Summit held in Vancouver, October 7-11, 2019. The objective is to accelerate knowledge dissemination about the development of ecocities through attention to what constitutes an ecocity, what cities around the world are doing, what Vancouver as an emerging ecocity is doing, and how education can play a ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Sustainability

    A Biological Perspective

    by Stephen Morse ...
    Encouraging students to engage in the challenges and complexity of sustainability, this text considers not only the theories underlying sustainability, but more importantly how theories are translated into practice and the difficulties of achieving this in the world in which we live. This pragmatic focus gives students a greater understanding of the practice of sustainability and highlights the ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Metabolism

    by Paulo Ferrao, John E. Fernandez ...
    A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy.Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Building Design, Construction and Performance in Tropical Climates

    Edited by Mike Riley, Alison Cotgrave, Michael Farragher ...
    The design, construction and use of buildings in tropical climates pose specific challenges to built environment professionals. This text seeks to capture some of the key issues of technology and practice in the areas of building design, refurbishment, construction and facilities management in tropical regions.Using a consistent chapter structure throughout, and incorporating the latest research ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine

    Edited by Nathan I. Cherny, Marie T. Fallon, Stein Kaasa, Russell K. Portenoy, David C. Currow ...
    This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook. It has been rigorously updated to offer a truly global perspective, highlighting the best current evidence-based practices, and collective wisdom from more than 200 experts around the world. This leading textbook covers all the new and emerging topics, ... Read more

    $256.49 USD

  • The Best Houses

    Α, #1

    by Giannis Karozis ...
    Series Book 1 - Α
    The building directly intervenes in the environment by requiring large amounts of energy, both during its construction or renovation, and during its operation.The aim of the book is to minimize energy costs, achieve energy savings, more.The "shell" of the building, ie its outer casing, is the main factor regulating the energy loss during its operation, since it is necessary to create a constant ... Read more

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  • Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

    by Peter Newman, Anne Matan ...
    The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate

    by Alisdair McGregor, Cole Roberts, Fiona Cousins ...
    The Earth’s temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) average temperature rise. Economists agree we will save trillions of dollars by acting early. But how do we act successfully? And what’s the backup plan if we fall short?Setting politics aside, Two ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Earth at Risk

    Natural Capital and the Quest for Sustainability

    by Claude Henry, Laurence Tubiana ...
    We are squandering our planet’s natural capital—its biodiversity, water and soil, and climate stability—at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though technology has been one of the drivers of the current trend of unsustainable development, it is also one of the essential tools for remedying it. Earth at Risk maps out ... Read more

    $26.69 USD