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Biomechanics of Human Motion Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition

Biomechanics of Human Motion Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition

Biomechanics of Human Motion: Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition explores the biomechanical principles of nine different forms of martial arts with specific attention paid to their anatomical features. Within this examination Professor Arus highlights the use of energy and force especially in Kyusho-Jutsu. Whereas the first edition provided an in-depth explanation of the Aikido techniques of Kokyu-ryoku the second edition focusses specifically on the grabbing and liberation techniques used in Kyusho-Jutsu. Such an examination stresses the importance of vital points finger manipulation and their co rresponding emphasis on energy usage. As Professor Arus details throughout Biomechanics of Human Motion Second Edition knowledge of this form of pressure point maneuvering is useful in both attack and counterattack situations especially since the martial artist’s anatomo-physiological adaptation to effort represents the most significant development in fighting regimens. The second edition also includes a discussion of the katana. Professor Arus notes that defense against the katana is nearly impossible describing the three major steps used in Japanese (Ma). It is customary in Aikido to defend against a wooden sword. By using a wooden sword an Aikido Master’s demonstration is pre-determined. Techniques to defend against these demonstrations are discussed throughout the book. Finally various attack and defense techniques using pressure points are also explained in Biomechanics of Human Motion Second Edition. | Biomechanics of Human Motion Applications in the Martial Arts Second Edition

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Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems

Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems

Learn the theory behind grounding systems and bonding equipotential connections from a worldwide expert. Through mathematical analysis comprehensive explanations and detailed figures Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems explains the theory and the reasons behind basic ground-electrodes (i. e. the sphere the ground rod and the horizontal ground wire) and more complex grounding systems (i. e. ground-grids) buried in uniform and non-uniform soils. Through calculations and explanatory diagrams this comprehensive guide provides code-complying solutions for the safety against electric shock provided by equipotential bonding connections between exposed-conductive-parts such as equipment enclosures and metalwork. Details on the calculation of step and touch voltages in different types of system grounding (i. e. TT TN and IT) are provided also with the aid of solved problems. Readers will learn how to minimize hazardous interactions between grounding systems cathodically protected pipelines and heat networks. The analysis of the effectiveness of bonding systems against electric shock in the case of contact with electric vehicles during charge in the event of ground-faults which is an upcoming issue challenging our safety is included.

GBP 54.99
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Introduction to Philosophy A Handbook for Students of Psychology Logic Ethics Aesthetics and General Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy A Handbook for Students of Psychology Logic Ethics Aesthetics and General Philosophy

First published in 1927 this translation of Kulpe’s ‘Einleitung in die Philosophie’ 1895 covered psychology logic ethics esthetics and general philosophy. The author adopted a uniform approach of positivity interest and impartiality aiming his work at a wider public than students of philosophy. The volume was intended as an elementary but complete guide to philosophy past and present and included facts and arguments previously confined to philosophical encyclopaedias. | Introduction to Philosophy A Handbook for Students of Psychology Logic Ethics Aesthetics and General Philosophy

GBP 31.99
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Powder Metallurgy Science Technology and Materials

Powder Metallurgy Science Technology and Materials

Since the 1920s modern powder metallurgy has been used to produce a wide range of structural powder metallurgy components self-lubricating bearings and cutting tools. The conventional method involves the production of metal powders and the manufacture of useful objects from such powders by die compaction and sintering. Powder injection molding permits the production of stronger more uniform and more complex powder metallurgy parts. A detailed discussion of powder metallurgy materials and products is given in this book. Worked examples exercises questions and problems are included in each chapter. | Powder Metallurgy Science Technology and Materials

GBP 94.99
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Multirate Signal Processing for Communication Systems

Multirate Signal Processing for Communication Systems

Multirate Signal processing can improve system performance and reduce costs in applications ranging from laboratory instruments cable modems wireless systems satellites Radar Sonar and consumer entertainment products. This second edition continues to offer a systematic clear and intuitive introduction to multirate signal processing for working engineers and system designers. Significant new material and fresh concepts including Green Signal Processing techniques have been introduced. The author uses extensive examples and figures to illustrate a wide range of multirate techniques from basic resampling to leading-edge cascade and multi-stage filter structures. Along the way he draws on extensive research and consulting experience to introduce processing “tricks” shown to maximize performance and efficiency. Coverage includes:• Effect of sampling and resampling in time and frequency domains• Relationships between FIR filter specifications and filter length (# of taps)• Window design and equal-ripple (Remez) design techniques• Square-Root Nyquist and Half-band Filters including new enhancements• Polyphase FIR filters: up-sampling down-sampling• Polyphase M-path analysis and synthesis channelizers and cascade pairs• Polyphase interpolators for arbitrary sample rate changes• Dyadic half-band filters quadrature mirror filters• Channel banks for multiple arbitrary bandwidths and center frequencies • Comprehensive coverage of recursive all-pass filters and channelizers non-uniform and uniform phase mixed recursive and non-recursive• Comparisons with traditional DSP designs• Extensive applications coverage throughout | Multirate Signal Processing for Communication Systems

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Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). After an Executive Summary of the contents the chapters build up understanding of orthodox economics’ role in protecting the neoliberal paradigm. A salient case the ETS is successful in shielding the Business-as-Usual activities of the EU’s industry however this book argues that the system fails in creating innovation for decarbonizing production technologies. A subsequent political economy analysis by the author points to the discursive power of giant fossil fuel and electricity companies keeping up a façade of Cap-and-Trade utopia and hiding the reality of free permit donations and administrative price control concealing financial bills mostly paid by household electricity customers. The twilights between reality and utopia in the EU’s ETS are exposed concluding an immediate end of the system is necessary for effective and just climate policy. The work argues that the proposition of shifting to a global uniform carbon tax is equally utopian. In practice a uniform price applied on heterogeneous cases is not a source of benefits but one of ad-hoc adjustments exceptions and exemptions. Carbon pricing does not induce innovation however assumed by the economic models used by IPCC for advising global climate policy. Thus it is persuasively demonstrated by the author that these schemes are doomed to failure and room and resources need to be created for more effective and just climate politics. The book’s conclusion is based on economic arguments complementing the critique of political scientists. This book is written for a broad audience interested in climate policy eager to understand why decarbonizing progress is slow as it is. It marks a significant addition to the literature on climate politics carbon pricing and the political economy of the environment more broadly. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Pricing Carbon Emissions Economic Reality and Utopia

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Consensus Planning The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development

Consensus Planning The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development

This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion takes place in the Netherlands where consensus-based decision-making is part of the national heritage. The book explores recent Dutch infrastructure development experiences and concludes that communicative planning theory does not offer uniform relevance for the challenges that planning practitioners face. Building on these experiences it proposes the concept of consensus planning as valuable in a complementary normalized and contingent way. Consensus planning in other words has diverse practical appearances and sometimes may not exist or be desirable. | Consensus Planning The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Duth Infrastructure Development

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Advanced Structural Mechanics

Advanced Structural Mechanics

Building on the author’s Structural Mechanics Fundamentals this text presents a complete and uniform treatment of the more advanced topics in structural mechanics ranging from beam frames to shell structures from dynamics to buckling analysis from plasticity to fracture mechanics from long-span to high-rise civil structures. Plane frames Statically indeterminate beam systems: Method of displacements Plates and shells Finite element method Dynamics of discrete systems Dynamics of continuous elastic systems Buckling instability Long-span structures High-rise structures Theory of plasticity Plane stress and plane strain conditions Mechanics of fracture This book serves as a text for graduate students in structural engineering as well as a reference for practising engineers and researchers. | Advanced Structural Mechanics

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Atlas of Human Hair Microscopic Characteristics

Atlas of Human Hair Microscopic Characteristics

It fills a void in the resources available to researchers and practitioners in forensic hair examination by providing photographic archetypes for the microscopic characteristics of human hair and the variates of the characteristics seen in forensic examinations including curl; color; pigment distribution and density; cortical fusi; and ovoid bodies. These illustrations provide a uniform basis for describing the characteristics and their variations for forensic professionals in differing geographical areas. The documentation of hair characteristics using the scoring system outlined in this atlas allows researchers to develop data regarding the frequency of characteristics within the hairs of one or more individuals and the assessment of whether certain hair characteristics are co-dependent. | Atlas of Human Hair Microscopic Characteristics

GBP 180.00
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Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry uses a step by step approach to enable students to independently master the field. This second edition contains many new themes and developments including: the essence of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) integration of the changes caused by the evolution of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) the extension of price elasticity of demand and addition of income and cross elasticities the addition of break-even time (BET) as an additional method of analysing capital investments Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage this textbook is essential reading for hospitality management students. Additional study and teaching materials can be found on www. hospitalitymanagement. noordhoff. nl

GBP 69.99
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Banach Limit and Applications

Banach Limit and Applications

Banach Limit and Applications provides all the results in the area of Banach Limit its extensions generalizations and applications to various fields in one go (as far as possible). All the results in this field after Banach introduced this concept in 1932 were scattered till now. Sublinear functionals generating and dominating Banach Limit unique Banach Limit (almost convergence) invariant means and invariant limits absolute and strong almost convergence applications to ergodicity law of large numbers Fourier series uniform distribution of sequences uniform density core theorems and functional Banach limits are discussed in this book. The discovery of functional analysis such as the Hahn-Banach Theorem and the Banach-Steinhaus Theorem helped the researchers to develop a modern rich and unified theory of sequence spaces by encompassing classical summability theory via matrix transformations and the topics related to sequence spaces which arose from the concept of Banach limits all of which are presented in this book. The unique features of this book are as follows: All the results in this area which were scattered till now are in one place. The book is the first of its kind in the sense that there is no other competitive book. The contents of this monograph did not appear in any book form before. The audience of this book are the researchers in this area and Ph. D. and advanced master’s students. The book is suitable for one- or two-semester course work for Ph. D. students M. S. students in North America and Europe and M. Phil. and master’s students in India.

GBP 130.00
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Mind Cognition and Neuroscience A Philosophical Introduction

Mind Cognition and Neuroscience A Philosophical Introduction

This carefully designed multi-authored textbook covers a broad range of theoretical issues in cognitive science psychology and neuroscience. With accessible language a uniform structure and many pedagogical features Mind Cognition and Neuroscience: A Philosophical Introdution is the best high-level overview of this area for an interdisciplinary readership of students. Written specifically for this volume by experts in their fields who are also experienced teachers the book’s thirty chapters are organized into the following parts: I. Background KnowledgeII. Classical DebatesIII. ConsciousnessIV. Crossing Boundaries Each chapter starts with relevant key words and definitions and a chapter overview then presents historical coverage of the topic explains and analyzes contemporary debates and ends with a sketch of cutting edge research. A list of suggested readings and helpful discussion topics conclude each chapter. This uniform student-friendly design makes it possible to teach a cohort of both philosophy and interdisciplinary students without assuming prior understanding of philosophical concepts cognitive science or neuroscience. Key Features: Synthesizes the now decades-long explosion of scientifically informed philosophical research in the study of mind. Expands on the offerings of other textbooks by including chapters on language concepts and non-conceptual content and animal cognition. Offers the same structure in each chapter moving the reader through an overview historical coverage contemporary debates and finally cutting-edge research. Packed with pedagogical features like defined Key Terms Suggested Readings and Discussion Questions for each chapter as well as a General Glossary. Provides readers with clear chapter-long introductions to Cognitive Neuroscience Molecular and Cellular Cognition Experimental Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Science Metaphysical Issues and Epistemic Issues. | Mind Cognition and Neuroscience A Philosophical Introduction

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Handbook of Police Psychology

Handbook of Police Psychology

The Handbook of Police Psychology features contributions from over 30 leading experts on the core matters of police psychology. The collection surveys everything from the beginnings of police psychology and early influences on the profession; to pre-employment screening assessment and evaluation; to clinical interventions. Alongside original chapters first published in 2011 this edition features new content on deadly force encounters officer resilience training and police leadership enhancement. Influential figures in the field of police psychology are discussed including America’s first full-time police psychologist who served in the Los Angeles Police Department and the first full-time police officer to earn a doctorate in psychology while still in uniform who served with the New York Police Department. The Handbook of Police Psychology is an invaluable resource for police legal advisors policy writers and police psychologists as well as for graduates studying police or forensic psychology.

GBP 105.00
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Researching Social Problems

Researching Social Problems

This book covers a wide range of contemporary methods for researching social problems and connects these approaches to the broader substance and theories of social problems. Expository and discursive in approach chapters follow a uniform structure with each offering research examples and a broad description of the related method and its theoretical context together with a how-to guide for applying that method using substantive examples from the field of social problems. For every method explored there is a research example that fully reviews and illustrates the application of the particular method before giving a full assessment of the method’s strengths and weaknesses and latest developments. With chapters exploring survey interviews in-depth interviews narrative inquiry institutional ethnography participatory action research auto-ethnography Actor-Network Theory experimental research visual research methods and research ethics Researching Social Problems will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and politics working in the fields of research methods and social problems.

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Handbook of Item Response Theory Three Volume Set

Handbook of Item Response Theory Three Volume Set

Drawing on the work of 75 internationally acclaimed experts in the field Handbook of Item Response Theory Three-Volume Set presents all major item response models classical and modern statistical tools used in item response theory (IRT) and major areas of applications of IRT in educational and psychological testing medical diagnosis of patient-reported outcomes and marketing research. It also covers CRAN packages WinBUGS Bilog MG Multilog Parscale IRTPRO Mplus GLLAMM Latent Gold and numerous other software tools. A full update of editor Wim J. van der Linden and Ronald K. Hambleton’s classic Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory this handbook has been expanded from 28 chapters to 85 chapters in three volumes. The three volumes are thoroughly edited and cross-referenced with uniform notation format and pedagogical principles across all chapters. Each chapter is self-contained and deals with the latest developments in IRT. | Handbook of Item Response Theory Three Volume Set

GBP 140.00
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Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Safeguarding the Process

Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Safeguarding the Process

This book is an in-depth evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities. It provides an overview of current research practices and legal considerations for interviewing vulnerable suspects incorporating guidelines regarding the identification of vulnerabilities engaging with third parties in the interview and training and supervision. It then goes on to cover specific vulnerabilities typically encountered in suspect populations providing clear summaries of current research case studies and practical guidance for conducting interviews with these populations to facilitate best practice in interviewing. Expertise is drawn from both law enforcement practice and academic research to ensure an evidence-based approach that is relevant for contemporary practice. Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects offers the international policing audience a practical guide to interviewing vulnerable suspects for both uniform police and detectives. It is relevant for statutory bodies involved in investigations of misconduct; legal practitioners and forensic psychologists; practitioners in counselling social work and psychology; and students in policing criminology and forensic psychology programs. | Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Safeguarding the Process

GBP 29.99
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Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo Essays on Intellectual History

Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo Essays on Intellectual History

The unifying theme in this second volume of essays by William A. Wallace to be published in the Variorum series is signaled in the title of the opening paper: 'Domingo de Soto and the Iberian roots of Galileo's science'. The seven essays in the first part provide textual studies of Soto's early formulations of the laws of falling bodies the context in which they were developed in the 16th century and the ways in which they were transmitted in Spain and Portugal to the early 17th century mainly by Jesuit scholars. The following essays focus on the young Galileo and his work at Pisa and Padua leading to his discovery of the law of uniform acceleration in free fall. Textual evidence is presented for an indirect influence of Soto's work on Galileo mediated by Jesuits who were teaching at Padua in the first decade of the 17th century. | Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo Essays on Intellectual History

GBP 38.99
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Configurations of Interdisciplinarity Within Education Danish Experiences in a Global Educational Space

Configurations of Interdisciplinarity Within Education Danish Experiences in a Global Educational Space

This book explores how everyday life within educational institutions changes in response to ideas of interdisciplinarity at policy level. It provides new insights into different configurations of interdisciplinarity which traverses all levels of the Danish educational system. Offering a novel perspective to interdisciplinarity in terms of its configurations the book discusses the Danish educational system and its current transformations showing how progressive ideas are entangled with new forms of accountability and complex responsibilities. It identifies the concrete challenges that interdisciplinarity is expected to solve and the organizational changes resulting from the solutions introduced arguing that interdisciplinarity in education is neither a uniform or consistent process nor are the kinds of disciplining it may yield. This book will appeal to academics researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of interdisciplinary education pedagogy comparative education and northern European educational and welfare systems. | Configurations of Interdisciplinarity Within Education Danish Experiences in a Global Educational Space

GBP 130.00
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Blade Element Rotor Theory

Blade Element Rotor Theory

Blade Element Rotor Theory This book presents an extension of the conventional blade element rotor theory to describe the dynamic properties of helicopter rotors. The presented theory focuses on the accurate mathematical determination of the forces and moments by which a rotor affects its rotorcraft at specified flight conditions and control positions. Analyzing the impact of a blade's non-uniform properties the book covers blade twisting the non-rectangular planform shape of a blade and inhomogeneous airfoil along the blade. It discusses inhomogeneous induced airflow around a rotor disc in terms of the blade element rotor theory. This book also considers the impact of flapping hinge offset on the rotor's dynamic properties. Features • Focuses on a comprehensive description and accurate determination of the rotor's aerodynamic properties • Presents precise helicopter rotor properties with inhomogeneous aerodynamic properties of rotor blades • Considers inhomogeneous distribution of induced flow • Discusses a mathematical model of a main helicopter rotor for a helicopter flight simulator This book is intended for graduate students and researchers studying rotor dynamics and helicopter flight dynamics

GBP 74.99
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Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another. This collection focuses on cross-theoretical discussion that brings together an array of different analytical methods and theoretical lenses that can be used for conducting research within the field. As such it provides a coherent accessible and diverse account of key theories and methods. A distinctive feature of this collection is that it adopts a grounded approach to international human rights law through demonstrating the application of specific research methods to individual case studies. By applying the approach under discussion to a concrete case it is possible to better appreciate the multiple understandings of international human rights law that are missed when the field is only comprehended though the doctrinal method. Furthermore since every contribution follows the same uniform structure this allows for fruitful comparison between different approaches to the study of our discipline. | Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

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Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide

Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide

This new edition of Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide builds upon the successes of previous editions that developed a detailed discussion on various technologies used for air pollution control. This book covers a wide range of equipment and provides a good overview of the related principles and applications. A particularly valuable feature are the practical examples not commonly available in other books. Based on the author’s fifty years of experience in applying and operating air pollution control equipment this book provides easy-to-read information on basic air pollution control technology and is the quintessential resource for the busy engineer and for those who do not have formal training in air pollution control. FEATURES OF THE THIRD EDITION Uniform and consistent applications information for comparing the effectiveness of different technologies. Provides answers to questions about how to reduce operating costs and how to achieve peak performance. Concise descriptions of each equipment with diagnostics and testing suggestions. New chapters on optimization techniques that help readers deal with different types of hardware for better performance and efficacy.

GBP 44.99
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Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics ranging across material culture the mindset of its people and social and economic factors. In this volume Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and architecture across three thousand years whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all human societies function. Source material is taken from ancient written documents while the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of Egyptian culture and society. It uses numerous case studies illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader. | Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

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Competing Discourses Perspective and Ideology in Language

Competing Discourses Perspective and Ideology in Language

This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories the role of metaphor in the everyday use of language gender differentiation and social variation in speech. In this study David Lee considers a broad range of issues in the light of two contrasting views on language. For much of its history linguistics has been dominated by a tradition which sees individual languages as uniform homogenous systems. However there has always been an opposite view emphasising the complex tensions and cross-currents inherent in linguistic usage. This alternative perspective is explored in the analysis of a wide range of literary and non-literary texts: casual conversations interviews newspaper reports official memoranda television commercials and extracts from novels. The author describes how both spoken and written texts can be seen as the sites where tensions between competing discourses stemming from different social positions and perspectives are illustrated. | Competing Discourses Perspective and Ideology in Language

GBP 180.00
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Handbook of Material Flow Analysis For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition

Handbook of Material Flow Analysis For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition

In this second edition of a bestseller authors Paul H. Brunner and Helmut Rechberger guide professional newcomers as well as experienced engineers and scientists towards mastering the art of material flow analysis (MFA) from the very beginning to an advanced state of material balances of complex systems. Handbook of Material Flow Analysis: For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition serves as a concise and reproducible methodology as well as a basis for analysis assessment and improvement of anthropogenic systems through an approach that is helpfully uniform and standardized. The methodology featured in this book is a vital resource for generating new data fostering understanding and increasing knowledge to benefit the growing MFA community working in the fields of industrial ecology resource management waste management and environmental protection. This new second edition takes into account all new developments and readers will profit from a new exploration of STAN software newly added citations and thoroughly described case studies that reveal the potential of MFA to solve industrial ecology challenges. | Handbook of Material Flow Analysis For Environmental Resource and Waste Engineers Second Edition

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