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  • Play and Literacy

    Play & Culture Studies, Volume 16

    by Myae Han, Kathleen A. Roskos, Renée Casbergue, Julie Parrish, M. Angel Bestwick, Tori K. Flint, Sandra J. Stone, Brian A. Stone, Sohyun Meacham0, Timothy M. Vetere1, Matthew E. Poehner2, Marine Pepanyan3 ...
    Series series Play and Culture Studies
    How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment? This edited collection, Play and Literacy: Play & Culture Studies provides a direct answer and solutions to this question. Researchers and theorists have argued for decades that play is the best way to learn language and literacy for children. This book provides theoretical and historical foundation of connection between play and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Fire Safety Challenges of Green Buildings

    by Brian Meacham, Brandon Poole, Juan Echeverria, Raymond Cheng ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Environmental concerns and advances in architectural technologies have lead to a greater number of green buildings or buildings with green, eco-friendly elements. However, from a practical standpoint, there is no incident reporting system in the world that tracks data on fire incidents in green buildings. Fire safety objectives are not explicitly considered in most green rating schemes, and green ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Development of an Environmental and Economic Assessment Tool (Enveco Tool) for Fire Events

    by Francine Amon, Jonatan Gehandler, Selim Stahl, Mai Tomida, Brian Meacham ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book investigates the feasibility of developing a tool that enables fire departments to estimate the value of their services to a community in terms of environmental and financial impact. This book provides a summary of this effort, which resulted in development of a prototype tool for fire department use.The impact of fire on a community is usually measured in terms of the number of fires, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings

    by Robert W. Fitzgerald, Brian J. Meacham ...
    A building fire is dynamic. A continually changing hostile fire environment influences time relationships that affect fire defenses and risks to people and building functions. The fire and fire defenses in each building interact with different sequences and distinct ways. Risks are characterized by the building’s performance.Significantly updated and restructured new editionFire Performance ... Read more

    $122.00 USD

  • Handbook of Fire and the Environment

    Impacts and Mitigation

    Edited by Brian J. Meacham, Margaret McNamee ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The fundamental purpose of this handbook is to raise awareness about environmental impacts of fire and fire suppression, primarily within the fire engineering and firefighting communities, but also within the environmental engineering and planning disciplines. The Handbook provides readers with a fundamental understanding of the problem and its magnitude and includes a set of tools and methods for ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

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  • Wills' Mineral Processing Technology

    An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery

    by Barry A. Wills, James Finch ...
    Wills' Mineral Processing Technology: An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery has been the definitive reference for the mineral processing industry for over thirty years. This industry standard reference provides practicing engineers and students of mineral processing, metallurgy, and mining with practical information on all the common techniques used in ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design

    Edited by Mark Hawley, John Cunning ...
    Guidelines for Mine Waste Dump and Stockpile Design is a comprehensive, practical guide to the investigation, design, operation and monitoring of mine waste dumps, dragline spoils and major stockpiles associated with large open pit mines. These facilities are some of the largest man-made structures on Earth, and while most have performed very well, there are cases where instabilities have occurred ... Read more

    $105.89 USD

  • Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity

    Edited by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, John A. Gamon, Philip A. Townsend ...
    This Open Access volume aims to methodologically improve our understanding of biodiversity by linking disciplines that incorporate remote sensing, and uniting data and perspectives in the fields of biology, landscape ecology, and geography. The book provides a framework for how biodiversity can be detected and evaluated—focusing particularly on plants—using proximal and remotely sensed ... Read more

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  • Future Energy

    Improved, Sustainable and Clean Options for our Planet

    Edited by Trevor Letcher ...
    As the demand for global energy increases, fact-based evaluations of alternative energy sources are needed in order to address the growing interest in how energy is produced, provided, and transported in sustainable ways. Future Energy, Second Edition provides scientists and decision makers with the knowledge they need to understand the relative importance and magnitude of various energy ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Sustainable Management of Coal Preparation

    by Dilip Kumar, Deepak Kumar ...
    Sustainable Management of Coal Preparation explains both the upstream and downstream of coal preparation, stressing clean coal technologies for coal utilization. It not only discusses the sustainability of coal preparation, but also considers the governance and management issues that come with fulfilling economic, social and environmental obligations of a sustainable mining operation. Divided in ... Read more

    $193.49 USD

  • The Petroleum Engineering Handbook

    Sustainable Operations

    by M.R. Islam, M.I. Khan ...
    This is the first book in the petroleum sector that sheds light on the real obstacles to sustainable development and provides solutions to each problem encountered. Each solution is complete with an economic analysis that clarifies why petroleum operations can continue with even greater profit than before while ensuring that the negative environmental impact is diminished. The new screening tools ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Groundwater Resources

    Sustainability, Management, and Restoration

    by Neven Kresic ...
    An All-Inclusive Guide to Efficient, Cost-Effective Management of Groundwater ResourcesGroundwater Sustainability is a reliable, one-stop guide containing all the information you'll need to succeed in your groundwater management and development projects. It covers virtually every aspect of the subject, from how to characterize groundwater and evaluate its resources to determining the interactions ... Read more

    $144.89 USD