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Power Trip: The Story of Energy

Basic Books, 2019

A global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat.

Energy is humanity's single most important resource. In fact, as energy expert Michael E. Webber argues in Power Trip, the story of how societies rise can be told largely as the story of how they manage energy...

MoED: modification of electro dynamics by mach inertia priciple and electro anti gravity

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

we have modified here the Maxwell electrodynamics with mach inertia principle to generate universal electromagnetism which between two charged bodies is correlated to every charged body in the universe too.this machain electrodynamics enables us to answer to unsolved questions in the solar system and universe too for example expanding universe...

The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

Basic Books, 2019

The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species

If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory...

Transport and Town Planning: The City in Search of Sustainable Development (Science, Society and New Technoogies)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

In a context where climate change urgently requires us to alter our paradigms, this book explores the possibilities of cities that are both more energy efficient and more respectful of the environment.

Based on the observation that urban planning has been detrimentally affected by the compartmentalization of...

Energy Poverty and Access Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of regionalism (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Access to modern energy is central in addressing the major global challenges of the 21st century, including poverty, climate change and famine. However large parts of the world, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have poor or no access to modern energy. Victoria Nalule argues that SSA countries have many common energy challenges...

Civil Resistance and Violent Conflict in Latin America: Mobilizing for Rights (Studies of the Americas)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores distinct forms of civil resistance in situations of violent conflict in cases across Latin America, drawing important lessons learned for nonviolent struggles in the region and beyond. The authors analyse campaigns against armed actors in situations of internal armed conflict, against private sector companies that seek to...

Parallel Programming with Co-arrays (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Science)

CRC Press, 2018

Parallel Programming with Co-Arrays describes the basic techniques used to design parallel algorithms for high-performance, scientific computing. It is intended for upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students who need to develop parallel codes with little or no previous introduction to parallel...

Underlord (Cradle)

Hidden Gnome Publishing, 2019

A tournament approaches. All around the world, great clans and sects prepare their disciples to fight against one another in a competition of young Underlords.Even the Blackflame Empire is drawn in, but their youth are not strong enough to compete.Yet....

Data Management, Analytics and Innovation: Proceedings of ICDMAI 2018, Volume 1 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 808)

Springer, 2018

The book presents the latest, high-quality, technical contributions and research findings in the areas of data management and smart computing, big data management, artificial intelligence and data analytics, along with advances in network technologies. It discusses state-of-the-art topics as well as the challenges and solutions for...

Tsunami Generation and Propagation (Springer Geophysics)

Springer, 2019

This book introduces a framework of tsunami modelling from generation to propagation, aimed at application to the new observation started in Japan after the devastating tsunami of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. About 150 seismic and tsunami sensors were deployed in a wide region off the Pacific coast of eastern Japan in order to...

Adventure Diffusion: From Meandering Molecules to the Spreading of Plants, Humans, and Ideas

Springer, 2019

This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas.

Recently, there has been a growing...

WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation: 13th International Conference, WALCOM 2019, Guwahati, India, February 27 – March 2, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11355))

Springer, 2018

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference and Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2019, held in Guwahati, India, in February/ March 2019.

The 30 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical headings on the...

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