Technology, Engineering, Agriculture

Plastics show up in every area of our lives. They are durable, cheap and light, properties that make them attractive but also problematic for the e...

Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of prison ecologies a multi-layered perspective to understanding prison violence as a product of hu...

The text focuses on the role and the importance of 3D printing in new product development processes. It covers various aspects such as the 3D print...

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethn...

Analytical Heat Transfer explains how to analyze and solve conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer problems. It enables students to tac...

Based on the spatial perspective, this book takes the urban area of Xi'an, China, as the main research region and studies the balance of resource a...

Artificial intelligence and the use of computational methods to extract information from data are providing adequate tools to monitor and predict w...

Numerical Simulation of Effluent Discharges: Applications with OpenFOAM provides a resource for understanding the effluent discharge mechanisms and...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

This book scrutinizes the relationship between contemporary TV shows and space, focusing on the ways in which these shows use and narrate specific ...

This book explores energy consumption and thermal comfort in the social housing sector in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. This book presents a nov...

Written to complement civil engineers technical knowledge, this book explains the sociocultural contextual knowledge that civil engineers need if t...

Ergonomics is the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relationship between workers and their environment...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives. Because o...

Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins and Futures explores systems, processes and novel technologies for planning, mapping, and designing our built enviro...

Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins and Futures explores systems, processes and novel technologies for planning, mapping, and designing our built enviro...

An up-to-date and concise review of GaN transistor design and applications In the newly revised fourth edition of GaN Transistors and Integrated Ci...

Doing it Differently: Systems for Rethinking Infrastructure proposes systems thinking as a methodology to deliver change. The book sets out the the...

Whole-Life Value-Based Decision-Making in Asset Management is a comprehensive guide to improving the effectiveness of infrastructure asset manageme...

People and Organizational Management in Construction, Second Edition applies management concepts to the construction industry, addressing the ways ...

Distributed Fibre Optic Strain Sensing for Monitoring Civil Infrastructure offers comprehensive guidance in the current developments of distributed...

Geotechnical Finite Element Analysis provides the latest practical guidance and comprehensive explanations of applying finite element analysis (FEA...

Shell Structures in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, joint winner of the University of Cape Town Book Award for 2019, comprehensively covers the t...

Rethinking Masterplanning explores new holistic approaches to masterplanning that aim to address the unpredictable nature of development, and accom...