Technology, Engineering, Agriculture

Are advances in technology working for us or against us? When our phones become our keys to access everything, will our lives be more convenient or...

On 1 July 1940 the Germans occupied Jersey and remained until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. On Jersey, agriculture was the only economi...

Covering the complete Association of Marine Electric and Radio Colleges (AMERC) syllabus for Electrotechnology Officers (ETOs), the book is divided...

This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as the monk. The walking, ...

Journalist Marie Le Conte was born in 1991, the same year the World Wide Web was made publicly available. She had her first blog at 12, a successfu...

Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles poss...

'As hilarious, charming, eccentric, informative, addictive and delightful as the show itself' STEPHEN FRYMuch-loved radio drama The Archers has bee...

From farmer, lawyer and political activist John Klar comes a bold, solutions-based plan for Conservatives that gets beyond the fatuous pipe dreams ...

Global Environmental Politics is the perfect introduction to this increasingly significant area. This fully revised and updated new edition combine...

Ergonomics often seems to be involved too late in commercial project development processes to have substantive impact on design and usability. Howe...

Arsenic-contaminated groundwater is considered one of the worlds largest environmental health crises, as more than 300 million people in more than ...

Driving innovation can reduce costs for companies, institutions, military programs, and successful businesses. Quality is key to successful innovat...

Soil degradation is a widespread problem in Africa resulting in decreased agricultural productivity while demand for food continues to increase. De...

Disruptive leadership is a topic generating intense interest. Companies all over the world are trying to upend their industry through innovative pr...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

This book provides a framework for integrating complex systems that are problem-centric, human-centered, and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-m...

Improved knowledge in the field of technical objects operation and control helps manufacturers to decrease energy consumption and keep construction...

This book presents state-of-the-art contributions related to advanced structural characterization techniques in the field of clean energy materials...