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  • Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

    Edited by Antônio Márcio da Silva, Mariana Cunha ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium. The chapters take spatiality as a powerful tool that can reveal aesthetic, political, social, and historical meanings of the cinematographic image instead of considering ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Virtual Biorefinery

    An Optimization Strategy for Renewable Carbon Valorization

    Edited by Antonio Bonomi, Otavio Cavalett, Marcelo Pereira da Cunha, Marco A. P. Lima ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents a concise framework for assessing technical and sustainability impacts of existing biorefineries and provides a possible road map for development of novel biorefineries. It offers a detailed, integrated approach to evaluate the entire biomass production chain, from the agricultural feedstock production and transportation, to the industrial conversion and commercialization & use ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Chemistry, Extractives, Lignins, Hemicelluloses and Cellulose

    by RunCang Sun ...
    Materials from renewable resources are receiving increased attention, as leading industries and manufacturers attempt to replace declining petrochemical-based feedstocks with products derived from natural biomass, such as cereal straws. Cereal straws are expected to play an important role in the shift toward a sustainable economy, and a basic knowledge of the composition and structure of cereal ... Read more

    $269.59 CAD

  • Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

    Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

    by Elijah Anderson ...
    Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence; in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, talk, and behave can have life-or-death consequences, with young ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Preparing for Peak Oil in South Africa

    An Integrated Case Study

    by Jeremy J. Wakeford ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Oil is the lifeblood of modern industrial economies. Petroleum powers virtually all motorized transport, which in turn enables most economic activities and provides mobility for citizens. But oil is a finite resource that is steadily depleting. In the past decade, the phenomenon of global peak oil – the fact that annual world oil production must at some point reach a maximum and then decline – has ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Organic-Inorganic Composite Polymer Electrolyte Membranes

    Preparation, Properties, and Fuel Cell Applications

    Edited by Dr Inamuddin, Ali Mohammad, Abdullah M. Asiri ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This volume explores the latest developments in the area of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) used for high-temperature fuel cells. Featuring contributions from an international array of researchers, it presents a unified viewpoint on the operating principles of fuel cells, various methodologies used for the fabrication of PEMs, and issues related to the chemical and mechanical stabilities of ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Naked City

    The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

    by Sharon Zukin ...
    As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Enabling Environment

    A Worm's Eye View of Environmental Finance

    by Srinivasan Sunderasan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Enabling Environment is as real as it gets. The global commons are jointly owned and their inhabitants are jointly obligated to ensure their preservation. In the face of protracted negotiations, convoluted documentation, discord, and incessant bickering among scientists, activists, pressure groups of various hues, politicians and negotiators, very often the people on the ground are ignored or ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Assessment of Energy Sources Using GIS

    by Lubos Matejicek ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume is a comprehensive guide to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for the spatial analysis of supply and demand for energy in the global and local scale. It gathers the latest research and techniques in GIS for spatial and temporal analysis of energy systems, mapping of energy from fossil fuels, optimization of renewable energy sources, optimized deployment of existing power ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

    A Book About Noise

    by Garret Keizer ...
    Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The National Clean Energy Fund of India

    A Framework for Promoting Effective Utilization

    by Rita Pandey, Sanjay Bali, Nandita Mongia ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), announced in the Government of India’s Budget 2010-11, is seen as a major step in India's quest for energy security and reducing the carbon intensity of energy. Funding research and innovative projects in clean energy technologies, and harnessing renewable energy sources to reduce dependence on fossil fuels constitute the objectives of the NCEF. The NCEF’s ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Energy Landscape in the Republic of South Africa

    by Ian Staffell, Kerry-Ann Adamson, Bruno G. Pollet ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    A timely overview of the energy landscape in South Africa (RSA) is presented in this Springerbrief. The background and context to the current situation, and analysis of the policies being put forward by the government for the near future are described. Four broad areas are covered: reserves and production of fossil fuels, the electricity sector, the rapidly growing exploitation of renewable energy ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD