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  • Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries

    by Duncan Mara ...
    Affordable and effective domestic wastewater treatment is a critical issue in public health and disease prevention around the world, particularly so in developing countries which often lack the financial and technical resources necessary for proper treatment facilities.This practical guide provides state-of-the-art coverage of methods for domestic wastewater treatment and provides a foundation to ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology

    Edited by Duncan Mara, Nigel J. Horan ...
    "Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right" --Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General Edited by two world-renowned scientists in the field, The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology provides a definitive and comprehensive coverage of water and wastewater microbiology. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book gives a ... Read more

    $159.19 CAD

  • The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer

    by Mara Rockliff ...
    Illustrated by Daniel Duncan ...
    This true story of a woman whose brilliance and mechanical expertise helped Britain win World War II is sure to inspire STEM readers and fans of amazing women in history.Beatrice Shilling wasn’t quite like other children. She could make anything. She could fix anything. And when she took a thing apart, she put it back together better than before.When Beatrice left home to study engineering, she ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reclaiming the Land

    The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Edited by Sam Moyo, Paris Yeros ...
    Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Living Off-Grid

    by Tadhg O'Flaherty ...
    Do you want to break the shackles and stop giving your hard earned money to large multinational utility companies?What would you do if there was an extended blackout spanning a month or more? How would you feed yourself and your family if the shelves in your local supermarket were suddenly empty? By becoming self-sufficient you will never need to worry about these things.Don’t worry; there is no ... Read more

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  • Rural Development Planning in Africa

    Edited by Meleckidzedeck Khayesi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book applies a range of theories that focus on current concerns in rural Africa. The contributors lay out the conceptualization, analysis, methods, assumptions, perceptions, and ideas considered in each individual case. Specifically, this project inspires research in the field of rural development in Africa through multi-faceted endeavors that promote the ability of planning to uplift people ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Moon Base Colony

    by Phillip Duke Ph.D. ...
    The Earth's Moon is much more suitable than Mars for an off-world colony. The Moon is much closer, and this plus its low gravity facilitates transport between Earth and Moon. The unfavorable lunar surface conditions are negated by living underground. With energy provided by nuclear and solar energy, and employing complete recycling, the Moon Base Colony is successful.In the author's opinion, such ... Read more

    $4.05 CAD

  • The Uprooted

    Improving Humanitarian Responses to Forced Migration

    by Susan F. Martin, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Kari M. Jorgensen, Andrew Schoenholtz, Lydia Mann-Bondat ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, human rights violations, repression, conflict, and natural and human-made disasters, current causes of forced migration include environmental and development-induced factors. Today's migrants include ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Global Frontiers of Social Development in Theory and Practice

    Climate, Economy, and Justice

    Edited by B. Mohan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress. Economic, climate, and social justice are the areas of focus for this analysis of human-social development in the fog of ideological-institutional meltdowns. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Wastewater Gardener

    Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time

    by Mark Nelson, PhD ...
    Mark Nelson, PhD, takes us on a global expedition to learn how we are wasting the world’s dwindling supply of fresh water by flushing away a very valuable resource, our own human wastes! The author is founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological systems research. As one of eight brave souls enclosed in the pioneering Biosphere 2 ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Renewable Energy in East Asia

    Towards a New Developmentalism

    by Christopher M. Dent ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asia’s ‘economic miracle’. The region’s rapid development over the last few decades has been inherently energy-intensive and the impact on global energy security, climate change and the twenty-first-century global system generally is now very significant and will become more so over foreseeable years and ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD