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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “isabel c escobar”
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  • Sustainable Water for the Future

    Water Recycling versus Desalination

    Edited by Andrea Schäfer, Isabel C. Escobar ...
    Series Book 2 - Sustainability Science and Engineering
    This book is part of a series on sustainability. Specifically, it deals with the issue of sustainable water use. Fresh sources of potable water are being depleted across the world. Pure water is the goal of water utilities as well as several industries. Well past the experimental stage, membrane processes are now a proven and reliable method of providing high-quality, cost-effective water. ... Read more

    $172.79 CAD

  • Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America

    by Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro, Jeffrey Blustein, Pascale Bonnefoy, Roddy Brett, Jessica Casiro, Isabel de León Olivares, Jenny Escobar, Zachary D. McKiernan0, Christopher Ney1, Miriam Rodriguez2, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos3, Kristy Sanandres4, Angie Tamayo5 ...
    This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victims—including the dead—during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. In light of newly unearthed archival evidence, testimonial memories, and the continued mobilization of human rights groups to preserve Cold War memory, this timely book moves ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Edited by Taicheng An, Huijun Zhao, Po Keung Wong ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
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    $115.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology

    Edited by Duncan Mara, Nigel J. Horan ...
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    $159.19 CAD

  • Catching Breath

    The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis

    by Miss Kathryn Lougheed ...
    Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history. With more than a million victims every year – more than any other disease, including malaria – and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising considering how long it's had to hone its ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Greywater, Green Landscape

    How to Install Simple Water-Saving Irrigation Systems in Your Yard

    by Laura Allen ...
    Keep your lawn and garden lush without wasting resources by capturing and recycling the greywater that drains from your sink, shower, and washing machine. This accessible and detailed guide walks you through each step of planning for and installing a variety of greywater systems, including laundry-to-landscape and branched drain gravity-fed systems. After identifying greywater sources in your home ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Biofilm Highlights

    Edited by Hans-Curt Flemming, Jost Wingender, Ulrich Szewzyk ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Living in biofilms is the common way of life of microorganisms, transiently immobilized in their matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), interacting in many ways and using the matrix as an external digestion and protection system. This is how they have organized their life in the environment, in the medical context and in technical systems – and has helped make them the oldest, most ... Read more

    $281.99 CAD

  • Colloid and Interface Chemistry for Water Quality Control

    by Qing Chang ...
    Colloid and Interface Chemistry for Water Quality Control provides basic but essential knowledge of colloid and interface science for water and wastewater treatment. Divided into two sections, chapters 1 to 8 presents colloid chemistry including simple history and basic concepts, diffusion and Brown Motion, sedimentation, osmotic pressure, optical properties, rheology properties, electric ... Read more

    $176.79 CAD

  • Microorganisms to Combat Pollution

    Edited by E. Rosenberg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume contains material first presented at an international workshop on the 'Use of Microorganisms to Combat Pollution', held in Israel, May 10--18, 1992. The workshop was sponsored by the Bat-Sheva de Rothschild Foundation for the Advancement of Science and included microbiologists, biochemists and geneticists from universities, environmental agencies and the military. Each of the ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Bioremediation of Selenium Contaminated Wastewater

    Edited by Eric D van Hullebusch ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book features the reduction and removal of selenium in wastewater via bioremediation. Arranged over five chapters, this book provides information regarding the interaction between micro-organisms and selenium, and it also explains the biogeochemistry of selenium in engineered ecosystems designed for wastewater treatment. The analytical approaches currently adopted by the scientific community ... Read more

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  • Environmental Microbiology of Aquatic and Waste Systems

    by Nduka Okafor ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage. Using the modern approach of 16S ribosomal RNA, the book looks at the taxonomy of marine and freshwater bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, viruses, and the smaller aquatic animals such as nematodes and rotifers, as well as at the study of unculturable aquatic microorganisms (metagenomics). ... Read more

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  • In Situ Bioremediation of Perchlorate in Groundwater

    Edited by C. Herb Ward, Hans F. Stroo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In the late 1970s and early 1980s, our nation began to grapple with the legacy of past disposal practices for toxic chemicals. With the passage in 1980 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, it became the law of the land to remediate these sites. The U. S. Department of Defense (DoD), the nation’s largest industrial ... Read more

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