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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert figueroa”
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  • Biomining Technologies

    Extracting and Recovering Metals from Ores and Wastes

    Edited by David Barrie Johnson, Christopher George Bryan, Michael Schlömann, Francisco Figueroa Roberto ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book describes emerging and established industrial processes of biomining technologies used for the recovery of metals of economic interest from, e.g. mineral ores, mining and electronic wastes using microbiological technologies.Multiple chapters focus on engineering design and operation of biomining systems. Several industrial case studies from China, Chile, Peru, Russia/Kazakhstan and ... Read more

    $230.59 CAD

  • Science and Other Cultures

    Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology

    Edited by Sandra Harding, Robert Figueroa ...
    In this pioneering new book, Sandra Harding and Robert Figueroa bring together an important collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diversity issues for the philosophy of science and technology. The essays gathered in this volume extend current philosophical discussion of science and technology beyond the standard feminist and gender analyses that have ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Faces of Environmental Racism

    Confronting Issues of Global Justice

    by Hussein M. Adam, Elizabeth Bell, Robert D. Bullard, Robert Melchior Figueroa, Clarice E. Gaylord, Segun Gbadegesin, R J. A. Goodland, Howard McCurdy, Charles Mills, Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Peter S. Wenz, Daniel C. Wigley ...
    Series series Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
    Racial minorities in the United States are disproportionately exposed to toxic wastes and other environmental hazards, and cleanup efforts in their communities are slower and less thorough than efforts elsewhere. Internationally, wealthy countries of the North increasingly ship hazardous wastes to poorer countries of the South, resulting in such tragedies as the disaster at Bhopal. Through case ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    The Markenmore Mystery (UNABRIDGED)

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    by J. S. FLETCHER ...
    Narrated by Denise Walker, Robert Terrell, Kyle Lowe, Elizabeth Figueroa ...

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    9 hours 17 min

    After seven years of silence, Guy Markenmore returns to his family home at Markenmore Court. Knowing his father Sir Anthony to be close to death, he is anxious to reassure his younger siblings that he will not make any claim to the family money even if he can't help inheriting the old man's title. Sir Anthony dies later that evening, but the question of the inheritance becomes academic when Guy is ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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    Water Recycling versus Desalination

    Edited by Andrea Schäfer, Isabel C. Escobar ...
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  • The Blank Slate

    The Modern Denial of Human Nature

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now."Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --TimeFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize**Updated with a new afterwordOne of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, ... Read more

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    by Ananda S. Amarasekara ...
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  • Sustainable Practices in the Textile Industry

    by Luqman Jameel Rather, Mohd Shabbir, Aminoddin Haji ...
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    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies."There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.Integrating recent ... Read more

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    by Vivek V. Ranade, Vinay M Bhandari ...
    Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Recycling and Reuse is an accessible reference to assist you when handling wastewater treatment and recycling. It features an instructive compilation of methodologies, including advanced physico-chemical methods and biological methods of treatment. It focuses on recent industry practices and preferences, along with newer methodologies for energy generation through ... Read more

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  • Paths to a Green World, second edition

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    by Jennifer Clapp, Peter Dauvergne ...
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  • Soil Pollution

    From Monitoring to Remediation

    Edited by Armando C. Duarte, Anabela Cachada, Teresa A.P. Rocha-Santos ...
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