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This textbook covers the physics of engineering materials and the latest technologies used in modern engineering projects. It has been designed for use as a reference book and course material for undergraduate engineering students. The book was born out of the need for a comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date guide for teaching physics to beginning undergraduate engineering students and creating examination papers for technical boards and institutes. The text is divided into ten chapters, each with its specific objectives and features. The topics covered include the classification of engineering materials, atomic structure, electrical and magnetic behavior of solids, quantum mechanics, laser technology, nanomaterials, and sustainable development.Authored by a physicist with over 40 years of teaching experience, this richly-illustrated textbook features an abundance of self-assessment questions, solved examples, and a variety of chapter-end questions with detailed answers. The textbook starts from the very basics and is developed to the desired level, thus making it ideal as standalone course material.

"As immigrants and laborers, gardeners and artists, activists and vacationers, Asian Americans have played, worked, and worshipped in nature for almost two centuries, forging enduring relationships with diverse places and people. In the process, their actual or perceived ties to the environment have added to and amplified xenophobia and racist tropes. Indeed, white constructions of Asian Americans as the yellow peril, the perpetual foreigner, and the model minority were often intertwined with their environmental activities. At the same time, Asian Americans also harnessed environmental resources for their own needs, challenging restrictions and outmaneuvering their detractors in the process. This volume examines the links between Asian American and environmental history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. With essays on topics such as health in urban Chinatowns, Japanese oysters on Washington tidelands, American Indian and Japanese American experiences at the Leupp boarding school and isolation center, Southeast Asian community gardens, and contemporary Asian American outdoor recreation, this collection underscores the vibrancy of the field of Asian American environmental history"--

This book aims to address details and research gaps in the impacts of microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems. It addresses the microplastic's impact on the soil environment, highlight and discuss their transport behavior, pollution level and the combined effects of the microplastics with other pollutants on the soil ecology.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of cybersecurity in smart cities and explores how AI and IoT technologies can be used to address cybersecurity challenges.

This book highlights and explains the details of machine learning models used in geospatial data analysis. It demonstrates the need for a data-centric explainable machine learning approach for obtaining new insights from geospatial data analysis and how they are applied to solve various environmental problems from forestry to climate change.

This successor volume builds upon the first book with additional chapters meant to inspire readers to take action towards a healthier planet. It focuses on closing the gap between scientific insights on pressing environmental issues that do not often reach the general public, and putting that scientific knowledge in the hands of everyday people who can use these insights to take action against climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. The goal of this work is to share fascinating facts about nature and sustainability to inspire taking action toward a healthier planet, and to provide ideas on how we can take action to solve environmental issues in an informed and easy-to-understand way. The chapters are sourced from the author's work published on medium.com/@ErlijnG with added content not available on medium.com.All chapters are based on open-access research articles covering various environmental issues and solutions that are not often disseminated in popular discourse but are nonetheless important for non-scientific audiences to understand and become familiar with. They allow readers to explore the broad range of concepts and issues and recognize the far-reaching consequences, and trigger the desire to take action. Also, each chapter provides concrete ideas of how we as individuals can take action in daily life to make a positive difference related to the issues described. The book is a multimodal work, as it includes images and videos that accompany the text.

This book provides a detailed description of the topics related to XAI and Blockchain.

This new edition has been revised and expanded with new drawings to give the reader a complete picture of HVAC and heat pump systems.

This compelling new biography features the life and character of one of the most accomplished yet astonishingly unknown personalities of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Unique photographs from the Purépecha region of Michoacán, Mexico, present a world that rebels against the changes of history in a constant desire not to disappear.

A systematic rethinking of financialization, which explores how financial capitalism - especially the asset management industry - is organised, how the locus of power has shifted from public to private authority, and how its consequences have defined finance's societal purpose.

Immersed in history and myth, Damian Le Bas explores the meaning we find in sunken ruins around the worldThousands of years ago, an island off the Straits of Gibralter went to war with ancient Athens. The battle was lost, and an earthquake cleaved the land in two. Overnight the island sank beneath the waves - or so legend tells. As a young boy, Damian Le Bas was captivated by the lost city of Atlantis. Even as an adult, he dreams about diving amid its ancient ruins, observing with his own eyes the remnants of an era that still reverberates in our own. After the death of his father, torn between his lifelong desire and the taboo his Romany culture places on the ocean, he comes by chance across a dive shop. He can't help but go in. Under the waves he enters a breathtaking world. As he masters the skills of this dangerous sport, diving with seals in the Faroe Islands, exploring submerged Roman ruins in Naples and mapping the sunken city of Port Royal in Jamaica, he is entranced anew, by wonders both manmade and natural. Atlantis - from its first account by Plato, to the explorers who searched in vain and the discovery that might finally solve its mystery - takes on a new shape in Damian's quest. At once a spellbinding love letter to diving, The Drowned Places is also a profound examination of the power that myth has over us, and what happens when it crosses over into reality.

This will be a window into Yosemite's history, the inner workings of the park, the life and career of a trailblazing wilderness ranger, and the most remote corners of the park. Laurel Boyers' perspective is an incredibly unique one, and few people have been lucky enough to live a life quite like hers.

Detailed descriptions of edible mushrooms; tips on finding, preparing, and using mushrooms; a glossary of botanical terms; color photos.

Trees of the Rocky Mountains will fill a gap in Falcon's nature category by providing readers with a dedicated guidebook to identifying the most prominent tree species occurring in the Rocky Mountain region of North America.

The tragic tale of the first seabird ruthlessly destroyed by human actions - an all-powerful symbol of human folly and the necessity of conservation. Since 1950 more than seventy percent of the world's seabirds have been lost through human activity. The Great Auk was the first species to go. A goose-sized seabird superbly adapted for underwater flight, their lives were idyllic prior to the appearance of humans: three months ashore to breed, the rest of the time riding the ocean waves. However, Great Auks had one main predator - humans. Having harried the bird mercilessly for centuries in the east, the Europeans who stumbled upon the Great Auks' New World breeding colonies in the 16th century couldn't believe their luck. Seabird colonies became fast-food restaurants for hungry sailors, with mariners gorging themselves on the liver-flavoured auk flesh for more than two centuries. The last two were killed in 1844, but the Great Auk lived on, with collectors obsessing over their skins, eggs and skeletons through dodgy dealings involving staggering amounts of money. In a curious twist of fate, leading ornithologist Tim Birkhead found himself the recipient of the archive of a man who accumulated more Great Auk skins and eggs than anyone else. This astonishing book reveals the Great Auk's life before humanity, its death on that fateful day in 1844, and the unrelenting subsequent quest for its remains.

Offering broad coverage of advanced principals and applications, this volume provides chemical and environmental engineers with the most complete resource available on remediation of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on advanced and alternative approaches.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies. It will be of interest to readers across the fields of global development, African studies, and humanitarian and disaster studies.

AI and ML for Sustainable Development: Innovations, Challenges, and Applications is a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are revolutionizing the field of sustainable development.

Cordyceps and allied species are economically important macrofungi with environmental, agricultural, and human health implications.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the World's top Green Leaders. Air Protection in the European Union Member States examines the EU members' air protection policies, by taking into consideration wider political, social and economic perspectives.

The book "Climate Change, Education and Technology" offers a scientific perspective on the most critical problems of our time. It explores in depth the effects of climate change on nature and humanity while emphasizing the critical role of education and technology in providing solutions to these problems.

Capturing new waves of thought on resilience and recovery, Citraningtyas explores how people survive and make meaning in disasters by bringing together survivor experiences from natural disaster events in two vastly different cultural contexts.

This Handbook presents opportunities, best practices, and case studies backed by cutting edge research on the drivers of continuous improvement of health, safety and wellbeing in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management sector.

This book promotes sustainable practices in the textile industry. It covers advantages of using natural materials at every stage of textile processing, from production to recycling after end use. It discusses functional and smart textiles, sustainable methods, application, environmental impact, and opportunities and challenges.

This book promotes sustainable practices in the textile industry. It covers advantages of using natural materials at every stage of textile processing, from production to recycling after end use. It discusses functional and smart textiles, sustainable methods, application, environmental impact, and opportunities and challenges.

Offering broad coverage of both basic and advanced principals and applications, this volume provides chemical and environmental engineers with the most complete resource available on remediation of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on innovative and alternative approaches.

Offering broad coverage of advanced principals and applications this book provides chemical and environmental engineers with the most complete resource available on remediation of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on advanced and alternative approaches.