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  • Elon Musk

    Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

    by Ashlee Vance ...
    A New York Times BestsellerIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.”Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon ... Read more

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  • Hidden Figures

    The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

    by Margot Lee Shetterly ...
    The #1 New York Times bestsellerThe phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of ... Read more

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  • Transportation Engineering

    Volume I : Highway Engineering

    by C Venkatramaiah ...
    Transportation Engineering, Volume I covers the undergraduate curriculum in Highway Engineering and caters to the needs of civil engineering courses offered by technical universities across India. The book cites and specifies the latest IRC and IS codes, including the special publications, in its discussion of current highway engineering practices and testing specifications used in India while ... Read more

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  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • European Planning History in the 20th Century

    A Continent of Urban Planning

    Edited by Max Welch Guerra, Abdellah Abarkan, María A. Castrillo Romón, Martin Pekár ...
    The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense ... Read more

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  • Energy and Civilization

    A History

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    **A BILL GATES “BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR”A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped 10,000 years of human history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today’s fossil fuel–driven civilization.**Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive ... Read more

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  • Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy, Second Edition

    by Masaaki Imai ...
    The definitive, fully up-to-date guide to continuous improvement in the workplace"An updated version of a classic book that shares a wealth of new healthcare examples and case studies from around the world. The methods in this book will help you improve quality and safety, reduce waiting times, and improve the long-term financial position of your organization. Highly recommended!" --Mark Graban, ... Read more

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  • Saudi America

    The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World

    by Ms. Bethany McLean ...
    Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking’s impact—on Wall Street, the economy and geopoliticsThe technology of fracking in shale rock—particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas—has transformed America into the world’s top producer of both oil and natural gas. The U.S. is expected to be “energy independent” and a “net exporter” in less than a decade, a move that will ... Read more

    PHP616.19

  • The Routledge Handbook of Planning History

    Edited by Carola Hein ...
    2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award RecipientThe Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and ... Read more

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  • Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California

    by Jesse M. Keenan ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    This book serves as a guide for local governments and private enterprises as they navigate the unchartered waters of investing in climate change adaptation and resilience. This book serves not only as a resource guide for identifying potential funding sources but also as a roadmap for asset management and public finance processes. It highlights practical synergies between funding mechanisms, as ... Read more

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  • Chemical Technicians' Ready Reference Handbook, 5th Edition

    by Jack T. Ballinger, Gershon J. Shugar ...
    THE DEFINITIVE CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRY REFERENCE--FULLY REVISEDUpdated to reflect the latest developments in operational procedures for today's sophisticated chemical technologies, Chemical Technicians' Ready Reference Handbook, Fifth Edition, remains the undisputed classic in the field. Expanded to include coverage for process operators, this authoritative resource contains in-depth details on ... Read more

    PHP6,818.99

  • Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis

    by Jr. Lodge ...
    Includes precise directions for a long list of contaminants! All contaminants you can analyze or monitor with a given method are consolidated together to facilitate use. This book is especially valuable for indoor and outdoor air pollution control, industrial hygiene, occupational health, analytical chemists, engineers, health physicists, biologists, toxicologists, and instrument users. ... Read more

    PHP4,311.27

  • Architecture Design Notebook

    by A Peter Fawcett ...
    Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstrates the skills required for designing at undergraduate level.Providing students with fundamental maxims of design, and a framework within which they can approach their work, this book supports undergraduates as they learn to ... Read more

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  • Desalination Engineering: Operation and Maintenance

    by Nikolay Voutchkov ...
    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO DESALINATION PLANT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCEThis Water Environment Federation and WateReuse Association publication describes state-of-the art operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting methods for reverse osmosis brackish and seawater desalination plants for municipal water supplies. All plant components are discussed in detail, from intake and pretreatment to discharge ... Read more

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  • Experimenting for Sustainable Transport

    The Approach of Strategic Niche Management

    by Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp, Johan Schot, Bernhard Truffer ...
    Series series Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
    Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new ... Read more

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  • The Circular Economy in Europe

    Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imaginaries

    by Zora Kovacic, Roger Strand, Thomas Völker ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Sustainability and Governance
    The Circular Economy in Europe presents an overview and a critical discussion on how circularity is conceived, imagined, and enacted in current EU policy-making. In 2013, the idea of a circular economy entered the stage of European policy-making in the efforts to reconcile environmental and economic policy objectives. In 2019 the European Commission declared in a press release that the Circular ... Read more

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  • China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market

    by Jiawen Han ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this phenomenon in detail. In particular, it highlights how changes in the social-political system, the ... Read more

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  • Urban Planning And The Development Process

    by David Adams ...
    This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy. It is concerned with people - landowners, developers, investors, politicians and ordinary members of the public - who produce change in towns and cities as they relate to each other and react to development Pressure. Whether Such Change Occurs Slowly And Is Almost Unnoticed, Or happens rapidly and is highly disruptive, a ... Read more

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  • Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management

    by Paul Myerson ...
    "The documented benchmarks for success and the many examples help explicate the complexities for the reader. The book is organized and written so that it will be useful as an introduction to the field and also as a reference when special challenges arise for the practicing manager." -- DR. JOHN J. COYLE, Professor Emeritus of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Department of Supply Chain and ... Read more

    PHP1,685.39

  • AI Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society

    Applications in High-Impact Sectors

    Edited by José Guadix Martín, Milica Lilic, Marina Rosales Martínez ...
    AI Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society: Applications in High-Impact Sectors brings together examples from the "Innovative Ecosystem with Artificial Intelligence for Andalusia 2025" project at the University of Seville, a series of sub-projects composed of research groups and different institutions or companies that explore the use of Artificial Intelligence in a variety of high ... Read more

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  • Re-Framing Urban Space

    Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions

    by Im Sik Cho, Chye-Kiang Heng, Zdravko Trivic ...
    Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious and contested commodity, but also one of the key vehicles for achieving socially, environmentally and ... Read more

    PHP5,666.43

  • Families Mental Health and Challenges in the 21st Century

    Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Applied Psychology on Humanity (ICAPH 2022), Malang, Indonesia, 27 August 2022

    Edited by Syamsul Arifin, Salis Yuniardi, Diah Karmiyati, Iswinarti, Nida Hasanati, Tulus Winarsunu, Cahyaning Suryaningrum ...
    Families Mental Health and Challenges in the 21st Century contains the papers presented at the 1st International Conference of Applied Psychology on Humanity 2022 (ICAPH 2022, Malang, Indonesia, 27 August 2022). The contributions focus on the challenges in micro-family environments that are faced with rapid developments of technology and information in the 21st century. The issues addressed in the ... Read more

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  • HVAC Design Sourcebook

    by W. Larsen Angel ...
    THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO HVAC DESIGNThis practical manual describes the HVAC system design process step by step using photographs, drawings, and a discussion of pertinent design considerations for different types of HVAC components and systems. Photographs of HVAC components in their installed condition illustrate actual size and proper configuration. Graphical representations of the components as ... Read more

    PHP4,041.49

  • Coastal Engineering

    Processes, Theory and Design Practice

    by Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Fleming ...
    Effective coastal engineering is expensive, but it is not as costly as neglect or ineffective intervention. Good practice needs to be based on sound principles, but theoretical work and modelling also need to be well grounded in practice, which is continuously evolving. Conceptual and detailed design has been advanced by new industry publications since the publication of the second edition.This ... Read more

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