Fundamentals of Air Pollution is an important and widely used textbook in the environmental science and engineering community. This thoroughly revised fifth edition of Fundamentals of Air Pollution has been updated throughout and remains the most complete text available, offering a stronger systems [...]
Suitable for graduate students and reference for professionals in fields of atmospheric science, environmental science and engineering, this title describes fundamental topics in chemical modeling and its scientific and regulatory applications in air pollution problems, such as ozone hole, climate c[...]
Provides an overview of the Clean Air Act including its history, implementation, and the scientific, technological, and political factors that influenced policy. This title offers an overview of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its subsequent effects. It highlights the relationship between policy and scie[...]
Time-Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles presents, in an easy-to-read style, the latest research conducted in the industry, while also introducing a set of novel ideas that illuminate a new approach to problem-solving. The book is virtually self-contained, giving the reader a com[...]
Air Traffic Management: Economics Regulation and Governance provides the latest insights on approaches and issues surrounding the economic regulation and governance of air traffic management (ATM). The book begins by explaining what ATM is, showing its importance within the aviation industry. It the[...]
My iPad, Eighth Edition, helps you quickly get started with your new tablet, and use its features to look up information and perform day-to-day activities from anywhere, any time. Covers iOS 9 for all models of iPad Air, iPad mini, iPad Pro, iPad 3rd/4th generation, and iPad 2 Step-by-step instr[...]
"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." --Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the old--all have thrust us int[...]
Recommends house plants that help filter the air of indoor pollutants, including formaldehyde, benzene, and ammonia[...]
'I should like to go to France,' said Ma. 'God Almighty,' Pop said. 'What for?' 'For a holiday of course,' Ma said. 'I think it would do us all good to get some sun.' And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, including little Oscar, the family's new addition - bundle[...]
'The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it [...]
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.[...]
Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent! Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but then a surprise blizzard hits and the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts[...]
Hugo and Flynn are your guides to the hidden secrets of Air and Earth: two of the vital Elements that make up the incredible world of the Skylanders. Featuring stories, trivia and bags of information on Skylands heroes including Free Ranger, Pop Thorn, Rubble Rouser and Slobber Tooth, as well as old[...]
Following the development of massive airships, naive Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble. But although bombers devastate the city, they cannot overwhelm the country, and their attack leads not to victory but to[...]
Profiles fourteen songwriters responsible for such hits as "Jailhouse Rock," "Uptown," and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'," explaining how their blending of music from different genres affected social consciousness, in a volume that includes portraits of such figures as Neil Sedaka, Hal David, an[...]
An essential part of the literature of World War II. Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post"
From acclaimed World War II historian Richard Overy comes this startling new history of the controversial Allied bombing war against Germany and German-occupied Europe. In the fullest account yet of the [...]
Negroni is a talented aviation journalist who clearly understands the critically important part the human factor plays in aviation safety. Captain Chesley Sully Sullenberger, pilot of US Airways 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson
One of The Wall Street Journal s 3 Books Every Geek Should Read This[...]
COMING UP FOR AIR is about coping. Orwell hooks a character from among the struggling middle class and, close-up, lets us watch him wiggle. George (Tubby) Bowling is a "fat, middle-aged bloke with false teeth and a red face." He sells insurance, a task at which he grimly excels. The father of two in[...]
Since the early days of the Obama administration, conservative politicians have railed against the President's "war on coal." As evidence of this supposed siege, they point to a series of rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency that require the nation's power plants to cut their emissio[...]
Now long out of print, John Dunning's Tune in Yesterday was the definitive one-volume reference on old-time radio broadcasting. Now, in On the Air, Dunning has completely rethought this classic work, reorganizing the material and doubling its coverage, to provide a richer and more informative accoun[...]
Engaging decodable Biff, Chip and Kipper stories 100% matched to Letters and Sounds enable your pupils to practise phonic skills with their favourite characters.[...]