To Infinity and Beyond
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The aviation sector’s direct emissions account for roughly 2.5% of global CO2 emissions. Electrification may be plausible for short flights but is unlikely to be suitable for long-haul flights; hydrogen-powered planes are a possibility but will only be sustainable if enough hydrogen can be produced sustainably. This means that sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) are urgently needed. Beginning with an introduction...Hardback$76600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksSustainability of Alloys and Polymers of Shape Memory Materials
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Forty years after its original publication, David McCullough's masterful history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge has become a classic work and is now being reissued with a new preface from the author. The building of the Brooklyn Bridge was a time of optimism and corruption, a time when Americans were the world's greatest engineers and could collectively create...Hardback$9100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksRenewable Energy - You Can Make A Difference Too!
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Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s rebuilding of Paris in 1853–1870, branded “Haussmannization,” helped define urban modernity for cities worldwide. But even as infrastructures expanded and modernised, some Parisians were left behind: as late as 1928, 18 percent of houses still lacked direct sewerage. Haussmannization often hid infrastructures behind walls and floors,...Hardback$36400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksOptimization of Sustainable Process Systems
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The threat of an impending global water crisis has proliferated across water governance literature in the recent decades. However, defining the nature of this global water crisis remains a challenge, as a plethora of problems fall under this term. Simultaneously, contemporary waterscapes are hard to navigate due to the interconnected and wicked nature of water issues. Thus, to unravel this...Hardback$20900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksOff-Grid Solar Power
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Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings alike. From the boglands of Ireland to data centres in the Oregon countryside to the homemade media systems of rural Tanzania, the contributors to this volume show how rural territories are highly mediated,...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMedia Rurality
Media Rurality investigates the centrality of rural places and people within the media systems and technologies that shape daily life in and across rural and urban settings alike. From the boglands of Ireland to data centres in the Oregon countryside to the homemade media systems of rural Tanzania, the contributors to this volume show how rural territories are highly mediated,...Hardback$34751Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMake China Great Again
On the Chinese internet, alternate history is booming. Millions of writers and readers fantasise about going back in time and changing their country's fate. One envisions saving the Southern Song Dynasty from the Mongols and turning China into a capitalist democracy. Another portrays a contemporary travelling to 1905 and sparking a communist revolution before the Chinese Communist Party was even...Hardback$42200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksMaico
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a small family-owned German company made and exported the world's best off-road motorcycles. In 1981, Maico introduced what may be the finest production motocross bike, for its time, ever built, establishing the basic measurements for modern dirt bikes. North American competitors embraced the Maico, paying high prices for an often-infuriating thoroughbred which carried them into...Paperback$16300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksInventing Nadar
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Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar, Doucet analyzes the historical and material production of the nineteenth-century Parisian photographer’s famous and numerous photographic firsts. Focusing on these oft-labeled groundbreaking elements of his career, she deconstructs Nadar’s legacy as a prime protagonist in the history...Hardback$34751Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksIntroduction to Securing Virtual Environments
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