Subject(s): Electronic waste -- Juvenile literature | Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Juvenile literature -- Environmental aspects Summary: "What Is the Impact of E-Waste?: Electronic Waste: An Overview; Planned Obsolescence Creates Unnecessary E-Waste; Developing Countries Are A Dumping Ground for Hazardous E-Waste; Illegal E-Waste

Subject(s): Infinite -- History | Mathematics -- Philosophy Summary: "'The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.' David Hilbert (1862-1943). This inte

Subject(s): Law libraries | Legal literature | Legal research | Law libraries -- Collection development | Law librarians -- Training of Summary: "Around the world, legal information managers, law librarians and other legal information specialists work in many settings: law schools, private law firms, courts, government, and public law libra

Subject(s): Systems engineering -- Mathematics | Requirements engineering Summary: "Preface This book was written to take a step to fulfill a goal that George Friedman stated in his president's keynote address in 1994 at just the second meeting of the International Council on Systems Engineering. George asked his audience to provide a m

Subject(s): Business writing | Business communication Summary: "Business Writing for the Digital Age: A Student's Guide can be used as a core or supplementary text for business writing courses and across the Business and Management curriculum as a student aid to better writing. The text instructs business students how to write for the 2

Subject(s): College students -- Services for | Counseling in higher education | College student orientation | School improvement programs Summary: "The landscape of higher education has dramatically altered in the past 30 years as more students are attending universities and colleges than ever before. In such a competitive market, the quali

Subject(s): Mathematical statistics Summary: "Preface according to my Penguin English dictionary, whistle-stop, used before a noun means 'consisting of brief stops in several places' and this whistle-stop tour of statistics does just that, with the ten 'stops' being ten major areas of statistics. In a Whistle-Stop Tour of St

Subject(s): Nuclear engineering | Nuclear industry | Radiology | Nanotechnology Summary: "Exploring the new wide-ranging landscape of nuclear function, this book details the breakthroughs in nanoscale applications and methodologies that are revolutionizing power production, biotechnology, and material science as they apply to the nuclear in

Subject(s): Ecological houses | Carbon dioxide mitigation Summary: "Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue. Providing homes that achieve "zero carbon", "carbon neutral", "zero-net energy" or "energy-

Subject(s): Data transmission systems | Packet switching (Data transmission) | Telecommunication -- Switching systems Summary: "The book outlines the current situation of the telecommunication network and the different alternatives for network evolution. It provides a systematic view of the network design problem, underlining its links betw