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Offshore Wind : a Comprehensive Guide to Successful Offshore Wind Farm Installation
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Subject(s): Wind power | Offshore wind power plants Summary: Offshore wind is the new blue horizon for Alternative Energy. One small offshore wind farm can produce more power than a whole coal plant, or a nuclear reactor. However, very few people have real experience getting an offshore wind farm up and running. This book is the first-ever road

Design of Buildings for Wind : a Guide for Asce 7-10 Standard Users and Designers of Special Structures
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Subject(s): Wind-pressure | Buildings -- Aerodynamics | Bridges -- Aerodynamics | Wind resistant design Summary: "ASCE 7 is the US standard for identifying minimum design loads for buildings and other structures. ASCE 7 covers many load types, of which wind is one. The purpose of this book is to provide structural and architectural engineer

Transportation Biofuels : Novel Pathways for the Production of Ethanol, Biogas and Biodiesel
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Subject(s): Biodiesel fuels | Ethanol as fuel | Biogas Summary: "Current world fossil oil production is struggling to meet demand and may even show a decline after 2010. It is therefore necessary to develop new energy efficient production pathways for transportation biofuels. This book offers an insight into three promising and innovative p

Posthuman International Relations : Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics
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Subject(s): International relations | World politics -- 21st century | Green movement Summary: "In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the Enlightenment project of overcoming th

The Needs Abc Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families : a Guide for Practitioners
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Subject(s): Couples therapy | Family therapy Summary: "The Needs ABC Therapeutic Model for Couples and Families: A Guide for Practitioners shows readers how to successfully tailor a therapeutic approach to meet the needs of couples and families. It has been preceded by Needs ABC (Acquisition and Behavior Change), a model for group work and

Investigating the Social World : the Process and Practice of Research
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Subject(s): Social problems -- Research | Social sciences -- Research Summary: "A comprehensive, balanced text text for Research Methods courses found in Sociology, Communication/Journalism, Political Science, Public Administration, and other social science disciplines. It is used in undergraduate through graduate level courses"--Provid

Interpretation and Application of International Standards on Auditing
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Subject(s): Auditing -- Standards | Financial statements -- Standards Summary: "This book eliminates the complexities contained within the International Standards on Auditing and gets to the heart of what it is that auditing standards want from auditors. Offering practical guidance on how these often difficult to interpret standards are app

Investments and Portfolio Performance
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Subject(s): Investments | Portfolio management | Investment analysis Summary: This book contains the recent contributions of Edwin J. Elton and Martin J. Gruber to the field of investments. All of the articles in this book have been published in the leading finance and economic journals. Sixteen of the twenty articles have been published in the

A Companion to the Anthropology of India
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Subject(s): Anthropology -- India | India -- Social conditions | India -- Economic conditions | India -- Population Summary: "A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India's globalization in the twenty-first century.

Art and Human Development
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Subject(s): Creative ability | Arts -- Psychological aspects Review: "Intended for researchers and advanced students in both human development and the arts, this book will also serve as a textbook for advanced courses on psychology and the arts and/or special topics courses in cognitive and/or human development."--BOOK JACKET. Conte

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