Books from EOLSS Publications

  • Biometrics - Volume I
    By Susan R. Wilson, Conard Burden

    These volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

  • OCEANOGRAPHY– Volume II
    By Chen-Tung Arthur Chen, Jacques C. J. Nihoul

    Marine biological diversity. BioScience 41(7), 453509. ... Biological diversity: differences between land and sea. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. ... Biodiversity II: understanding and protecting our biological resources. 551 pp. Nat. Acad.

  • Inorganic and Bio-Inorganic Chemistry - Volume II
    By Ivano Bertini

    Inorganic and Molecular Superconductors 6.4. Multifunctional Organic-inorganic Hybrid Solids 7. High Temperature Materials 7.1. Method of Synthesis 8. Conclusions Inorganic Biochemistry 339 Ivano Bertini, University of Florence, ...

  • LAW – Volume I
    By Aaron Schwabach, Arthur Cockfield

    International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process: Selected International Human Rights Instruments and Bibliography for Research on International Human Rights Law, pp. 23, 35, 36, 71, 146, 157, 177; Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson ...

  • BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume III: Fundamentals in Biotechnology
    By Horst W. Doelle, J. Stefan Rokem, Marin Berovic

    This 15-volume set contains several chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations.

  • Quality of Human Resources: Education - Volume II
    By Natalia P. Tarasova

    How to provide valuable and equitable experiences are topics of intense debate with successful resolution seen as key to the future success of the nations. 2. Organization of Education Sharing a history of European colonization, ...

  • PEACE STUDIES, PUBLIC POLICY AND GLOBAL SECURITY – Volume II
    By Ursula Oswald Spring, Ada Aharoni, Ralph V. Summy

    ... Groups Combating Infectious Diseases 2. WHO Initiatives 2.1. WHO Accomplishments 2.2. Other Activities and Considerations 2.3. Factors in Future Success 3. Infectious Disease and Global Security 3.1. Background 3.2.

  • Area Studies (Regional Sustainable Development Review) Japan
    By Yukio Himiyama

    examines international environmental issues, especially the environmental destruction caused by Japanese corporations ... After this policy report was presented, the Environmental Impact Assessment Law was finally enacted in 1997.

  • Systems Science and Cybernetics - Volume I
    By Francisco Parra-Luna

    Municipal Entrepreneurship and Energy Policy. 255 pp. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach. [This book reports on a comparative study in five countries of municipal innovations launched by agents aiming and struggling to develop alternative ...

  • Area Studies(Regional Sustainable Development Review): Russia - Volume I
    By Nicolay Pavlovich Laverov

    ... with cultural stereotypes, every individual is unconsciously balanced with the archetype of the opposite sex. ... the father in the upbringing of children and spiritual education of an individual In connecting the “femininity” of ...

  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY -Volume I
    By Chen Yong, Kurt Stüwe, Syed E. Hasan

    Field Testing in Engineering Geology, Engineering Geology Special Publication No. 6. London: Geological Society*. Bridge D.M., Brown M.J., and Hooker P.G. (1996). Wolverhampton Environmental Survey: an Integrated Geoscientific Study.

  • MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING -Volume II
    By Rees D .Rawlings

    Journal of Physics D−Applied Physics Vol. ... [Aimed to be used as an introductory course for scientists and engineers who wish to develop an understanding of magnetism and ... Electric Power Applications (Proceedings of the IEE, Vol.

  • Environmental Laws and Their Enforcement - Volume II
    By John C. Dernbach, A. Dan Tarlock

    Law and Regulations - L. Fang, K. W. Hipel, D. M. Kilgour Biographical Sketches Liping Fang received a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, China, and M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in systems design engineering ...

  • History of Mathematics
    By Jeremy Gray, Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen

    The Theme on History of Mathematics discusses: Mathematics in Egypt and Mesopotamia; History of Trigonometryto 1550; Mathematics in Japan; The Mathematization of The Physical Sciences-Differential Equations of Nature; A Short History of ...

  • Ecology - Volume II
    By Antonio Bodini, Stefan Klotz

    This self-driven or autogenic change occurs following disturbance to the existing ecological condition caused by allogenic or ... The product of millions of years of evolution, biological diversity (or simply "biodiversity") is nature's ...

  • Environmental Systems - Volume II
    By Achim Sydow

    Different types of models are more commonly used with different environmental systems. For example, climate models tend to be very complex process (physics) models containing a very large number of parameters and modeling over very ...

  • HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -Volume III
    By Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Pablo Lorenzano, Eduardo Ortiz and Carlos Delfino Galles

    Technology-Leon Olive ... Mexico Keywords: Ethics, morality, science, technology, technoscience, norms, values, evaluation, risk, ethical responsibility. Contents 1. ... Ethical questions regarding science and technology 4.

  • Future Challenges of Providing High-Quality Water - Volume I
    By Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Richard Meissner, Hannatjie Jacobs

    This is understood when attention is paid to the worldwide treaty on “biological diversity” to which many countries signed in that same year. Global environmental problems are having profound impacts on modern civilization.

  • CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION – Volume IV: Modeling and System Identification-I
    By Heinz Unbehauen

    Introduction to Bond Graphs and Their Applications Pergamon Press, Oxford. [Course text with special emphasis on thermal and hydraulic systems; uses p- and s-in stead of 0- and 1-junctions] Thoma J.U. (1989). Simulation by Bondgraphs ...

  • Demography - Volume II
    By Zeng Yi

    Between Zeus and the Salmon: The Biodemography of Longevity. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press. [Focused discussion on such diverse topics as the role of the elderly in other species and among human societies past and present, ...