Books from EOLSS Publications

  • Conflict Resolution - Volume II
    By Keith William Hipel

    [Presents the theory and practice of conflict analysis including many real-world applications.] Hammond, J.S., Keeney, R.L. and Raiffa, ... Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria Methods, 257 pp.

  • Food Quality And Standards - Volume II
    By Radomir Lasztity

    Quality requirements of main groups of food with special aspects of functional foods, foods for children and specific dietary purposes are overviewed. Finally some international institutions involved in this work are presented.

  • MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES - Volume XIII
    By Nina L. Etkin, Osmo Otto Paivio Hanninen, Mustafa Atalay

    Iroquois Medical Botany. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press. [One of the great ethnobotanical syntheses; the author combines intensive first hand fieldwork with a mastery of a century of earlier work on Iroquois plant use.] ...

  • Ethnopharmacology - Volume I
    By Nina L. Etkin, Elaine Elisabetsky

    Medicine: A substance or idea which people utilize when they do not feel well. ... Iroquois Medical Botany. ... the author combines intensive first hand fieldwork with a mastery of a century of earlier work on Iroquois plant use.

  • OUR FRAGILE WORLD: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development - Volume I
    By M. K. Tolba

    2.16 A NEW PEACE CULTURE REQUIRED FOR SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, ... Culture: The Webster New World Dictionary describes culture as “The development, improvement and refinement of the mind, ...

  • RELIGION, CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -Volume II
    By Robert Holton, Robert Charles Elliot, Roberto Blancarte Pimentel

    It was the birth of agrarianism in Western intellectual history. There exist many forms of agrarianism, but they all orbit around the positive appraisal of rural life. It is not only an economic issue, as with the eighteenth-century ...

  • GEOGRAPHY - Volume II
    By Maria Sala

    II. Human Geography 1 Carles Carreras, University of Barcelona, Spain 1. Historical Background 1.1. A Secular Chorographical Tradition 1.2. ... The Criticism to Neopositivist Approaches: Recent Debates in Human Geography 2.

  • Human Resources and Their Development - Volume II
    By Michael J. Marquardt

    These two 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.

  • ENVIRONMENTAL INDICES: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS APPROACH - Volume I
    By D. Eric Hyatt, Yuri A. Pykh, Roman J.M Lenz

    Einführung in die kultur- und sozialgeographische Regionalanalyse. de Gruyter, Berlin-New York. Hampicke, U. 1977. Landwirtschaft und Umwelt. Ókologische und Ökonomische Aspekte einer rationellen Umweltstrategie, dargestellt am Beispiel ...

  • Earth System: History and Natural Variability - Volume II
    By Vaclav Cilek

    These five 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.

  • Human Resources and Their Development - Volume I
    By Michael J. Marquardt

    A. Aliaga, Richard A. Swanson explanation for this lack of attention to economic theory is that the literature focused on training and its economic elaboration is taken for granted and considered indisputable. For a number of reasons, ...

  • FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMICS – Volume II
    By John M. Gowdy, Mukul Majumdar, Ian Wills

    A. Swanson explanation for this lack of attention to economic theory is that the literature focused on training and its ... What we propose here is economic theory as core to explaining the human resource development discipline.

  • Control Systems, Robotics and AutomatioN – Volume XVI: Fault Analysis and Control
    By Heinz D. Unbehauen

    ... aspects of change detection in signals and dynamical systems. This book can be downloaded from http://www.irisa.fr/sigma2/kniga] Baum C., Veeravalli V. (1994). A sequential procedure for multi-hypothesis testing, IEEE Trans.

  • Human Settlement Development - Volume III
    By Saskia Sassen

    Weiping Wu infrastructure, and mixed land-use patterns are making the redevelopment effort a challenging one. ... But with continuing urban expansion and downtown redevelopment, Shanghai's urban periphery is now the primary receiving ...

  • Land Use, Land Cover and Soil Sciences - Volume V: Dry Lands and Desertification
    By Willy H. Verheye

    Haiman and Peter Fabian wadis, suggest that this phase of settlement intended to settle the nomads. ... Unlike the close contact between the town and the periphery in the Byzantine period, the distribution of the farms in the Early ...

  • PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS - Volume III: Applied Statistics
    By Reinhard Viertl

    The Future of Applied Statistics Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketch Summary Statistics is a field that has been widely applied to almost all aspects of human endeavors particularly those related to science and technology.

  • CULTURE, CIVILIZATION AND HUMAN SOCIETY – Volume I
    By Herbert Arlt, Donald G. Daviau

    Loosing one's culture thus means loosing the orientation provided by these segmentations and the meaning ascribed to ... often periods when nonconformist behavior is allowed, certain individuals can play the fool, the enfant terrible, ...

  • Science and Technology Policy - Volume I
    By Rigas Arvanitis

    These two 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

  • Chemical Engineering and Chemical Process Technology - Volume I: Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering
    By Ryzhard Pohorecki, John Bridgwater, M. Molzahn. Rafiqul Gani and Crispulo Gallegos

    Molecular modeling, simulating chemical and molecular structures or processes by computer, significantly aids scientists in this endeavor. Typical applications of theoretical and computational methods to specific chemical engineering ...

  • Chemical Engineering and Chemical Process Technology - Volume V: Chemical Engineering Education and Main Products
    By Ryzhard Pohorecki, John Bridgwater, M. Molzahn. Rafiqul Gani and Crispulo Gallegos

    These five 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.