Books from EOLSS Publications

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

    Laboratory handbook for the fractionation of natural extracts, 199 pp. London: Chapman & Hall [This presents methods used in the search for bioactive compounds] Kleppe K., Ohtsuka E., Kleppe R., Molineux I. and Khorana H.G. (1971).

  • WORLD SYSTEM HISTORY-Volume I
    By George Modelski and Robert A. Denemark

    Growth, Trade and Systemic Leadership. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [This study extends the leadership long cycle perspective on long waves to questions of economic growth and trade protectionism]. Schumpeter, J. (1939).

  • SYSTEM DYNAMICS - Volume II
    By Yaman Barlas

    1-2, 1988, Special Issue on Chaos. [Special issue of the System dynamics Review dealing with the relevance of chaos and other nonlinear phenomena to System Dynamics]. Biographical Sketches Javier Aracil was born in Alcoy, Spain, in 1941 ...

  • Global Perspectives in Health - Volume II
    By Boutros Pierre Mansourian

    Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. [The first and now standard dictionary of all medical and non-medical managerial terms likely to be needed in disaster work.

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

    To meet this felt need, the Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief defines some 1200 terms, endorsed by the U.N. Disaster Relief Coordinator as the standard vocabulary of disaster management, ...

  • SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – Volume VIII
    By Saskia Sassen, Tomoko Hamada, Abubakar Momoh

    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.

  • WELFARE ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – Volume II
    By Ian Wills, Yew-Kwang Ng

    The effect of the common ownership of land upon resource allocation in Tripolitania. Land Economics Vol.39 (Feb), pp.91-95. [This is a classic paper on the effect of common property or open access on land resources, predating Hardin's ...

  • BIOTECHNOLOGY - Volume IV: 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.

  • Environmental Education and Awareness - Volume I
    By Bhaskar Nath

    ... Key Stage 1); • (help pupils to learn) what improves and harms their local, natural and built environments and some of the ways people look after them (PHSE, KS1); • provide opportunities for pupils to be involved in environmental ...

  • Environmental Education and Awareness - Volume II
    By Bhaskar Nath

    It is an international network of organizations, with its headquarters in Gland, Switzerland, whose mission is to conserve nature and natural resources. KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4: In the English National Curriculum (NC) Key Stage 1 (KS1) ...

  • Peace, Literature, and Art - Volume I
    By Ada Aharoni

    Peace Education: Teaching and learning about the dynamics of conflicts and the variegated strategies for the attainment of ... (This book presents the findings of studies concerning the portrayal of the Arab image in children's books).

  • Rheology - Volume I
    By Crispulo Gallegos

    [A filament-stretching rheometer was used to study the extensional flow behavior of molten styrene.] ... Structure and rheology of molten polymers, Hanser [This book provides a thorough treatment of linear and nonlinear viscoelastic ...

  • Rheology - Volume II
    By Crispulo Gallegos

    Empirical relation between the shear rate dependence of the steady state viscosity and the frequency dependence of the complex dynamic viscosity (Eq. 6). ... Structure and Rheology of Molten Polymers, 516 pp. Hanser Publ.

  • Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity - Volume II
    By Djelal Kadir, Lisa Block de Behar, Paola Mildonian

    Mito y archivo. Una teoría de la narrativa latinoamericana, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2000. [The author elaborates a theory of Latin American literature through the double axis myth-archive which dominates literature and other ...

  • CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION – Volume XX: Industrial Applications of Control Systems-I
    By Heinz D. Unbehauen

    Weather conditions, such as jet streams and strong turbulence, may influence route selection in long-distance flights—hours of flight time and fuel costs may be saved this way. This problem area will be discussed in Section 2.1.

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

    Introduction 2. 3.9. Bayes and Empirical Bayes 3.10. Computer-Intensive Biometrical Methods 3.11. Biological Sequence Analysis 2.1. Background 2.2. Scoring Systems 2.3. Sequence Alignment 2.4. Assessment of Significance 2.4.1.

  • Computer Science and Engineering
    By David R. Kaeli, Zainalabedin Navabi

    [This refined Cohen's results and proved the generic virus detection problem undecidable]. ... [This collection of papers discusses aspects of computer viruses and related programs]. Duff T. (1989). ... A Pathology of Computer Viruses.

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

    OCEANOGRAPHY This volume is part of the set: Oceanography Volume I ISBN- 978-1-905839-62-9 (e-Book Adobe Reader) ISBN- 978-1-84826-962-0 (Print (Full Color Edition)) Oceanography Volume II ISBN- 978-1-905839-63-6 (e-Book Adobe Reader) ...

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

    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.

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

    Aluminum Alloys Over 70% of the structural weight of modern civil aircraft, like the Airbus A330/A340, or the Boeing ... with the properties of the two most dominant aerospace variants, the damage-tolerant Al-Cu base alloy 2024 and the ...