David K: 437 books
Root Cause Analysis Handbook
A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way? Safety, health, environmental quality, reliability, production, and security are at stake. You need the long-term planning that will keep the same issues from recurring. Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A...
Unlocking Energy Innovation
How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Experts outline a plan to overhaul the U.S. energy innovation system for accelerated, large-scale adoption of reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy technologies.
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity...
Transforming Undergraduate Education
Theory that Compels and Practices that Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
For those ready to participate in making transformative changes, Transforming Undergraduate Education provides evidence and case studies that suggest how steps can be taken and progress made. For those who are currently leading their campuses through a change in culture, this book offers support and...
Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing
The Savvy Manager's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Web Services, Service-Oriented Architectures, and Cloud Computing is a jargon-free, highly illustrated explanation of how to leverage the rapidly multiplying services available on the Internet. The future of business will depend on software agents, mobile devices, public and private clouds, big data,...
Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Together
Reflective Assessments for Middle and High School Mathematics and Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
This book offers easy-to-use classroom strategies for middle and high school Mathematics and Science classrooms. They demonstrate how teaching, learning, and assessment are inseparable and seamless. Each strategy will engage your students in activity and reflection, consuming little class time, costing...
Free Markets and Food Riots
The Politics of Global Adjustment
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely...
Ranger
A Soldier's Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred...
by Dr. David Newsome, Prof. Ross K. Dowling, Dr. Susan A. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
This book is a landmark contribution to the rapidly growing field of wildlife tourism, especially in regard to its underpinning foundations of science, conservation and policy. Written by a number of environmental and biological scientists it explains the synergy between wildlife and tourism by drawing on their global experiences.
by David NEWSOME, Susan MOORE and Ross K. DOWLING
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
The book covers all facets of tourism in natural areas. The book is underpinned by a strong foundation of environmental understanding. It then describes the range of impacts, which occur when tourism takes place in the natural environment and illustrates how managers can plan, develop and appropriately...
Natural Area Tourism
Ecology, Impacts and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Natural Area Tourism provides a comprehensive description of tourism in natural areas allowing readers to understand the scope of, complexities arising from, and possibilities of undertaking successful tourism developments in natural areas. Furthermore, the second edition contains an overview of recent...
Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production
Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance provides an overview of the emerging industrial PV sector, its technologies, and the regulatory frameworks supporting them. This new book reviews and categorizes the potential environmental impacts...
Creepies: Twisted Tales From Beneath the Bed
Creepies, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
- A desperate father, on the run with his daughter reveals a terrifying truth about his child...
- Who is the bogeyman, really? Hear the real story – directly
from the monster himself...
- A tiny burger joint along a desert highway – it appears to be a refreshing oasis for a traveling family......
Taking Chances
The Coast after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging...
Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience. Written by pioneers and leaders in the arts therapies and psychology fields, the book includes...