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Green Petroleum
How Oil and Gas Can Be Environmentally Sustainable
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Can "green petroleum" reverse global warming and bring down high gasoline prices? Written in non-technical language for the layperson, this book investigates and details how the oil and gas industry can "go green" with new processes and technologies, thus bringing the world's most important industry closer to environmental and economic sustainability.
by M. R. Islam, M. M. Khan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
It has long been recognized that science is the pursuit of knowledge, knowledge is power, and power is political. However, the fantasy of science being apolitical is a hallmark legacy of the enlightenment era, an era that romanticized pursuit of knowledge, disconnected from the baggage of power, politics,...
The Greening of Petroleum Operations
The Science of Sustainable Energy Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The Future of Petroleum Operations
This state-of-the-art text analyzes some of the most contentious issues in the energy industry, covering new and greener processes for engineers and scientists and urging them to move petroleum operations closer to sustainability. Although petroleum is still...
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships
Critical Examinations
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships explores and critically examines the opportunities and challenges presented in mentoring relationships involving women of color. While all mentoring relationships are unique to the individuals involved in them, this book highlights the roles of race,...
Leadership through the Lens
Interrogating Production, Presentation, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Television informs our perceptions and expectations of leaders and offers a guide to understanding how we, as organizational actors, should communicate, act, and relate. Because of its pervasiveness as a medium and the impact it can have in influencing expectations of leadership and related behavior...
by Orlando Espín, Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, M. Daniel Carroll R.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Religion and Politics in America's Borderlands brings together leading academic specialists on immigration and the borderlands, as well as nationally recognized grassroots activists, who reflect on their varied experiences of living, working, and teaching on the US-Mexico border and in the borderlands....
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
Results of New Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...
Epidemiology of Psychogenic Disorders
The Mannheim Study · Results of a Field Survey in the Federal Republic of Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Shortened version of the original German edition: Psychogene Erkrankungen der Stadtbevölkerung, 1987, Springer-Verlag
Dry Creek
Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers...
by Marilynn S. Arnold, M.S., Anne Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
Provides answers to questions concerning food and diabetes. Advice for patients on what to eat, when to eat, and how to eat the foods they love.
The Strategic Development of Multinationals
Subsidiaries and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
The chapters in this book provide detailed analyses of a range of issues that feed into an overview of the strategic development of the MNE over the past 40 years. This modeled as the evolution of the MNE from a multidomestic hierarchy to a network hierarchy to the contemporary strategic diversity...
by Christopher T. Conner, Nicholas M. Baxter, David R. Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief biographical sketch, an overview of the selected...
#Podemos
Deconstruyendo a Pablo Iglesias
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 25, 2014
LAS RESPUESTAS A LAS DIEZ GRANDES PREGUNTAS SOBRE PODEMOS
La noche del 25 de mayo de 2014 Podemos dio la gran sorpresa. Obtuvo 1.245.948 votos y cinco eurodiputados, convirtiéndose en la tercera fuerza política en Madrid y descuartizando electoralmente al Partido Socialista Obrero Español...