Butterworth Heinemann imprint: 969 books
Sustainable Design Through Process Integration
Fundamentals and Applications to Industrial Pollution Prevention, Resource Conservation, and Profitability Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
This timely book provides authoritative, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow coverage of the fundamental concepts and practical techniques on the use of process integration to maximize the efficiency and sustainability of industrial processes.
Over the past three decades, significant advances...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Assessing and Measuring Environmental Impact and Sustainability answers the question “what are the available methodologies to assess the environmental sustainability of a product, system or process? Multiple well-known authors share their expertise in order to give a broad perspective of this...
by Tommaso Sgobba
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Endorsed by the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) and drawing on the expertise of the world’s leading experts in the field, Safety Design for Space Operations provides the practical how-to guidance and knowledge base needed to facilitate effective launch-site...
by John Fay
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Contemporary Security Management, Third Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations. Fay demonstrates the specifics of security management:
how to organize, plan,...
Strategic Intelligence Management
National Security Imperatives and Information and Communications Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Strategic Intelligence Management introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This contributed volume draws on state-of-the-art expertise from academics and law enforcement practitioners...
Lees' Loss Prevention in the Process Industries
Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Over the last three decades the process industries have grown very rapidly, with corresponding increases in the quantities of hazardous materials in process, storage or transport. Plants have become larger and are often situated in or close to densely populated areas. Increased hazard of loss of life...
Practical Aviation Security
Predicting and Preventing Future Threats
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Practical Aviation Security: Predicting and Preventing Future Threats, Third Edition is a complete guide to the aviation security system, from crucial historical events to the policies, policymakers, and major terrorist and criminal acts that have shaped the procedures in use today, as well as the...
Culture, Health and Illness
An Introduction for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Culture, Health and Illness: An Introduction for Health Professionals covers basic ideas and research in medical anthropology. The book starts by discussing the scope of medical anthropology and the cultural definitions of anatomy and physiology, including the body structure and its functions. The...
Lees' Process Safety Essentials
Hazard Identification, Assessment and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Lees' Process Safety Essentials is a single-volume digest presenting the critical, practical content from Lees' Loss Prevention for day-to-day use and reference. It is portable, authoritative, affordable, and accessible — ideal for those on the move, students, and individuals without access to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2004
Value Creation from E-Business Models provides a thorough analysis of what constitutes an e-business model. Unlike many e-business books available, this text draws together theoretical and empirical contributions from leading academic scholars in the field of management information systems. Divided...
Structural Analysis
In Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Structural Analysis: In Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive review of the classical methods of structural analysis and also the recent advances in computer applications. The prefect guide for the Professional Engineer's exam, Williams covers principles of structural analysis to advanced concepts....
by M. Bill Wong
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The plastic analysis method has been used extensively by engineers for designing steel structures. Simpler structures can be analyzed using the basic virtual work formulation, but more complex frames are evaluated with specialist computer software. This new book sets out a method for carrying out...
by J R Levick
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology is designed primarily for students of medicine and physiology. This introductory text is mostly didactic in teaching style and it attempts to show that knowledge of the circulatory system is derived from experimental observations.
This book is organized...
Cohesive Sediments in Open Channels
Erosion, Transport and Deposition
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
Control the impact of cohesive sediments on open channels by managing the effects of silt, clay and other sediments in harbors, estuaries and reservoirs. Cohesive Sediments in Open Channels provides you with a practical framework for understanding how cohesive sediments are transported, deposited...