Icp imprint: 267 books
Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems
Global and Regional Aspects and Implications — Joint Publication with the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future. It has already begun to be manifested in the weather regimes affecting agroecosystems, food production, and rural livelihoods in many regions around the world. It is a real and growing challenge to the world at large...
Renewable Energy Finance
Powering the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
The future of clean energy is no longer about science and technology; it's all about access to finance. The fossil fuel industry has been subsidized for decades with tax breaks and government backing, while renewables have struggled to compete. But now clean energy is the safe bet for investors, as...
Carnival China
China in the Era of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
With Foreword by John Keane
The era of the Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao was one in which China became richer, more powerful, more prominent and more vexed. This series of essays, originally published on the Open Democracy website between 2006 and 2013, attempts to make sense of...
by Alessandro Trovarelli, Paolo Fornasiero
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This book follows the 2002 edition of Catalysis by Ceria and Related Materials, which was the first book entirely devoted to ceria and its catalytic properties. In the ten years since the first edition a massive amount of work has been carried out in the field, and ceria has gained a prominent position...
Bergen-Belsen 1945
A Medical Student's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation.
It was at this...
Crackle and Fizz
Essential Communication and Pitching Skills for Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This is a book for scientists and other experts who need to explain the significance and potential of their work to colleagues, committees, funding bodies or the general public. It details how to harness story-telling principles to make complex or technical content easier to communicate and fulfilling...
Newton's Darkness
Two Dramatic Views
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
”What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed … like other mortals?” asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. “We need unsullied heroes!” But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years...
Let There Be Light
The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This book is the first of its kind devoted to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry and the universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences such as the...
The Scientist and the Forger
Insights into the Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
"The scientific techniques described encompass relevant examples of forgery detection and of authentication. The book deals, to name a few, with the Chagall, the Jackson Pollock and the Beltracchi affairs and discusses the Isleworth Mona Lisa as well as La Bella Principessa both thought to be...
by Gilbert Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book brings together in one volume fifteen discoveries that have had a major impact upon medical science and the practice of medicine but where the scientists involved have not been awarded a Nobel Prize. Its aim is to publicize the achievements of these lesser-known heroes of our time and thereby...
The Silwood Circle
A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the...
by M V Tretyakov
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
This book is an elementary introduction to the basic concepts of financial mathematics with a central focus on discrete models and an aim to demonstrate simple, but widely used, financial derivatives for managing market risks. Only a basic knowledge of probability, real analysis, ordinary differential...
International Contracting
Contract Management in Complex Construction Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
This book, about international contracting and contract management, is written from the angle of the contractor and discussed from an international perspective. It comments on real-life cases, taken from various kinds of projects: infrastructural works (roads, bridges, tunnels, rail roads), wind-...
by Fima C Klebaner
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
This book presents a concise treatment of stochastic calculus and its applications. It gives a simple but rigorous treatment of the subject including a range of advanced topics, it is useful for practitioners who use advanced theoretical results. It covers advanced applications, such as models in...