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Mercury Pollution A Transdisciplinary Treatment

Mercury Pollution A Transdisciplinary Treatment

How does mercury get out of the ground and into our food? Is tuna safe to eat? What was the Minamata Disaster? Mercury Pollution: A Transdisciplinary Treatment addresses these questions and more. The editors weave interdisciplinary threads into a tapestry that presents a more complete picture of the effects of mercury pollution and provides new ways to think about the environment. The remarkable features that make mercury so useful—and poisonous—have given rise to many stories laid out in rich objective detail carefully detailing medical epidemiological or historical insight but sidestepping the human experience. A technically rich book that only touches on the human consequences of mercury poisoning cannot fully portray the anguish confusion and painful deaths that are the consequence of mercury pollution. Therefore the editors purposely step out of the conventional scientific framework for discussing mercury pollution to explore the wider human experience. This book clarifies how we are all connected to mercury how we absorb it through the food we eat and the air we breathe and how we release it as a consequence of our new technologies. It tackles interesting environmental issues without being overly technical and uses mercury as a case study and model for studying environmental problems. The book uses discussions of the issues surrounding mercury pollution to illustrate how an interdisciplinary vantage is necessary to solve environmental problems. Read an article in the SETAC Globe by Michael C. Newman and Sharon L. Zuber at http://www. setac. org/globe/2011/november/mercury-pollution. html | Mercury Pollution A Transdisciplinary Treatment

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Communication Yearbook 40

40 Classic Crude Oil Trades Real-Life Examples of Innovative Trading

Natural Communions Religion and Public Life Volume 40

Natural Communions Religion and Public Life Volume 40

The academic treatment of the environment and nature since the 1980s has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history environmental philosophy ecocriticism and eco-spirituality. Within these disciplines the concept of nature has been variously employed to reorient humanity to a holistic moral standard. In each case there is general consensus that inquiry ought to turn on moral considerations of the interaction of humans and the environment; with implied admonitions to live sustainably. Lending credence to the Earth as a superorganism in its own right these modern ecological expressions can be traced to Rachel Carson’s revelations in Silent Spring. However they have a long pre-history which appears in monistic philosophy the spirit of Deism in both Romanticism and the Enlightenment and in political expressions of the idea of Nature’s God designed to promote a secular vision of the state and to overturn predatory religious rivalries. With this literary momentum Natural Communions volume 40 of Religion and Public Life gathers interdisciplinary essays which reconfigure humanity within an ecotheological anthropology and which treat the idea of the sacred from the perspective of an Earth-centered spirituality thus redefining humanity’s response to ecological challenges and initiating a new status within a more expansive cosmology complete with a naturalized conception of Divine Reality. | Natural Communions Religion and Public Life Volume 40

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Practical Pedagogy 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn

Practical Pedagogy 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn

Practical Pedagogy expands the universe of teaching and learning. It provides an accessible guide to new and emerging innovations in education with insights into how to become more effective as a teacher and learner. New teachers will find a comprehensive introduction to innovative ways of teaching and learning. Experienced educators will be surprised by the range of useful pedagogies such as translanguaging crossover learning teachback bricolage and rhizomatic learning. Policy makers will gain evidence of how new teaching methods work in practice with resources for curriculum design and course development. Drawing on material from the hugely influential Innovating Pedagogy series of reports this book is a compilation of the 40 most relevant pedagogies covering: innovative ways to teach and learn; how pedagogies are adopted in new ways for a digital age; evidence on how and why different methods of teaching work including case studies set in classrooms informal settings and online learning spaces; practical implications of the latest research into the science of learning combining psychology education social sciences and neuroscience. Organised around six themes – Personalization Connectivity Reflection Extension Embodiment and Scale – Practical Pedagogy is a comprehensive source for teachers policy makers educational researchers and anyone interested in new ways to teach and learn. | Practical Pedagogy 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn

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Political and Military Sociology Volume 40: An Annual Review

ResponsAbility Law and Governance for Living Well with the Earth

Metal Toxicology Handbook

Metal Toxicology Handbook

Heavy metals and metalloids singly or in combination induce toxic manifestations either through acute or chronic pathology. In particular long-term chronic exposure to diverse heavy metals and metalloids to humans and animals can lead to numerous physical muscular neurological nephrological and diverse degenerative diseases and dysfunctions including multiple sclerosis muscular dystrophy Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases cardiovascular disorders and several others. Recognized heavy metals such as lead mercury arsenic cadmium thallium and hexavalent chromium are known for enormous toxicity. The immediate vital signs of acute heavy metal exposure include nausea vomiting diarrhea and acute abdominal pain. Mercury has been identified as the most toxic heavy metal and mercury poisoning is known as acrodynia or pink disease. Similarly lead another toxic heavy metal was at one time an integral part of painting. Metal Toxicology Handbook further explains and discusses the varying attributes of metals discussing toxicity safety and proper human utilization of metals. Beginning with a broad overview of metals metalloids redox biology and neurodegeneration and going further into the roles benefits and toxicity of metals with each section the text contains 28 chapters from eminent researchers and scientists in their respective fields and is a must-have for anyone researching the potential toxicity in metals. Key Features Discusses the pathology of metal toxicity Highlights the benefits of metals Explains the mechanism and salient features of restoring metabolic homeostasis Highlights dose-dependent beneficial and adverse effects of vanadium safety and toxicity The initial introductory section provides a broad overview of metals metalloids redox biology and neurodegeneration. The second section discusses the pathology of metal toxicity in two chapters while the third section highlights the mechanism and salient features of restoring metabolic homeostasis in two chapters. The fourth section demonstrates the aspect of radionuclides toxicity. In a change of pace the fifth section discusses the benefits of metals in four chapters. The sixth section titled Toxic Manifestations by Diverse Heavy Metals and Metalloids provides fourteen chapters that discuss the toxicological mechanism and manifestation of individual metals. The editors have crafted a commentary titled A Treatise on Metal Toxicity and summarized a vivid scenario of metal toxicity and its consequences.

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Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up?

Introduction to Green Chemistry

Introduction to Green Chemistry

Interest in green chemistry and clean processes has grown so much in recent years that topics such as fluorous biphasic catalysis metal organic frameworks and process intensification which were barely mentioned in the First Edition have become major areas of research. In addition government funding has ramped up the development of fuel cells and biofuels. This reflects the evolving focus from pollution remediation to pollution prevention. Copiously illustrated with more than 800 figures the Third Edition provides an update from the frontiers of the field. It features supplementary exercises at the end of each chapter relevant to the chemical examples introduced in each chapter. Particular attention is paid to a new concluding chapter on the use of green metrics as an objective tool to demonstrate proof of synthesis plan efficiency and to identify where further improvements can be made through fully worked examples relevant to the chemical industry. NEW AND EXPANDED RESEARCH TOPICS Metal-organic frameworks Metrics Solid acids for alkylation of isobutene by butanes Carbon molecular sieves Mixed micro- and mesoporous solids Organocatalysis Process intensification and gas phase enzymatic reactions Hydrogen storage for fuel cells Reactive distillation Catalysts in action on an atomic scale UPDATED AND EXPANDED CURRENT EVENTS TOPICS Industry resistance to inherently safer chemistry Nuclear power Removal of mercury from vaccines Removal of mercury and lead from primary explosives Biofuels Uses for surplus glycerol New hard materials to reduce wear Electronic waste Smart growth The book covers traditional green chemistry topics including catalysis benign solvents and alternative feedstocks. It also discusses relevant but less frequently covered topics with chapters such as Chemistry of Long Wear and Population and the Environment. This coverage highlights the importance of chemistry to everyday life and demonstrates the benefits the expanded exploitation of green chemistry can have for society. | Introduction to Green Chemistry

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Peatland Biogeochemistry and Watershed Hydrology at the Marcell Experimental Forest

Peatland Biogeochemistry and Watershed Hydrology at the Marcell Experimental Forest

The Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF) in Minnesota serves as a living laboratory and provides scientists with a fundamental understanding of peatland hydrology acid rain impacts nutrient and carbon cycling trace gas emissions and controls on mercury transport in boreal watersheds. Its important role in scientific research continues to grow as the data gathered offers invaluable insight into environmental changes over the last century and goes far in answering many of today’s pressing questions at landscape and global scales. Synthesizing five decades of research Peatland Biogeochemistry and Watershed Hydrology at the Marcell Experimental Forest includes hundreds of research publications dozens of graduate theses and even some previously unpublished studies. Research at the MEF has been at the forefront of many scientific disciplines and these 15 chapters offer the depth and breadth of long-term studies on hydrology biogeochemistry ecology and forest management on peatland watersheds at the MEF. Focusing on peatlands lakes and upland landscapes the book begins with the pioneering research on hydrology done during the 1960s. It presents the innovative 1970’s studies of atmospheric deposition; the 1980’s research into nutrient cycles including carbon nitrogen and methane emissions; and the 1990’s investigations into mercury deposition. The book concludes with a look at the latest and on-going studies such as this century’s research into controls on methylmercury production and landscape-level carbon storage and cycling. Covering 50 years of research and written by a veritable who’s who in peatland and forestry science this important milestone in the collection of ecological data highlights bright prospects for future research including the continuation of existing long-term measurements the initiation of new monitoring programs and plans for unprecedented studies on climate change.

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Global Environmental Politics

Global Environmental Institutions

Global Environmental Institutions

Global Environmental Institutions continues to provide the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment. Fully updated throughout to reflect the latest environmental issues the second edition includes substantial new material on developments in international agreements and how institutional mechanisms have evolved in the past 10 years including the creation of the new Sustainable Development Goals the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This second edition maintains the clear structure of the first edition examining: • the underlying causes of global environmental problems • the creation of global environmental institutions • the effectiveness of action undertaken by these institutions. Providing an overview of the United Nations Environment Programme and the other entities within the UN that play important roles in global environmental governance it also examines institutions clustered by issue area introducing institutions that focus on protecting endangered species and biodiversity govern the ocean environment (focusing on the atmosphere) and regulate the transboundary movement of hazardous substances. Concluding with an updated chapter on emerging issues and future directions drawing on the latest scholarship in the field and written by an acknowledged expert in the field Global Environmental Institutions is essential reading for students of environmental politics and international organizations.

GBP 42.99
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Multinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors

Multinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors

A companion volume to Ternary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductor Compounds (CRC Press 2013) and Quaternary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductor Compounds (CRC Press 2014) Multinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors provides up-to-date experimental and theoretical information on phase relations based on II-VI semiconductor systems with five or more components. Featuring detailed figures and extensive references this book:Delivers a critical evaluation of many industrially important systems presented in the form of two-dimensional sections for the condensed phasesSummarizes the data from the last 15–20 years of literature on the study of organometallic compounds which include zinc cadmium or mercury and sulfur selenium or telluriumClassifies all materials according to the periodic table groups of their constituent atoms that is possible combinations of Zn Cd and Hg with chalcogens S Se and Te and additional components in the order of their group numberSpecifies the diagram type possible phase transformations and physical–chemical interaction of the components methods of equilibrium investigation thermodynamic characteristics and methods for sample preparation in each multinary database descriptionMultinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors contains valuable material useful for obtaining nanoscale II-VI semiconductors and for preparing thin films of these semiconductor materials as well as for exploring the biological and medicinal applications of organometallic compounds and for identifying new compounds with necessary properties.

GBP 59.99
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Small Signal Audio Design

Astronomy and Astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib

Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video interpreting the music of numerous pop artists styles and idioms. The focus falls on artists such as Lady Gaga Madonna Boy George Diana Ross Rufus Wainwright David Bowie Azealia Banks Zebra Katz Freddie Mercury the Pet Shop Boys George Michael and many others. Hawkins builds his concept of queerness upon existing theories of opacity and temporality which involves a creative interdisciplinary approach to musical interpretation. He advocates a model of analysis that involves both temporal-specific listening and biographic-oriented viewing. Music analysis is woven into this illuminating aspects of parody nostalgia camp naivety masquerade irony and mimesis in pop music. One of the principal aims is to uncover the subversive strategies of pop artists through a wide range of audiovisual texts that situate the debates on gender and sexuality within an aesthetic context that is highly stylized and ritualized. Queerness in Pop Music also addresses the playfulness of much pop music offering insights into how discourses of resistance are mediated through pleasure. Given that pop artists songwriters producers directors choreographers and engineers all contribute to the final composite of the pop recording it is argued that the staging of any pop act is a collective project. The implications of this are addressed through structures of gender ethnicity nationality class and sexuality. Ultimately Hawkins contends that queerness is a performative force that connotes futurity and utopian promise. | Queerness in Pop Music Aesthetics Gender Norms and Temporality

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Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks A Clustering Algorithm for Energy Efficiency and Safety

Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks A Clustering Algorithm for Energy Efficiency and Safety

Wireless networking covers a variety of topics involving many challenges. The main concern of clustering approaches for mobile wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is to prolong the battery life of the individual sensors and the network lifetime. For a successful clustering approach the need of a powerful mechanism to safely elect a cluster head remains a challenging task in many research works that take into account the mobility of the network. In Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks: A Clustering Algorithm for Energy Efficiency and Safety the authors use an approach based on computing of the weight of each node in the network as the proposed technique to deal with this problem. They present a virtual laboratory platform (VLP) of baptized mercury allowing students and researchers to make practical work (PW) on different aspects of mobile wireless sensor networks. The authors’ choice of WSNs is motivated mainly by the use of real experiments needed in most college courses on WSNs. These usual experiments however require an expensive investment and many nodes in the classroom. The platform presented here aims at showing the feasibility the flexibility and the reduced cost using the authors’ approach. The authors demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithms that contribute to the familiarization of the learners in the field of WSNs. The book will be a valuable resource for students in networking studies as well as for faculty and researchers in this area. | Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks A Clustering Algorithm for Energy Efficiency and Safety

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Drinking Water Quality and Contaminants Guidebook

Drinking Water Quality and Contaminants Guidebook

K347191 BCC Drinking water quality is a sensitive issue and the public is constantly barraged by contaminant reports now routinely at parts-per-trillion. Protection from microbial disease risks from drinking water must always be predominant; trace chemicals usually fall farther down the scale of possible health risks but even negligible detections raise public concerns. Drinking Water Quality and Contaminants Guidebook presents information and guidance on drinking water quality and regulatory issues reflecting experiences and judgments from the author’s more than 43 years of extensive experience. It contains digested comprehensive information on important chemical microbial and radionuclide water contaminants and discussions of several drinking water-related policy issues. Information is presented for long-standing regulated contaminants and chemicals of emerging concern in understandable terms for professionals and non-experts alike. Dossiers contain readily accessed information on sources physical and chemical properties toxicity analytical methodology water treatment technology regulations and health advisories and also include World Health Organization Guidelines. Aesthetic and acceptance factors such as water hardness and salinity that influence public perceptions of drinking water quality are also addressed. Features: Compiles and interprets essential information on numerous key chemical microbial and radionuclide water contaminants Provides standardized entries for each contaminant including occurrence health analytical water treatment regulations and World Health Organization guidance and recommendations with source citations Examines many water-related topics including fracking potable water reuse desalination boil water notices bottled water foodborne and waterborne disease and public perceptions about public drinking water quality Provides essential information and the basis for management of many long-standing contaminants such as lead mercury disinfection by-products E. coli and also emerging issues such as legionella glyphosate BPA and more

GBP 105.00
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Heavy Metals in the Environment

Heavy Metals in the Environment

A successful modern heavy metal control program for any industry will include not only traditional water pollution control but also air pollution control soil conservation site remediation groundwater protection public health management solid waste disposal and combined industrial-municipal heavy metal waste management. In fact it should be a total environmental control program. Comprehensive in scope Heavy Metals in the Environment provides technical and economical information on the development of a feasible total heavy metal control program that can benefit industry and local municipalities. The book discusses the importance and contamination of metals such as lead chromium cadmium zinc copper nickel iron and mercury. It covers important research of metals in the environment the processes and mechanisms for metals control and removal the environmental behavior and effects of engineered metal and metal oxide nanoparticles environmental geochemistry of high arsenic aquifer systems nano-technology applications in metal ion adsorption biosorption of metals and heavy metal removal by expopolysaccharide-producing cyanobacteria. The authors delineate technologies for metals treatment and management metal bearing effluents metal-contaminated solid wastes metal finishing industry wastes and brownfield sites and arsenic-contaminated groundwater streams. They also discuss control treatment and management of metal emissions from motor vehicles. The authors reflect the breadth of the field and draw on personal experiences to provide an in-depth presentation of environmental pollution sources waste characteristics control technologies management strategies facility innovations process alternatives costs case histories effluent standards and future trends for each industrial or commercial operation. The methodologies and technologies discussed are directly applicable to the waste management problems that must be met in all industries.

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