Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action is the latest volume in a highly regarded series that addresses the roles of phytochemicals in disease prevention and health promotion. The text links diets rich in plant-derived compounds with decreased risk of chronic degenerative diseases. Chapters highlight recent ... more »

Numerical Modeling of Water Waves, Second Edition covers all aspects of this subject, from the basic fluid dynamics and the simplest models to the latest and most complex, including the first-ever description of techniques for modeling wave generation by explosions, projectile impacts, asteroids, and ... more »

Written by a hydrogeologist and an economist, The Economics of Groundwater Remediation and Protection integrates economics and cost-benefit analysis tools with optimal remediation and protection strategies for groundwater resources. The authors' step-by-step methodology for decision-making focuses on ... more »

Throughout the world, boreholes and tubewells operate inefficiently or have been abandoned. Diagnosis of the problems requires hydrogeological and operational information, which is often not available because appropriate monitoring has not taken place. Guidelines on cost effective monitoring and maintenance ... more »

Based upon a special symposium sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment evaluates the important scientific elements related to the performance of accuracy assessments for remotely sensed data, GIS data analysis, and integration products. ... more »

This book covers the use of life-cycle assessment, risk assessment, and a combined framework of the two in the estimation of environmental damage, providing explanations of methods and descriptions in the environmental analysis of industrial processes. The book opens by examining environmental strategies ... more »

Bringing together the leading European expertise in behaviour and design of silos, this important new book is an essential reference source for all concerned with current problems and developments in silo technology. Silos are used in an enormous range of industries and the handling characteristics of ... more »

Product Info This book provides an insight into how whole life costing is affecting design, construction, maintenance and disposal of structures. more »

Product Info This E. & F. N. Spon title is now distributed by Routledge in the US and Canada more »

Written by an expert with over forty years of experience, this book covers the six rules of brazing and how they impact the various procedures that are an essential part of brazing technology. Exploring what is and what is not good brazing practice, the author presents readers with a reference that will ... more »

In Situ Remediation Engineering provides a comprehensive guide to the design and implementation of reactive zone methods for treatment of all major classes of groundwater contamination. It teaches the fundamentals that underlie development of cost-effective reactive zone strategies, guides the selection ... more »

Moves to collaborative working and other new procurement routes carry with them a suggestion that collaborative working is better because it makes good business sense. This book is the result of research into this hypothesis, and seeks to test the business case for collaborative working in the construction ... more »