Providing detailed coverage of the physical and biological characteristics of solid waste sites, Waste Sites as Biological Reactors: Characterization and Modeling describes the parameters required to understand, model, and assess the capacity of a waste disposal site as an open biodegradation system. It includes original analyses of waste and reactor kinetics, decomposition, temperature and moisture effects, and heat properties and discusses landfill gas and leachate chemicals generation with detailed composition and property data. Tables and figures provide easy access to the information, and the book discusses various site management options.
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The Encyclopedia of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics introduces possibly unfamiliar areas, explains important experimental and computational techniques, and describes modern endeavors. The encyclopedia quickly provides the basics, defines the scope of each subdiscipline, and indicates where to go for a more complete and detailed explanation. Particular attention has been paid to symbols and abbreviations to make this a user-friendly encyclopedia. Care has been taken to ensure that the reading level is suitable for the trained chemist or physicist. The encyclopedia's three major sections discuss fundamentals, methods, and applications.
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El presente Atlas, combinación de textos, detallados mapas de colores e ilustraciones de alta calidad, proporciona un relato sin igual de la guerra en Europa y en el Mediterráneo desde Carlomagno hasta el final de la Edad Media. Resultará interesante para todo aquel que tenga interés en la historia de la guerra, el desarrollo de la estrategia militar y las técnicas de combate, y la historia de la Europa medieval. Con más de 60 ilustraciones -casi todas ellas en color- y más de 100 mapas y planos de batallas.

Los Monstruos de buenas esperanzas son aquellos seres excepcionales que quizá han nacido antes de tiempo, cuando el ambiente que los rodeaba aún no estaba preparado para ellos. A través de dos personajes –Max, un estudiante inglés de física y biología, y Eleanor, una judía de los círculos políticos radicales de la Alemania de entreguerras– se narra una historia de amor que tiene como telón de fondo los hechos y personajes más sobresalientes de la primera mitad del siglo XX: la revolución rusa, el auge del nazismo, la Guerra Civil española, Einstein, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Durruti, Jung... Esta novela amena, reveladora y fascinante es una lograda combinación de ensayo y ficción, divulgación científica, crónica histórica y libro de aventuras que nos ofrece un inolvidable retrato vivo y luminoso de los hitos del pensamiento del siglo XX.

Filled with helpful tables and matrixes, this text provides approaches and methodologies for implementing pollution prevention (P2) and waste minimization programs that can significantly reduce manufacturing operational costs. It focuses on reducing manufacturing and environmental compliance costs by instituting feedstock substitution, improved operational schemes, recycling and by-product recovery, waste minimization, and energy efficiency policies, and offers project cost accounting tools that assist in evaluating money-saving P2 options– streamlining environmental management and pollution control practices and presenting step-by-step procedures to improve productivity and product quality.
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