Sven Fuchs & Thomas Thaler 
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards [PDF ebook] 

Adhesive bonding has been used in the manufacture of primary aircraft fuselage and wing structures by various constructors since 1945. By a proper design, adhesive bonding often helps in designing st …

The retail sector is an integral part of a national economy. From the political economy perspective, all consumer goods have surplus values locked up in them; the surplus values are not realized unti …

Why plant a vegetable garden with the same old tomato and cucumber plants that everyone else has? Small Fruits in the Home Garden is your home gardener?s guide to growing and harvesting small fruit f …

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In a fast paced and increasingly digital world, a higher degree of sensitivity, humaneness and care in dealing with …

This book examines the implications of new trends of globalisation in corporate research and development. It looks in particular at aspects of integration in developing countries and the impact this …

The debate over the imposition of sanctions against South Africa indicated that economic sanctions had become a controversial feature of the international political scene. This book, first published …

20 murders every week. 18, 000 assaults in the same time. All on the job. Sharp increases in workplace violence continue to take an unfortunate toll on American business-and its employees, families a …

The trend in industry and with the EPA is to prevent wastes before they are created instead of treating or disposing of them later. This book assists design/systems engineers and managers in designin …

Human Asset Management is what I call the set of principles synthesized from my professional – and personal – journey over the last three decades. The systems I introduce in this book are designed to …

A view of the broad changes that will occur in our society with driverless cars, beyond the obvious benefits of drastically reducing deaths and injuries from automobile accidents. The automobile”s d …