Sustainability by Design

Sustainability by Design

The developed world, increasingly aware of inconvenient truths about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedieseco-efficiency, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility, among others. But such measures are mere Band-Aids, and they may actually do more harm than good, says John Ehrenfeld, a pioneer in the field of industrial ecology. In this deeply considered book, Ehrenfeld challenges conventional understandings of solving environmental problems and offers a radically new set of strategies to attain sustainability.

Sustainability by Design

Death by the Glass

Death by the Glass

High-stakes wine fraud and murder disguised as a heart attack compel Sunny McCoskey to again toss aside her chef’s apron and don the role of sleuth. When the list of suspects includes her new lover, the celebrity chef at a posh Napa Valley eatery, the personal risks of her investigation rise dramatically. With the same eclectic crew of gourmet friends and sassy co-workers who helped her in Sharpshooter, Sunny proves that she has a nose for crime as well as for a good Cabernet Sauvignon.

Death by the Glass

Exercises in Classical Ring Theory

Exercises in Classical Ring Theory

‘ This useful book, which grew out of the author’s lectures at Berkeley, presents some 400 exercises of varying degrees of difficulty in classical ring theory, together with complete solutions, background information, historical commentary, bibliographic details, and indications of possible improvements or generalizations. The book should be especially helpful to graduate students as a model of the problem-solving process and an illustration of the applications of different theorems in ring theory. The author also discusses ‘the folklore of the subject: the ‘tricks of the trade’ in ring theory, which are well known to the experts in the field but may not be familiar to others, and for which there is usually no good reference’. The problems are from the following areas: the Wedderburn-Artin theory of semisimple rings, the Jacobson radical, representation theory of groups and algebras, (semi)prime rings, (semi)primitive rings, division rings, ordered rings, (semi)local rings, the theory of idempotents, and (semi)perfect rings. Problems in the areas of module theory, category theory, and rings of quotients are not included, since they will appear in a later book. ‘

Exercises in Classical Ring Theory

Panic

Panic

Rook is chasing her dream-film school and a chance at a life beyond the one she ran from six months ago. But before she can become the girl she wants to be, she must deal with the girl she left behind. Ronin is also chasing his dream-a family of his own and a life away from erotic modeling. And he too, has a past he’s trying to forget. A past that makes Rook question everything about their life together. Lies, secrets, and shocking truths will rock the foundation Rook and Ronin have built. Can they put the past behind them and move forward together? Or is this just another too good to be true relationship that will crash and burn in the end?

Panic

Lake of Tears

Lake of Tears

‘In her seventh series entry, Logue writes beautifully about rural Minnesota life while telling a good mystery. For fans of J.A. Jance and Margaret Maron.’ –Library Journal

Lake of Tears

Ten Things Ive Learnt About Love

Ten Things Ive Learnt About Love

About to turn thirty, Alice is the youngest of three daughters, and the black sheep of her family. Drawn to traveling in far-flung and often dangerous countries, she has never enjoyed the closeness with her father that her two older sisters have and has eschewed their more conventional career paths. She has left behind a failed relationship in London with the man she thought she might marry and is late to hear the news that her father is dying. She returns to the family home only just in time to say good-bye.

Ten Things Ive Learnt About Love

Moon

Moon

The Earth has limited material and energy resources. Further development of the humanity will require going beyond our planet for mining and use of extraterrestrial mineral resources and search of power sources. The exploitation of the natural resources of the Moon is a first natural step on this direction. Lunar materials may contribute to the betterment of conditions of people on Earth but they also may be used to establish permanent settlements on the Moon. This will allow developing new technologies, systems and flight operation techniques to continue space exploration. In fact, a new branch of human civilization could be established permanently on Moon in the next century. But, meantime, an inventory and proper social assessment of Moons prospective energy and material resources is required. This book investigates the possibilities and limitations of various systems supplying manned bases on Moon with energy and other vital resources. The book collects together recent proposals and innovative options and solutions. It is a useful source of condensed information for specialists involved in current and impending Moon-related activities and a good starting point for young researchers.

Moon

The Promise of Happiness

The Promise of Happiness

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: I just want you to be happy; Im happy if youre happy. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the happiness duty, the expectation that we will be made happy by taking part in that which is deemed good, and that by being happy ourselves, we will make others happy. Ahmed maintains that happiness is a promise that directs us toward certain life choices and away from others. Happiness is promised to those willing to live their lives in the right way.

The Promise of Happiness

The Lost Books

The Lost Books

‘[A] full-force clash between good and evil. A tornado of action and strategem…will leave you knowing for certain you are not in Kansas anymore.’–TheSuspenseZone.com (for Infidel)

The Lost Books

Numerical Methods for Controlled Stochastic Delay Systems

Numerical Methods for Controlled Stochastic Delay Systems

The Markov chain approximation methods are widely used for the numerical solution of nonlinear stochastic control problems in continuous time. This book extends the methods to stochastic systems with delays. Because such problems are infinite-dimensional, many new issues arise in getting good numerical approximations and in the convergence proofs. Useful forms of numerical algorithms and system approximations are developed in this work, and the convergence proofs are given. All of the usual cost functions are treated as well as singular and impulsive controls. A major concern is on representations and approximations that use minimal memory. Featuring numerical algorithms and examples with applications to control and modern communications systems, this book is the first on the subject and will be of great interest to all those who work with stochastic delay equations and whose main interest is in either the use of the algorithms or in the underlying mathematics. An excellent resource for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners, the work may be used as a graduate-level textbook for a special topics course or seminar on numerical methods in stochastic control.

Numerical Methods for Controlled Stochastic Delay Systems

Why Good is Good

Why Good is Good

Where do our moral beliefs come from? Theologians and scientists provide often conflicting answers. Robert Hinde resolves these conflicts to offer a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary response, drawing on psychology, philosophy, evolutionary biology and social anthropology.

Why Good is Good

Paragraph Power

Paragraph Power

Best-selling author Adele Fiderer presents a series of mini-lessons to help students move from writing single paragraphs to crafting mutli-paragraph pieces. Each mini-lesson introduces an important element of good paragraph writing, such as crafting topic and body sentences that pack a punch, writing smooth transitions, and paragraphing dialogue. Includes super student models gathered from the author’s long career as a classroom teacher.

Paragraph Power

In Your Eyes

In Your Eyes

A gifted artist, Genevieve Monaghan expresses the wonder and beauty of life on canvas. When millionaire philanthropist Alex Miller asks her to create a painting for the new childrens wing of a major Boston hospital, she finds his high-handed ways exasperating and his stunning good looks distractingbut she cannot resist his proposal. She embraces the project, willing to suffer Alexs presence for the sake of her art. Yet soon Gen finds herself falling for Alex and his virile charm.

In Your Eyes

Legal English, Second Edition

Legal English, Second Edition

English is the dominant language of international business relations, and a good working knowledge of the language is essential for today’s legal or business professional. Written for both students and practitioners, Legal English is a highly practical handbook, which addresses all aspects of legal employment, from the very basic use of language, to Chairing formal meetings.

Legal English, Second Edition

The Good Funeral Guide

The Good Funeral Guide

The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who: – needs to arrange a funeral for someone now – has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent – wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself – wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral – would like to learn about deaths and funerals Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don’t want a conventional religious ceremony and invaluable for those who do. This is a book we will all need – probably at least twice.

The Good Funeral Guide

Rational Algebraic Curves

Rational Algebraic Curves

The central problem considered in this introduction for graduate students is the determination of rational parametrizability of an algebraic curve and, in the positive case, the computation of a good rational parametrization. This amounts to determining the genus of a curve: its complete singularity structure, computing regular points of the curve in small coordinate fields, and constructing linear systems of curves with prescribed intersection multiplicities. The book discusses various optimality criteria for rational parametrizations of algebraic curves.

Rational Algebraic Curves

Always Dakota

Always Dakota

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has become a good place to live–the way it used to be. People here are feeling confident about the future again.

Always Dakota

Getting Skinny

Getting Skinny

Owning a restaurant is as crazy for Nicky Landry as an alcoholic owning a bar. But despite having to cram herself into a body shaper to look decent in a dress, life is pretty good. She’s throwing the party of the year for her graduating doctor boyfriend, Rob, who she’s sure is going to proposeuntil his new girlfriend shows up at the party.

Getting Skinny

Well-being

Well-being

High levels of psychological well-being amongst employees translate into good news for the organization including lower sickness-absence levels, attraction and retention of talented people and more satisfied customers, clients or service users. People with higher levels of psychological well-being work better, live longer and have happier lives. Engagement and well-being can sustain each other and lead to a healthier and more productive organization a win-win for employees and employer.

Well-being

Heartwood

Heartwood

Deaf Smith, Texas, a small town with small town problems until the local boy made good Earl Deitrich decides that he isn’t prepared to share his kind of good fortune with anybody else.

Heartwood