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Sustainable Biorefinery: Biomass Solutions for Energy, Environment and Food
English | 2026 | ISBN: 981958180X | 276 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 29 MB
This book highlights recent advances in the valorization of biomass, transforming it into high-value bioproducts for applications across the food, energy, and environmental sectors. With a growing global emphasis on sustainability and circular economy approaches, this volume highlights innovative conversion technologies that enable the efficient utilization of biomass resources while minimizing waste and environmental impact. The book also explores into cutting-edge methods for producing bioenergy, alternative foods, biofertilizers, and other biobased products, offering both technical insights and practical solutions to drive sustainable development. Key topics include thermochemical and biochemical conversion techniques, microbial fermentation, biorefineries, and emerging green technologies. Additionally, the book addresses economic feasibility, policy frameworks, and life cycle assessments, ensuring a well-rounded perspective for researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers. Featuring contributions from leading experts in bioresource valorization, this book serves as a valuable reference for academics, scientists, engineers, and decision-makers seeking to enhance resource efficiency and promote bio-based innovations. By bridging the gap between fundamental research and industrial applications, this volume fosters a deeper understanding of biomass-derived solutions for a more sustainable and resilient future.

Sustainable Banking and The Circular Economy Transition: A Framework for SME Financing
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032194636 | 279 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book offers a timely and authoritative examination of how financial systems can support the transition from linear "take-make-dispose" models to regenerative, inclusive, and resilient economic pathways. It positions banks and financial institutions as central actors in advancing circular economy transitions, particularly through their role in financing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that underpin innovation, employment, and local development across diverse economic contexts.

Sustainability Learning for Action and Community Engagement
English | 2026 | ISBN: 303211697X | 653 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 41 MB
This open access volume is a call to action and a toolbox for educators, administrators, community engagement specialists, and workforce developers who want to make their course content, institutional commitments, and outreach projects relevant to twenty-first century learners. The book demonstrates the impact a higher education institution, its faculty, and community partners can have through education and action for sustainability. By being a sustainability educator and doing sustainability work, individuals can create living and learning labs that make such interdisciplinary activity integral to campus life and regional engagement. This book answers the United Nations' call to universities to step up and address the most urgent crises of our time by marshalling the resources, wisdom and energy of youth and communities to promote active listening, creative expression, greater climate stability, social equity, and, by extension, peace.

Surveys in Combinatorics 2026
English | 2026 | ISBN: 100976604X | 301 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume contains eight survey articles by the invited speakers of the 31st British Combinatorial Conference, held at Cardiff University in July 2026. Each article provides an overview of recent developments in a current hot research topic in combinatorics. Topics covered include random planar graphs, temporal graphs, domino tilings, extremal poset theory, asymptotic enumeration, graph homomorphisms, combinatorial rigidity theory, logic and model theory, matroids, and graph bootstrap percolation. The authors are among the world's foremost researchers on their respective topics, but their surveys are accessible to nonspecialist readers: they are written clearly, with little prior knowledge assumed, and with pointers to the wider literature. Taken together, these surveys give a snapshot of the research frontier in contemporary combinatorics, helping researchers and graduate students in mathematics and theoretical computer science to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field.

Strong Security Governance through Integration and Automation:
A Practical Guide to Building an Integrated GRC Framework for Your Organization
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367862778 | 499 Pages | EPUB (True) | 8 MB

Strategic Management: 2026 Release
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1264704488 | 641 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
Rothaermel combines conceptual frameworks, empirical research, and practical applications with real-world examples to help students navigate a rapidly evolving and complex landscape. Strategic Management stands at the forefront of AI integration and strategy education, highlighting cutting-edge advancements and innovative methods that empower students to understand and apply AI's transformative impact on industries. This resource equips students with the essential foundation to grasp how companies achieve and maintain competitive advantage while honing the skills needed to become effective leaders capable of making strategic, well-informed decisions. As the sole author, Rothaermel ensures seamless alignment between concepts, cases, and teaching notes for an unparalleled learning experience.

Strategic Human Resource Planning: Text and Cases
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1041227248 | 271 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
This book analyses human resource planning (HRP) function with a strategic lens. Human Resource Management (HRM), being a business-aligned function of organizations, is primarily shaped by HRP. The need for strategic handling of the latter thus results in a revamped nomenclature - SHRP.

Stochastische Produktionsplanung:
Praxisorientierte Modellierung und Analyse von Fertigungsprozessen mit Unsicherheiten
Deutsch | 2026 | ISBN: 3658504285 | 381 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB

Stewards of the Land: Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1469693348 | 177 Pages | EPUB (True) | 15 MB
The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism of the nineteenth century to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth century-has often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards of the Land, Stevie Ruiz reassesses the movement and reveals that it has always been a multiracial endeavor. From Southern California berry fields to Japanese American concentration camps, from Chinese cooks in national parks to Chicano Civilian Conservation Corps workers, Ruiz traces how the racialized labor and environmental knowledge of Asian migrants and Chicana/o communities built the material foundations of modern environmentalism.

Stellar Engines: Advanced Spacecraft Propulsion through Extreme Aerospace Engineering Design
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032180619 | 384 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 52 MB
This book considers the unique method of inertial confinement fusion as a means for propelling a spacecraft on missions, through interplanetary and interstellar space. This has involved combining the two separate fields of knowledge that is advanced propulsion theory and high temperature thermonuclear plasma physics. For the first time, it lays out the theoretical basis for inertial confinement fusion physics and advanced space propulsion, how the engines can be designed, the various physics and engineering parameters calculated through the fundamental equations. The goal of the book is to give readers an overview of the field by introduction of the relevant material, but also to instruct the reader in calculation design examples so that they may be able to reproduce some of this material themselves, or use the material in design calculations of their own as they strive to develop spacecraft concepts. The book is also designed to teach the reader the subject matter of advanced concept spacecraft design for interplanetary and interstellar missions to include world ships, and also consideration of exotic vehicle architectures and advanced propulsion methods to include interstellar ramjets and a black hole engine.