Power and party bureaucracy in Britain: Regional organisation in the Conservative and Labour parties (Saxon House studies)

Wilson, David J.

Lexington Books

Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present: An Ecological Perspective

Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing a broad cross section of band, village, chiefdom, and state societies throughout the continent ov

History

Americas

Routledge

Hazardous Waste Site Soil Remediation: Theory and Application of Innovative Technologies (Environmental Science & Pollution)

Introduces the most up-to-date techniques for soil remediation, including chemical fixation/stabilization, soil vapor extraction, thermally enhanced vapor stripping, biodegradation, and air spargingwritten in a style accessible to nonspecialists. Desc4ibes the ex shu technique of thermal desorption of soil contaminants-a low-cost aftemative to incineration for the removal of organics.

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

CRC-Press

Examines the causes and social impact of crime, contemporary attitudes toward and policies promoting criminal justice, and possible preventive programs

Thinking Abt Crime Rev

Basic Books

Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing a broad cross section of band, village, chiefdom, and state societies throughout the continent over the past 13,000 years. Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present presents data on both prehistoric and recent indigenous groups across the entire continent within an explicit theoretical framework. Introductory chapters provide a brief overview of the variability that has characterized these groups over the long period of indigenous adaptation to the continent and examine the historical background of the ecological and cultural evolutionary paradigm. The book then presents a detailed overview of the principal environmental contexts within which indigenous adaptive systems have survived and evolved over thousands of years. It discusses the relationship between environmental types and subsistence productivity, on the one hand, and between these two variables and sociopolitical complexity, on the other. Subsequent chapters proceed in sequential order that is at once evolutionary (from the least to the most complex groups) and geographical (from the least to the most productive environments)—around the continent in counterclockwise fashion from the hunter-gatherers of Tierra del Fuego in the far south; to the villagers of the Amazonian lowlands; to the chiefdoms of the Amazon várzea and the far northern Andes; and, finally, to the chiefdoms and states of the Peruvian Andes. Along the way, detailed presentations and critiques are made of a number of theories based on the South American data that have worldwide implications for our understanding of prehistoric and recent adaptive systems.

Westview Press

Utilizing ethnographic and archaeological data and an updated paradigm derived from the best features of cultural ecology and ecological anthropology, this extensively illustrated book addresses over fifteen South American adaptive systems representing a broad cross section of band, village, chiefdom, and state societies throughout the continent over the past 13,000 years.Indigenous South Americans of the Past and Present presents data on both prehistoric and recent indigenous groups across the entire continent within an explicit theoretical framework. Introductory chapters provide a brief overview of the variability that has characterized these groups over the long period of indigenous adaptation to the continent and examine the historical background of the ecological and cultural evolutionary paradigm. The book then presents a detailed overview of the principal environmental contexts within which indigenous adaptive systems have survived and evolved over thousands of years. It discusses the relationship between environmental types and subsistence productivity, on the one hand, and between these two variables and sociopolitical complexity, on the other. Subsequent chapters proceed in sequential order that is at once evolutionary (from the least to the most complex groups) and geographical (from the least to the most productive environments)?around the continent in counterclockwise fashion from the hunter-gatherers of Tierra del Fuego in the far south; to the villagers of the Amazonian lowlands; to the chiefdoms of the Amazon v ea and the far northern Andes; and, finally, to the chiefdoms and states of the Peruvian Andes. Along the way, detailed presentations and critiques are made of a number of theories based on the South American data that have worldwide implications for our understanding of prehistoric and recent adaptive systems.

This book contributes to more reliable and realistic predictions by focusing on sampling times from a few seconds to a few hours. Its objectives include developing clear definitions of statistical terms, such as plume sampling time, concentration averaging time, receptor exposure time, and other terms often confused with each other or incorrectly specified in hazard assessments; identifying and quantifying situations for which there is no adequate knowledge to predict concentration fluctuations in the near-field, close to sources, and far downwind where dispersion is dominated by atmospheric turbulence; identifying areas where further information is required to define concentration variability statistics; and formulating an operation model for concentration fluctuations based on the current state of knowledge of dispersion processes.

Concentration Fluctuations and Averaging Time in Vapor Clouds (CCPS Concept Books)

Technology

Wiley-AIChE

Extensive description and analysis of the archaeological settlement data collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Chalco-Xochimilco Region in the Valley of Mexico.

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region (Volume 14) (Memoirs)

Parsons, Jeffrey R.

Brumfiel, Elizabeth

Parsons, Mary H.

U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

From the Preface Soil vapor extraction within the last few years has gone from being an innovative, relatively untried technology which was viewed with some distrust, to being one of the most reliable, accepted, and cost-effective of the techniques available for the remediation of hazardous waste sites. As with most of the in situ techniques, its use is restricted; the compounds to be removed must have vapor pressures and Henry's constants that are sufficiently large; SVE is effective for removing only those VOCs that are in the vadose zone or floating on the water table, and the soil at the site must be sufficiently permeable that one can move air through all of the domain to be treated by SVE. The design of optimal, cost-effective SVE installations tends to be highly site-specific, and often at complex sites the technique is deployed in concert with such other technologies as pump-and-treat, in situ air sparging, and fixation/stabilization. SVE may also be operated in such a manner as to optimize the extent to which biodegradation of contaminants occurs, a technique that is called bioventing or bio-assisted SVE, a quite new technology addressed in this book. Recently, another aeration technique has been developed_in situ air sparging; this is for use in the remediation of aquifers contaminated with VOCs. Virtually all of the points raised above with regard to SVE are also applicable to ISAS. The technique, being newer than SVE, has not yet achieved the wide degree of acceptance that SVE now enjoys, but ISAS has already achieved a number of successes, has a sound basis in science and engineering, has very little environmental impact, and is applicable to situations for which no other technology has proven cost-effective. It is evident that universal acceptance of this technology will be achieved in the near future. In this book about these techniques, we hope to serve the needs of three groups of readers. First, we have attempted to provide sufficient information on SVE and ISAS to give managers and regulators who may not be familiar with these remediation methods a clear idea of their ranges of applicability. Secondly, we have tried to meet the needs of those engineers who are not experts in the fields of SVE and ISAS, but whose work requires that they read proposals, reports, recommendations, etc., involving the technique with some degree of critical understanding. Thirdly, we have tried to provide a detailed discussion of SVE and ISAS, complete with all the mathematical nuts and bolts, for the environmental engineer whose work is involved with the selection, preliminary planning, design, construction, and operation of SVE and/or ISAS facilities and who may have to use or even to develop computer software in connection with these tasks. The book places heavy emphasis on mathematical modeling, and we believe that there is much to be gained by thoughtful modeling exercises.

Modeling Of In Situ Techniques For Treatment Of Contaminated Soils

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Power and party bureaucracy in Britain: Regional organisation in the Conservative and Labour parties (Saxon House studies)

Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present: An Ecological Perspective

Hazardous Waste Site Soil Remediation: Theory and Application of Innovative Technologies (Environmental Science & Pollution)

Thinking Abt Crime Rev

Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present: An Ecological Perspective

Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present: An Ecological Perspective

Concentration Fluctuations and Averaging Time in Vapor Clouds (CCPS Concept Books)

Hazardous Waste Site Soil Remediation: Theory and Application of Innovative Technologies (Environmental Science & Pollution)

Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Southern Valley of Mexico: The Chalco-Xochimilco Region (Volume 14) (Memoirs)

Modeling Of In Situ Techniques For Treatment Of Contaminated Soils