The Problem with Plastic explores the widespread impact of plastic on human health and the environment. Tracing its rise from celebrated innovation to global pollutant, the book reveals how plastic contributes to pollution, climate change, and social inequities. Beyond exposing the crisis, it offers practical tools and inspiring stories of activism, showing how individuals and communities can take action to reduce plastic's toxic legacy.

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In the overshoot era, schemes proliferate for muscular adaptation or for new technologies to turn the heat down at a later date by removing carbon from the air or by blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe; they come with immense risks and provide an excuse for those who would rather avoid limiting emissions in the present. But do they also hold out some potential? Can the catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to once it is a fact? Or will any such roundabout measures simply make things worse?

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It offers unique techniques to bridge the difference between scientific engineering and qualitative design along with comprehensive methods for combining architectural design with digital engineering. The book illustrates how to go from model-based systems architecture to model-based systems engineering and includes case studies of good and bad architectural decision-making in major systems.

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System Modelling, Simulation, and Control, by Waleed Faris, provides a comprehensive introduction to engineering system dynamics, focusing on modeling, simulation, and controller design. Designed for students and professionals, it covers fundamental mathematical tools, physical system modeling, and control theory with practical examples and exercises.

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Kim De Wolff shows how ocean plastic pollution is shaped by land/water divides and the fluidities that defy them. The trash island is no mere misrepresentation. It is a synthetic frontier: a territorial line of control that emerges with the products of modern science, and transforms crises of Petro capitalism into landscapes of so-called progress. Where cleanup solutions recycle plastic into ever-more polluted landscapes, De Wolff proposes radically reclaiming synthetics from modern chemistry and modern philosophy in a refusal of elemental frontiers.

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The work describes synthesis, characterization, synthetic mechanisms, and applications of functionalized nanomaterials. Starting with surface functionalization of two-dimensional, carbon- or polymer-based materials it discusses nanomaterials for environmental applications such as adsorption and degradation of pollutants or wastewater treatment and energy storage such as batteries and supercapacitors.

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Explores advanced, data-driven approaches to urban air quality management. The text details how low-cost IoT sensors, cloud computing, and AI/machine learning (e.g., LSTM networks) provide real-time, accurate pollution tracking (PM2.5, NO2,) to support sustainable urban planning and proactive, actionable insights for authorities.

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Masonry Structural Design 3rd Edition provides the information and insights you need to ensure that beams, columns, walls, and other building elements are designed to exceed ASCE 7 factored loads. This comprehensive guide written by top experts in the field shows how to apply design methods to unreinforced and reinforced masonry elements.

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Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics offers comprehensive topical coverage, with varied examples and problems, application of the visual component of fluid mechanics, and a strong focus on effective learning.

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This book presents original mathematical models of thermal/phase-transformation stresses, micro/macro-strengthening, inter/transcrystalline crack formation, and mathematical definitions of limit states with respect to the crack formation.

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