Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. Through numerous in-depth case studies, this volume examines the multiples roles water plays in nuclear energy.

Uploaded September 2025

Sustainable solutions and energy efficient methods have led to cleaner energy, pollution reduction, improvements in the life of citizens, and transformed environments and regulatory structures to be more inclusive. This is creating smarter cities where citizens, inclusivity and sustainability are at the core.

Uploaded September 2025

Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world.

Uploaded September 2025

A Practical Approach to Advanced Mathematical Modelling in Civil Engineering introduces advanced mathematical techniques and modelling concepts through real-world practical applications in key areas of Civil Engineering. It fills a crucial gap in the existing literature by using examples from structural analysis, coastal processes, and soil behaviour.

Uploaded September 2025

Engaging with unsettling questions, A Moratorium on New Construction envisions a massive value shift for our existing stock. From housing redistribution to reinviting value generation, from anti-extractive measures to profound structural changes, from curricula reforms to purging the exploitative culture of the office, an entire rewiring of design processes and construction lays ahead.

Assembled from iron plates like a piece of flatpack furniture, the Franklin stove became one of the era's most iconic consumer products, spreading from Pennsylvania to England, Italy, and beyond. It was more than just a material object, however--it was also a hypothesis. Franklin was proposing that, armed with science, he could invent his way out of a climate crisis: a period of global cooling known as the Little Ice Age, when unusually bitter winters sometimes brought life to a standstill.

Uploaded June 2025

This volume explores parallels and differences between learning and teaching in the violin making schools in different European countries. In order to realize this work, the cooperation of a violin maker, a cultural anthropologist and two photographers proves to be as necessary as fruitful, since the implicit knowledge of the craftsmanship needs to be understood on the levels of observation, experience and dialogue against a culture-analytical background.

Uploaded June 2025

A History of Homebuilders from Early Modern to Modern Times provides a diachronic account of homebuilders' more than 500 years history in the Anglosphere nations of the U.S., Britain, Canada, and Australia. The comparative absence of individual homebuilders' histories in the literature, despite builders' importance in providing our dwellings and over 70% of our entire urban built environments, is surprising.

Uploaded June 2025

This book is a basic introduction to water distribution systems, including definition of its common elements, modelling theory, basic planning, operational and management issues, as well as some advanced topics including leakage management, optimal design, asset planning and management, etc.

Uploaded June 2025

This basic book was prepared in support of a low-level civil engineering course the author taught at the university for years. The idea is that construction projects require the participation of engineers, surveyors, and contractors. Whether it is a building, a bridge or a pipeline, customers have the expectation that the result is going to be precisely at the right location, orientation, slope or level, and elevation.

Uploaded June 2025