CRC Press

Nanotechnology: Business Applications and Commercialization is a guide for businesses, investors, and research universities who want to bring nanotechnology products to the commercial market.

Offers a comprehensive study of the politics-administration dichotomy as a classic idea in the study of public administration.

Possibly the first textbook to present a practically applicable ecosystems theory, Introduction to Systems Ecology helps readers understand how ecosystems work and how they react to disturbances.

This volume presents general tools and procedures for performing home weatherization such as insulation improvements as well as methods to reduce air leakage.

Explains how to represent, model, and measure risk in large-scale, complex systems that are engineered to function in enterprise-wide environments.

Global Economic and Environmental Aspects of Biofuels focuses on the all-important question of the efficacy of biofuels as a solution to the global energy problem.

Provides a comprehensive review of the progress made in the development of modules and their application in devices.

Reviews the vast improvements in technology and application of thermoelectric energy with a specific intention to reduce and reuse waste heat and improve novel techniques for the efficient acquisition and use of energy.

Materials, Preparation, and Characterization in Thermoelectrics includes updated theoretical considerations which provide an insight into avenues of research most likely to result in further improvements in material performance

Multivariate Survival Analysis and Competing Risks introduces univariate survival analysis and extends it to the multivariate case.