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Provides readers with an introduction to geology with a focus on real-world applications.Case histories in nearly every chapter help emphasize the relationship between geology and engineering. Has a solid background in the basics of geology including mineralogy, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, structural geology and plate tectonics, weathering and erosion, rivers, coastlines, and glaciers. New material covers geologic resources, geologic hazards, and environmental challenges in the current century. A new overview covers the implications of population growth, the use and depletion of energy and water resources, the employment opportunities for geologists, potential effects of climate change.A useful reference for anyone in the fields of civil engineering or environmental/earth science.

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This valuable sourcebook teaches the concepts and specific details required for using digital technology without being tied to any single software product. Readers will find a wealth of information on such topics as working with bitmap and vector digital media; data storage and archiving; data compression; scanning resolution; rasterizing vector content; file and folder naming conventions; image size and scale; fonts and printer systems; working with channels, paths, texture maps, grids, and much more. Students in the fields of architecture, engineering, landscape architecture and planning, as well as working professionals coping with the change from manual to digital production, will enjoy this clearly-written and well-organized book, which features nearly 400 illustrations, plus a CD- ROM containing the entire book and dozens of hyperlinks to valuable resources, enabling readers to learn as they work. A must for anyone working in environmental design! ... Read more

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Find answers to common challenges quickly
D. Dayton Reuter's Computer Graphics For Architects, Engineers, And Environmental Designers blends a reference with a text on how to apply computer graphics to designs. Find answers to common challenges quickly, using both the CD ROM attached and the applied information on contracts, formats, and design. ... Read more

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Written and edited by a team of specialists at Max Fordham LLP, one of the UKs leading environmental and building services engineering consultancies, Environmental Design is the result of their extensive experience in designing environmentally-friendly buildings. The principles of their approach, which they have taught in numerous schools of architecture and engineering, are clearly presented here. This book is essential reading for architects, engineers, planners and students of these disciplines.
The book starts with some basic scientific principles and environmental issues and then moves on to site planning, energy use, materials and buildings form. Natural ventilation systems, high-efficiency mechanical equipment and alternative energy sources are covered. State-of-the-art buildings of exceptional quality are incorporated throughout the text and illustrate the authors belief that environmentally responsible architecture can be visually exciting. The book concludes with a selection of detailed case studies of award-winning projectsincluding Beaufort Court, Kings Langley. ... Read more

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The growth of the environmental sciences has greatly expanded the scope of biological disciplines today's engineers have to deal with. Yet, despite its fundamental importance, the full breadth of biology has been given short shrift in most environmental engineering and science courses.

Filling this gap in the professional literature, Environmental Biology for Engineers and Scientists introduces students of chemistry, physics, geology, and environmental engineering to a broad range of biological concepts they may not otherwise be exposed to in their training. Based on a graduate-level course designed to teach engineers to be literate in biological concepts and terminology, the text covers a wide range of biology without making it tedious for non-biology majors.

Teaching aids include:
* Notes, problems, and solutions
* Problem sets at the end of each chapter
* PowerPoints(r) of many figures

A valuable addition to any civil engineering and environmental studies curriculum, this book also serves as an important professional reference for practicing environmental professionals who need to understand the biological impacts of pollution. ... Read more

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Very comprehensive on the subject
As an environmental engineer, I use this book as my one stop reference for anything Biology. As I said, its very comprehensive and useful.

The chapters actually start off by introducing the user to the subject and gradually go into detail. Highly recommended whether you are new to Biology or you want to refresh your memory on college Biology classes. If you are a professional like me, it will be useful as a reference.

A Tremendous Resource
If you are an engineer or scientist whose work has at least some involvement with environmental biology, my advice is to buy this book without hesitation.Here's why:

- The scope of the book is amazingly comprehensive, and surpasses every other book I've seen dealing with environmental biology.The book is nearly 1000 pages, and the authors have made full use of those pages.

- The book is packed with details.The authors clearly did a huge amount of work in writing the book, and the result is a book which is fully adequate for the needs of professionals.

- Along with the vast array of details, the book also teaches the basics, so the prerequisites for the book are minimal.

- The book is clearly written and clearly organized.

- The price of about $100 is a bargain for a book of this caliber.Get your copy before it goes out of print!

This is one of just a few books I'll be keeping on my closest bookshelf as an authoritative and comprehensive reference on an important topic.

Very highly recommended, and deserving of more than 5 stars. ... Read more

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Two critical questions arise when one is confronted with a new problem that involves the collection and analysis of data. How will the use of statistics help solve this problem? Which techniques should be used? Statistics for Environmental Engineers, Second Edition helps environmental science and engineering students answer these questions when the goal is to understand and design systems for environmental protection. The second edition of this bestseller is a solutions-oriented text that encourages students to view statistics as a problem-solving tool. Written in an easy-to-understand style, Statistics for Environmental Engineers, Second Edition consists of 54 short, "stand-alone" chapters. All chapters address a particular environmental problem or statistical technique and are written in a manner that permits each chapter to be studied independently and in any order. Chapters are organized around specific case studies, beginning with brief discussions of the appropriate methodologies, followed by analysis of the case study examples, and ending with comments on the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches. New to this edition:"Thirteen new chapters dealing with topics such as experimental design, sizing experiments, tolerance and prediction intervals, time-series modeling and forecasting, transfer function models, weighted least squares, laboratory quality assurance, and specialized control charts"Exercises for classroom use or self-study in each chapter"Improved graphics"Revisions to all chaptersWhether the topic is displaying data, t-tests, mechanistic model building, nonlinear least squares, confidence intervals, regression, or experimental design, the context is always familiar to environmental scientists and engineers. Case studies are drawn from censored data, detection limits, regulatory standards, treatment plant performance, sampling and measurement errors, hazardous waste, and much more. This revision of a classic text serves as an ideal textbook for students and a valuable reference for any environmental professional working with numbers. ... Read more

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A must for environmental engineering majors
As the title aptly suggest, the book is written keeping environmental engineering majors (and grad students)in mind. The authors have surely done a commendable job. All the examples are based on real life situation problems confronting environmental engineers. More importantly, not dwelling too much on the basics, the book has covered almost all the topics an environmental engineer would be interested in. Another big plus in the second edition is the addition of the problem sets at the end of every chapters. This was the one feature the original edition badly lacked and the authors have immediately corrected the flaw. The pricing of the book too is excellent and this is one book that has to feature on the study-desk of all environmental engineering students. ... Read more

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A down to earth book of essential hydrology for applications
This book is an essential read for civil/water/hydraulic/waterresources/environmental engineers who need a bit more hydrology necessaryfor understanding the hydrology applied in their disciplines.

The bookdefines hydrology and proceeds to indicate the essential difference betweenapplied hydrology and just scientific hydrology. Beginning with thetraditional presentation of the hydrologic cycle, all the components of thecycle are dealt with in more detail in the subsequent chapters of the bookto indicate the applications involving each and appropriate examplesgiven.

Non-verbose explanations with adequate real examples are used inpresentations of meteorology/solar radiation, rainfall/snowmelt,evaporation, infiltration, streamflow and hydrographs/unit hydrographs,groundwater occurrence and hydraulics, probability distributions/extremevalue analysis/design floods/storms, river morhology, sedimentation,computer modelling, flood routing by hydrologic and hydraulic methods, andintroduction to applications. These are by no means all the main contents -but just indicative of the variety of included essential topics.

It maybe old (my edition of 1988) but still contains all the hydrology anengineer may ever need. ... Read more

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Protecting the global environment is a single-minded goal for all of us. Environmental engineers take this goal to task, meeting the needs of society with technical innovations. Revised, expanded, and fully updated to meet the needs of today's engineer working in industry or the public sector, the Environmental Engineers' Handbook, Second Edition is a single source of current information. It covers in depth the interrelated factors and principles that affect our environment and how we have dealt with them in the past, are dealing with them today, and how we will deal with them in the future. This stellar reference addresses the ongoing global transition in cleaning up the remains of abandoned technology, the prevention of pollution created by existing technology, and the design of future zero emission technology. ... Read more

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KINDLE FORMAT MISREPRESENTED--DO NOT PURCHASE
BEWARE: The Kindle download is ONLY the three page insert of the CD packaging from the CD version of the book--the cover of the CD and installation instructions.I don't know why anyone would ever want to purchase this.

IT IS NOT A KINDLE VERSION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS HANDBOOK.

Amazon has conviced me to NEVER use my Kindle for professional texts.I am profoundly disappointed with Amazon for this amateur performance.

Environmental Engineers Handbook Vol. II
This is a good book on Air Quality. It is very infomative. I bought an older version and just needed to read some updated info.

If There Is One Book You'll Ever Need, This Is It!
I own several environmental engineer textbooks, many of which focuses on either environmental planning, engineering systems, case histories & legislations, water treatment, energy, or current trends. Few books like this 1400+ page monster of a handbook focuses on all aspects of this important field. In its preface it explains why having all aspects in one bounded body is vital to the engineer student; simply the field of environemental engineering utilizes knowledge and information from other-scientific, legal, and social-science fields to solve many problems that are encountered daily whiles working to create better systems, laws and solutions. This book has everything that you will need to know to work in the field. It promotes tried and true theories used by scientists before as well as sets up the beginner students with the challenges of creating new theories and working ideas to solve current and projected problems that face us today.
I've bought several books in the field and learned from various sources, and this handbook is one that most of us will have to use in our final years at engineering school, and it is by far the best one ive studied from. If your school doesn't require it, I would still reccommend it for reference material.

Although the book is pricey, you definately get what you pay for in quantity and quality. All the information is well organized and laid out so you will never get lost or confused as you read thru. And the autor sets up the book so that it can be easily accessed in sections (for reference) or carefully read thru in page order.

A must for anyone in the field!!!

waste water treatment
includes comprehensive introduction of wastewater treatment technology. seems wonderful! ... Read more

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Transport Modeling for Environmental Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition, builds on integrated transport courses in chemical engineering curricula, demonstrating the underlying unity of mass and momentum transport processes. It describes how these processes underlie the mechanics common to both pollutant transport and pollution control processes. ... Read more

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Fairly well-written textbook
I purchased this book in 2009 because it was a required textbook for an Environmental Engineering graduate course I took.It is written well enough that a person with a technical background can read it once in most cases, and then be able to apply its methods to solve problems.It is fairly well organized, although we did not get through the entire text in the course I took. ... Read more

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For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Environmental Engineer and Mining Industry job, or to apply for a better job.

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?" Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job?" Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying Environmental Engineer and Mining Industry Job guides the way.

Highly recommended to any harried Environmental Engineer and Mining Industry jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job.

This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Environmental Engineer and Mining Industry Job or move up in the system, get this book. ... Read more

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Biological and chemical processes play key roles in the treatment of domestic wastewater, and are becoming increasingly important in tackling the problems caused by industrial wastes. The first edition focused on microbial systems and wastewater processes implemented in a treatment plant. This revised edition incorporates components that cover the fundamental aspects of inorganic and organic chemistry relating to water treatment and pollution. It provides an understanding of the complex biological and chemical issues involved in environmental science and engineering. ... Read more

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For readers with some competence in PDE solution properties, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach to problems occurring in natural environmental media: the hydrosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, biosphere and ionosphere. It presents two major discretization methods: Finite Difference and Finite Element, plus a section on practical approaches to ill-posed problems. The blend of theory, analysis, and implementation practicality supports solving and understanding complicated problems.

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Treatment Plant Hydraulics for Environmental Engineers
1. Sewage - Purification - Activated sludge process. 2. Sewage disposal plants - Design and construction. 3. Hydraulics - Problems, ecercises, etc. ... Read more

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Civil and environmental engineers must cope with uncertainty in all facets of their activities-from observations of soil pressure to yield strengths of steel. In spite of this uncertainty, decisions must be made. Statistics, Probability, and Reliability for Civil and Environmental Engineers provides a groundwork to help in the decision-making process. Appealing to all areas of civil and environmental engineering, this text is relevant to educators and practicing engineers alike. ... Read more

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Civil and environmental engineers need an understanding of mathematical statistics and probability theory to deal with the variability that affects engineers' structures, soil pressures, river flows and the like. Students, too, need to get to grips with these rather difficult concepts.

This book, written by engineers for engineers, tackles the subject in a clear, up-to-date manner using a process-orientated approach. It introduces the subjects of mathematical statistics and probability theory, and then addresses model estimation and testing, regression and multivariate methods, analysis of extreme events, simulation techniques, risk and reliability, and economic decision making.

325 examples and case studies from European and American practice are included and each chapter features realistic problems to be solved.

For the second edition new sections have been added on Monte Carlo Markov chain modeling with details of practical Gibbs sampling, sensitivity analysis and aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, and copulas. Throughout, the text has been revised and modernized. ... Read more

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I saved $40.
I am a college student, and text books are pricey. I really got a good deal on this book and it was free shipping. Thank you amazon.com ... Read more

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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the best-selling chronicle of ASCE history by former Executive Director William H. Wisely, The American Civil Engineer 1852-1974, has been updated to provide an overview of the Society as it exists today. This new edition, edited and expanded by Virginia Fairweather, former Editor-in-Chief of Civil Engineering magazine, presents 150 years of fascinating history, and is a tribute to the rich heritage of the civil engineering profession and its professional society. This historical account reveals the parallels between the Society’s evolution and the need for engineers in a growing nation. The Society has always played a key role in creating and fostering the professional environment of civil engineering. The proud tradition of public service continues with the recent ASCE sponsored teams that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers and the damage sustained by the Pentagon. As the Society evolves into a global leader in civil engineering and looks forward to the opportunities of the 21st century, this volume allows us to look back and pay tribute to the founders of the Society, the growth of civil engineering, and the history, traditions and development of the American Society of Civil Engineers. ... Read more

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While engineers and surveyors are not urban planners, they are often engaged in urban development. Therefore, a high degree of competence in civil engineering specialties such as surveying and mapping, highway and transportation engineering, water resources engineering, environmental engineering, and, particularly, municipal engineering requires an understanding of urban development problems and urban planning objectives, principles, and practices. With this in mind, City Planning for Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, and Surveyors focuses on areas of urban planning with which civil and environmental engineers and surveyors are most likely to come into contact or conflict, in which engineers and surveyors may be required to participate, and for which engineers may be required to provide necessary leadership.

The text stresses basic concepts and principles of practice involved in urban planning as most widely practiced, particularly in small- and medium-sized communities. It introduces engineering students to land use planning as a foundation for infrastructure systems planning and development. It also presents plan implementation devices such as zoning, land subdivision control, official mapping, and capital improvement programming. It describes the factors affecting good land subdivision design and improvement. In addition, the text illustrates the importance of good mapping and control surveys for planning purposes. Written from the perspective that cities are social and economic as well as physical entities, the book offers a historical context for urban planning.

There are a large number of texts on the subject of urban planning, but most generally do not address in any comprehensive way the engineering problems encountered in urban planning. This book delineates these problems and stresses the importance of close cooperation between civil engineers and planning professionals to achieving effective urban planning. Armed with this information, students can become more knowledgeable participants in the urban planning process and more effective members of urban planning teams and governmental and consulting agency staff.

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Because your success begins with the right formula … Finding the right formula is an essential part of environmental engineering and research. However, consulting the literature of the many disciplines that affect your work can be a time-consuming, inefficient, and often difficult process. Not any more! The Formula Handbook brings together in a single volume the most popular and useful formulas covering biological/biochemical processes in natural and engineered systems—saving hours of valuable research time. Compiled from select journals, review articles, and books, the Formula Handbook is an indispensable one-stop reference for today’s busy environmental engineer or scientist. The Handbook is arranged alphabetically, making information easy to find. In addition to the formulas themselves, entries include: