Product Description: This groundbreaking book explores the inherent interconnectedness of sustainability and spirituality, acknowledging the dependency of one upon the other. John E. Carroll contends that true ecological sustainability, in contrast to the cosmetic attempts at sustainability we see around us, questions our society s fundamental values and is so countercultural that it is resisted by anyone without a spiritual belief in something deeper than efficiency, technology, or economics...read more

Product Description: Combines a high level of tutorial material with a research review on a type of laser that emits light in a single mode, which is essential to providing the carrier in long-haul, high-bit-rate optical communications systems. Suitable for graduate or advanced undergraduate engineering courses in syst...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ECOLOGY AND RELIGION- AIMS AND CONFLICTS.

Product Description: Interdisciplinary and interfaith essays exploring the religious and spiritual implications of human interaction with nature and the environment.

Product Description: Embracing Earth brings together original and seminal contributions by contemporary Catholic spiritual and mystical writers who explore the Christian view of nature and our place in it. Their writings address not only theological, philosophical, and spiritual parameters but specific, concrete issues as well...read more

Product Description: This is a novel approach to teaching dynamic aspects of the operation of semiconductor and opto-electronic devices. The traditional approach emphasizes an understanding of the steady equilibrium operation. However, dynamic aspects often determine the steady state conditions and the dynamical operation is of increasing importance as modern methods of communicating data and information require electronic devices that switch electrical or optical signals at ever faster rates...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)