**"The Climate Diet" has been nominated for a Books for a Better Life Award in the Green Category**We live in a world of excess. We consume too much of everything food, clothes, cars, bricks and mortar. Our bingeing is often so extreme that it threatens our own health and well being. And we are not the only ones who are getting sick. The Earth which provides the food, air, water and land that sustains us is also under severe pressure. Gluttonous consumption of nature's trans-fats carbon-based fossil fuels, deforestation and unsustainable resource use is disrupting the global...

Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes and Techniques brings together researchers from many different disciplines - computer science, dentistry, engineering, linguistics, phonetics, physiology, psychology - all with a special interest in how speech is produced. From the initial neural program to the end acoustic signal, it provides an overview of several dominant models in the speech production literature, as well as up-to-date accounts of persistent theoretical issues in the area. A particular focus is on the evaluation of information gleaned from instrumental investigations of the...