Other Sciences category: 9579 books
African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation Options: Forestry, Land-Use Change, and Agriculture
Johannesburg, South Africa 29 May – June 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in...
The GMO Deception
What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Seventy-five percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves-from soda to soup, crackers to condiments-contain genetically engineered ingredients. The long-term effects of these foods on human health and ecology are still unknown, and public concern has been steadily intensifying.
This new...
Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries
A Critical Appraisal of Catches and Ecosystem Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The*Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries* is the first and only book to provide accurate, country-by-country fishery catch data. This groundbreaking information has been gathered from independsources by the world's foremfisheries experts. Edited by Daniel Pauly and Dirk Zeller of the Sea Around Us Project,...
Geophysics, Realism, and Industry
How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the issue of realism. Using wave propagation...
Computational Methods for the Atmosphere and the Oceans
Special Volume
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This book provides a survey of the frontiers of research in the numerical modeling and mathematical analysis used in the study of the atmosphere and oceans. The details of the current practices in global atmospheric and ocean models, the assimilation of observational data into such models and the...
Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs) rely on the efficient generation of reactive radical species and are increasingly attractive options for water remediation from a wide variety of organic micropollutants of human health and/or environmental concern. Advanced Oxidation Processes for Water Treatment...
by Douglas Jamison, Stephen Waite
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Over the past decade, software companies have increasingly monopolized the flow of venture capital, starving support for scientific research and its transformative discoveries. New medicines, cheaper and faster personal computers, and other life-changing developments all stem from investment in science....
Zoobiquity
What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress....
by Kate Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
This book, named one of Booklist's Top 10 books on sustainability in 2014, is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the environmental health movement, which unlike many parts of the environmental movement, focuses on ways toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents in the environment effect...
Bedtime Thoughts
Excerpts from the Power of Control Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
What is Control Thought?
As explained in author Roy Messiers The Power of Control Thought, it is learning to listen to the type of thoughts we are having and then learning how to control them. When our mind accepts an idea as true, it then becomes true for us. We have the power within to make...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This handbook offers the first comprehensive reference guide to the interdisciplinary field of model-based reasoning. It highlights the role of models as mediators between theory and experimentation, and as educational devices, as well as their relevance in testing hypotheses and explanatory functions....
by Rózsa Péter
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
This popular account of the many mathematical concepts relating to infinity is one of the best introductions to this subject and to the entire field of mathematics. Dividing her book into three parts — The Sorcerer's Apprentice, The Creative Role of Form, and The Self-Critique of Pure Reason —...
The Cell
Discovering the Microscopic World that Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Your body has trillions of cells, and each one has the complexity and dynamism of a city. Your life, your thoughts, your diseases, and your health are all the function of cells.
But what do you really know about what goes on inside you?
The last time most people thought about cells in...
Science vs. Religion
What Scientists Really Think
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
That the longstanding antagonism between science and religion is irreconcilable has been taken for granted. And in the wake of recent controversies over teaching intelligent design and the ethics of stem-cell research, the divide seems as unbridgeable as ever. In Science vs. Religion, Elaine Howard...