Other Sciences category: 9579 books
The Lost Species
Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongoose, part teddy bear. These fantastic species are...
by Eugene Goodheart
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism. In this volume,...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1.' is a collection of correspondence between Wallace and other scientists, including Herbert Spencer....
Innovation Stories from India Inc
Their Story in Their Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Beyond jugaad, that great Indian tradition of short-term fixes, what does innovation mean in Indian business? That is the question this book addresses through a collection of stand-alone stories that describe sustained innovation at a cross-section of companies that include conglomerates, MNCs, large...
Hurricanes of the North Atlantic
Climate and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1999
Called the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. And with the increasing development of coastal areas, the impact of these storms will likely increase. This book provides...
Tree Rings
Basics and Applications of Dendrochronology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At a meeting of dendrochronologists an American colleague described the effects of volcanic eruptions on annual ring formation in bristlecone pines. I knew very little about either volcanoes or American pines! At the same meeting European scientists spoke on the dendrochronological dating of lakeshore...
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change
North American Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change is an important addition to the body of knowledge critical to scientists, resource managers, and policymakers in understanding and shaping solutions to problems caused by climate change. It provides a useful resource for students and scientists studying the effects...
by Monique Y. Leclerc, Thomas Foken
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
How to interpret meteorological measurements made at a given level over a surface with regard to characteristic properties such as roughness, albedo, heat, moisture, carbon dioxide, and other gases is an old question which goes back to the very beginnings of modern micrometeorology. It is made even...
Diachronic Climatic Impacts on Water Resources
with Emphasis on the Mediterranean Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Since the beginning of man's existence on Earth, the adequacy of available water has been as important as any other factor for man's survival and prosperity.
The volume comprises comprehensive reviews on: Paleoenvironments of arid land, climate-water-man interactions, water resources in the Minoan...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This book covers the latest advances in the techniques employed to manage the THz radiation and its potential uses. It has been subdivided in three sections: THz Detectors, THz Sources, Systems and Applications. These three sections will allow the reader to be introduced in a logical way to the physics...
Bruno Latour in Pieces
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had “never been modern.” In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies...
by B. F. Skinner, C. B. Ferster
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The contingent relationship between actions and their consequences lies at the heart of Skinner’s experimental analysis of behavior. Particular patterns of behavior emerge depending upon the contingencies established. Ferster and Skinner examined the effects of different schedules of reinforcement...
The Fractal Self
Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Our universe, science reveals, began in utter simplicity, then evolved into burgeoning complexity. Starting with subatomic particles, dissimilar entities formed associations—binding, bonding, growing, branching, catalyzing, cooperating—as “self” joined “other” following universal laws...
Darwin's Orchids
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as The Origin of Species. But for many botanists, Darwin’s true legacy starts with the 1862 publication of another volume: On the Various...