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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012

The rigorous mathematical theory of the equations of fluid dynamics has been a focus of intense activity in recent years. This volume is the product of a workshop held at the University of Warwick to consolidate, survey and further advance the subject. The Navier–Stokes equations feature prominently:...
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by Franz Baader, Ian Horrocks, Carsten Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017

Description logics (DLs) have a long tradition in computer science and knowledge representation, being designed so that domain knowledge can be described and so that computers can reason about this knowledge. DLs have recently gained increased importance since they form the logical basis of widely...
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The Effective Scientist

A Handy Guide to a Successful Academic Career

by Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

What is an effective scientist? One who is successful by quantifiable standards, with many publications, citations, and students supervised? Yes, but there is much more. Truly effective scientists need to have influence beyond academia, usefully applying and marketing their research to non-scientists....
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The School of Oriental and African Studies

Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning

by Ian Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016

The School of Oriental and African Studies, a college of the University of London, was established in 1916 principally to train the colonial administrators who ran the British Empire in the languages of Asia and Africa. It was founded, that is, with an explicitly imperial purpose. Yet the School would...
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Being, Nature, and Life in Aristotle

Essays in Honor of Allan Gotthelf

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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010

This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good. The volume is united by the belief that all aspects of Aristotle's work need...
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by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011

For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some...
Cover of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Heidelberg Writings
by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009

This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816–18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg years marked Hegel's return to university teaching...
Cover of Register, Genre, and Style
by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009

This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the...
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Quantum Mechanics

An Experimentalist's Approach

by Eugene D. Commins
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014

Eugene D. Commins takes an experimentalist's approach to quantum mechanics, preferring to use concrete physical explanations over formal, abstract descriptions to address the needs and interests of a diverse group of students. Keeping physics at the foreground and explaining difficult concepts in...
Cover of Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism
by Huw Price, Simon Blackburn, Robert Brandom
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013

Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his...
Cover of Physics and Chemistry of Clouds
by Dennis Lamb, Johannes Verlinde
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011

Clouds affect our daily weather and play key roles in the global climate. Through their ability to precipitate, clouds provide virtually all of the fresh water on Earth and are a crucial link in the hydrologic cycle. With ever-increasing importance being placed on quantifiable predictions - from forecasting...
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Weather

A Concise Introduction

by Gregory J. Hakim, Jérôme Patoux
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

From a world-renowned team at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, Weather: A Concise Introduction is an accessible and beautifully illustrated text covering the foundations of meteorology in a concise, clear, and engaging manner. Designed to provide students...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1995

All aspects of space plasmas in the Solar System are introduced and explored in this text for senior undergraduate and graduate students. Introduction to Space Physics provides a broad, yet selective, treatment of the complex interactions of the ionized gases of the solar terrestrial environment....
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The Rock Physics Handbook

Tools for Seismic Analysis of Porous Media

by Gary Mavko, Tapan Mukerji, Jack Dvorkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009

The Rock Physics Handbook addresses the relationships between geophysical observations and the underlying physical properties of rocks. It distills a vast quantity of background theory and laboratory results into a series of concise chapters that provide practical solutions to problems in geophysical...
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