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William and Caroline Herschel

Pioneers in Late 18th-Century Astronomy

by Michael Hoskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013

This beautifully structured book presents the essentials of William and Caroline Herschel’s pioneering achievements in late 18th-century astronomy. Michael Hoskin shows that William Herschel was the first observational cosmologist and one of the first observers to attack the sidereal universe beyond...
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The Ethics of Energy Sustainability

An energy ethics workbook

by Pamela E. Heckel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015

This book is an easy to use instructional aide. Explore sustainability issues in contemporary society through a transdisciplinary approach. Chapters include ethics, public resources, public policy, combustion, heat exchangers, nuclear, solar, water, and wind energy. A short summary is presented for...
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Elements, Principles and Corpuscles

A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century

by Antonio Clericuzio
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013

In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012

Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest threats to humanity of all times. In addition to producing adverse environmental conditions such as rising sea level, drought, crop failure, vector-borne diseases, extreme events, degradation of water/air quality and heat waves, climate change...
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The Plant Family Brassicaceae

Contribution Towards Phytoremediation

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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

With the advent of the industrial revolution , the biosphere has been continuously polluted with a myriad of contaminants that urgently need global attention. In this perspective, most of the genera of the plant family Brassicaceae (Crucifereae or the mustard family) are a significant part of the...
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by R.J. Blin-Stoyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

This book is intended to give a clear and concise introductory account of the basic ideas underlying nuclear and elementary particle physics. The attempt throughout is to convey a sound physical understanding of the structures and processes encountered. It assumes some knowledge of elementary quantum...
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Operators, Geometry and Quanta

Methods of Spectral Geometry in Quantum Field Theory

by Dmitri Fursaev, Dmitri Vassilevich
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2011

This book gives a detailed and self-contained introduction into the theory of spectral functions, with an emphasis on their applications to quantum field theory. All methods are illustrated with applications to specific physical problems from the forefront of current research, such as finite-temperature...
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by Laurence Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

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by Günther Witzany
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009

I wrote this book for biologists and those who are interested in both biological affairs in general and perspectives which integrate a large number of specialised biological disciplines. The theory of biocommunication presented herein investigates signal transd- tion processes among cells, tissues,...
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by Ton J. Cleophas, Aeilko H. Zwinderman
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012

Thanks to the omnipresent computer, current statistics can include data files of many thousands of values, and can perform any exploratory analysis in less than seconds. This development, however fascinating, generally does not lead to simple results. We should not forget that clinical studies are,...
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by Arnout Jozef Ceulemans
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

Chemists are used to the operational definition of symmetry, which crystallographers introduced long before the advent of quantum mechanics. The ball-and-stick models of molecules naturally exhibit the symmetrical properties of macroscopic objects. However, the practitioner of quantum chemistry and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010

A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled “Advanced Materials and Technologies for Micro/Nano Devices, Sensors and Actuators” was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from June 29 to July 2, 2009. The main goal of the Workshop was to examine (at a fundamental level) the very complex scientific...
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Plastic Materials

Properties and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Plastics are part of everyday life and contribute immensely to the benefit of humanity. When failures occur, they are due in part either to inferior properties (resulting from poor design or badly controlled processing), or to an incomplete understanding of the properties and applications of plastics...
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Place-Based Conservation

Perspectives from the Social Sciences

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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

The concept of “Place” has become prominent in natural resource management, as professionals increasingly recognize the importance of scale, place-specific meanings, local knowledge, and  social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: Perspectives from the Social Sciences offers a thorough...
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