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The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor - Paperback

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by Gerald H. Pollack (Author)Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity that provides answers so simple that any curious person can understand. In conversational prose, Pollack lays a simple foundation for understanding how changes in water's structure underlie most energetic transitions of form and motion on earth. Number of Pages: 357 Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.9 x 8.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 01, 2013

The Traveling Anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science

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Report copyright infringementby Nuno Castel-Branco (Author)Reevaluates Nicolaus Steno's contributions to anatomy and early modern science, examining his interdisciplinary interests in their historical context. Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686) was a renowned anatomist in his lifetime. He reformed the anatomical understanding of glands, argued that the heart was a muscle, renamed the so-called female testicles as ovaries, and developed a mathematical model for understanding muscle contraction--disco...

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Lockhart (Author)Bremerhaven, Germany, 1919. A young, desperately poor German father leaves his small family to seek treatment for the poison gas that scalded his lungs on the battlefields of World War I. He never returns. Only his last, blood-stained pillowcase remains. His family is bereft. Brooklyn, 1925. That dead father's son, Willi Rohrbein, illegal, without papers, sneaks into New York harbor on a ship from Bremerhaven where he has been stowed aw...

The Mathematical World of Walter Noll: A Scientific Biography

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Report copyright infringementby Yurie A. Ignatieff (Author)This book is a comprehensive study of the life and mathematics of Walter Noll, who is widely known as the creator of the mathematical tools of modern rational mechanics and thermodynamics. It is a must for every physicist, engineer, or graduate student as a reference and key to Noll's mathematical heritage.Back JacketThis book is a comprehensive study of the life and mathematics of Walter Noll, who helped to create the mathematical to...

Earth System Science: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Tim Lenton (Author)When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is known as Earth System Science. In this Very Short Introduction, Tim Lenton...

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by Ryan Wasserman (Author)Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating questions raised by the possibility of time travel. This volume explores a wide-range of puzzles such as the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. Ryan Wasserman draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an ...

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by Frank Close (Author)Antimatter explores a strange mirror world, where particles have identical yet opposite properties to those that make up the familiar matter we encounter everyday; where left becomes right, positive becomes negative; and where, should matter and antimatter meet, the two annihilate in a blinding flash of energy that makes even thermonuclear explosions look feeble by comparison. It is an idea long beloved of science-fiction stories--but here, renowned science writer Frank...

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by Stephen C. Stearns (Author), Ruslan Medzhitov (Author)Evolutionary thinking provides insights into many different areas in the research and practice of medicine and public health. It takes specialties such as medical microbiology, epidemiology, oncology, gynecology, and psychiatry that had become increasingly siloed and places them in a larger framework. This foundational structure enables students to view medical knowledge as an integrated whole, underpinned by general principles rather t...

Covid-19 How it made us feel: Life in lockdown during the CoronaVirus pandemic

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Report copyright infringementby Louise Usher (Author)An eclectic anthology of life during lockdown of Covid-19 worldwide pandemic. Vastly different personalities, one same experience, many varied feelings but one same wish.Academics, scientists, retail workers, front line NHS staff, carers, patients, a housewife, an MBE guy all afraid of the pandemic. 12 authors coming together to form a memoir style piece each telling a collection of feelings, life experiences and thoughts during lockdown. ...

The Glubb Reports: Glubb Pasha and Britain's Empire Project in the Middle East 1920-1956

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Report copyright infringementby Tancred Bradshaw (Author)The Glubb Reports studies papers written by General Sir John Glubb, the long-serving British commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion. It covers issues such as the role of tribes and desert control, the impact of Palestine, the Arab Legion's role in the first Arab-Israeli war, the expansion of the Arab Legion, and Glubb's dismissal in 1956.Author BiographyTancred Bradshaw received his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Danielle Clode (Author)Fire has shaped the Australian landscape and the lives of Australians for thousands of years--and will continue to do so as the climate changes. For all our advances in prevention and prediction, planning and communication, bushfires keep claiming our lives and our homes. How can we avoid another Ash Wednesday or Black Saturday?Danielle Clode has lived in the bushfire danger zone and studied the past and recent history of fire management ...

Aaron Lopez and Judah Touro; a Refugee and a Son of a Refugee - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Morris Aaron 1905- Gutstein (Author), George 1732-1799 Washington (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars be...

Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War - Hardcover

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by Brandon R. Brown (Author)Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work was described by his close friend Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." But Planck's story is not well known, especially in the United States. A German physicist working during the first half of the twentieth century, his library, personal journals, notebooks, and letters were all destroyed with his home in World War II. What remains, other than his contributions...

The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by J. L. Heilbron (Author)How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels? This Very Short Introduction introduc...

Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith - Paperback

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by Philip Kitcher (Author)Charles Darwin has been at the center of white-hot public debate for more than a century. In Living With Darwin, Philip Kitcher stokes the flames swirling around Darwin's theory, sifting through the scientific evidence for evolution, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design, and revealing why evolution has been the object of such vehement attack. Kitcher first provides valuable perspective on the present controversy, describing the many puzzles that blocked evolution...

TarotSaur: Art, fossils, witchcraft. You're dead and out of this world.

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Report copyright infringementby Syd Linkletter (Author), Wisp Of Words (Artist)A 3 year project finally coming together.In their longest book to date, Syd Linkletter explores paleo-art, the occult, and journal-entry-style writing in their latest work, TarotSaur.After a conversation with their brother, Syd purchases a fossil from an eBay retailer and begins conversations with it and others through tarot spreads and pure vibes. The results have been documented within, along with explorations in...

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

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Report copyright infringementby J. Doyne Farmer (Author)From a pioneer in the field of complexity science and chaos theory, a plan for solving the world's most pressing problems "Farmer convincingly argues that by using big data and today's more powerful computers, we can build more realistic models and simulations of the global economy. . . . Farmer's vision will undoubtedly be significant in how economics evolves."--Tej Parikh, Financial Times, "Best New Books on Economics" "Both a manifes...

Kingdom of Play: What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-Flopping Monkeys, and Mud-Sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself - Hardcover

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by David Toomey (Author)For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus, a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how life--at its most fundamental level--is playful. In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bea...

Building financial resilience to climate change: Preparing for the storms ahead

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth Smith (Author)Building financial resilience to climate change is a critical resource for anyone concerned about their financial impact from climate change. Detailed descriptions of the risks by region and practical advice on how to mitigate them. If you want to be better prepared for the storms ahead building financial resilience is a must read. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April...

Environment Action Plan 2024-2030: Toward a Nature-Positive Asia and the Pacific

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This publication explains how ADB's Environment Action Plan 2024-2030 (EAP) guides its strategic approach to tackling the triple planetary threats of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change to better support sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. With over 50% of the region's economy directly dependent on nature, the publication shows how EAP's approach revolves around biodiversity and ecosystem management, poll...

Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Finance: Enhancing the Role of the Financial Sector in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This report shows how countries in Asia and the Pacific can integrate climate action into fiscal policies to trigger the release of the massive private sector finance urgently needed to combat the fast-growing impacts of climate change.Highlighting successful measures implemented by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus three (ASEAN+3) countries, the report sets out how policies such as green sovereign guarantees and sub...

The Wealth of Nature: Economics as If Survival Mattered

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Report copyright infringementby John Michael Greer (Author)Renowned political theorist and author proposes a bold new economic paradigm based on the value of sustainability. The Wealth of Nature proposes a new model of economics based on the integral value of ecology. Building on the foundations of E.F. Schumacher's revolutionary "economics as if people mattered", this book examines the true cost of confusing money with wealth. By analyzing the mistakes of contemporary economics, it shows ho...

Underconsumption Theory And Secular Stagnation Thesis (1944)

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Report copyright infringementby American Economic Association (Author)Underconsumption Theory and Secular Stagnation Thesis is a book published by the American Economic Association in 1944. The book delves into two economic theories that were prevalent during the time of its publication. The first theory, underconsumption theory, argues that economic growth is hindered by a lack of consumer demand. The second theory, secular stagnation thesis, posits that a long-term decline in economic growt...

Social Theories of Fertility and the Malthusian Debate. --

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Report copyright infringementby David Edward Charles Eversley (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this ...

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Luther 1903-1988 Austin (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Adrea L. Peters (Author), Amber Lilyestrom (Author)Companion Journal for Quantum WealthAuthors Adrea Peters and Amber Lilyestrom invite readers to embrace, explore and explode their abundance in their new book, Quantum Wealth: Factoring in Abundance. This generous duo has created a book that is alive and pulsing with energy devoted to expanding the wealth of its readers. Get ready to move closer to your money dreams by taking stock of your daily life in ways yo...

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Report copyright infringementby Dorion Keith Hilliard (Author)How does variations in harmonics frequencies within humanity biosphere influence our evolutionary processes as we explore the neuro-vitality of our kinetic cellular connectivity and technological correspondence to transmit clean energy?As we continue to address our needs for clean energy and the ability to transform the dialectical process of materialism, We as primary producers on this planet who are in continuous contradiction wi...

Sustainable Futures: Technological Solutions for a Green Planet

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Report copyright infringementby B. Vincent (Author)Discover the roadmap to a sustainable future in "Sustainable Futures: Technological Solutions for a Green Planet." In this enlightening report, delve into the realm of technological innovations poised to revolutionize how we interact with our planet. From energy-efficient hand dryers to groundbreaking university projects like "Integrating Innovation for Sustainability," the journey towards sustainability is illuminated. Join the global conver...

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Report copyright infringementby B. Vincent (Author)The Climate Solution: Innovative Approaches to Combat Global Warming by B. Vincent is a compelling exploration of humanity's impact on the Earth's climate and the innovative strategies we can employ to mitigate it. As we face unprecedented global warming driven by industrial activities, Vincent argues that collective action is not only necessary but possible. This book is essential reading for economists, environmental enthusiasts, and anyone...

From Dirt to Dreams: A 30-40 Month Guideline for Success

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Report copyright infringementby Larry Justice (Author)From Dirt to Dreams focuses on how individuals and families can interact with the natural world in a more responsible and sustainable manner. For those readers mainly interested in learning more about sustainable living, this book provides information that will help readers move toward practices that rely less on commercially produced goods and more on fulfilling their basic needs through farming, raising livestock, and self-producing a va...

The Resilient Earth: Navigating the Anthropocene

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Report copyright infringementby Sergio Rijo (Author)Dive into the heart of environmental resilience with 'The Resilient Earth: Navigating the Anthropocene.' This illuminating book transcends the gloom often associated with discussions about climate change, offering a comprehensive and optimistic perspective on our planet's ability to adapt and thrive amidst challenges.Structured around pillars of resilience, each chapter delves into crucial aspects of our interconnected world-sustainable agri...

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Report copyright infringementby Benoit Lambert (Author)Biogeotherapy - nature-based climate solutions, life as a geological healing force, presents a movement of farmers, scientists, politicians, and diplomatic actors. It is based on four natural restorative practices: holistic grazing management, no-till agriculture with cover crops, biochar, and massive reforestation. Agro-forestry, blue carbon, living machines, the restoration of peatlands, and other nature-based solutions (NbS) or negativ...