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Nature Under Siege
Portrait of Environmental Crisis in the Niger Delta
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Expressions such as Environmental terrorism or eco-anarchy may sum up the state of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in a bid to explain the indiscriminate cutting of pristine forests, terminal scare of wildlife and extinction of biodiversity, loss of soil fertility and fecundity of rivers, acidified...
Nature Exposed
Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between photography and scientific authority.
Almost immediately...
Nature's Robots
A History of Proteins
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2003
Proteins are amazingly versatile molecules. They make the chemical reactions happen that form the basis for life, they transmit signals in the body, they identify and kill foreign invaders, they form the engines that make us move, and they record visual images. All of this is now common knowledge,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
New genes and diversity leading to adaptation and evolution are generated in special areas of genomes. One such area in all eukaryotic genomes and in those prokaryotes with linear chromosomes is the region near the ends of the chromosomes. These telomere-associated sequences or subtelomeres, have...
The Ecological Other
Environmental Exclusion in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
With roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In The Ecological Other, Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body.
Ray...
by David S. Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species as successful as humanity. The idea that life in general is fragile is challenged by the hardiness of microbes, which shows that astrobiology on exoplanets and other satellites must be...
by Brett Hodnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
For anyone who loves the outdoors, Paddling with a Naturalist offers an opportunity to gain a strong sense of the forces behind, and the interconnectedness of the natural world. It will allow you to better understand what makes nature function, and to appreciate why the things you see from your canoe...
The Roles of Remote Sensing in Nature Conservation
A Practical Guide and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The book will provide an overview of the practical application of remote sensing for the purposes of nature conservation as developed by ecologists in collaboration with remote sensing specialists, providing guidance on all phases from the planning of remote sensing projects for conservation to the interpretation and validation of the images.
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by Various, William Kerr Higley
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
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THE HAWKS.
Among the birds that are most useful to man may be classed the Hawks. They, with the vultures, the eagles and the owls, belong to the bird order Raptores, or birds of prey. Unlike the vultures the Hawks feed upon living prey while the former seek the...
The Intelligence of Nature
3D farming and 11 more unstoppable trends that are revolutioning the production of food and fuel, regenerating nature, and rebuilding communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The 12 trends presented in The Intelligence of Nature concern the entire economic system, but first of all they apply in agriculture and the agri-food industry, which, in addition to condemning us to eat tasteless and unhealthy foods, contribute massively to global warming and to the depletion of...
Let's Understand Our Existence
The Answer to Your Inquisitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Always there; several questions stand in human mind about the existence,the existence of himself and of course of his surrounding nature. Here further scientific description of our living world is going to clarify about the nature and the mankind along with the other living world that how this entire...
On Human Nature
Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion covers the present state of knowledge on human diversity and its adaptative significance through a broad and eclectic selection of representative chapters. This transdisciplinary work brings together specialists from various fields...
Megaphysics Ii;An Explanation of Nature
The Equation of Everything in Terms of Cosmology,Strings and Relativity
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book is a comprehensive mathematical exposition of how one-inch-long equation space-time is directly proportional to space and inversely proportional to mass can be used to explain all phenomena of nature. It explains the equation in terms of metric tensors and in terms of quantum mechanics and...
by David Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Current theory claims that there are 4 fundamental forces of nature which existed as a superforce at t=0. Carl Anderson experimentally proved that gamma ray photons split into electron-positron pairs. Physicists at Imperial College London built a photon-photon collider where low energy photons collide,...