Nature, technology

Worm (Book)

Mark Bowden (Author)

"Dass Cyberverbrechen und Cyberwar keine bloß virtuellen Gefahren mehr sind, sickert erst allmählich ins öffentliche und politische Bewusstsein. Als der Computerwurm "Conficker" im November 2008 auf die Welt losgelassen wurde, infizierte er binnen weniger Wochen Millionen [...]

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Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood (Book)

Nicholas Falk (Author), David Rudlin (Author), David Falk Rudlin (Author)

Now in its second edition, this title explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas.

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The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds (Book)

Gerhard Roth (Author)

The main topic of the book is a reconstruction of the evolution of nervous systems and brains as well as of mental-cognitive abilities, in short intelligence from simplest organisms to humans. It investigates to which extent the two are correlated. One central topic is the [...]

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Noncommutative Iwasawa Main Conjectures over Totally Real Fields (E-book)

John Coates (Author), Peter Schneider (Author), R. Sujatha (Author), Otmar Venjakob (Author)

The algebraic techniques developed by Kakde will almost certainly lead eventually to major progress in the study of congruences between automorphic forms and the main conjectures of non-commutative Iwasawa theory for many motives. Non-commutative Iwasawa theory has emerged [...]

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Modular Representation Theory of Finite Groups (E-book)

Peter Schneider (Author)

Representation theory studies maps from groups into the general linear group of a finite-dimensional vector space. For finite groups the theory comes in two distinct flavours. In the 'semisimple case' (for example over the field of complex numbers) one can use character [...]

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John Gould - The Family of Toucans (Book)

Jonathan Elphick (Author), John Gould (Author)

Les illustrations de la Monographie sur les Ramphastidae, ou Famille des toucans, de Gould sont considérées comme ses oeuvres les plus spectaculaires et les plus belles. L'incroyable palette de couleurs vives - noir brillant, rouge, jaune et orange éclatants - crée une [...]

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Nikola Tesla Gesamtausgabe 1 (Book)

Nikola Tesla (Author)

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Interdisciplinary Applications of Kinematics (E-book)

Andrés Kecskeméthy (Editor), Andreas Müller (Editor), Veljko Potkonjak (Editor)

Kinematics is an exciting area of computational mechanics which plays a central role in a great variety of fields and industrial applications. Apart from research in pure kinematics, the field offers challenging problems of practical relevance that need to be solved in an [...]

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Au Pair (E-book)

Zuzana Burikova (Author), Daniel Miller (Author)

Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come and what is their experience of this arrangement? Do they, for their part, [...]

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Consumption and Its Consequences (E-book)

Daniel Miller (Author)

This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our [...]

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Lasers (Book)

Ladan Arissian (Author), Jean-Claude Diels (Author)

Die Photonik ist aus immer mehr Bereichen des täglichen Lebens nicht wegzudenken: Medizin und Chirurgie, Telekommunikation, Datenverkehr und Datenspeicherung, superschnelle Scanner, Laserpointer, Bildverarbeitung, Lithographie, Messtechnik, Materialverarbeitung, [...]

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Biomanagement of Metal-Contaminated Soils (Book)

Reeta Goel (Editor), Mohammad S. Khan (Editor), Mohammad Saghir Khan (Editor), Javed Musarrat (Editor), Almas Zaidi (Editor)

Heavy-metal contamination is one of the world's major environmental problems, posing significant risks to agro-ecosystems. Conventional technologies employed for heavy-metal remediation have often been expensive and disruptive. This book provides comprehensive, [...]

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Remarkable Biologists (Book)

James Ioan (Author), Ioan James (Author)

Profiles 38 eminent biologists from the last 400 years, focusing on their varied life-stories rather than their achievements.

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Number-Crunching (Book)

Paul Nahin (Author), Paul J. Nahin (Author)

How do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of [...]

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Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Fluid Dynamics (Book)

Anne Cros (Editor), Jaime Klapp (Editor), Mario Alberto Rodriguez Meza (Editor), Catalina Stern (Editor), Oscar Velasco (Editor)

The book is comprised of lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVI Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2010. It is aimed at fourth year undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scientists in the [...]

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