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Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As such, both the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) released by the Intergovernmental Panel onClimate Change (IPCC) and the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP 25) recommendations call for action not only from...
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Springer
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2018-03-24
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This book is the first of 2 special volumes dedicated to the memory of Gérard Maugin. Including 40 papers that reflect his vast field of scientific activity, the contributions discuss non-standard methods (generalized model) to demonstrate the wide range of subjects...
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Springer
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2018-03-24
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Advanced Structured Materials
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Developed as a one-stop reference source for drug safety and toxicology professionals, this book explains why mitochondrial failure is a crucial step in drug toxicity and how it can be avoided. • Covers both basic science and applied technology / methods• Allows...
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Wiley
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2018-03-23
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This book presents the research papers accepted for the 21st AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held at Lund University Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Centre, Sweden on 12–15 June 2018. It discusses the role of geospatial technologies in the...
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Springer
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2018-03-23
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Plate tectonics is a revolutionary theory on a par with modern genetics. Yet, apart from the frequent use of clichés such as 'tectonic shift' by economists, journalists, and politicians, the science itself is rarely mentioned and poorly understood. This book explains...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-23
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This book offers a high-level summary of shallow magmatic systems (dykes, sills and laccoliths) to support geoscience master and PhD students, scientists and practicing professionals. The product of the LASI (Laccoliths and Sills conference) workshop, it comprises...
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Springer
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2018-03-23
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Advances in Volcanology
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A comprehensive resource to the development and recent progress of zwitterion-oriented cycloadditions promoted by organoamines, organophosphines, N-heterocyclic carbenes Organocatalytic Cycloadditions for Synthesis of Carbo- and Heterocycles offers a clear...
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Wiley-VCH
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2018-03-23
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Animals have evolved remarkable biomechanical and physiological systems that enable their rich repertoire of motion. Animal Locomotion offers a fundamental understanding of animal movement through a broad comparative and integrative approach, including basic mathematics...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-23
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This book is devoted to the rapidly growing area of science dealing with structure and properties of biological surfaces in their relation to particular functions.This volume, written by a team of specialists from different disciplines, covers various biological surface...
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Springer
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2018-03-23
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Plant biotechnology is a most interesting branch for academicians and researchers in recent past. Now days, it becomes a very useful tool in agriculture and medicine and is regarded as a popular area of research especially in biological sciences because it makes an...
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Springer
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2018-03-23
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The research category of the landscape ecology, which researches the structure, functions, and the spatio-temporal changes of the ecological landscapes, has now been contributing to the human life and the shifts of the socio-economic paradigm. Global warming has been...
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Springer
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2018-03-23
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The SAGE Handbook of Nature offers an ambitious retrospective and prospective overview of the field that aims to position Nature, the environment and natural processes, at the heart of interdisciplinary social sciences. The three volumes are divided into the following...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-03-23
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This book provides state-of-the-art results and theories in homogeneous turbulence, including anisotropy and compressibility effects with extension to quantum turbulence, magneto-hydodynamic turbulence and turbulence in non-newtonian fluids. Each chapter is devoted to...
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Springer
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2018-03-23
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Electric currents are fundamental to the structure and dynamics of space plasmas, including our own near-Earth space environment, or “geospace.”This volume takes an integrated approach to the subject of electric currents by incorporating their phenomenology and physics...
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American Geophysical Union
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2018-03-23
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Geophysical Monograph Series
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This book discusses how to collect data and analyze databases in order to map risk zones, and contributes to developing a conceptual framework for coastal risk assessment. Further, the book primarily focuses on a specific case study: the Bay of Bengal along the...
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Springer
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2018-03-22
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In this book, the molecular recognition of DNA using small molecules is discussed, with a study of the photochemistry of BrU-labeled DNA. The purposes of the study were to develop small molecules for regenerative medicine, to develop a method to detect the...
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Springer
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2018-03-22
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PHYSICS WORLD 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A clear and deeply researched account of what’s known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about what they might really mean’ Nature ‘I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.’ Richard Feynman...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-03-22
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How do plate tectonics work? Learn from the experts in the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIESDiscover in this accessible and authoritative introduction the fundamental theory of how our dynamic planet works.You'll learn about the make up of the Earth in the past and the...
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Penguin
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2018-03-22
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The Ladybird Expert Series
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This book focuses on fractional calculus, presenting novel advances in both the theory and applications of non-integer order systems. At the end of the twentieth century it was predicted that it would be the calculus of the twenty-first century, and that prophecy is...
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Springer
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2018-03-22
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This book introduces the reader to the fascinating world of parasites that cause human disease. It is written in a first-person style relating anecdotes and personal encounters of parasites by the author. It tells stories about exotic parasites diseases, interesting...
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Springer
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2018-03-22
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