Naturwissenschaften

Debating Climate Change

Elizabeth L Malone

Climate Change and Energy Insecurity

Richard Sherman

Climate Change and Energy Insecurity

Richard Sherman

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

<P>Man’s intensifying use of the Earth’s habitat has led to an urgent need for scientifically advanced ‘geo-prediction systems’ that accurately locate subsurface resources and foreca...

Climate Change and Food Security

<P>Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the conte...

Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions

<P>International voices fill the pages of Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions, forming an original scientific exploration of current water research and management issues.</P><P...

History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824

Carol Davison

The Well-Dressed Ape

Hannah Holmes

The &apos;Well-Dressed Ape&apos;, aka Homo sapiens, is a strange mammal. It mates remarkably often and with unprecedented affection. With comparable enthusiasm, it will eat to the point of...

Diel Vertical Migration of Zooplankton in Lakes and Oceans

Joop Ringelberg

Whatever theory may be advanced to explain diurnal migration, the underlying reactions involved must be demonstrated conc- sively in the laboratory before the explanation can be ?nally accepted Ge...

Islamists and Secularists in Egypt

Dina Shehata

In a detailed analysis of the continued survival of authoritarian governments in the Arab world, this book uses Egypt as a case study to address the timely and complex issue of democratization in ...

Development Poverty and Politics

Ashna Mathema

The current practices of formulating and providing development aid often fail to substantively improve the long term conditions of the poor. Policies are established at the top and local initiativ...

Decoherence Suppression In Quantum Systems 2008 - Proceedings Of The Symposium

Worldviews, Science And Us: Studies Of Analytical Metaphysics - A Selection Of Topics From A Methodological Perspective - Proceedings Of The 5th Metaphysics Of Science Workshop

Necessary Evils

Mark Freeman

Industrial Analysis with Vibrational Spectroscopy

Neil W Barnett / G Dent / John M Chalmers / John M Chalmers / G Dent

Industrial Analysis with Vibrational Spectroscopy is an integrated work which emphasises the synergy and complementary nature of the techniques of infrared and Raman spectroscopy in industrial lab...

Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime

Marco Grasso

<P>Covering the ethical dimensions of international-level adaptation funding, a subject of growing interest in the climate change debate, this book provides a theoretical analysis of the eth...

Rock Physics and Natural Hazards

<P>Natural hazards events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions involve activation of coupled thermo-hydro-chemo-mechanical processes in rocks. </P><P>The present book assemb...

Vegetation-Climate Interaction

Jonathan Adams

<P>An accessible account of the ways in which the world's plant life affects the climate. It covers everything from tiny local microclimates created by plants to their effect on a global...

The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes

<P>In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that explored the effects of observed and projected changes in the climate on the dynamics of...

Reasons from Within

Alan H. Goldman