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 Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures) by Stephen Jay Gould English | January 1, 1988 | ISBN: 0674891996 | True EPUB | 222 pages | 5.9 MB Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense following for the seeming arcana of this field.  Julia Blackburn, "Time Song" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1911214209, 1784704903 | EPUB | pages: 292 | 28.9 mb Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe, until it was finally submerged by rising sea levels around 5000 BC.Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen 'songs' and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of Doggerland. She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago. She visits a cave where the remnants of a Neanderthal meal have turned to stone. In Denmark she sits beside Tollund Man who seems to be about to wake from a dream, even though he has lain in a peat bog since the start of the Iron Age.Time Song reveals yet again, that Julia Blackburn is one of the most original writers in Britain, with each of its pages bringing a surprise, an epiphany, a phrase of such beauty and simple profundity you can only gasp.  Thucydides and Sparta edited by Anton Powell, Paula Debnar English | February 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1910589756 | True PDF | 285 pages | 13.7 MB Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his information on the subject is more scattered and implicit. Scholars in recent decades have made progress in teasing out the sense of Thucydides' often lapidary remarks on Sparta.  Jay Allison, Dan Gediman, "This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0805087680 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 1.0 mb A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people  Thinking and Calculating: Essays in Logic, Its History and Its Philosophical Applications in Honour of Massimo Mugnai English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030973026 | 455 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB  Thinking and Calculating: Essays in Logic, Its History and Its Philosophical Applications in Honour of Massimo Mugnai by Francesco Ademollo English | EPUB | 2022 | 455 Pages | ISBN : 3030973026 | 5.8 MB This volume collects 22 essays on the history of logic written by outstanding specialists in the field. The book was originally prompted by the 2018-2019 celebrations in honor of Massimo Mugnai, a world-renowned historian of logic, whose contributions on Medieval and Modern logic, and to the understanding of the logical writings of Leibniz in particular, have shaped the field in the last four decades. Given the large number of recent contributions in the history of logic that have some connections or debts with Mugnai's work, the editors have attempted to produce a volume showing the vastness of the development of logic throughout the centuries.  Things to Come and Go: Novellas by Bette Howland English | June 28, 2022 | ISBN: 0998267562 | True EPUB | 152 pages | 0.8 MB From the acclaimed author of Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and the memoir W-3, a trio of novellas about three women's bold exploration of the desire for belonging as it comes into conflict with the fulfillment of our individual selves. With an introduction by Rumaan Alam.  Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processing By Dale A. Quattrochi, Jeffrey C. Luvall 2004 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 0415302242 | PDF | 22 MB Although remote sensing is recognized as a powerful tool, less attention has been given in the past to the use of thermal, and especially thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing. TIR data is useful for understanding the fluxes and redistribution of materials as a key aspect of land surface processes and land-atmosphere inter-relationships. This book presents studies showing this, and interprets both the prospects and problems of using TIR data in land process research, making the book useful to those wishing to employ this data as a major component in Earth science research. It illustrates the virtues and importance of TIR data in remote sensing research to facilitate the future development of new and improved satellite and airborne TIR remote sensing systems. Students and researchers should find this an invaluable book, whether they are geographers, geologists, climatologists, hydrologists, landscape ecologists or other environmental scientists.Table of ContentsAlthough remote sensing is recognized as a powerful tool, less attention has been given to the use of thermal, and especially thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing. TIR data is useful for understanding the fluxes and redistribution of materials as a key aspect of land surface processes and land-atmosphere interrelationships. Thermal Remote Sensing in Land Surface Processes presents contributions that elucidate the utility of thermal infrared remote sensing data from researchers in a range of fields. Students and researchers should find this an invaluable book, whether they are geographers, geologists, climatologists, hydrologists, landscape ecologists or other environmental scientists.  Thermal Management for LED Applications By Michael Pecht, Diganta Das, Moon-Hwan Chang (auth.), Clemens J.M. Lasance, András Poppe (eds.) 2014 | 551 Pages | ISBN: 146145090X | PDF | 16 MB Thermal Management for LED Applications provides state-of-the-art information on recent developments in thermal management as it relates to LEDs and LED-based systems and their applications. Coverage begins with an overview of the basics of thermal management including thermal design for LEDs, thermal characterization and testing of LEDs, and issues related to failure mechanisms and reliability and performance in harsh environments. Advances and recent developments in thermal management round out the book with discussions on advances in TIMs (thermal interface materials) for LED applications, advances in forced convection cooling of LEDs, and advances in heat sinks for LED assemblies.  Theory and Application of Quantum Molecular Dynamics By John Z. H. Zhang 1999 | 366 Pages | ISBN: 9810233884 | DJVU | 10 MB This text provides a detailed presentation of modern quantum theories for treating the reaction dynamics of small molecular systems. Its main focus is on the development of successful quantum dynamics theories and computational methods for studying the molecular reactive scattering process, with specific applications given in detail for a number of benchmark chemical reaction systems in the gas phase and the gas surface. It deals with both the development and the application of the modern reactive or rearrangement scattering theory and is written in a fashion in which the development of the reactive scattering theory is closely coupled with its computational aspects for practical applications for realistic molecular reactions. The volume includes such topics as: methods for calculating rovibrational states of molecules; fundamental quantum theory for scattering (nonreactive and reactive); modern time-independent computational methods for reactive scattering; general time-dependent wave packet methods for reactive scattering; dynamic theory of chemical reactions; dynamics of molecular fragmentation; semiclassical description of quantum mechanics; and also some useful appendices. |
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