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Darwinizing Gaia: natural selection and multispecies community evolution
A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution. First conceived in the 1970s, James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis proposed that living organisms developed in tandem with their inorganic surroundings, forming a complex, self-regulating system. Today, most evolutionary biologists consider the theory probl…
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- 9780262380638
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- xxii, 247p.: ill.
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- Vienna series in theoretical biology
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- 570.1 DOO d
Multimodal literacy in school science: transdisciplinary perspectives on theo…
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based…
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- 9780367714048
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- xvii, 286 p. : ill
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- -
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- 507.1 UNS m
Constructing science: connecting causal reasoning to scientific thinking in y…
Young children have remarkable capacities for causal reasoning, which are part of the foundation of their scientific thinking abilities. In Constructing Science, Deena Weisberg and David Sobel trace the ways that young children's sophisticated causal reasoning abilities combine with other cognitive, metacognitive, and social factors to develop into a more mature set of scientific thinking abili…
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- 9780262370615
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- xi, 374 p. : ill
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- -
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- 501 WEI c
Expanding horizons in the history of science: the comparative approach
This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called scientific revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds…
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- 9781316516249
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- 166 p
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- -
- Call Number
- 509.01 LLO e
Law and policy for the quantum age
This book is the result of a chance meeting between the authorsm in the summer of 2019 on a 12-hour international flight. This was not a case of quantum superposition, but it certainly demonstrates the power of chance.The Oxford English Dictionary defines quantum as “A discrete quantity of electromagnetic energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents.”1 In…
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- 9781108883719
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- 602 p
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- -
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- 530.12 HOO l
Evolutionary Equations : Picard's Theorem for Partial Differential Equations,…
This open access book provides a solution theory for time-dependent partial differential equations, which classically have not been accessible by a unified method. Instead of using sophisticated techniques and methods, the approach is elementary in the sense that only Hilbert space methods and some basic theory of complex analysis are required. Nevertheless, key properties of solutions can be r…
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- 1
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- 9783030893972
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- xii, 317: ill.
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- Operator Theory: Advances and Applications
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- 515.35 CHR e
Wadi Flash Floods : Challenges and advanced approaches for disaster risk redu…
This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and technical papers as well as case study applications in different regions worldwide that cover many topics and answer several scientific questions. The book chapters comprehensivel…
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- 1
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- 9789811629044
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- XXVIII, 551 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 551.48909154 SUM w
Quaternion algebras
This open access textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the arithmetic theory of quaternion algebras and orders, a subject with applications in diverse areas of mathematics. Written to be accessible and approachable to the graduate student reader, this text collects and synthesizes results from across the literature. Numerous pathways offer explorations in many different directions, whi…
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- 1
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- 9783030566944
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- XXIII, 885 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics
- Call Number
- 512.5 VOI g
Stable isotopes in tree rings : inferring physiological, climatic and environ…
This Open Access volume highlights how tree ring stable isotopes have been used to address a range of environmental issues from paleoclimatology to forest management, and anthropogenic impacts on forest growth. It will further evaluate weaknesses and strengths of isotope applications in tree rings. In contrast to older tree ring studies, which predominantly applied a pure statistical approach t…
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- 1
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- 9783030926984
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- XXI, 773 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Tree Physiology
- Call Number
- 582.16 SIE s
The kinesin superfamily handbook : transporter, creator, destroyer
This book brings together current information on the families that make up the kinesin superfamily of molecular motors in one comprehensive text. It is an ideal reference for researchers looking to make comparisons between different families, for specific information on an individual family, or simply for an overview of the kinesin superfamily. Information is clearly structured and grouped acco…
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- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138589568
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- viii, 186 p
- Series Title
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- 572.6 FRI t
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