Surveying the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse our present comprehension of time, the „Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture“ explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, ..

Essential step-by-step guide on the construction of scientific apparatus for all scientists and students in physics, chemistry, biology and engineering.

This market-leading text has been fully updated and expanded in the first new edition for 12 years. Now with four-color illustrations and hundreds of new self-assessment questions, the text is a one-stop shop on this materials characterization technique.

Higher category theory is generally regarded as technical and forbidding, but part of it is considerably more tractable: the theory of infinity-categories, higher categories in which all higher morphisms are assumed to be invertible. In Higher Topos ..

The idea of this book is to give an extensive description of the classical complex analysis, here ´classical´ means roughly that sheaf theoretical and cohomological methods are omitted.§The first four chapters cover the essential core of complex anal ..

Schon lange bevor die Schrift entwickelt wurde, hat der Mensch geometrische Strukturen wahrgenommen und systematisch verwendet. So entstehen beim Weben und Flechten einfache zweidimensionale Muster und ohne dreidimensionale Körper wie Quader, Würfel ..

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One approach to organic synthesis is retrosynthetic analysis. With this approach chemists start with the structures of their target molecules and progressively cut bonds to create simpler molecules. Reversing this process gives a synthetic route to t ..

Rev. ed of: How to understand acid-base. c1981.

Gems are objects of wealth, icons of beauty, and emblems of the very best of everything. Given as tokens of love and affection, they also come in a kaleidoscopic array of hues and can be either mineral or organic. Gems can command a person's gaze in ..

Brazil's bird diversity is one of the richest in the world. And yet there has never been a comprehensive field guide to this splendid and elusive avifauna. Until now. The carefully vetted text and images are the first to cover the full range of bird ..

Lets readers practice at their own pace, with plenty of problem-solving techniques.