Author: UnescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arid regions
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Plant Ecology
Author: UnescoThe Problems of the Arid Zone
Author: UnescoPublisher: paris
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Climatologie Et Microclimatologie
Author: UnescoClimatology
Author: UnescoEnvironmental Physiology and Psychology in Arid Conditions
Author: UnescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Non Aboriginal material.
An Introduction to Differential Manifolds
Author: Jacques LafontainePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319207350
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This book is an introduction to differential manifolds. It gives solid preliminaries for more advanced topics: Riemannian manifolds, differential topology, Lie theory. It presupposes little background: the reader is only expected to master basic differential calculus, and a little point-set topology. The book covers the main topics of differential geometry: manifolds, tangent space, vector fields, differential forms, Lie groups, and a few more sophisticated topics such as de Rham cohomology, degree theory and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces. Its ambition is to give solid foundations. In particular, the introduction of “abstract” notions such as manifolds or differential forms is motivated via questions and examples from mathematics or theoretical physics. More than 150 exercises, some of them easy and classical, some others more sophisticated, will help the beginner as well as the more expert reader. Solutions are provided for most of them. The book should be of interest to various readers: undergraduate and graduate students for a first contact to differential manifolds, mathematicians from other fields and physicists who wish to acquire some feeling about this beautiful theory. The original French text Introduction aux variétés différentielles has been a best-seller in its category in France for many years. Jacques Lafontaine was successively assistant Professor at Paris Diderot University and Professor at the University of Montpellier, where he is presently emeritus. His main research interests are Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry, including some aspects of mathematical relativity. Besides his personal research articles, he was involved in several textbooks and research monographs.
Environmental Physiology and Psychology in Arid Conditions
Author: UnescoPublisher: paris
ISBN:
Category : Adaptation (Physiology)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Biomimicry
Author: Janine M. BenyusPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061958921
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
Radioactive Waste Management and Regulation
Author: Mason WillrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Discusses the nature of post-fission radioactive waste, the operations that spent fuel goes through after it is discharged from a reactor, and the problem of waste management.
Minimum Competence in Scientific English
Author: Susan BlattèsPublisher:
ISBN: 9782706104084
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 254
Book Description
Le présent ouvrage répond à un objectif précis : être un outil efficace pour ceux qui sont confrontés à des textes en anglais scientifique. Minimum Competence in Scientific English suppose, pour ses utilisateurs, des prérequis de niveau baccalauréat. Il peut être utilisé en autoformation. Les étudiants scientifiques sont évidemment les premiers concernés, mais l'expérience a démontré que les chercheurs, les ingénieurs, les enseignants, les managers, confrontés aux subtilités de l'anglais scientifique écrit, étaient demandeurs de tels ouvrages.