Author: Scripps Institution of OceanographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California
Author: Scripps Institution of OceanographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Pulse of the Earth
Author: Adam BobbettePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478027088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
In The Pulse of the Earth Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia’s volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of volcanoes. Bobbette follows Javanese knowledge traditions, colonial geologists, volcanologists, mystics, Theosophists, orientalists, and revolutionaries to show how the earth sciences originate from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and fieldwork at Javanese volcanoes and in scientific observatories, he explores how Indonesian Islam shaped the theory of plate tectonics, how Dutch colonial volcanologists learned to see the earth in new ways from Javanese spiritual traditions, and how new scientific technologies radically recast notions of the human body, distance, and the earth. In this way, Bobbette decenters the significance of Western scientists to expand our understanding of the evolution of planetary thought and rethinks the politics of geological knowledge.
Bulletin ... of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Author: Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Author: Scripps Institution of OceanographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Bulletin ... (non-technical) of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Author: Bulletin...(non-technical) of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Author: Scripps Institution of OceanographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Author: Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Author: Scripps Institution of OceanographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Bulletin...(non-technical) of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
Author: Scripps Institution of OceanographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Studies in Natural Products Chemistry
Author: Atta-ur- RahmanPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 008052785X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 995
Book Description
Natural products play an integral and ongoing role in promoting numerous aspects of scientific advancement, and many aspects of basic research programs are intimately related to natural products. The significance, therefore, of the 28th volume in the Studies in Natural Product Chemistry series, edited by Professor Atta-ur-Rahman, cannot be overestimated.This volume, in accordance with previous volumes, presents us with cutting-edge contributions of great importance. The first paper presents over 100 compounds obtained from Broussonetia spp., and discusses biological activities. This is followed by similar contributions dealing with the genus Licania and Ginkgo biloba. Additional papers describe in detail a number of interesting and important natural compounds or structural classes: retinoids, tetramic acid metabolites, isoprenylated flavonoids, plant polyphenols, crocin, marcfortine and paraherquamide, acaricides, podolactones, triterpene glycosides and sulfur-containing marine compounds. An additional paper focuses on the antitumor activities of lipids, and a final contribution deals with natural product amelioration of cancer chemotherapy-induced adverse reactions.