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Название: Mass Transport in Magmatic Systems
Автор: B. Mysen
Издательство: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128212012
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 908
Размер: 195,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Mass Transport in Magmatic Systems describes the properties and processes of these natural occurrences, including a description and discussions of how properties can be used for quantitative description of mass and energy transport on, and in, Earth and terrestrial planets.

Название: African Ark: Mammals, landscape and the ecology of a continent
Автор: Ara Monadjem, Mike Unwin
Издательство: Wits University Press
ISBN: ‎1776147812
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 149,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The story of how Africa’s mammals have helped shape the continent’s landscapes over time to support an amazing diversity of life. Africa is home to an amazing array of animals, including the world’s most diverse assortment of large mammals. These include the world’s largest terrestrial mammal, the African elephant, which still roams great swathes of the continent alongside a host of other well-known large mammals with hooves such as hippopotamuses, giraffes, rhinoceroses, and zebras.

Название: Yearbook of Astronomy 2023
Автор: Brian Jones
Издательство: White Owl
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 63 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2023 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of the year's eclipses, comets, meteor showers and minor planets as well as detailing the phases of the Moon and visibility and locations of the planets throughout the year. To supplement all this is a variety of entertaining and informative articles, a feature for which the Yearbook of Astronomy is known.

Название: Systems Approach to Astrobiology
Автор: Vera M. Kolb, Benton C. Clark
Издательство: CRC Press
ISBN: 1032127147
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 169
Размер: 27,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Systems thinking/analysis is widely applied for solving complex problems in engineering and certain other fields. Astrobiology, which inherently involves complex problems, can benefit from such an approach. This book provides background and methodology of this approach for professionals, upper-level undergraduate students, and others with an interest in astrobiology topics.

Название: Алмазные россыпи и методика их прогнозирования и поисков
Автор: Прокопчук Б.И.
Издательство: Москва: Недра
Год: 1979
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 250
Размер: 47 mb
Язык: Русский

Книга состоит из пяти разделов. В первом разделе приводится фактический материал о россыпях алмазов мира, рассматриваются условия формирования и закономерности размещения россыпей различных генетических типов и предлагается новая промышленно-генетическая классификация алмазных россыпей.

Название: Physics of Life
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: National Academies Press
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 371
Размер: 29,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics and cosmology, atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and plasma physics. This new field brings the physicist's style of inquiry to bear on the beautiful phenomena of life.

Название: A Passion for Birds: American Ornithology after Audubon
Автор: Jr., Mark V. Barrow
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691044023
Год: 1998
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 326
Размер: 42,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the decades following the Civil War–as industrialization, urbanization, and economic expansion increasingly reshaped the landscape–many Americans began seeking adventure and aesthetic gratification through avian pursuits. By the turn of the century, hundreds of thousands of middle-and upper-class devotees were rushing to join Audubon societies, purchase field guides, and keep records of the species they encountered in the wild.

Название: Desert Jewels: Cactus Flowers of the Southwest and Mexico
Автор: John P. Schaefer
Издательство: Sentinel Peak Books
ISBN: ‎1941451128
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 225
Размер: 63,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Cactus flowers are jewels of the desert—they add brilliant pops of color to our arid surroundings. In this book, renowned Tucson photographer John P. Schaefer brings the exquisite and unexpected beauty of the cactus flower to the page. Hundreds of close-up photographs of cactus flowers native to the U.S. Southwest and Mexico offer a visual feast of color and texture, nuance and light.

Название: Tropical Ecology
Автор: John C. Kricher
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691115133
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 704
Размер: 450,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

A comprehensive introduction to tropical ecology. This full-color illustrated textbook offers the first comprehensive introduction to all major aspects of tropical ecology. It explains why the world's tropical rain forests are so universally rich in species, what factors may contribute to high species richness, how nutrient cycles affect rain forest ecology, and how ecologists investigate the complex interrelationships among flora and fauna.

Название: Wonders of the Plant Kingdom: A Microcosm Revealed
Автор: Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, Madeline Harley
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022621592X
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 160
Размер: 36,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

Compared to the obvious complexity of animals, plants at a glance seem relatively simple in form. But that simplicity is deceptive: the plants around us are the result of millennia of incredible evolutionary adaptations that have allowed them to survive, and thrive, under wildly changing conditions and in remarkably specific ecological niches. Much of this innovation, however, is invisible to the naked eye.