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Die biologische Evolution funktioniert nach dem einfachen Prinzip der differentiellen Reproduktion: der unterschiedlichen Fortpflanzungsrate von Individuen. Die dafür notwendigen Unterschiede in der Ausstattung der Individuen stammen dabein von Zufallsveränderungen, den genetischen Mutationen, der zugrundeliegenden Erbinformation. Das vorliegende Buch dokumentiert erstmals, daß - und vor allem warum - diese einfache Prinzip ohne Wenn und Aber ...

Scanning Probe Microscopy - Analytical Methods provides a comprehensive overview of the analytical methods on the nanometer scale based on scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy. Numerous examples of applications of the chemical contrast mechanism down to the atomic scale in surface physics and chemistry are discussed with extensive references to original work in the recent literature.

Richard Peet looks in detail at the main trends in human geographic thought over the last thirty years, relating these to broader themes in philosophy and social theory. Beginning with existential phenomenology and humanistic geography, the book covers Marxism and radical geography, structuralism, structuration theory, realism, locality studies, various streams of poststructuralism and postmodernism, and feminism.Each chapter examines a few th...

Dating the Quaternary, which covers approximately the last 2 million years, has experienced considerable progress over the past few decades. On the one hand, this resulted from the necessity to obtain a valid age concept for this period which had seen tremendous environmental changes and the advent of the genus Homo. On the other hand, instrumental improvements, such as the introduction of highly sensitive analytical techniques, gave rise to p...

Environmental information systems (EIS) are concerned with the management of data about the soil, the water, the air, and the species in the world around us. This first textbook on the topic gives a conceptual framework for EIS by structuring the data flow into 4 phases: data capture, storage, analysis, and metadata management. This flow corresponds to a complex aggregation process gradually transforming the incoming raw data into concise docu...

The chapters of this book summarize the lectures delivered du ring the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Computational Methods in Mechanisms, that took place in the Sts. Constantin and Elena Resort, near Varna, on the Bulgarian Coast of the Black Sea, June 16-28, 1997. The purpose of the ASI was to bring together leading researchers in the area of mechanical systems at large, with special emphasis in the computational issues around their ...

This book contains the notes of five short courses delivered at the ", Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo", session ", Integral Geometry, Radon Transforms and Complex Analysis", held in Venice (Italy) in June 1996: three of them deal with various aspects of integral geometry, with a common emphasis on several kinds of Radon transforms, their properties and applications, the other two share a stress on CR manifolds and rela...

New cover edition of Robinson's hilarious screenplay, published alongside his debut novel, "The Memoirs Of Thomas Penman".

. . . a book that will appeal to everyone who has ever choked down the pre-packaged, bargain-basement camp food (or gone bankrupt buying the good stuff)."--"Canoe & Kayak". . . if you're on the lookout for a way to bring real meals to the field, (this book) might have the answer."--"Field & Stream"Life in the outdoors revolves around food--cooking it, eating it, packing it, carrying it. We even fantasize about it, especially after a week of ea...

Set in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism, " Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns. Murderous, trigger-happy cops, led by the doughnut-chomping redneck police chief, arrive in force, firing indiscriminately into the crowd gathered outside. Surrender or capture is ...

The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control. One of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production announced a new world of possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the period. Includes original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Scott.

Presents an eye-witness account of the theft of the crown of St Stephen in 15c Hungary.