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Cry of the wild : eight animals under siege
\"A fox, grown strong on pepperoni pizza from the dustbins of the East End, dances along a railway track towards Essex, the territory of wild foxes and wilder huntsmen. An orca, mourning the loss of her mother in a valley west of Skye, knows that she must now lead the pod as matriarch. She swims again through her childhood, thinking about the old ways, the old roads, laid down thousands of years ago. But the old roads aren't so easy now. At moonrise in a West Country river, an otter floats slowly downstream. The tide, though it pushes him landwards when it exhales, seems to pull him out when it inhales. He turns on his back. He can see the stars clearly for the first time and wonders if he can swim to them. The land has never stopped waiting. It has only ever been in exile, right under our noses, waiting to confound, outrage and re-enchant\"--Publisher's description.
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X-ray absorption and X-ray emission spectroscopy : theory and applications
X-Ray Absorption and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications During the last two decades, remarkable and often spectacular progress has been made in the methodological and instrumental aspects of x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy. This progress includes considerable technological improvements in the design and production of detectors especially with the development and expansion of large-scale synchrotron reactors All this has resulted in improved analytical performance and new applications, as well as in the perspective of a dramatic enhancement in the potential of x-ray based analysis techniques for the near future. This comprehensive two-volume treatise features articles that explain the phenomena and describe examples of X-ray absorption and emission applications in several fields, including chemistry, biochemistry, catalysis, amorphous and liquid systems, synchrotron radiation, and surface phenomena. Contributors explain the underlying theory, how to set up X-ray absorption experiments, and how to analyze the details of the resulting spectra. X-Ray Absorption and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications: * Combines the theory, instrumentation and applications of x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies which offer unique diagnostics to study almost any object in the Universe. * Is the go-to reference book in the subject for all researchers across multi-disciplines since intense beams from modern sources have revolutionized x-ray science in recent years * Is relevant to students, postdocurates and researchers working on x-rays and related synchrotron sources and applications in materials, physics, medicine, environment/geology, and biomedical materials
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What's looking at you, kid?
Simple rhymes and illustrations are used to help explore and identify wildlife such as birds, insects, and sea creatures.
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Observation and ecology
The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environmentsissues ranging from climate change to overfishing to invasive speciesis driving the field of ecology in new and important directions. Observation and Ecology documents that transformation, exploring how scientists and researchers are expanding their methodological toolbox to incorporate an array of new and reexamined observational approachesfrom traditional ecological knowledge to animal-borne sensors to genomic and remote-sensing technologiesto track, study, and understand current environmental problems and their implications.
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When you go into nature
\"When you go into nature, just look around you. This gentle introduction to mindfulness and meditation encourages children to take cues from the creatures and sights around them, giving readers tools to manage worry and big feelings. Kid-friendly illustrations make the lessons accessible for little heads and hearts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Materie und Physik
Kann ohne die dialektisch-materialistische Methode die Forschung in der Physik und in andern Naturwissenschaften erfolgreich sein? Sie kann nicht, und das Buch versucht, die Zweifel zu beweisen. Es werden substantielle Fehler gezeigt, die in der heutigen Zeit die Entwicklung behindern. Die systematische Demontage des materialistischen Materiebegriffs in den letzten drei Jahrzehnten und das Eindringen vieler mystischer, esoterischer, metaphysischer und religiöser Einflüsse in die Grundauffassungen zur Natur führen die Naturwissenschaft in die Irre. Der falsche Materiebegriff hat die theoretische Physik und die Kosmologie in eine Krise geführt, die mit den gegenwärtigen Denkstrukturen nicht mehr zu überwinden ist. So fördern die vielen Fehler in den heutigen Auffassungen das Aufkommen immer neuer unhaltbarer Theorien, ganz besonders in der Kosmologie. Ich behandle Theorien einiger heutiger Kosmologen, die auch von Lesern ohne Physikstudium als Belustigung erkannt werden können. An solchen Irrlehren wird mit großen Anstrengungen festgehalten, wohl um das kirchliche Dogma der Erschaffung der Materie aus Nichts beibehalten zu können. Zu einigen dieser Grundfehler werden Auswege skizziert, so zum Beispiel zur Bewegung der kosmischen Materie oder zum Umgang mit der Gravitation. Auch andere Fehler werden beleuchtet, wie das Olberssche Paradoxon oder die Heisenbergsche Unschärferelation.Abseits der naturwissenschaftlichen Darlegungen werden die gesellschaftspolitischen Probleme der Wissenschaft erklärt, dabei zeige ich, wie zur Zeit mit skurrilen Mitteln andere Denkansätze bedeutender Wissenschaftler unterdrückt werden und auch, wie die unverzichtbare Pressefreiheit in der Wissenschaftspublizistik unterlaufen wird. Das Buch soll einen Beitrag leisten, pseudowissenschaftliche Einflüsse in der Forschung zurückzudrängen und die unverzichtbare dialektisch-materialistische Methode für die naturwissenschaftliche Forschung einzufordern.
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Patterns in the sky
\"Every day the sun moves across the sky and it is light. You can see clouds, birds and airplanes in the daytime. Every night the moon moves across the sky and it becomes dark. You can see stars at night. Includes science and reading activities, a note to caregivers, and a word list\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience
Several urban landscape planning solutions have been introduced around the world to find a balance between developing urban spaces, maintaining and restoring biodiversity, and enhancing quality of human life. Our global mini-review, combined with analysis of big data collected from Google Trends at global scale, reveals the importance of enjoying day-to-day contact with nature and engaging in such activities as nature observation and identification and gardening for the mental well-being of humans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Home-based activities, such as watching birds from one’s window, identifying species of plants and animals, backyard gardening, and collecting information about nature for citizen science projects, were popular during the first lockdown in spring 2020, when people could not easily venture out of their homes. In our mini-review, we found 37 articles from 28 countries with a total sample of 114,466 people. These papers suggest that home-based engagement with nature was an entertaining and pleasant distraction that helped preserve mental well-being during a challenging time. According to Google Trends, interest in such activities increased during lockdown compared to the previous five years. Millions of people worldwide are chronically or temporarily confined to their homes and neighborhoods because of illness, childcare chores, or elderly care responsibility, which makes it difficult for them to travel far to visit such places as national parks, created through land sparing, where people go to enjoy nature and relieve stress. This article posits that for such people, living in an urban landscape designed to facilitate effortless contact with small natural areas is a more effective way to receive the mental health benefits of contact with nature than visiting a sprawling nature park on rare occasions.
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Design in nature : Biomimicry
April 7 -- Janine Benyus is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In this video Benyus explains the practice of biomimicry and what can be learned from the genius of nature.
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