With its "How Science Works" theme, 21st Century Astronomy emphasizes the process of scientific thinking and the relevance of scientific observations. The authors showcase the excitement of contemporary astronomy and encourage readers to consider both the methods and the goals of scientific research.

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Demonstrates how to observe the stars with binoculars or the naked eye, introduces the main constellations, and describes how astronomers study the universe. An international bestseller for more than a decade, The Star Guide has been the bible for stargazers everywhere. Now, Robin Kerrod, one of the world's leading writers on astronomy and space, has expertly updated this invaluable resource to include the most recent developments in...

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This work is an assessment of the state of current knowledge of the carbon cycle by a group of leading experts. It gives an introductory overview of the carbon cycle and covers both biophysical and human aspects of the cycle.

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This laboratory manual has been fine-tuned to fulfill the needs of an introductory course for majors and non-majors. Reduced math and chemistry coverage and condensed lab exercises make the manual more manageable for your one-semester course, while offering a range of problems to match each student's abilities. Lab exercises focus on a broad range of environmental issues and include full-color photography to make identification problems...

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This introductory geology textbook explores the interactions among the many parts of the Earth system and the new approaches being used to study and assess these interactions. The CD - ROM guides though applied and basic research problems confronted by professional geologists.

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The purpose of this book has not changed in the new edition: there is still a need to present the subject of astronomy to those who, without being well-grounded in mathematics, nevertheless feel that man must have some sense of his place in and his relation to the physical universe. With the ever-increasing ability of man to observe and to travel in the universe it becomes even more important that knowledge of astronomy not be restricted to...

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This book will help students under¬stand the origin of the Earth and its internal structure, the processes that cause plates to move and the consequences of this movement, the origin of Earth's diverse landscapes (from deserts to glaciers to coasts), the materials that make up the Earth (including the resources they contain), the envelope of air and water that surrounds and interacts with the solid Earth, the long history of the Earth, and...

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Written by a team of specialists who are also experienced teachers, this accessible text fosters scientific literacy by relating core concepts in modern astronomy to the real-world process of science. Retaining the lively prose and narrative style of the previous edition, the text now offers improved pedagogy, an expanded art program, and dynamic new multimedia tools for students and instructors. The text is also now available in a...

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This book is a collection of invited talks, oral contributions and poster contributions devoted to advances in nuclear physics. It covers a broad range of topics on nuclear physics, including nuclear force, hypernuclei, nuclear structure, exotic nuclei, clustering, mean-field method, shell structure, nuclear deformation, unstable nuclei, and related topics.

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A consistent theory for thin anisotropic layered structures is developed starting from asymptotic analysis of 3D equations in linear elasticity. The consideration is not restricted to the traditional boundary conditions along the faces of the structure expressed in terms of stresses, originating a new type of boundary value problems, which is not governed by the classical Kirchhoff-Love assumptions. More general boundary value problems, in...

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The large Nc limit plays a fundamental role in the study of non-abelian gauge theories such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Since its discovery in 1974 by 't Hooft, the 1/Nc expansion has provided crucial insights into the non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories. The expansion implemented at the effective theory level is one of the fundamental tools currently in use in hadronic physics; there are important effects and relations that follow...

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Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure systems is an emerging paradigm in an evolving era of depleting assets in the midst of natural and man-made threats to provide a sustainable and high quality of life with optimized resources from social, economic, societal and environmental considerations. The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of civil and other interdependent infrastructure systems (electric power, energy,...

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