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  • Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment

    Scenarios for the 21st Century

    Edited by F.Stuart Chapin, Osvaldo E. Sala, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth. Climatologists and oceanographers have focused on the changes in our physical environment -- changes in the climate, the oceans, and the chemistry of the air we breathe. Environmental biologists, on the other hand, have addressed issues of conservation and the extinction of species. There is increasing evidence ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Biodiversity Change and Human Health

    From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease

    by Scope ...
    Series series SCOPE Series
    Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • Biodiversity

    Science and Solutions for Australia

    Edited by Steve Morton, Mark Lonsdale, Andy Sheppard ...
    Australians have stewardship of a beautiful, diverse and unique environment. We have long had a sense that the biodiversity of this country is special. Yet, despite our sense of its importance, in many parts of our country biodiversity is in trouble. Given the economic, ecological and social importance of biodiversity to our nation, CSIRO has been conducting research into Australia's biodiversity ... Read more

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  • Solving Equations with MATLAB - Taken from the Book "MATLAB for Beginners

    A Gentle Approach"

    by Peter I. Kattan ...
    Solving Equations with MATLAB provides a concise, practical introduction to solving algebraic equations using MATLAB. Taken from Peter I. Kattan's bestselling book MATLAB for Beginners: A Gentle Approach, this approximately twenty-page tutorial guides readers through the numerical and symbolic solution of linear, quadratic, and highly nonlinear equations, as well as systems of simultaneous linear ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Advancing Environmental Education Practice

    by Marianne E. Krasny ...
    Series series Cornell Series in Environmental Education
    In this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environmental education practice; i.e., the assumption that environmental knowledge and attitudes lead to environmental behaviors. Krasny shows that certain types of knowledge are more likely than others to influence behaviors, and that generally it is more ... Read more

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  • Life of Inland Waters

    An Elementary Text Book of Fresh-Water Biology For Students

    by James G. Needham ...
    This work is a textbook of fresh-water life dealing with its forms, its conditions, its fitnesses, its associations, and its economic aspects. The ecologic side of fresh-water biology is emphasized. Due consideration is given to the educational, economic, sanitary, social, civic, and aesthetic aspects of the subject.Limnology in America today is in its infancy. The value of its past achievements ... Read more

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  • Communicating Climate Change

    A Guide for Educators

    by Anne K. Armstrong, Marianne E. Krasny, Jonathon P. Schuldt ...
    Series series Cornell Series in Environmental Education
    Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate change awareness and growing levels of concern have not ... Read more

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  • BioCoder #8

    July 2015

    by O'Reilly Media, Inc. ...
    BioCoder is a quarterly newsletter for DIYbio, synthetic bio, and anything related. You’ll discover:Articles about interesting projects and experiments, such as the glowing plantArticles about tools, both those you buy and those you buildVisits to DIYbio laboratoriesProfiles of key people in the communityAnnouncements of events and other items of interestSafety pointers and tips about good ... Read more

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  • The Game of Logic

    by Lewis Carroll ...
    The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll. This book has all the illustrations of the original.The Game of Logic, described by Lewis Carroll—author of Alice in Wonderland—in 1887 consists of discussing the meaning of propositions like "Some fresh cakes are sweet," and is an instructive introduction to the concepts of logic. The game takes place in a world divided into four quadrants. In the northwest ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD

  • The Culture of Big Data

    by Mike Barlow ...
    Technology does not exist in a vacuum. In the same way that a plant needs water and nourishment to grow, technology needs people and process to thrive and succeed. Culture (i.e., people and process) is integral and critical to the success of any new technology deployment or implementation.Big data is not just a technology phenomenon. It has a cultural dimension. It's vitally important to remember ... Read more

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  • The Time Machine

    by H.G. Wells ...
    The H.G. Wells classic that helped launch the time travel genre.The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a ... Read more

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  • The Voyage Of The Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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