The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Eric Swanson

By Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Eric Swanson

An illuminating point of view at the technological know-how of meditation—and a instruction manual for reworking our minds, our bodies, and lives

In The pleasure of Living, world-renowned Buddhist instructor Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche—the “happiest guy within the world”—invites us to hitch him in unlocking the secrets and techniques to discovering pleasure and contentment within the daily. utilizing the elemental meditation practices he presents, we will be able to notice paths via our difficulties, remodeling stumbling blocks into possibilities to acknowledge the limitless capability of our personal minds.

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Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of by Anthony D. Barnosky

By Anthony D. Barnosky

Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves jointly facts from the deep earlier and the current to alert us to the looming 6th Mass Extinction and to supply a realistic, hopeful plan for averting it. Writing from front strains of extinction study, Barnosky tells the overarching tale of geologic and evolutionary background and the way it informs the best way people inhabit, take advantage of, and influence Earth this present day. He offers compelling facts that except we reconsider how we generate the ability we use to run our worldwide surroundings, the place we get our nutrition, and the way we make our cash, we'll set off what stands out as the 6th nice extinction in the world, with dire consequences.

Optimistic that we will be able to switch this ominous forecast if we act now, Barnosky presents uncomplicated innovations to steer the planet clear of international disaster. oftentimes the required know-how and knowledge exist already and are being utilized to an important concerns round human-caused weather switch, feeding the world’s becoming inhabitants, and exploiting usual assets. Deeply knowledgeable but accessibly written, Dodging Extinction is little short of a guidebook for saving the planet.

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Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2011: Special Edition of Jointed by Seiji Ikkatai, Haruki Tsuchiya (auth.), Takeshi Yao (eds.)

By Seiji Ikkatai, Haruki Tsuchiya (auth.), Takeshi Yao (eds.)

Since 2008, the worldwide heart of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto college, Japan, has been engaged in a application referred to as “Energy technological know-how within the Age of world Warming—Toward a CO2 Zero-Emission strength System.” Its objective is to set up a global schooling and learn platform to foster educators, researchers, and coverage makers who can advance applied sciences and suggest regulations for constructing a CO2 zero-emission society now not depending on fossil fuels. it really is renowned that the power challenge can't easily be categorised a technological one, because it is usually deeply concerned with social and financial matters. The institution of a “low-carbon power technological know-how” as an interdisciplinary box integrating social sciences with ordinary sciences is critical. the worldwide COE is starting up a zero-emission know-how roadmap and is selling socioeconomic reviews of power, experiences of recent applied sciences for renewable energies, and learn for complex nuclear power. It has additionally tested the worldwide COE Unit for power technology schooling to aid younger researchers as they observe their talents and information and a vast foreign standpoint to reply to problems with strength and the surroundings in our societies. Comprising the court cases of the 3rd foreign Symposium of the worldwide COE application, this ebook follows at the prior volumes Zero-Carbon strength Kyoto 2009 and 2010, released in March 2010 and February 2011, respectively.

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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific by David J. Helfand

By David J. Helfand

We are living within the info Age, with billions of bytes of knowledge simply swipes away. but how a lot of this can be mis- or maybe disinformation? loads of it really is, and your seek engine can't inform the variation. accordingly, an avalanche of incorrect information threatens to weigh down the discourse we so desperately have to deal with advanced social difficulties resembling weather swap, the meals and water crises, biodiversity cave in, and rising threats to public healthiness. This booklet offers an inoculation opposed to the incorrect information epidemic via cultivating medical behavior of brain. somebody can do it--indeed, every body needs to do it if our species is to outlive in this crowded and finite planet.

This survival advisor offers a vital set of apps for the prefrontal cortex whereas making technology either obtainable and interesting. it's going to dissolve your worry of numbers, demystify graphs, and elucidate the most important options of likelihood, all whereas celebrating the suitable use of language and good judgment. David Helfand, certainly one of our nation's major astronomers and technological know-how educators, has taught medical conduct of brain to generations within the lecture room, the place he keeps to salary a provocative conflict opposed to sloppy considering and the encroachment of incorrect information.

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Spreadsheets in Science and Engineering by W. G. Filby (auth.), Dr. Gordon Filby (eds.)

By W. G. Filby (auth.), Dr. Gordon Filby (eds.)

"Spreadsheets in technology and Engineering" exhibits scientists and engineers in any respect degrees easy methods to research, validate and calculate facts and the way the analytical and image features of spreadsheet courses (ExcelR) can resolve those projects of their day-by-day paintings. The examples at the CD-ROM accompanying the publication comprise fabric of undergraduate to present learn point in disciplines starting from chemistry and chemical engineering to molecular biology and geology.

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Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy: Analytical, Biophysical by Sebastian Schlücker, Wolfgang Kiefer

By Sebastian Schlücker, Wolfgang Kiefer

Masking every little thing from the fundamental theoretical and useful wisdom to new fascinating advancements within the box with a spotlight on analyticaland existence technological know-how functions, this monograph indicates the way to observe surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for fixing actual international problems.From the contents:* thought and perform of SERS* Analytical purposes* SERS mixed with different analytical ideas* Biophysical functions* lifestyles technology purposes together with a number of microscopiesAimed at analytical, floor and medicinal chemists, spectroscopists, biophysicists and fabrics scientists. encompasses a Foreword by way of the well known Raman spectroscopist Professor Wolfgang Kiefer, the previous Editor-in-Chief of the magazine of Raman Spectroscopy.

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Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook (Springer Praxis Books / by David M. Harland, Richard W. Orloff

By David M. Harland, Richard W. Orloff

This booklet presents an outline of the origins of the Apollo software and outlines of the floor amenities, release automobiles and spacecraft that have been built within the quest to arrive – and go back from - the skin of the moon. it is going to function a useful single-volume sourcebook for area lovers, area historians, reporters, and others. The textual content contains a accomplished selection of tables directory proof and figures for every venture.

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The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising by Brian Fagan

By Brian Fagan

The previous fifteen thousand years--the whole span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea point alterations, which all started with quick international warming on the finish of the Ice Age, whilst sea degrees have been greater than seven hundred toes less than glossy degrees. Over the subsequent 11 millennia, the oceans climbed in matches and begins. those swift alterations had little influence on these people who skilled them, in part simply because there have been so few humans in the world, and in addition simply because they have been capable of modify comfortably to new coastlines.<U></U><U></U>
Global sea degrees stabilized approximately six thousand years in the past apart from neighborhood alterations that prompted frequently relatively major adjustments to areas just like the Nile Delta. So the curve of inexorably emerging seas flattened out as city civilizations built in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and South Asia. The earth's inhabitants boomed, quintupling from the time of Christ to the economic Revolution. The hazard from the oceans elevated with our crowding alongside beaches to reside, fish, and trade.<U></U><U></U>
Since 1860, the area has warmed considerably and the ocean's climb has speeded. the ocean point adjustments are cumulative and slow; nobody is aware once they will finish. The Attacking Ocean, from celebrated writer Brian Fagan, tells a story of the emerging complexity of the connection among people and the ocean at their doorsteps, a complexity created no longer by means of the oceans, that have replaced yet little. What has replaced is us, and the variety of us in the world.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia by Helga Nowotny (auth.), Everett Mendelsohn, Helga Nowotny

By Helga Nowotny (auth.), Everett Mendelsohn, Helga Nowotny (eds.)

Just fifty years in the past Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, released a booklet which simply might be noticeable to symbolize the succeed­ ing outlook between younger scientists of the day: If I have been a Dictator (1934). The outlook is positive, the tone playfully rational, the purpose transparent - permit technology a unfastened hand and during rational making plans it may possibly convey order out of the encircling social chaos. He complained, even if: in the interim, technology is for many half both an highbrow luxurious or the paid servant of capitalist or the nationalist kingdom. while it and its effects can't be geared up into the present framework, it and they're overlooked; and in addition the constitution of medical study is grossly lopsided, with over-emphasis on a few forms of technology and partial or whole forget of others. (pp. 83-84) All this the scientist dictator may set correct. a brand new period of clinical human­ ism would supply replacement visions to the normal religions with their Gods and the civic religions similar to Nazism and fascism. technological know-how in Huxley's model incorporates in it the dual impulses of the utopian mind's eye - strength and Order. after all, it used to be precisely this imaginative and prescient of technological know-how which led that different grand­ son of Thomas Henry Huxley, the author Aldous Huxley, to painting medical discovery as probably subversive and clinical perform as eventually en­ slaving.

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Dealing with Uncertainties: A Guide to Error Analysis by Manfred Drosg

By Manfred Drosg

Dealing with Uncertainties proposes and explains a brand new technique for the research of uncertainties. to start with, it truly is proven that uncertainties are the outcome of contemporary technological know-how instead of of measurements. Secondly, it stresses the significance of the deductive method of uncertainties. this angle has the potential for facing the uncertainty of a unmarried facts aspect and of knowledge of a collection having differing weights. either situations can't be handled the inductive method, that is frequently taken. This leading edge monograph additionally absolutely covers either uncorrelated and correlated uncertainties. The weak point of utilizing statistical weights in regression research is mentioned. plentiful examples are given for correlation in and among information units and for the suggestions of uncertainties on test design.

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