Spider Ecophysiology
With over 43,000 species, spiders are the largest predacious arthropod group. They have developed key characteristics such as multi-purpose silk types, venoms consisting of hundreds of components, locomotion driven by muscles and hydraulic pressur...
Humanökologie
Der Autor gibt in dieser 2. völlig überarbeiteten und aktualisierten Ausgabe nicht nur eine Bestandsaufnahme, sondern setzt Themen wie das Wachstum der menschlichen Bevölkerung, ihre Versorgung mit Nahrung und Energie und die Veränderung der Umwel...
Biological Invasions
This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals, differing from previous books by extending from the level of individual species to an ecosystem and global level. Topics of highest societal relevance, such as the impact ...
All You Need to Know About Spiders
All You Need to Know About Spiders Spiders are super predators and devour everything they can overpower. To do this, they have developed incredibly good catching techniques and, with spider silk, a tool that makes material technology green with en...
Spinnen - Alles, was man wissen muss
Spinnen sind Super-Raubtiere und vertilgen alles, was sie überwältigen können. Dafür haben sie unglaublich gute Fangtechniken und mit der Spinnenseide ein Werkzeug entwickelt, das die Materialtechnik vor Neid erblassen lässt. Die Männchen sind mei...
Lehrprogramm Chemie II
Lehrprogramm Chemie II
Lehrprogramm Chemie I
Lehrprogramm Chemie I
Applied Nonparametric Regression
Applied Nonparametric Regression is the first book to bring together in one place the techniques for regression curve smoothing involving more than one variable. The computer and the development of interactive graphics programs have made curve est...
Smart Card Handbook
The most comprehensive book on state-of-the-art smart card technology available Updated with new international standards and specifications, this essential fourth edition now covers all aspects of smart card in a completely revised structure. Its ...
Metallomics: A Primer Of Integrated Biometal Sciences
Metallomics is an integrated biometal science as it unifies different disciplines into a mainstream subject that can be taught to students of the biological and biomedical sciences. Metallomics bridges chemistry and the biological sciences from a ...
WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures
Panels and the WTO Appellate Body have rendered a large number of complex and lengthy rulings on the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures. The reasoning behind these rulings is often intimately linked to the underlying facts of a par...
Handbook Of Digital Enterprise Systems: Digital Twins, Simulation And Ai
Digitalization is changing nearly everything. This compendium highlights a comprehensive understanding of the concepts and technologies about digitalization in industrial environments, using the Industrial Internet of Things, Digital Twins and dat...
Complex Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids
The book contains the only available complete presentation of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of complex dynamics of glass-forming liquids, dense polymer melts, and colloidal suspensions. It describes in a self-contained manner the derivation of th...
Cultural History of Climate
Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact ha...
Introduction to Special Relativity
This book is intended for undergraduates taking an introductory course on special relativity which is rather more conceptually and mathematically than experimentally orientated. A suitably prepared reader could use it for self-study. It assumes no...
Relativity
Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most active and exciting branches of research, often considered to be today where particle physics was forty years ago, with major discoveries just waiting to happen. Consequently the pa...
Tambora and the Year without a Summer
In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western Europe and North America experienced a 'year without a summer', while failed harvests in 1817 led to the 'year of ...
Homer's Mediterranean
Geisthovel aims at discovering which countryside or rather the stories about it might have served as an inspiration for Homer. He gives a detailed and lively description of the individual steps of the "Odyssey", starting in troy and fini...
Schizophrenia
The first book in a new series from the World Psychiatric Association, Schizophrenia: current science and clinical practice presents recent information on the diagnosis, neurobiological foundations, and management of schizophrenia. It evaluates th...
Practical Process Control for Engineers and Technicians
This book is aimed at engineers and technicians who need to have a clear, practical understanding of the essentials of process control, loop tuning and how to optimize the operation of their particular plant or process. The reader would typically ...
Gestalt Psychology
Wolfgang Köhler (1887-1967) was one of the founders of Gestalt psychology, the influential school that argues that perception is best understood as an organized pattern rather than as separate parts. Penetrating in its insights and lucid in presen...
Physik des Segelns
Eine Einführung in die physikalischen Grundlagen des Segelsports für die an Naturwissenschaften interessierten Segler, die schon immer wissen wollten, wie Segeln tatsächlich funktioniert. »Physik des Segelns« führt zunächst in die einfachen Grunds...
Molecular Physics
The richly illustrated book comprehensively explains the important principles of diatomic and polyatomic molecules and their spectra in two separate, distinct parts. The first part concentrates on the theoretical aspects of molecular physics, such...
Kaput
'Compelling' Guardian 'Eloquent and comprehensive' Financial Times 'Excellent' The Telegraph 'Astonishing' The Times 'An eye-opener' Gavin Esler Until recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success. But recent events ...
Relativity
Relativistic cosmology has in recent years become one of the most exciting and active branches of current research. In conference after conference the view is expressed that cosmology today is where particle physics was forty years ago, with major...
Complex Dynamics of Glass-Forming Liquids
The book contains the only available complete presentation of the mode-coupling theory (MCT) of complex dynamics of glass-forming liquids, dense polymer melts, and colloidal suspensions. It describes in a self-contained manner the derivation of th...
Witches and Witch-Hunts
In this major new book, Wolfgang Behringer surveys the phenomenon of witchcraft past and present. Drawing on the latest historical and anthropological findings, Behringer sheds new light on the history of European witchcraft, while demonstrating t...
Keith Jarrett
This English edition is a significantly extended and updated version of the German original as concerns important aspects of Keith Jarrett's life and work.
Engineering Distributed Objects
The pay-offs for creating distributed applications are in achieving portability, scalability and fault-tolerance. In order to simplify building software that performs robustly regardless of platform or network infrastructure, a new strata of 'midd...
Re-Forming Capitalism
Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional chang...
Prospecting
"An important transitional book, usefully summarizing the past and thoughtfully mapping out the future of a significant critic's theoretical project."--'Modern Philology.' "There is a much greater emphasis on the reader's function a...
China's Outbound Tourism
The People's Republic of China has changed from a country which actively discouraged tourism into one of the major source markets for the international industry; the 35 million Chinese travelling across the border in 2005 are merely the tip of the...
Atoms, Molecules and Photons
This introduction to Atomic and Molecular Physics explains how our present model of atoms and molecules has been developed over the last two centuries both by many experimental discoveries and, from the theoretical side, by the introduction of qua...
Emergent Information: A Unified Theory Of Information Framework
At the dawn of the information age, a proper understanding of information and how it relates to matter and energy is of utmost importance for the survival of civilisation. Yet, attempts to reconcile information concepts underlying science and tech...
Violence and the Caste War of Yucatán
Violence and The Caste War of Yucatán analyzes the extent and forms of violence employed during one of the most significant indigenous rural revolts in nineteenth-century Latin America: the Caste War of Yucatán in the tropical southeast of Mexico....
Color Atlas of Cytology, Histology, and Microscopic Anatomy
A proven classic. This timeless pocket atlas is the ideal visual companion to histology and cytology textbooks. First published in 1950 and translated into eight languages, Kuehnel's Pocket Atlas of Cytology, Histology and Microscopic Anatomy is a...