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Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life
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Horst Rauchfuss |
"Up to now, we do not have a generally accepted theory about the origin of life and about the process of development of life, we only have a great number of - to some extent even contradictory - hypo… |
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The Craft of Scientific Presentations
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Michael Alley |
The Craft of Scientific Presentations, 2nd edition aims to strengthen you as a presenter of science and engineering. The book does so by identifying what makes excellent presenters such as Brian Cox,… |
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English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises
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Adrian Wallwork |
<p>This book is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English (long sentence… |
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Flight 427
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Gerry Byrne |
Boeing's 737 is indisputably the most popular and arguably the safest commercial airliner in the world. But the plane had a lethal flaw, and only after several disastrous crashes and years of painsta… |
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The History of Visual Magic in Computers
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Jon Peddie |
If you have ever looked at a fantastic adventure or science fiction movie, or an amazingly complex and rich computer game, or a TV commercial where cars or gas pumps or biscuits behaved liked people … |
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The Long Evolution of Brains and Minds
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Roth, Gerhard |
On the basis of evolutionary and behavioral biology, neuroscience and anthropology, this book investigates to which extent it is possible to reconstruct the evolution of nervous systems and brains as… |
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The Machine as Metaphor and Tool
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H. Haken |
The machine metaphor is deeply rooted in western culture and complex systemsin nature and society are often interpreted in such terms. With the advent of electronic computers, the machine metaphor ap… |
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Machines and Signs
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Edoardo Rovida |
<p>This volume addresses the cultural, technical and ethical motivations of the history of drawing of machines and its developments step by step. First it treats drawings without any technical charac… |
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Out of this World
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Stephen Webb |
Seeing beyond the Big Bang. . . Although it is now almost unanimously accepted that the cosmos started with the Big Bang, we still have no plausible theory for the forces that set this creative catac… |
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The universal machine
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Ian Watson |
The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating... … |
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