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Free Download Discovering The Nature Of Light: The Science And The Story by Norval Fortson
English | April 12, 2022 | ISBN: 9811249598 | 218 pages | MOBI | 8.29 Mb
This book is a science text about light for the general reader; it is also an adventure story and a detective story revealing how the secrets of light were uncovered. Readers can share in the thrill of each discovery and learn about some of the myriad applications opened up by these fascinating discoveries, including the telescope, fiber optics, the laser, and even the recent optical detection of gravitational waves from space. With Professor Fortson, distinguished experimental physicist, as your tour guide, follow the journey from the 17th century – when Descartes first calculated the size of the rainbow – to the 20th century, when the quantum theory of light was born. Learn how Huygens, Newton, Planck, Einstein and many other great scientists solved one mystery after another, from the reason underlying the law of refraction to the puzzle of the photoelectric effect. The journey ends with the solution to the most challenging mystery of all: that light is both a wave and a particle – a fascinating finale.

Free Download Otto F. Kernberg, "The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives"
English | 2011 | pages: 420 | ISBN: 1585624284 | PDF | 2,9 mb
The task Dr. Otto Kernberg takes up in The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives is to first distinguish, then to interrelate psychoanalytic, clinical psychiatric, and neurobiological perspectives in a variety of areas, beginning with severe personality disorders and extending to love, destructiveness, mourning, spirituality, and the future of psychoanalytic inquiry. Dr. Kernberg is renowned for his work with borderline and narcissistic patients, and in this book, he offers new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of the most severe personality disorders, particularly the spectrum of severe narcissistic psychopathology. His effort to relate psychoanalytic to neurobiological findings continues in two fascinating areas the study of sexual love and of religious experience and he examines object relations theory in relation to these two phenomena. Kernberg s analysis of love and aggression is both bold and nuanced and will captivate the professional psychotherapist as well as the psychologically astute general reader.

Free Download Spirals and Vortices: In Culture, Nature, and Science by Kinko Tsuji, Stefan C. Müller
English | EPUB (True) | 2019 | 296 Pages | ISBN : 3030057976 | 176.1 MB
This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature. Spiral forms have been used as elements in the arts for thousands of years, whereas their role in nature and science – from DNA and sea shells to galaxies – is still a topic of investigation in numerous fields. Following an introduction to the cultural history of spiral forms, the book presents contributions from leading experts, who describe the origins, mechanisms and dynamics of spirals and vortices in their special fields. As a whole the book provides a valuable source of information, while also taking the reader on an aesthetic and scientific journey through the world of spiral forms.

Free Download Solidarity: Nature, grounds, and value: Andrea Sangiovanni in dialogue
by Andrea Sangiovanni
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1526172674 | 295 Pages | True PDF | 4.08 MB

Free Download Henry David Thoreau, John Elder, "Nature Walking"
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0807014192 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 2.9 mb
Together in one volume, Emerson’s Nature and Thoreau’s Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.

Free Download Nature Meets Nurture: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids
by Stacey N. Doan and Jessica L. Borelli
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1433833107 | 362 Pages | PDF | 9.8 MB

Free Download Biomimicry and Sustainable Building Performance: A Nature-inspired Sustainability Guide for the Built Environment
by Olusegun Aanuoluwapo Oguntona and Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032538961 | 287 Pages | True PDF | 28 MB

Free Download Watercolor inspired by Nature: 18 beeindruckende Aquarell-Bilder Schritt für Schritt malen by Jowita Marczuk
German | October 12, 2021 | ISBN: 374590690X | MOBI | 14 Mb
Ans Meer oder in die Berge? Beides – mit den Watercolor-Motiven aus dem Buch „Watercolor inspired by Nature"!Tauche am Schreibtisch sitzend in idyllische Landschaften ein und baue deineWatercolor-Kenntnisseaus . Jowita Marczuk , besser bekannt als jowishka.art auf Instagram, stellt ihre wichtigsten Grundlagen vor und zeigt in über 12 Motiven ihre Sicht auf Meer, Berge, Felder und Wälder. So können sowohl AnfängerInnen als auch Fortgeschrittene mit Watercolor bezaubernde Landschaften aufs Papier bringen.Dieses Buch Das Buch versammelt über 12 Motive zum Thema Naturlandschaften im Watercolor-Stil. Ob im Lavendelfeld , an der Küste , auf dem Pfad im Herbstwald oder auf einem verschneiten Gipfel : Idyllische Landschaften landen auf dem eigenen Schreibtisch. AnfängerInnen als auch Fortgeschrittene im Bereich Watercolor können sich die wesentlichen Grundlagen zu Watercolor-Technik und Farbenlehre aneignen. Mit den Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen zu Himmel, Bäumen und 12 Landschaftsmotiven können Hobby-Künstler direkt anfangen, die Theorie in die Praxis umzusetzen. Anhand der Schwierigkeitsstufen von Leicht bis Schwer ist eine Orientierung möglich und ein Fortschritt in den eigenen Watercolor-Kenntnissenvorprogrammiert.

Free Download Michael McCarthy, "The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy"
English | 2018 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1681372428, 1681370409 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths "would pack a car’s headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard," is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist.

Free Download Xin-She Yang, "Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms: Second Edition"
English | 2010 | pages: 158 | ISBN: 1905986289 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Modern metaheuristic algorithms such as particle swarm optimization and cuckoo search start to demonstrate their power in dealing with tough optimization problems and even NP-hard problems. This book reviews and introduces the state-of-the-art nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms for global optimization, including ant and bee algorithms, bat algorithm, cuckoo search, differential evolution, firefly algorithm, genetic algorithms, harmony search, particle swarm optimization, simulated annealing and support vector machines. In this revised edition, we also include how to deal with nonlinear constraints. Worked examples with implementation have been used to show how each algorithm works. This book is thus an ideal textbook for an undergraduate and/or graduate course as well as for self study. As some of the algorithms such as the cuckoo search and firefly algorithms are at the forefront of current research, this book can also serve as a reference for researchers.