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Anne Simon is a world-renowned biologist and expert on plant viruses. She has also been scientific advisor to the X-Files since the series began. In this fascinating book she explores the extraordinary realities that lie behind the strange discoveries made in each...
The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about...
Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space...
‘The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics’ The Independent What can altered states of consciousness reveal about our origins and our place in nature?In this landmark piece of psychedelic literature renowned ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence...
“In this book I examine the extraordinary saga of life on Earth in the light of the most recent scientific discoveries. This saga has resulted in the extraordinary success of our species, and in the mortal threats that it has posed for the future. By favoring...
Since the original publication of this book in 1992, the bleaching process has continued to attract the attention of researchers and the edible-oil industry. In this 2nd edition, the reader is directed to more modern techniques of analysis such as flame-atomic...
“Fifty years ago, Francis Crick and James D. Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, the carrier of genetic information, the basis for heredity. They believed they had, according to Francis Crick’s own expression, found “the secret of life.” The main aim of...
In this book, lichens collected in 2015 and 2016 in the Brazilian states Amapá, Tocantins and some from Pará and São Paulo are treated, including several species that were not illustrated before. Pará is one of the largest states in the Amazon. Some specimens are...
The current Standard Model of elementary particles leaves many questions unanswered. For example, it does not provide a quantum mechanical explanation of the mass distribution of elementary particles in the universe. Why are we still not able to prove the existence of...
Sergipe and Amazonas are the smallest and biggest states of Brazil. The Amazone is famous because it is the richest biome for most terrestrial organism groups. Lichens are no exception, even though they are not very abundant in rainforest. Lichens are very species rich...
This book illustrates lichens that were recently collected in the temperate to subtropical states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. For some species, these are the first colour illustrations published. Parmeliaceae are well represented in this book,...
2d atoms. Nuclear shapes and nuclear structure The paper compares the scientific ideas of spherical and deformed atomic nuclei with the previously unknown theory of checkerboard and planar atomic structure. For this purpose, the interpretations of the nuclear structure...
The book illustrates in detail many tropical lichens recently collected in Bahia state in Brazil. This includes isotypes of most species that were described from this state in the present century. New species: Phaeographis vulcanica Aptroot, Lücking, Schumm & M....
This book illustrates lichens that were recently collected in Mato Grosso do Sul state in Brazil. The second author lived during four years in this state while he was visiting professor at the main university. He made numerous excursions, often with colleagues, to whom...
I developed this textbook for tutoring (high school and college) and revised it during lectures at various colleges. It contains subsequently edited and colored photos of our whiteboard pictures and explains the questions that the students had during the...
This booklet was developed as part of an advisory assistance project by the German Institute for Biodiversity Network (ibn) as part of a capacity building project by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and the German Environmental Agency through funds from...
Our investigations of what exists might seduce us to have little to say about an objective reality, in which nothing exists. The geometrical form of the four basic fields of nature are identified. The usual rules of tensor algebra have been used. Time is equivalent to...
If you ask a physicist to explain ether to you, he will either be embarrassed or he will say that ether does not exist, that it was rejected by Einstein in 1905. But, in1921, Einstein published "The ether and the theory of relativity". After his theory of general...
The book presents the author's new evidence that SR is wrong. Among other things, an analysis of k-calculus from the book Introducing Einstein's Relativity by Ray d'Inverno from Oxford University Press is made. The author shows how some researchers use mathematics...
A distinguished German authority on mathematical physics, writing recently on the theory of Relativity, declared that if his publishers had been willing to allow him sufficient paper and print he could have explained what he wished to convey without using a single...
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