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By D. BROWN.

Pliny wrote of Babylon that "here the author of the technological know-how of astronomy was". Excavations have proven this assertion to be actual. This publication argues that the earliest makes an attempt on the actual prediction of celestial phenomena are certainly to be present in clay capsules relationship to the eighth and seventh centuries BC from either Babylon and from Nineveh. the writer rigorously situates this astronomy inside its cultural context, treating all on hand fabric from the proper interval, and in addition analysing the sooner astrological fabric and the later famous ephemerides and similar texts. a unconditionally new method of cuneiform astral issues emerges - one during which either celestial divination and the later astronomy are proven to be embedded in a triumphing philosophy facing the right nature of the early universe, and within which the dynamics of the celestial divination that surrounded the final Assyrian monarchs account for at least the 1st recorded "scientific revolution". This paintings heavily adheres to the unique textual assets, and argues for the evolution at the foundation of the desires of the traditional students and the interior common sense of the divinatory and predictive structures hired. To this finish, it deals, for the 1st time, a Mesopotamian contribution to the philosophy, and never purely the historical past, of technology.

By Gene E. Likens

A spinoff of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Biogeochemistry of Inland Waters examines the transformation, flux and biking of chemical substances in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, combining elements of biology, ecology, geology, and chemistry. as the articles are drawn from an encyclopedia, they're simply available to individuals of the general public, reminiscent of conservationists and environmental choice makers.
This spinoff textual content describes biogeochemical cycles of natural and inorganic components and compounds in freshwater ecosystems.

By Sue D'Auria, Jack A. Josephson

By Tessie Dalton

It may be used to check and increase common English vocabulary, and contains either self-study routines and useful talking actions for school room use. this is often the spouse workbook to the better English easy Dictionary on which it truly is established - jointly those titles offer a whole package deal to aid scholars study and revise for his or her puppy exam. puppy is taken by means of greater than 80,000 humans every year in additional than eighty nations, and is a priceless qualification for an individual who desires to paintings or learn out of the country in English-speaking nations. it's also invaluable education for larger point examinations.

By Jerrold E. Marsden and Tudor Ratiu, with the collaboration of Ralph Abraham

The aim of this ebook is to supply center fabric in nonlinear research for mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematical biologists. the most aim is to supply a operating wisdom of manifolds, dynamical structures, tensors, and differential kinds. a few functions to Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism, plasma dynamics and regulate idea are given utilizing either invariant and index notation. the necessities required are stable undergraduate classes in linear algebra and complex calculus.

By Greg Schmidt Goering

By Chou Ta-Kuan (Zhou Daguan), Paul Pelliot (Chinese-to-French translator), J. Gilman d'Arcy Paul (French-to-English translator)

Hardback and Jacket with various colour photographs.

By E. J. Hundert

The apprehension of society as an aggregation of self-interested contributors is a dominant smooth obstacle, yet one first systematically articulated through the Enlightenment. This ebook techniques this challenge from the point of view of the problem provided to inherited traditions of morality and social knowing by means of Bernard Mandeville, whose notorious paradoxical maxim "private vices, public merits" profoundly disturbed his contemporaries, whereas his The fantasy of the Bees had a decisive impression on David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant. Professor Hundert examines the assets and techniques of Mandeville's technology of human nature and the position of his principles in shaping eighteenth century fiscal, social and ethical theories.

By Douglas Niles, Mike Breault, Kim Mohan

Very good field set

By Allison Brennan