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• Author(s): Mary R. Tahan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book is an analytical account of how Roald Amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the South Pole in 1911, and is the first to na...

• Author(s): Dietrich V. Engelhardt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Endocrinology & MetabolismDiabetes in Medizin- und Kulturgeschichte behandelt die Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung dieses Leidens vo...

• Author(s): Charles E. Taylor • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Power Resources - GeneralThis book had its genesis in a symposium on gas hydrates presented at the 2003 Spring National Meeting of the American Institute ...

• Author(s): Jürgen Blunck • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverStarting from Mars outward this concise handbook provides thorough information on the satellites of the planets in...

• Author(s): Xiao Li • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ArchaeologyFrom the Back CoverThe book explores largely overlooked areas of Silk Road studies by searching for multidisciplinary evidence on the connotations of Sil...

• Author(s): Dieter B. Herrmann • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyDer bekannte Astronomiehistoriker und Direktor der Archenhold-Sternwarte und des Zeiss-Gro planetariums in Berlin, D.B. Herrmann...

• Author(s): Robert Clancy • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverEveryone likes maps and maps are always used to illustrate the many books on the Antarctic. Here the focus is reversed with contempo...

• Author(s): Elis Strömgren | Bengt Strömgren • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Astronomy - GeneralDieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anf�ngen d...

• Author(s): Chi Li • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ArchaeologyThis book presents an anthology of English-language archaeological and anthropological writings by Li Chi, the founding father of modern archaeology in Ch...

• Author(s): Mario Bertolotti • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - Optics & LightThis book explains in an accessible way how the concept of the photon was introduced by Einstein who also helped discover many ...

• Author(s): Michael Wiescher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - Quantum TheoryFrom the Back CoverThe book highlights the personal and scientific struggles of Arthur Erich Haas (1884-1941), an Austrian Physicis...

• Author(s): Mario Juhas • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - MicrobiologyRecent discoveries in microbiology are hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with scientific jargon, and the research data can be overw...

• Author(s): Ralph A. Lewin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralRalph A. LewiQand Lanna Cheng In physics, the discovery of new (more properly, hitherto undetected) particles has often resulted from a search: like t...

• Author(s): Clifford Cunningham • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverAn asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left ...

• Author(s): Clifford Cunningham • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverAn asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left ...

• Author(s): M. Emmer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & TechnologyFrom the Back CoverDalla scienza secondo Popper e Toulmin al teatro secondo Morteo e Brecht, viene costruito un perco...

• Author(s): Anja Schmidt • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverAnja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmos...

• Author(s): Leonardo Gariboldi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - NuclearFrom the Back CoverThe thirtieth anniversary of the death of Beppo Occhialini, the cosmic-ray physicist associated among other things to...

• Author(s): William Sheehan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverThe 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy. Joh...

• Author(s): Kenneth L. Kirk • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiochemistryBiochemistry of Halogenated Organic Compounds has been written as a general reference source for researchers in several related ...

• Author(s): William Sheehan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyThe 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy. John Couch Adams and U...

• Author(s): Elaine Sanders-Bush • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Humana • BISAC: GeneralSerotonin (5-HT) was isolated and chemically characterized nearly four decades ago, and is now generally accepted to function as a neurotransmitter...

• Author(s): Ronald Findlay • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Economic HistoryFrom the Back CoverThis book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs i...

• Author(s): Edward W. Miles • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Pivot • BISAC: EducationFrom the Back CoverIn the mid-20th century, university-based business schools re-oriented themselves to increased alignment with the preferen...

• Author(s): Manuela D'Amore • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - ItalyFrom the Back CoverThis book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Ro...

• Author(s): Michael Hoskin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverThis beautifully structured book presents the essentials of William and Caroline Herschel's pioneering achievemen...

• Author(s): Yefei Zhu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: ArchaeologyFrom the Back CoverThis book summary introduces the key research findings, exploration and excavation works carried out during the 80 years of archaeol...

• Author(s): Henry Cruse Murphy • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Clifford Cunningham • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: HistoryFrom the Back CoverBased on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the origi...

• Author(s): L. Tolchinsky • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Clinical PsychologyDevelopmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial m...

• Author(s): Radomir S. Stankovic • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: AppliedFrom the Back CoverLogic networks and automata are facets of digital systems. The change of the design of logic networks from skills and art int...

• Author(s): Ronald Findlay • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Economic HistoryFrom the Back CoverThis book deals with the economics of establishing a frontier by conquest or by peaceful settlement, the costs i...

• Author(s): Mike Fuller • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyFrom the Back CoverThis book is a summary of the history of discovering the moon. The author has been involved in the Apollo program, wo...

• Author(s): Hans J. Krappe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Power Resources - NuclearFrom the Back CoverThis book brings together various aspects of the nuclear fission phenomenon discovered by Hahn, Strassmann and Me...

• Author(s): Clifford J. Cunningham • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverBased on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive...

• Author(s): J. Axelrod • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Animals - MammalsThe pineal gland has been a subject of interest and speculation for more than 2000 years. Greek anatomists were impressed by the ob- servation t...