Tous les livres numériques de la collection "The Frontiers Collection" - Springer

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Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods Davina Grojnowski , Ina Wunn This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-07-27 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 81,22 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization Robert Ayres This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-07-14 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
How Can Physics Underlie the Mind? George Ellis Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible? How can our own lives emerge from interactions of electrons, protons, and neutrons? This book considers the interaction of physical and non-physical causation in complex systems such as... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-05-31 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
LIFE - AS A MATTER OF FAT Luis A. Bagatolli , Ole G. Mouritsen The present book gives a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids (fats) and the lipid-bilayer component of cell membranes.The emphasis is on the physical properties of lipid membranes seen as soft and molecularly... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-10-08 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 79,11 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
CHIPS 2020 VOL. 2 Bernd Höfflinger The release of this second volume of CHIPS 2020 coincides with the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, a critical year marked by the end of the nanometer roadmap and by a significantly reduced annual rise in chip performance. At the same time, we are witnessing a data... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-09-19 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
How Should Humanity Steer the Future? Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali The fourteen award-winning essays in this volume discuss a range of novel ideas and controversial topics that could decisively influence the course of human life on Earth. Their authors address, in accessible language, issues as diverse as: enabling our social systems... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-09-18 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Why More Is Different Brigitte Falkenburg , Margaret Morrison The physics of condensed matter, in contrast to quantum physics or cosmology, is not traditionally associated with deep philosophical questions. However, as science - largely thanks to more powerful computers - becomes capable of analysing and modelling ever more... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-02-26 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 89,66 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
It From Bit or Bit From It? Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali The essays in this book look at the question of whether physics can be based on information, or – as John Wheeler phrased it – whether we can get “It from Bit”. They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition of the same name, which... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-02-03 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Questioning the Foundations of Physics Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali The essays in this book look at way in which the fundaments of physics might need to be changed in order to make progress towards a unified theory. They are based on the prize-winning essays submitted to the FQXi essay competition “Which of Our Basic Physical... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2015-01-24 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Beginning and the End Clément Vidal In this fascinating journey to the edge of science, Vidal takes on big philosophical questions: Does our universe have a beginning and an end or is it cyclic? Are we alone in the universe? What is the role of intelligent life, if any, in cosmic evolution? Grounded in... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-05-16 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 79,11 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Brief History of String Theory Dean Rickles During its forty year lifespan, string theory has always had the power to divide, being called both a 'theory of everything' and a 'theory of nothing'. Critics have even questioned whether it qualifies as a scientific theory at all. This book adopts an objective stance,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-02-18 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 58,01 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ultimate Horizons Helmut Satz In the last hundred years, modern physics and cosmology have shown that there exist regions of the universe forever beyond our reach, hidden by truly ultimate horizons. Such regions exist in those remote parts of the universe where, from our point of view, space expands... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2014-02-04 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Physics, Nature and Society Joaquín Marro This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us understand the boundaries between physics, on the one hand, and sociology, economics, and biology on the other. From cooperation and criticality to flock... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-11-19 Collection : The Frontiers Collection PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Extraterrestrial Altruism Douglas A. Vakoch Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search forExtraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit. This question of whether extraterrestrials will be altruistic has become increasingly... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-09-14 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Language Phenomenon P.-M. Binder , K. Smith This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language. These range from fast scales (fractions of a second) to slow ones (over a million years). The contributors, all experts in their fields, address language in the brain, production... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2013-04-05 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Natural Fabrications William Seager The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world. In this elegant picture, everything we observe is based upon just a few fundamental processes and entities.... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-08-13 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
From the Web to the Grid and Beyond René Brun , Federico Carminati , Giuliana Galli Carminati Born after World War II, large-scale experimental high-energy physics (HEP) has found itself limited ever since by available accelerator, detector and computing technologies. Accordingly, HEP has made significant contributions to the development of these fields, more... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2012-01-10 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Chips 2020 Bernd Hoefflinger The chips in present-day cell phones already contain billions of sub-100-nanometer transistors. By 2020, however, we will see systems-on-chips with trillions of 10-nanometer transistors. But this will be the end of the miniaturization, because yet smaller transistors,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-12-15 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Evolution 2.0 Martin Brinkworth , Friedel Weinert These essays by leading philosophers and scientists focus on recent ideas at the forefront of modern Darwinism, showcasing and exploring the challenges they raise as well as open problems. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it addresses the key notions of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-10-07 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Second Law of Economics Reiner Kümmel Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production. These fundamental natural laws are familiar to most of us when applied to the evolution of stars, biological processes, or the working of an internal combustion engine, but what about... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2011-06-24 Collection : The Frontiers Collection ePub 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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