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Taming the Great South Land

A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia

By: William J Lines,William J. Lines

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Taming the Great South Land

A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia

By: William J Lines,William J. Lines

Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect. Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.

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380

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Univ of California Press

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0520078306

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9780520078307

Flux Coordinates and Magnetic Field Structure

A Guide to a Fundamental Tool of Plasma Theory

By: William D. D'haeseleer,William N.G. Hitchon,James D. Callen,J. Leon Shohet

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Flux Coordinates and Magnetic Field Structure

A Guide to a Fundamental Tool of Plasma Theory

By: William D. D'haeseleer,William N.G. Hitchon,James D. Callen,J. Leon Shohet

Flux Coordinates and Magnetic Field Structure gives a systematic and rigorous presentation of the mathematical framework and principles underlying the description of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. After a brief treatment of vector algebra in curvilinear coordinate systems the book introduces concepts such as flux surfaces, rotational transforms, and magnetic differential equations. The various specific types of coordinate system are dealt with in detail. Researchers and advanced students in plasma physics, electromagnetics, and mathematical physics will greatly benefit from this useful guide and reference book.

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250

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364275595X

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9783642755958

Non-lte Radiative Transfer In The Atmosphere

By: Manuel Lopez-puertas,Fredric William Taylor

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Non-lte Radiative Transfer In The Atmosphere

By: Manuel Lopez-puertas,Fredric William Taylor

During the last three decades, it has become increasingly clear that atmospheric modelling and remote sounding of the atmosphere from space, to name just two important application areas, are affected by non-equilibrium processes which have not been incorporated into traditional radiative transfer calculations. These processes, dubbed “non-LTE”, are therefore the subject of growing interest among scholars and researchers dealing with the upper atmosphere. This important book provides the first comprehensive and “global” description of non-LTE infrared emissions in the atmosphere of the Earth and other planets, starting with the theoretical foundations and progressing to the most important applications. Besides giving an introduction to this complex subject, it is a guide to the state-of-the-art in incorporating non-LTE processes into radiative transfer algorithms and computer models of the atmosphere. Numerous examples are presented of the application of these methods to (a) atmospheric remote sensing, (b) atmospheric energy budget (cooling and heating rate) calculations, and (c) atmospheres other than the Earth's.

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506

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World Scientific

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9814491462

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9789814491464

Lyrical Ballads

1798 and 1800

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,William Wordsworth

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Lyrical Ballads

1798 and 1800

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,William Wordsworth

Long central to the canon of British Romantic literature, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads is a fascinating case study in the history of poetry, publishing, and authorship. This Broadview edition is the first to reprint both the 1798 and the 1800 editions of Lyrical Ballads in their entirety. In the appendices to this Broadview edition, reviews, correspondence, and a selection of contemporary verse and prose situate the work within the popular and experimental literature of its time, and allow readers to trace the work’s transformations in response to the pressures of the literary marketplace.

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553

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Broadview Press

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1551116006

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Patriots

Defending Australia's Natural Heritage

By: William J. Lines

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Patriots

Defending Australia's Natural Heritage

By: William J. Lines

Powerful and provocative, Patriots travels through the history and p politics of Australia's conservation movement, and describes a new national identity - an identity deeply enmeshed in nature, an identification with the land that non-Indigenous Australia has lacked

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Univ. of Queensland Press

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0702235547

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9780702235542

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Theory and Practice of Infrared Spectroscopy

By: Nelson L. Alpert,William E. Keiser,Herman A. Szymanski

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Theory and Practice of Infrared Spectroscopy

By: Nelson L. Alpert,William E. Keiser,Herman A. Szymanski

The first edition of this text was written primarily by one of the present authors (HAS), with a chapter on instrumentation contributed by a second (NLA). The volume was well received, and to keep the text up-to-date a second edition was planned. For this second edition, a third author (WEK) was invited, whose background complemented that of the other two. Each of the authors was assigned several chapters as his primary task while the complete manuscript remained the second ary responsibility of all three. It is hoped that this approach has resulted in a work that is even more thorough than the first edition in covering the basic concepts of infrared spectroscopy. NELSON L. ALPERT WILLIAM E. KEISER HERMAN A. SZYMANSKI v PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION My experience with the many infrared spectroscopy institutes held at Canisius College and many discussions with both beginners and experienced practitioners in infrared spectroscopy have convinced me that there is a need for an introductory text devoted entirely to infrared spectroscopy, a text which can be utilized even by those who approach this study with only a limited background. This volume sprang from that conviction. It is intended for all who wish to use infrared spec troscopy in research - especially chemists doing structural work - in routine control work, in industrial development, or in medical appli cations or those military applications where it is employed as an analytical tool.

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509

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468481606

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9781468481600

Data Structures and Algorithms Using Java

By: William McAllister

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Data Structures and Algorithms Using Java

By: William McAllister

Data Structures & Theory of Computation

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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076375756X

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9780763757564

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Taming the Great South Land

Taming the Great South Land

Flux Coordinates and Magnetic Field Structure

Flux Coordinates and Magnetic Field Structure

Non-lte Radiative Transfer In The Atmosphere

Non-lte Radiative Transfer In The Atmosphere

Lyrical Ballads

Lyrical Ballads

Patriots

Patriots

IR

IR

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Data Structures and Algorithms Using Java

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