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Of Stars and Men

Reminiscences of an Astronomer

By: Zdenek Kopal

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Of Stars and Men

Reminiscences of an Astronomer

By: Zdenek Kopal

The twentieth century has been a remarkable epoch in the affairs of men, and this is no less true of astronomy, at once the oldest and most modern of the sciences. Sky watchers at the beginning of the century measured positions and predicted celestial motions in faithful but uninspired homage to the Muse Urania; nowadays, their descendents call on all the resources of modern science to probe the nature and evolution of a bewildering range of celestial objects. Man has even set out to call personally on his nearest neighbours in space. Professor Zdenek Kopal has lived and practised astronomy throughout this efflorescence of his subject. Born in Czechoslovakia just before the outbreak of the Great War, and educated in the classical European tradition, he knows well the days when scholars commanded such respect that astronomical congresses would be visited by Heads of State. Yet within his own lifetime, he has himself been recruited to play an important role in scientific preparations for a manned Moon landing. He has known and worked with some of the most highly respected practitioners of Modern Astromomy: Russell, Shapley, Urey in the United States, Eddington in Britain. His fine eye for detail, coupled with his strong sense of history, enable him to unfold through his personal recollections the development of his subject across the social changes of two world wars. Inspired by his grandfather, who would think nothing of walking sixty miles to theatrical performance, the young Kopal acquired a Wanderlust that has taken him in his career more than a dozen times rond the world. He has visited the most ancient observatories, observed solar eclipses in Japan and Java, helped to establish new institutions in Iraq and India, and commuted for many years between the Old and New Worlds. He has toiled in every corner of his chosen vinyard: as observer, outstanding theoretician, populariser, editor and teacher. During his thirty years as Professor of Astronomy at Manchester, he

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Routledge

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1351427164

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9781351427166

Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses

By: Zdenek Hubálek,Ivo Rudolf

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Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses

By: Zdenek Hubálek,Ivo Rudolf

This book presents the state of art in the field of microbial zoonoses and sapronoses. It could be used as a textbook or manual in microbiology and medical zoology for students of human and veterinary medicine, including Ph.D. students, and for biomedicine scientists and medical practitioners and specialists as well. Surprisingly, severe zoonoses and sapronoses still appear that are either entirely new (e.g., SARS), newly recognized (Lyme borreliosis), resurging (West Nile fever in Europe), increasing in incidence (campylobacterosis), spatially expanding (West Nile fever in the Americas), with a changing range of hosts and/or vectors, with changing clinical manifestations or acquiring antibiotic resistance. The collective term for those diseases is (re)emerging infections, and most of them represent zoonoses and sapronoses (the rest are anthroponoses). The number of known zoonotic and sapronotic pathogens of humans is continually growing − over 800 today. In the introductory part, short characteristics are given of infectious and epidemic process, including the role of environmental factors, possibilities of their epidemiological surveillance, and control. Much emphasis is laid on ecological aspects of these diseases (haematophagous vectors and their life history; vertebrate hosts of zoonoses; habitats of the agents and their geographic distribution; natural focality of diseases). Particular zoonoses and sapronoses are then characterized in the following brief paragraphs: source of human infection; animal disease; transmission mode; human disease; epidemiology; diagnostics; therapy; geographic distribution.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9048196574

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9789048196579

Life as Its Own Designer

Darwin's Origin and Western Thought

By: Anton Markoš,Filip Grygar,László Hajnal,Karel Kleisner,Zdenek Kratochvíl,Zdenek Neubauer

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Life as Its Own Designer

Darwin's Origin and Western Thought

By: Anton Markoš,Filip Grygar,László Hajnal,Karel Kleisner,Zdenek Kratochvíl,Zdenek Neubauer

It has been nearly 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection still ignites a forest of heated debate between scientific fundamentalists on the one hand and religious fundamentalists on the other. But both sides actually agree more than they disagree, and what has long been needed is a third way to view evolution, one that focuses more on the aspect of life and “being alive”, one that can guide us through, and perhaps out of, the fiery thicket. This book, a seminal work in the burgeoning field of Biosemiotics, provides that third way, by viewing living beings as genuine agents designing their communication pathways with, and in, the world. Already hailed as the best account of biological hermeneutics, Life As Its Own Designer: Darwin’s Origin and Western Thought is a wholly unique book divided into two parts. The first part is philosophical and explores the roots of rationality and the hermeneutics of the natural world with the overriding goal of discovering how narrative can help us to explain life. It analyzes why novelty is so hard to comprehend in the framework of Western thinking and confronts head-on the chasm between evolutionism and traditional rationalistic worldviews. The second part is scientific. It focuses on the life of living beings, treating them as co-creators of their world in the process of evolution. It draws on insights gleaned from the global activity of the Gaian biosphere, considers likeness as demonstrated on homology studies, and probes the problem of evo-devo science from the angle of life itself. This book is both timely and vital. Past attempts at a third way to view evolution have failed because they were written either by scientists who lacked a philosophical grounding or New Age thinkers who lacked biological credibility. Markoš and his coworkers form an original group of thinkers supremely capable in both fields, and they have fashioned a book that is ideal for researchers and scholars from both the humanities and sciences who are interested in the history and philosophy of biology, biosemiotics, and the evolution of life.

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216

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402099703

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9781402099700

The Music of Leos Janácek

Motive, Rhythm, Structure

By: Zdenek Skoumal

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The Music of Leos Janácek

Motive, Rhythm, Structure

By: Zdenek Skoumal

The first thorough theoretical study of Janácek's compositions, focusing on motivic and rhythmic structure and identifying elements that give the music coherence, character, and interest.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1580469949

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9781580469944

Life as an Experiment

By: Zdenek Penkala

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Life as an Experiment

By: Zdenek Penkala

We cannot live a full life unless we know who we are, unless we know the essence of our being. The sciences, which have been immensely helpful in the way in which we live our lives, have been helpless when it comes to telling us how our life should be lived and what its meaning is. Accepting any philosophical or religious belief, on the other hand, limits our freedom to learn directly from personal knowledge of reality, as any preconceived ideas do not only alter its perception, but limit the spectrum of possibilities to which our reason can be applied. To those who do not surrender their right to decide for themselves what reality is, life offers a unique opportunity to apply their insights both in the worlds within and without and either validates or disproves their findings. If they are true to themselves, the continuous feeedback life offers will reveal to them unique characterics of our mind, which are otherwise limited by its own beliefs.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443807109

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9781443807104

Mapping of the Moon

Past and Present

By: Zdenek Kopal,R.W. Carder

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Mapping of the Moon

Past and Present

By: Zdenek Kopal,R.W. Carder

The aim of the present book has been to provide an outline - the first of its kin- of the history of the human efforts to map the topography of the surface of our satellite, from the days of pre-telescopic astronomy up to the present. These efforts commenced modestly at the time when the unaided eye was still the only tool at the disposal of men interested in the face of our satellite; and were con tinued since for more than three centuries by a small band of devoted friends of the Moon in several countries. Many of these were amateur astronomers, and almost all were amateur cartographers; though some highly skilled in their art. The reader interested in the history oflunar mapping between 1600 and 1960 will find its outline in the first chapter of this book; and can follow the way in which the leadership in the mapping of the Moon, the cradle of which stood in Italy, passed successively to France, Germany, and eventually to the United States. All efforts described in this chapter were wholly superseded by subsequent devel opments since 1960, largely motivated by logistic needs of a grand effort which cul minated with repeated manned landings on the Moon between 1969-1972- a feat which will remain for ever one of the glories of our century.

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247

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401021333

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9789401021333

Krylov Subspace Methods

Principles and Analysis

By: Jörg Liesen,Zdenek Strakos

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Krylov Subspace Methods

Principles and Analysis

By: Jörg Liesen,Zdenek Strakos

Describes the principles and history behind the use of Krylov subspace methods in science and engineering. The outcome of the analysis is very practical and indicates what can and cannot be expected from the use of Krylov subspace methods, challenging some common assumptions and justifications of standard approaches.

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408

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Numerical Mathematics and Scie

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0199655413

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9780199655410

Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918

By: Robert A. Kann,Zdenek David

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Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918

By: Robert A. Kann,Zdenek David

The Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918

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University of Washington Press

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0295806834

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9780295806839

Collage sculptures

By: Zdenek Felix

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Collage sculptures

By: Zdenek Felix

Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch repräsentieren die Begriffe „Collage“ und „Skulptur“ ein Gegensatzpaar, das der flachen Collage die dreidimensionale Skulptur als Kontrast gegenüberstellt. Doch seit der Klassischen Moderne wurde dieser Widerspruch zunehmend aufgelöst und zahlreiche Mischformen dieser beiden Medien entwickelt. Die Schau „Collagierte Skulpturen“ in KAI 10 zeigte eine Auswahl plastischer Arbeiten von Isa Genzken, Rachel Harrison und Manfred Pernice, wobei sie sich auf die spezifischen, collagierten Objekte dieser KünstlerInnen konzentriert. Die gewisse Unbestimmtheit des Ausstellungstitels „Collagierte Skulpturen“ entspricht dem Charakter der gezeigten Werke, der sich weder der einen noch der anderen Gestaltungsform eindeutig zuordnen lässt.00Exhibition: KAI 10I Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany (12.10.2013-22.2.2014).

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Book's by Zdenek Felix

Of Stars and Men

Of Stars and Men

Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses

Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses

Life as Its Own Designer

Life as Its Own Designer

The Music of Leos Janácek

The Music of Leos Janácek

Life as an Experiment

Life as an Experiment

Mapping of the Moon

Mapping of the Moon

Krylov Subspace Methods

Krylov Subspace Methods

Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918

Peoples of the Eastern Habsburg Lands, 1526-1918

Collage sculptures

Collage sculptures

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