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Mosquitoes of North America: North of Mexico is a comprehensive resource that consolidates decades of research on mosquito species found in North America. Building on foundational works by Howard, Dyar, and Knab (1912–1917) and later studies, this book fills a critical gap by presenting an updated and concise account of mosquito taxonomy, biology, and distribution. It is designed to serve entomologists, mosquito control technicians, and field researchers with detailed keys for species identification, descriptions of life stages, geographic distribution records, and discussions on bionomics and medical significance.

The text also provides valuable illustrations created by expert entomological artists, with figures of male terminalia, larvae, and adult mosquitoes meticulously drawn to aid in identification. Following the taxonomic arrangement of Edwards (1932), the book ensures consistency while incorporating recent discoveries and classifications. With additional contributions from leading researchers and institutions, and references to a vast array of literature, this work serves as an indispensable guide for understanding mosquito ecology and for supporting effective mosquito control strategies in the region.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.

Since the publication of his seminal monograph "The scientific image", Bas van Fraassen is a key figure in philosophy of science. In this book, other philosophers with various outlooks critically discuss his work on theories, empiricism and philosophical stances.

The book starts with a new article by van Fraassen on his preferred account of theories, the so-called semantic view. This account is now 50 years old, and van Fraassen takes this anniversary as an opportunity to review the account, its history and the philosophical discussion about it.

In the main part of the book, Nancy Cartwright, Finnur Dellsén, Matthias Egg, Steven French, Michael Friedman, Milena Ivanova and Michela Massimi discuss van Fraassen's contributions to philosophy. Three chapters focus on his engagement with realism (French, Friedman, Ivanova). Others study his voluntarism (Cartwright) and his view on representation (Massimi). Finally, there are contributions about his elaboration of empiricism (Dellsén) and his proposal to consider philosophical positions as stances (Egg).

The volume includes a laudatio written by Steven French and finishes with a reply by van Fraassen to his critics.

This fourth volume of the series "Progress in Physical Chemistry" is a collection of mini-review articles written by those who were project leaders and members of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 458 of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The articles are based on ten years of intense coordinated research and report particularly on the scientific progress made at SFB 458 since 2005. Their common theme is the study of ionic motion in disordered materials over wide scales in space and time. The mini reviews thus address key questions in the rapidly developing field of SOLID STATE IONICS, a discipline which has its roots in the physics and chemistry of solids and is now a thriving branch of materials science and engineering. In the materials studied, the dynamics of the mobile ions are de-termined by disorder and interaction. This complicated many-particle problem constitutes an area of basic research in its own right. At SFB 458, it has been tackled on complementary routes, i.e., by synthesis of new disordered electrolytes, by advanced experimental techniques and by numerical simulations and model concepts. Substantial progress has thus been made in developing a coherent view and a new understanding of the ionic motion in materials with disordered structures.

Das globale Klima und die aktuelle Klimaveränderung sind in der heutigen Gesellschaft ein omnipräsentes mediales Phänomen, das jedoch, wenn es in der longue durée betrachtet wird, vor allem an konkreten historischen Ereignissen festgemacht wird. Dazu zählen extreme Winter, Hagel und Dürren zu Missernten, die in Hunger, Seuchen, Krieg und Revolutionen resultieren und sich in der Historiographie niederschlagen. Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich hingegen der Frage, welche ideengeschichtlichen und kulturellen Konsequenzen langanhaltende Klimaveränderungen auf Literatur, Kultur und Wissenschaft haben, indem das Extremereignis ‚Kältewinter‘ aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive untersucht wird. Dabei stellen die Beitragenden folgende Fragen:

Wie gestaltete sich der Austausch von meteorologischem Wissen im Untersuchungszeitraum? Welche Medien wurden dafür verwendet? Ist mit dem Zeitalter der europäischen Aufklärung ein Wandel im Denken über die Ereignisse der Kältewinter zu konstatieren? Wie gestaltet sich die Visualisierung der Erkenntnisse über die außergewöhnlichen Wetterlagen? Und nicht zuletzt: Welche politischen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen sind in der Folge zu beobachten?

Der Band versammelt in historischer Tiefe natur-, literatur-, musik- und kunstwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über die Spuren von Kältewintern im 18. Jahrhundert.

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.

The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England’s civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas.

This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who’s who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox.

Das beliebte Lehrbuch behandelt die theoretischen Grundlagen der allgemeinen und anorganischen Chemie und führt in die anorganische Stoffchemie ein. Die aktualisierte Neuauflage diskutiert anschaulich heutige Umweltprobleme. Das Werk ist als vorlesungsbegleitendes Lehrbuch und zugleich als Repetitorium zur Prüfungsvorbereitung optimal geeignet.

A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal.

‘We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,’ Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in which science is intertwined with literature. The paleontologist reveals essential aspects of our existence to the writer, and debates the advisability of transmitting his random vision of life to a dieting Millás, who discovers that old age is a country in which he still feels like a foreigner.

After the extraordinary international reception of Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal, the most brilliant double act in Spanish literature once again dazzle the reader by addressing topics such as death and eternity, longevity, disease, aging, natural selection, programmed death, and survival.

Here you will find humor, biology, nature, life, a lot of life … and two fascinating characters, the Sapiens and the Neanderthal, who surprise us on every page with their sharp reflections on how evolution has treated us as a species. And also as individuals.

Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Award in the category of Nature / Environment / Animals / Pets

Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

The nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife—mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice—near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. With wit and compassion, she guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks left by browsing deer, predatory weasels, and inquisitive bears, skunks, and raccoons. Closely observing these traces, Russell also finds community, a sense of place, and a renewed connection with the nonhuman world. She explores the health of mammal populations in North America and questions common wildlife-management practices, calling for new approaches that better reflect current understandings of ecology. Above all, What Walks This Way is a celebration of all the wild animals secretly, stubbornly, and triumphantly roving through our cities, suburbs, and countryside.

Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Award in the category of Nature / Environment / Animals / Pets

Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

The nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife—mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice—near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. With wit and compassion, she guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks left by browsing deer, predatory weasels, and inquisitive bears, skunks, and raccoons. Closely observing these traces, Russell also finds community, a sense of place, and a renewed connection with the nonhuman world. She explores the health of mammal populations in North America and questions common wildlife-management practices, calling for new approaches that better reflect current understandings of ecology. Above all, What Walks This Way is a celebration of all the wild animals secretly, stubbornly, and triumphantly roving through our cities, suburbs, and countryside.

Aristoteles Werke - Band 12 Meteorologie über die Welt

The book covers conjugation of biopolymers with synthetic polymers, nanoparticles, metals, phytochemicals, food additives and biopolymers, such as polynucleotides, polypeptides and polysaccharides. It describes the latest research advances on biopolymers extracted from waste and their corresponding products.

Damage to plastic products requires immediate action in often complex situations. Failure and damage analysis is then an important tool for avoiding further economic losses and in the next steps for quality assurance and product safety. In order to solve problems and develop remedial measures, basic knowledge of plastics analysis, materials and typical damage mechanisms as well as systematic approach are necessary.

The book supports the reader in all these points by providing a basic insight into the systematic approach and serving as a guide for practical implementation. In particular, manufacturing and material-related aspects are also taken into account, so that a comprehensive and universal method for determining the causes of damage to plastic products is presented. Examples in the form of briefly summarized cases of damage from practical experience as a damage analyst round off the descriptions of the procedure.

Mit seinen stetig komplexeren Erläuterungen bildet dieses Werk den steigenden Schwierigkeitsgrad ab, den Studierende während der ersten Semester erleben. Durch zahlreiche Beispiele und künstlerisch sehr ansprechendes Bildmaterial unterstützt der Autor das selbständige und zugleich kreative Hinterfragen von physikalischen Zusammenhängen.

Mosquitoes of North America: North of Mexico is a comprehensive resource that consolidates decades of research on mosquito species found in North America. Building on foundational works by Howard, Dyar, and Knab (1912–1917) and later studies, this book fills a critical gap by presenting an updated and concise account of mosquito taxonomy, biology, and distribution. It is designed to serve entomologists, mosquito control technicians, and field researchers with detailed keys for species identification, descriptions of life stages, geographic distribution records, and discussions on bionomics and medical significance.

The text also provides valuable illustrations created by expert entomological artists, with figures of male terminalia, larvae, and adult mosquitoes meticulously drawn to aid in identification. Following the taxonomic arrangement of Edwards (1932), the book ensures consistency while incorporating recent discoveries and classifications. With additional contributions from leading researchers and institutions, and references to a vast array of literature, this work serves as an indispensable guide for understanding mosquito ecology and for supporting effective mosquito control strategies in the region.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.