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  • Information Theory and Evolution
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
    This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution, against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is the seeming contradiction between the second law of thermodynamics and the high degree of order and complexity produced by living systems. As the author shows...
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    120,31 €

  • Information Theory and Evolution
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
    This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution, against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is the seeming contradiction between the second law of thermodynamics and the high degree of order and complexity produced by living systems. As the author shows...
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    60,18 €

  • POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    John Scales Avery
    This book describes the steps needed to stabilize global population in order to avoid an environmental catastrophe. It also presents a history of the struggle for women’s rights and for their representation in politics, science, literature, music and the visual arts. ...
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    33,08 €

  • Collected Essays Vol. 4
    John Scales Avery
    This book contains a collection of essays published by the author in the alternative media during 2015. The essays arfe aimed at finding solutions to the serious economic, political and environmental problems which are facing the world today. ...
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    20,21 €

  • Hyperspherical Harmonics and Their Physical Applications
    JAMES EMIL AVERY / JOHN SCALES AVERY
     Hyperspherical harmonics are extremely useful in nuclear physics and reactive scattering theory. However, their use has been confined to specialists with very strong backgrounds in mathematics. This book aims to change the theory of hyperspherical harmonics from an esoteric field, mastered by specialists, into an easily-used tool with a place in the working kit of all theoreti...
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    157,10 €

  • Civilization’s Crisis
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
    Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the milita...
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    96,00 €

  • Civilization’s Crisis
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
    Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the milita...
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    48,17 €

  • Science and Society
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
    The latest advances and discoveries in science have made, and continue to make, a huge impact on our lives. This book is a history of the social impact of science and technology from the beginnings of civilization up to the present. The book explains how the key inventions: agriculture, writing and printing with movable type, initiated an explosive growth of knowledge and human...
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    96,10 €

  • Science and Society
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
    The latest advances and discoveries in science have made, and continue to make, a huge impact on our lives. This book is a history of the social impact of science and technology from the beginnings of civilization up to the present. The book explains how the key inventions: agriculture, writing and printing with movable type, initiated an explosive growth of knowledge and human...
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    45,80 €

  • Space-Age Science and Stone-Age Politics
    John Scales Avery
    Space-age science and stone-age politics make an extraordinarily dangerous mixture. It seems probable that in the future, the rapidity of scientificand technological change will produce ethical dilemmas and social tensions even more acute than those we experience today. It is likely that the fate of our species (and the fate of the biosphere) will be made precarious by the asto...
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    35,15 €

  • The Need for a New Economic System
    John Scales Avery
    It is clear that our present economic system is unsustainable. Never-ending exponential industrial growth on a finite planet is a logical absurdity. We are already using resources at a rate which it would take 1.6 planet earths to replace. We are already undermining the ecological systems which support all of life. Our present economic system has led to an unbelievable degree o...
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    35,37 €

  • John A Collected Essays 2
    John Scales Avery
    This book contains a collection of essays and articles by John Scales Avery discussing the severe problems and challenges which the world faces during the 21st century. Human civilization and the biosphere are threatened by catastrophic climate change. Unless rapid steps are taken to replace fossil fuels by 100% renewable energy, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which unc...
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    35,44 €

  • Collected Essays 3
    John Scales Avery
    This book contains a collection of essays and articles by John Scales Avery discussing the severe problems and challenges which the world faces during the 21st century. Human civilization and the biosphere are threatened by catastrophic climate change. Unless rapid steps are taken to replace fossil fuels by 100% renewable energy, we risk passing a tipping point beyond which unc...
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    35,03 €

  • Information Theory and Evolution
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
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    57,77 €

  • Information Theory and Evolution
    JOHN SCALES AVERY
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    119,13 €

  • Symmetry-Adapted Basis Sets
    JAMES EMIL AVERY / JOHN SCALES AVERY / Sten Rettrup
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    115,60 €