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  • INFO THEORY & EVOLUTION (3RD ED)
    AVERY JOHN SCALES / 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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    59,96 €

  • Historical memoranda concerning persons & places in old Dover, N.H. (Volume I)
    John Scales
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    15,64 €

  • History of Strafford County, New Hampshire and representative citizens
    John Scales
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    28,38 €

  • Life of Gen. Joseph Cilley
    John Scales
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    5,75 €

  • 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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    34,99 €

  • 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 €

  • CIVILIZATION’S CRISIS
    AVERY JOHN SCALES / 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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    44,56 €

  • SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
    AVERY JOHN SCALES / 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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    40,74 €

  • 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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    36,16 €

  • 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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    36,32 €

  • 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 €

  • A Reluctant Hero’s Footsteps
    John R. Scales / John RScales
    In 2011, by chance I discovered the after-action reports of the 329th Infantry Regiment, my father’s World War II unit, on the Internet. An idea was born: use these to reconstruct my father’s path in Europe. I would take my three children, Richard, Mary, and Stephen, on a trip to retrace those footsteps. This book is about our travels, but it is much more. It documents the life...
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    25,39 €

  • INFO THEORY & EVOLUTION (2ND ED)
    AVERY JOHN SCALES / John Scales Avery
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    51,01 €

  • Colonial Era History of Dover, New Hampshire
    John Scales
    A detailed history covering the large area encompassing the present towns Lee, Madbury, Durham, Somersworth, Newington, and Rollingsford as well as Dover. Has many biographical sketches, several 17th century tax lists, a 1740 militia roll, and a list of t ...
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    45,17 €

  • Theory of Seismic Imaging
    John A. Scales
    Seismic imaging methods are currently used to produce images of the Earth’s subsurface properties at diverse length scales, from high-resolution, near-surface environmental studies for oil and gas exploration to long-period images of the entire planet. This book presents the physical and mathematical basis of imaging algorithms in the context of contr...
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    66,19 €