Natural Sciences Textbooks
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II: Relativity
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and empty space move leads to many adven- tures. This volume presents the best of them in the domains of relativity and cosmology. In the study of motion – physics – special and general relativity form two important building blocks.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III: Light, Charges, and Brains
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the adventures one encounters when exploring everything electric. The story ranges from the weighing of electric current to the use of magnetic fields to heal bone fractures and up to the understanding of the human brain.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and space move? The answer leads to many adventures; this volume presents those due to the discovery that there is a smallest change value in nature. This smallest change value, the quantum of action, leads to what is called quantum physics. In the structure of modern physics, quantum physics covers three points; this volume covers the introduction to the point in the lower right: the foundations of quantum theory.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how bodies, images and empty space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best adventures about the motion inside people, inside animals, and inside any other type of matter – from the largest stars to the smallest nuclei.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification
Copyright Year: 2008
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is intensely curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures, and this book presents one of the best of them: the search for a precise, unified and final description of all motion.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life.
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Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Theis and Tomkin
Publisher: OpenStax CNX
License: CC BY
With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.
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World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
Copyright Year: 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
License: CC BY-NC-SA
World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization is designed for students to experience and study as much of the world as possible within a limited amount of time. It gives students the fundamental concepts and the latest data regarding world places in a concise, easy-to-read format.
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College Physics
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributors: Urone, Hinrichs, and Dirks
Publisher: OpenStax
License: CC BY
This introductory, algebra-based, two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples, illustrations, and explanations to help students grasp key, fundamental physics concepts. This online, fully editable and customizable title includes learning objectives, concept questions, links to labs and simulations, and ample practice opportunities to solve traditional physics application problems.
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Essentials of Geographic Information Systems
Copyright Year: 2011
Contributors: Campbell and Shin
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Essentials of Geographic Information Systems integrates key concepts behind the technology with practical concerns and real-world applications. Recognizing that many potential GIS users are nonspecialists or may only need a few maps, this book is designed to be accessible, pragmatic, and concise. Essentials of Geographic Information Systems also illustrates how GIS is used to ask questions, inform choices, and guide policy. From the melting of the polar ice caps to privacy issues associated with mapping, this book provides a gentle, yet substantive, introduction to the use and application of digital maps, mapping, and GIS.
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