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1. 1. Vorbemerkullg Diesem Buch liegt, im wesentlichen unverandert, ein Manuskript zugrunde, welches im Sommer 1973 von der Philosophischen Fakultat I der Miinchner Ludwig-Maximi- lians-Universitat unter dem Titel "Freiheit von Arbeit, Herrschaft und Form - Struk- turelemente ideologischen Denkens der Intelligenz am Beispiel der deutschen Univer- sitatsidee" als Dissertationsschrift angenommen wurde. Es stellt zugieich den in den J ahren 1971 und 1972 unternommenen Versuch des Verfassers dar, di...

In Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 5, Part 2 Keith P. Bland offers a comprehensive account of the British members of the moth family TORTRICIDAE sensu lato. For ease of handling, it is divided into two volumes: the Tortricinae & Chlidanotinae, and the Olethreutinae. Each volume is self-contained and indexed separately.

Palynology is important in basic as well as in manifold applied sciences, as e.g. biology, medicine, forensics, earth history, climatology and food production. This volume is the first fully illustrated handbook of palynological principles and glossary terms, exclusively using LM and EM micrographs of superior quality. A comprehensive General Chapter on pollen morphology, anatomy, pollen development etc. based on the present knowledge in palynology introduces the reader in the world of pollen. T...

For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human being`s relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day, when species are going extinct at more than 1,0...

Ecological diversity is the intricate network of different species present in different ecosystems and the dynamic interaction between them. This timely volume examines the impact of the loss of biodiversity and ecotheology. It brings together the latest information on the rapid advances and developments in the field of biological diversity, habitats and climate. Examines the impact of the loss of biodiversity, and presents sophisticated featuring organismal and ecosystem ecology topics from an...

Strange as it may seem, the long wake of the tiny HMS Beagle stretches from the nineteenth century into the future of our globe. Charles Darwin spent only three months in Australia, but Australasia and the Pacific contributed to his evolutionary thinking in a variety of ways. One hundred and fifty years after the publication of On the Origin of Species the internationally acclaimed authors of In the Wake of the Beagle provide new insights into the world of collecting, surveying and cross-cultura...

How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is gravely threatened - by overfishing, habitat loss, pollution and climate change. Life on Earth has previously experienced five episodes of mass extinction, and we are now in the middle of a sixth. Do We Need Pandas? surveys the Earth's biodiversity, i...

What are the relations between the shape of a system of cities and that of fish school? Which events should happen in a cell in order that it participates to one of the finger of our hands? How to interpret the shape of a sand dune? This collective book written for the non-specialist addresses these questions and more generally, the fundamental issue of the emergence of forms and patterns in physical and living systems. It is a single book gathering the different aspects of morphogenesis and app...

Not in our Genes systematically exposes and dismantles the claims that inequalities class, race, gender are the products of biological, genetic inheritances. 'Informative, entertaining, lucid, forceful, frequently witty... never dull... should be read and remembered for a long time.' - New York Times Book Review. 'The authors argue persuasively that biological explanations for why we act as we do are based on faulty (in some cases, fabricated) data and wild speculation... It is debunking at its...