“gerhard lenski”

The eleventh edition of "Human Societies" covers many new developments of our rapidly changing times. Among many global updates are changing political ideologies, cyber warfare, biofuels and the problems they present, new population control initiatives, and the increasing democratization and economi... More

For forty years, in a variety of books and articles, Gerhard Lenski has become the most influential proponent of ecological and evolutionary explanations of human societies, their development and transformations, from the Stone Age to the present. In his newest book, Lenski offers a succinct but com... More

A student study supplement for Human Societies 10th Edition.... More

Algorithmic composition or composing by means of formalizable methods, has a century old tradition not only in occidental music history. This is the first book to provide a detailed overview of prominent procedures of algorithmic composition in a pragmatic way and not with the treatment of formaliza... More

Soft Matter encompasses a wide range of systems of varying components, including synthetic and biological polymers, colloids, and amphiphiles. The distinguishing features of these systems is their characteristic size, which is much larger than that of their atomic counterparts, and their characteris... More

This second volume of the unique interdisciplinary "Soft Matter" series comprehensively describes colloids and their properties. Rod-like colloids, their dynamics behaviour and mixtures with spherical colloids or polymers are treated in-depth. Again, top scientists have contributed articles that bot... More