Product Description: Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are of an increasingly acute and serious nature.In Virginia Climate Fever, environmental journalist Stephen Nash brings home the threat of climate change to the state of Virginia...read more

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Product Description: A complete and unified introduction to applications, theory and algorithms which contains modelling examples, computer based exercises and material on interior point methods and trust-region methods. Gives both numerical methods for optimisation and optomisation problems.

Product Description: This book, the second in a series on the avifauna of Indonesia, introduces the wide variety of birds of Sumatra and Kalimantan, whose lowland forests and coastal wetlands are particularly rich habitats. The main descriptions cover 148 species from nearly every bird family on the two islands...read more