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Free Download Xin-She Yang, "Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms: Second Edition"
English | 2010 | pages: 158 | ISBN: 1905986289 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Modern metaheuristic algorithms such as particle swarm optimization and cuckoo search start to demonstrate their power in dealing with tough optimization problems and even NP-hard problems. This book reviews and introduces the state-of-the-art nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms for global optimization, including ant and bee algorithms, bat algorithm, cuckoo search, differential evolution, firefly algorithm, genetic algorithms, harmony search, particle swarm optimization, simulated annealing and support vector machines. In this revised edition, we also include how to deal with nonlinear constraints. Worked examples with implementation have been used to show how each algorithm works. This book is thus an ideal textbook for an undergraduate and/or graduate course as well as for self study. As some of the algorithms such as the cuckoo search and firefly algorithms are at the forefront of current research, this book can also serve as a reference for researchers.

Free Download Escaping Nature
by Pilkey, Orrin H.;Pilkey, Charles O.;Pilkey-Jarvis, Linda P.;Longo, Norma J.;Pilkey, Keith C.;Dodson, Fred B.;Hayes, Hannah L.;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1478020660 | 313 pages | True PDF | 36.28 MB

Free Download Chemistry
by Silberberg, Martin;Amateis, Patricia;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1266222839 | 1264 pages | True EPUB | 252.14 MB

Free Download Carl Kurtz, "A Year of Iowa Nature: Discovering Where We Live "
English | ISBN: 1609382404 | 2014 | 148 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Every Sunday evening for almost ten years, Iowa photographer and naturalist Carl Kurtz has e-mailed a photo and an extended caption to hundreds of outdoor enthusiasts. Engaging and informative, the photos focus on the world around and away from his tallgrass prairie homeplace: snow buntings in a blizzard, maple leaves in fall, migrating snow geese and red-winged blackbirds and monarchs, prairie spiderworts in spring bloom, leopard frogs loafing on waterlily leaves, northern flickers feeding young, and all the inhabitants and moods of the passing seasons. Now, in A Year of Iowa Nature, he presents fifty-five of his favorite photos along with an evocative introduction that urges us to go forth and discover the beauty in our own backyards.

Free Download Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins―from Spices to Vices by Noah Whiteman (Author/Narrator)
24/10/23 | English | ASIN: B0BXYJB742 | 11 hrs 8 mins | M4B & MP3 @126 kbps
607 to 612 MB | Unabridged | Retail
An evolutionary biologist tells the story of nature’s toxins and why we are attracted-and addicted-to them, in this "magisterial, fascinating, and gripping tour de force" (Neil Shubin).
A deadly secret lurks within our spice racks, medicine cabinets, backyard gardens, and private stashes.

Free Download Dear Prudence: The Nature and Normativity of Prudential Discourse
by Guy Fletcher
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0198858264 | 223 Pages | True PDF | 1.17 MB

Free Download Guy Fletcher, "Dear Prudence: The Nature and Normativity of Prudential Discourse"
English | ISBN: 0198858264 | 2021 | 224 pages | EPUB | 399 KB
Philosophers have long theorized about what makes people’s lives go well, and why, and the extent to which morality and self-interest can be reconciled. However, we have spent little time on meta-prudential questions, questions about prudential discourse-thought and talk about what is good and bad for us; what contributes to well-being; and what we have prudential reason, or prudentially ought, to do. This situation is surprising given that prudence is, prima facie, a normative form of discourse and cries out for further investigation of what it is like and whether it has problematic commitments. It also marks a stark contrast from moral discourse, about which there has been extensive theorizing, in meta-ethics.

Free Download Jason T. Eberl, "The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics "
English | ISBN: 0268107734 | 2020 | 422 pages | EPUB | 842 KB
Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define this nature? These questions are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain subjects of perennial interest and controversy. The Nature of Human Persons offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence. For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Jason Eberl also considers the criterion of identity for a developing human being―that is, what is required for a human being to continue existing as a person despite undergoing physical and psychological changes over time? Eberl’s investigation presents and defends a theoretical perspective from the thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Advancing beyond descriptive historical analysis, this book places Aquinas’s account of human nature into direct comparison with several prominent contemporary theories: substance dualism, emergentism, animalism, constitutionalism, four-dimensionalism, and embodied mind theory. These theories inform various conclusions regarding when human beings first come into existence―at conception, during gestation, or after birth―and how we ought to define death for human beings. Finally, each of these viewpoints offers a distinctive rationale as to whether, and if so how, human beings may survive death. Ultimately, Eberl argues that the Thomistic account of human nature addresses the matters of human nature and survival in a much more holistic and desirable way than the other theories and offers a cohesive portrait of one’s continued existence from conception through life to death and beyond.

Free Download John McPhee, "The Control of Nature"
English | 2011 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0374522596, 0374128901 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
The Control of Nature is John McPhee’s bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking is his depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those attempting to wrest control from her – stubborn, sometimes foolhardy, more often ingenious, and always arresting characters.

Free Download Gideon Yaffe, "The Age of Culpability: Children and the Nature of Criminal Responsibility"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 019880332X, 0198860021 | PDF | pages: 252 | 1.8 mb
Why be lenient towards children who commit crimes? Reflection on the grounds for such leniency is the entry point into the development, in this book, of a theory of the nature of criminal responsibility and desert of punishment for crime. Gideon Yaffe argues that child criminals are owed lesser punishments than adults thanks not to their psychological, behavioural, or neural immaturity but, instead, because they are denied the vote. This conclusion is reached through accounts of the nature of criminal culpability, desert for wrongdoing, strength of legal reasons, and what it is to have a say over the law. The centrepiece of this discussion is the theory of criminal culpability. To be criminally culpable is for one’s criminal act to manifest a failure to grant sufficient weight to the legal reasons to refrain. The stronger the legal reasons, then, the greater the criminal culpability. Those who lack a say over the law, it is argued, have weaker legal reasons to refrain from crime than those who have a say. They are therefore reduced in criminal culpability and deserve lesser punishment for their crimes. Children are owed leniency, then, because of the political meaning of age rather than because of its psychological meaning. This position has implications for criminal justice policy, with respect to, among other things, the interrogation of children suspected of crimes and the enfranchisement of adult felons.