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Entropy: A New World View is a non-fiction book by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, with an Afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. It was first published by Viking Press, New York in 1980 (ISBN 0-670-29717-8). A paperback edition was published by Bantam in 1981, in a paperback revised edition, by Bantam Books, in 1989 (ISBN 0-553-34717-9).
Jenkins did colour photography for his wife's non-fiction work Trees of Southern Africa (1972). [3] The couple travelled over 100,000 miles to research this three volume work. [ 8 ] They subsequently collaborated on the 1978 travel book The Companion Guide to South Africa .
Stuart Cloete died on 19 March 1976, in Cape Town, South Africa. Following Cloete's death, the copyright to his works passed to his widow. After her death in August 1993, the copyright passed to Cloete's American-South African friend Warren Wilmot Williams. Although Cloete never wished to have any children of his own, he regarded Williams as an ...
Lawrence Anthony (17 September 1950 – 2 March 2012) was a South African conservationist, environmentalist, explorer and author. He was the long-standing head of conservation at the Thula Thula animal reserve in Zululand, South Africa, and the Founder of The Earth Organization, a privately registered, independent, international conservation and environmental group.
The novel is set in South Africa, home to five distinct populations: Bantu (native Black tribes), Coloured (the result of generations of racial mixture between persons of European descent and the indigenous occupants of South Africa along with slaves brought in from Angola, Indonesia, India, Madagascar and the east Coast of Africa), British, Afrikaner, and Indian, Chinese, and other foreign ...
Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life is a 1982 book written by Jeremy Campbell, then Washington correspondent for the Evening Standard. [1] The book examines the topics of probability, information theory, cybernetics, genetics, and linguistics. Information processes are used to frame and examine all of existence, from the ...
For an open thermodynamic system in which heat and work are transferred by paths separate from the paths for transfer of matter, using this generic balance equation, with respect to the rate of change with time of the extensive quantity entropy , the entropy balance equation is: [54] [55] [note 1] = = ˙ ^ + ˙ + ˙ where = ˙ ^ is the net rate ...
Seven years in South Africa : travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambesi (1872-79) / by Dr. Emil Holub ; translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Author: Holub, Emil, 1847-1902. Software used: PDF Architect 6: Conversion program: HathiTrust Image Server / PDF::API2: Encrypted: no: Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter)