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Seeding the Positive Anthropocene

There is a growing interest in the character and the challenge of the Anthropocene. Although efforts to pin down beginning dates of this epoch have been debated, there is a broad consensus that humanity is facing an unprecedented challenge to surviving on Earth, a challenge which humans have created ourselves. Undeniably, we have had and continue to have impacts on the planet as a whole. These include ravaging bushfires and unprecedented flooding caused by climate change, spiking levels of carbon dioxide levels, and widespread loss of biodiversity.

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Journeyism: A Handbook for Future Academics

With many seemingly hopeless and discouraging challenges during these times, Journeyism reaches out with optimism and encouragement. This book reveals how academic institutions can create sustainable conditions for human dignity for everyone in the long-term. How can something so remote as sustainable conditions for human dignity be possible?

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Basic Insights in Vector Calculus: With a Supplement on Mathematical Understanding

Basic Insights in Vector Calculus provides an introduction to three famous theorems of vector calculus, Green’s theorem, Stokes’ theorem and the divergence theorem (also known as Gauss’s theorem). Material is presented so that results emerge in a natural way. As in classical physics, we begin with descriptions of flows.

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Preface
Chapter 2: 2-D MASS-FLOW VELOCITY FIELDS

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The (Pre-)Dawning of Functional Specialization in Physics

The (Pre-)Dawning of Functional Specialization in Physics invites attention to data for each of the eight main tasks evident and self-evident in existing scholarship in modern physics. It makes preliminary efforts toward envisioning something of what functional collaboration will look like — in physics, the Academy and Society.

 

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Introduction: Foreshadowings of a Normative Division of Labor

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Pathways to Real Analysis

Pathways to Real Analysis provides an introduction to several key ideas of real analysis, including Archimedes quadrature of the parabola, Calculus, power series, Cauchy’s definitions of limit and integral, the inverse and implicit function theorems, the wave equation, Fourier’s heat equation and Fourier series.

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