Harald Lesch Book order

What is driving climate change? What impact does it have on the Earth's ecosystems, our environment, and us? What can I do? This book explains in a clear and understandable way the interrelationships, influencing factors and effects of the greatest challenge facing mankind: climate change. The team of authors presents over 100 aspects in clear language, each on a double-page spread. With impressive sketchnotes, professor and sketchnoter Katharina Theis-Bröhl illustrates and explains the sometimes simple, sometimes complicated issues always understandable. Because: Sketchnotes are not only beautiful to look at – they are also an effective mnemonic, a structural tool and an aid to crystallize the essentials. Comprehensible accompanying texts by Cecilia Scorza and Harald Lesch round off each topic in an informative way. With this book, you can understand the causes of climate change, discover the physical connections, and recognize both local and global impacts. You will learn about the role our location in the solar system plays, the feedback processes involved in global warming, and what it means when the oceans acidify. And ultimately, the question will be asked: How much time do we have left to act? From the contents : How special is the Earth? – Understanding the greenhouse effect – The Earth's climate system – The climate change – Effects of climate change – What can I do? – A look ahead

Bereits seit der Antike ist der Himmel ein zentraler Raum, der jenseits von festen Orts-, Zeit- und Identitätszuschreibungen das Verhältnis von Individuum und Kosmos und die damit in Zusammenhang stehenden Grundfragen der menschlichen Existenz und deren Wertkonzepte aushandelt. So stellt der ethische Zugang zum Himmel zentrale Fragehorizonte bereit, die in den Kontext der interdisziplinären Forschungsfelder und kulturellen Horizonte eingebettet werden. Neben diesen Fragehorizonten ist aber auch die ästhetische Umsetzung dieser Perspektivierungen von zentraler Bedeutung, denn wissenschaftliche wie religiöse Texte, die sich mit diesen Konzepten auseinandersetzen und den Himmel als Projektionsraum einsetzen, entfalten eine literarisch-rhetorische Kraft. Diese auf ihre ethischen Implikationen hin zu untersuchen, ist ein wichtiges Ziel des Bandes.

This book contains new observational results which help to illuminate the hydrodynamic and the magnetohydrodynamic interactions between the disk and the halo of our galaxy and other galaxies. It discusses how the recent discovery of an x-ray corona of our galaxy and the revelation of its x-ray emission's impact on intergalactic gas clouds has motivated the development of new theoretical models. It explores these are models for galactic winds, galactic fountains, acceleration of low-energy cosmic ray particles in turbulent velocity fields, magnetic reconnection in the boundary layers of colliding interstellar gas clouds, and complete evolutionary scenarios for galactic halos.