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The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistory to the present day. Smil examines all harvests -- from prehistoric man's hunting of megafauna to...

Energy transitions are fundamental processes behind the evolution of human societies: they both drive and are driven by technical, economic, and social changes. In a bold and provocative argument, Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects describes the history of modern society's dependence on fossil fuels and the prospects for the transition to a nonfossil world. Vaclav Smil, who has published more on various aspects of energy than any working scientist, makes it clear that this transition will not be accomplished easily, and that it cannot be accomplished within the...

Mozaika hudebního života Pavla Fajta by se dala poskládat z hraní s Ivou Bittovou, kapely Pluto, projektu Drumtrek, spolupráce s DJem Saykem, Stepanidou Borisovou a dalšími. Album Ladakh 567 nahrál Pavel Fajt v duetu s přírodním člověkem, napůl šamanem Václavem Kořínkem.
Základem CD je živočišné hraní, které se pak upravovalo na počítači. Hlavní díl práce byl tedy s počítačem, ale všechny zvuky a materiály jsou živé. Aranžmá a struktury jsou dané počítačem, dohromady je to vše originální a barevné. Např. hned první zvuk na desce...

This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains accepted papers presented at WSC17, the 17th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, held from December 2012 to January 2013 on the Internet. WSC17 continues a successful series of scientific events started over a decade ago by the World Federation of Soft Computing. It brought together researchers from over the world interested in the ever advancing state of the art in the field. Continuous technological improvements make this online forum a viable gathering format for a world class...