Humans are exploiting the Earth in an unsustainable manner, which is accelerating both environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, owing to global climate change, the rates of deterioration and extinction will probably increase in the near future. The scientific community has been highly sensitive to this alarming development and increased the number of baseline and ecological...

tion. His first-rate and first-hand working knowledge of geology and paleontology as well as his clear perception of the weak arguments in Darwin's theory raise this book far above the level of similar endeavors of the period. Dawson attempts to salvage his faith by careful analysis ofthese arguments. He demonstrates, for example, that the fossil record does not provide support only for the Dar...

Back in 1960 the demand at Greensboro, North Carolina, was for a twenty cent harrburger at a downtown white-owned lunch counter. Since then, freedom rides, sit-ins, marches . for jobs, income and decent housing, and finally urban riots have become vehicles for black expression against racism and for a fair share of American affluence. The response of the white corporate sector to such anguished...

In the past two decades, step-indexed logical relations and separation logics have both come to play a major role in semantics verification research. More recently, they been married together form of like VST, iCAP, Iris, which provide powerful tools for (among other things) building semantic models richly typed languages Rust. these logics, propositions are given using model, reasoning is refl...