Science
Discover a range of science books, including fiction novels about science, intriguing science facts, and essential physics books. Explore the best sci-fi books and top-selling science titles
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Strong Gravitational Lensing in the Era of Big Data (Iau S381)During recent decades, strong gravitational lensing has become a powerful tool to study astronomical objects with widely different physical scales. It has also proven to be a promising diagnostic that can solve outstanding problems in cosmology. Now is a critical time for strong lensing...
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State and Provincial Amphibian and Reptile Publications For the United States and Canada, Second EditionThis second edition bibliography is intended as a guide to the regional (state and provincial) herpetofaunal literature of the United States and Canada through December 31, 2023. This edition includes over 1300 references. We have limited our scope to include those published papers and...
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StandardsAn engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world. Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world. In Standards, Jeffrey Pomerantz and...
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Spin Glass Theory and Far Beyond: Replica Symmetry Breaking After 40 YearsAbout sixty years ago, the anomalous magnetic response of certain magnetic alloys drew the attention of theoretical physicists. It soon became clear that understanding these systems, now called spin glasses, would give rise to a new branch of statistical physics. As physical materials, spin...
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Sociology: A Global Perspective, Loose-Leaf VersionSOCIOLOGY: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, Ninth Edition, introduces readers to the concepts and theories of sociology, demonstrates how those concepts and theories can be used to think about the most significant and pressing global issues of our day, and uses powerful visual images to illustrate...
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Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our WorldA spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening creatures. For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in...
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Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the BinaryWhy human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap...
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Science Societies: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific WorldWhat role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is science's relation to democracy? This introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary research on topics such as expertise, activism,...
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Science and PoliticsThe recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply "stick to the facts" and leave politics to the politicians when the world seems to be...
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Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-ControlZombies aren't just the stuff of nightmares. Explore the fascinating world of real-life insect zombification.Zombies are all around us--insect zombies, that is. In Rise of the Zombie Bugs, Mindy Weisberger explores the eerie yet fascinating phenomenon of real-life zombification in the insect class and...
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Pracheen Bharatiya KhagolvidnyanAuthor: Nilesh Nilkanth Oak, Roopa Bhaty, Leena DamlePublisher: Sakal Media Pvt LtdPublished: 12/06/2024Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9789348048257Language: Marathi
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PhenologyOn the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help. Phenology is all about timing--when trees leaf out, flowers bloom, birds migrate, animals bear young and hibernate--and...
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Ocean Governance (Beyond) BordersThis Open Access book "Ocean Governance (Beyond) Borders" is concerned with the persistence of bordering in ocean space, and the possibilities that might arise if we think beyond borders for modes of oceanic management, engaging the ocean's fluid physicality and the mobile human and...
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North American Deserts: Ecology of Our Arid LandsDeserts cover about one third of the earth's surface and are the largest terrestrial ecosystem in the world. They are the only biome that is actually expanding, largely due to human activities and climate change. In the United States, six unique desert ecosystems stretch...
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New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness: Affective Affinities and the Politics of Male ExpressivityIn the late 1960s, the white counterculture enters the screens with Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider; in 1976, a backlash seems to have taken place with white male protagonists such as Travis Bickle, Howard Beale, and Rocky Balboa being surrounded by non-white and...
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Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron Dependent Enzymes Part B: Volume 704Mononuclear Non-heme Iron Dependent Enzymes, Volume 704, Part B focuses on methods for studying, characterizing, and leveraging the chemistry of mononuclear non-heme iron dependent enzymes. Chapters in this new release include Observing extradiol dioxygenases in action through a crystalline lens, Methods used to determine...
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Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of LifeA Best Book of the YearSeed Magazine - Granta Magazine - The Plain-DealerIn this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli's pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. He reveals...
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Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We RememberAn illuminating look at the adaptive nature of our memories--and how their flexibility and fallibility help us survive and thrive We tend to think of our memories as impressions of the past that remain fully intact, preserved somewhere inside our brains. In fact, we...
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Math Intro Gen Relativ (2nd Ed)The book aims to give a mathematical presentation of the theory of general relativity (that is, spacetime-geometry-based gravitation theory) to advanced undergraduate mathematics students. Mathematicians will find spacetime physics presented in the definition-theorem-proof format familiar to them. The given precise mathematical definitions of physical...
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Loose Leaf for Chemistry in ContextThe goal of this successful, issues-based textbook, Chemistry in Context, is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing science and the world. The non-traditional...
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