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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Eat or Be EatenThe issue of food can be interpreted in two ways. As a geographical agriculturist, I have focused on food production around the world, but also on being faced with predatory action. These stories relate such events in my life. Some are humorous and some...
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David Brewster and the Culture of Science in Scotland, 1793-1843The decades between the French Revolution and the mid-nineteenth century were a period of radical transformation in Scottish society and culture on many levels. The Scottish Enlightenment had seen a striking blossoming of the natural sciences, with the development of a distinctive and influential...
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Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental JusticeExploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it. Developing amidst...
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Choosing Earth: Humanity's Journey of Initiation Through Breakdown and Collapse to Mature Planetary CommunityIn this revised edition of Choosing Earth (February 2022), Duane Elgin describes how the world has transitioned into an epoch of profound change. Choosing Earth illuminates this pivotal period in our human collective journey from adolescence into early adulthood and beyond. Elgin explains how...
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Chevreul on the Laws of Contrast of Colour: And Their Application to the ArtsDiscover Michel Eug?ne Chevreul's groundbreaking theories on colour as he explores the principles of contrasting and harmonising colours in this classic text on colour theory. First published in 1839 as De la Loi du Contraste Simultané Des Couleurs Atlas, Chevreul's work followed that of...
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Carbon: The Book of LifeA journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth's composition,...
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Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain WorksThe human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre. This book shows a whole...
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Biomedical Engineering PrinciplesCurrent demand in biomedical sciences emphasizes the understanding of basic mechanisms and problem solving rather than rigid empiricism and factual recall. Knowledge of the basic laws of mass and momentum transport as well as model development and validation, biomedical signal processing, biomechanics, and capstone...
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Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites UsA new understanding of how our bodies work, how to keep them healthy, and how our biological diversity unites us rather than divides us How does the body work--and why does it seem to work so differently for each of us? Why do we...
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Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay?: How Traditions from the Past Can Shape Our Future"This is a book of life and why we should celebrate our roots before it is too late. Fascinating." -- John Connell, bestselling author of The Cow BookWhere Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay? is an ode to rural life, charting traditions of...
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True and False LightsUnderstand & Navigate Modern Challenges to Faith: A Comprehensive Guide for Christians Seeking Clarity Amidst Religious Pressure & Secular Influence In an era where Christianity seems to be increasingly pushed out of the public sphere, this book serves as a beacon of guidance. The...
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The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-WatcherFrom the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. The Youngest Science is...
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The Origin of SpeciesHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.'Still considered one of...
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The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of KnowledgeA reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world. Winner of the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize by the Renaissance Society of America, Shortlisted for the Pfizer Award by the History of Science SocietyMany accounts of the scientific revolution portray...
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The Great Salt Lake Food Chains: Fragility and ResiliencyBonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corresponding increases in salinity. Moving from the foundational organisms to brine shrimp, flies, and ten million birds reliant on the...
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The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to BrainsWhy information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in nature More than 150 years after Darwin's revolutionary On the Origin of Species, we are still attempting to understand and explain the amazing complexity of life. Although we...
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The Ellesmere Wolves: Behavior and Ecology in the High ArcticIn a fascinating story of discovery and science, we meet a remote population of wolves unafraid of humans. For parts of twenty-four summers, wolf biologist L. David Mech lived with a group of wolves on Ellesmere Island, some six hundred miles from the North...
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The Book of the FrogFrogs are remarkable creatures. They have mastered both land and water, and can breathe through their skins and their lungs. Some of them are so poisonous that just one tiny frog harbours enough toxins to kill ten people, while others hold the key to...
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The Big Bang Never Happened: A Startling Refutation of the Dominant Theory of the Origin of the UniverseA mesmerizing challenge to orthodox cosmology with powerful implications not only for cosmology itself but also for our notions of time, God, and human nature -- with a new Preface addressing the latest developments in the field. Far-ranging and provocative, The Big Bang Never...
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Test GodsA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the spirit of The Right Stuff, updated for the 21st century, Test Gods is an epic story about extreme bravery and sacrifice, about the thin line between lunacy and genius. Most of all, it is...
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