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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Profit: An Environmental HistoryProfit -- getting more out of something than you put into it -- is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more...
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Plant Adaptation to Abiotic Stress: From Signaling Pathways and Microbiomes to Molecular MechanismsThe book "Plant Adaptation to Abiotic Stress: From Signaling Pathways and Microbiomes to Molecular Mechanisms" comprehensively examines abiotic stressors--cold, heat, light, salinity, and water scarcity--across its 18 chapters. Focusing particularly on Arabidopsis thaliana, it investigates abiotic stresses, adaptation strategies, and molecular pathways. Furthermore, it...
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Outcrop Weathering of Petroleum Source Rocks and Black Shales: Field and geochemical Laboratory Criteria for evaluating and collecting unweathered samPredicting and assessing the amounts and types of a petroleum in a petroleum system requires obtaining thermally immature samples of the suspected source rocks in the generative part of a petroleum system. Marginal outcrops are typically thermally immature and provide petroleum geologists and geochemist...
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Nanotechnology: The Whole StoryWinner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from CHOICE MagazineTransistors using one electron at a time. Seemingly transparent sunscreens made with titanium dioxide particles that block harmful UV rays. Nanometer-sized specks of gold that change color to red and melt at 750 C instead...
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Milky Way Owners' Workshop Manual: From 13.5 Billion Years Ago to the Infinite Future - An Insight Into the Study of Our Home Galaxy and Our Place inFrom our special place in the Orion Arm to the Milky Way's future collision with the Andromeda Galaxy, Milky Way Owners' Workshop Manual looks at the structure, formation and evolution of our home galaxy and its place in the universe. Find out how it...
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Microbiology Sparkcharts: Volume 42SparkCharts(TM) The information you need-concisely, conveniently, and accurately. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, these study companions and reference tools cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, from Business and Computer Programming to Medicine, Law, and Languages. Theyll give you...
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Maxwell Equations: A review/repetitoriumWas it a god (Boltzmann's saying) that wrote those equations? Such was the enthusiasm for the Maxwell Equations. A review of Electromagnetic Field Theory (EMF), the repetitorium refers to the Hertz vector as the basis for discussions. The treatment of EMF assumes knowledge of...
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Maladaptation: Natural Selection in the Wrong Direction?Charles Darwin presented the first scientific explanation of design through evolution by natural selection, where the environment furnishes individual organisms with adaptations that help them to survive and reproduce. This accessible book makes the case that natural selection can also do the exact opposite,...
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Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North AmericaMacrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America, which was written as a companion to Field Guide to Oak Species of Eastern North America, represents the first major publication devoted exclusively to the macrofungi that occur in association with oak trees in the forests...
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Light and Color in the OutdoorsAll of science springs from the observation of nature. In this classic book, the late Marcel Minnaert accompanies the reader on a tour of nature's light and color and reveals the myriad phenomena that may be observed outdoors with no more than a pair...
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Ivan Illich: An Intellectual JourneyIn the eighteen years since Ivan Illich's death, David Cayley has been reflecting on the meaning of his friend and teacher's life and work. Now, in Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, he presents Illich's body of thought, locating it in its own time and...
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Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a LieIn 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran the now famous Stanford prison experiment to show that prison could make normal people behave in pathological ways. Based on the first thorough investigation in the archives of the experiment and on interviews with about half of its...
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Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate CrisisAn award-winning author and photographer returns to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change. Forty years ago, the park ranger Jon Waterman took his first journey into the Alaskan Arctic, to the Noatak headwaters. He was astonished by the abundant wildlife, the...
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Imagining the Future: Science and American DemocracyFrom stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, political debates about science have raged in recent years - and, to the chagrin of most observers, have increasingly fallen into the familiar categories of America's culture wars. In Imagining the Future:...
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Identifying Migratory Birds by Sound in Britain and EuropeIdentify migratory birds with this book, containing detailed text on flight and contact calls, annotated sonograms and QR codes to the calls themselves. Every spring and autumn, millions of birds fly over us to en route to their summer or winter quarters, with these...
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Hormones and the Mind: A Woman's Guide to Enhancing Mood, Memory, and Sexual VitalityA groundbreaking approach to overcoming depression, memory loss, and sexual dysfunction by using individualised hormone treatment.Hormones and the Mind presents a revolutionary program for treating emotional, cognitive, and sexual problems through a unique system of individualised hormone modulation. Until recently, hormonal treatments have been...
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Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes: MetallopeptidasesHandbook of Proteolytic Enzymes: Metallopeptidases, Fourth Edition has stood as most comprehensive work in the field of applied enzymology and biocatalysis since the first edition published in 1998. Extensively revised and updated, the new, fourth edition is an essential reference for biochemists, biotechnologists, and...
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Grasses of the Intermountain RegionGrasses of the Intermountain Region is a modification of the two grass volumes of the Flora of North America (FNA). It is designed for identifying members of the Poaceae in the region between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains, and is intended for use...
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Glencoe Physics: Principles and ProblemsAuthor: Paul W. ZitzewitzPublisher: McGraw-Hill/GlencoePublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 894Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.08lbsSize: 10.36h x 8.22w x 1.43dISBN: 9780078238963This title is only available via back order
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Glencoe Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe, Student EditionStrong support for reading comprehension makes earth science accessible to all students.Author: McGraw HillPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 03/21/2007Pages: 1056Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 5.38lbsSize: 11.14h x 8.56w x 1.53dISBN: 9780078746369About the AuthorMcGraw Hill: - McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to...
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