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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Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management (Third Edition)This book is based on the author's 49 years of experience as a practicing coastal engineer and 34 years as professor of coastal engineering and management at Queen's University. The book is therefore thoroughly practical in nature, but it also reflects newly relevant issues,...
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Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery MaterialsThe expanding market share of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), driven by the secondary battery and electric vehicle markets, has consequently led to the accumulation of spent LIBs. This presents a unique business opportunity for recovering and recycling valuable metals from the spent lithium-ion cathode materials....
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Human Anatomy Laboratory Manual with Cat DissectionsFor the one-semester human anatomy laboratory course. Everything students need for a successful lab experience With 30 exercises covering all body systems, a clear, engaging writing style, and full-color illustrations, Human Anatomy Laboratory Manual with Cat Dissections, 9th Edition provides everything needed for a...
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How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial2014 YALSA Great Graphic Novels list 10 Unforgettable Graphic Novels list by salon.com 2012 Best Book shortlist at the British Comics Awards (UK edition) Is hydro-fracking safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing actually happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Award-winning...
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How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of AlgorithmsFrom facial recognition--capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents--to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part...
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His Brother's Keeper: One Family's Journey to the Edge of MedicineStephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a...
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Fundamentos de Ecología: Visiones acerca de la complejidad de los Ecosistemas, la Biodiversidad, el Cambio climático y la Sustentabilidad en elEl inicio del nuevo milenio ha conocido un espectacular auge de la Ecología y en general de las ciencias ambientales. Pareciera que el hombre ha tomado conciencia del peligro que supone la explotación incontrolada e irracional de los recursos naturales, la contaminación a gran...
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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and OurselvesAn engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food--for better and for worse How often do we open the fridge or peer into...
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Frogs of the World: A Guide to Every FamilyA richly illustrated guide to the world's frogs that includes species from every family With more than 7,600 known species, frogs exhibit an extraordinary range of forms and behaviors, from those that produce toxins so deadly that they could kill a human many times...
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Friendship: Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship Volume 5Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental,...
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Fixing AmericaAuthor: William M. TaggartPublisher: Emerald BooksPublished: 01/30/2024Pages: 412Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9781954779877
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Everyday Physics: Waves - From Sounds and Light to Tsunamis and GravitationThis book aims to popularize physics by emphasizing conceptual ideas of physics and their interconnections, while avoiding mathematics entirely. The approach is to explore intriguing topics of daily relevance by asking and discussing questions: thereby the reader can participate in developing answers, which enables...
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Ethical Approaches to Human Remains: A Global Challenge in Bioarchaeology and Forensic AnthropologyCombines international perspectives on the current ethical considerations and challenges facing bioarchaeologists in the recovery, analysis, curation, and display of human remainsThe first up-to-date book to focus on the ethics in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology in the last 12 yearsThe only book that deals...
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Electric Utility Resource Planning: Economics, Reliability, and Decision-MakingWith this 2nd edition, author Dr. Steven Sim again applies the experience and insights he gained from more than 30 years of resource planning for Florida Power & Light (FPL). As one of the largest electric utilities in the U.S., FPL has faced a...
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Ecological Crisis and Water Supply: The Case of Andalusia in the Spanish Hydrological ContextThis book analyses the origin and evolution of the water supply service in Andalusia (southern Spain) between 1800 and 2020 from several perspectives. It does so from a historical perspective, to understand the evolution of the service over the years; from an economic perspective,...
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Earth: The Definitive Visual Guide, New EditionExplore and understand the natural and human wonders of our planet Now in its third edition, this landmark encyclopedia both celebrates our planet and explains the science underpinning the forces and processes that have made and shaped it. Artworks, photographs, terrain models, and maps...
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C. S. Lewis' War Against Scientism and Naturalism: A Detailed Examination of His ViewsIt is commonly assumed that C S Lewis was a theistic evolutionist. In fact, he was one of the most effective anti-evolutionist of the last century. He did not make his case against evolution from biology, but rather from logic, reason, and history. This...
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Computing Geographically: Bridging Giscience and GeographyGeographic information science (GISc) and systems (GIS) have grown rapidly in recent decades, increasingly on a separate track from geographic thought. As geography's "big ideas"--such as space, place, boundaries, scale, process, and relationality--have evolved, what does this mean for their computational representation? This book...
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Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain FutureThe first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center. Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a...
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Chemistry of SemiconductorsSilicon, germanium, and compound semiconductors, among which silicon carbide, gallium arsenide and gallium nitride are the most representative examples, play a withstanding role in the world economy, since they were and still are the keys for the advancement of modern microelectronics and optoelectronics, with...
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