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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Physical Chemistry for the Chemical SciencesFollowing in the wake of Chang's two other best-selling physical chemistry textbooks (Physical Chemistry for the Chemical and Biological Sciences and Physical Chemistry for the Biosciences), this new title introduces laser spectroscopist Jay Thoman (Williams College) as co-author.Author: Raymond Chang, John W. ThomanPublisher: University...
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Pharmacological Interventions for OsteoporosisAuthor: Andy H. ChoiPublisher: SpringerPublished: 09/22/2023Pages: 118Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.28dISBN: 9789819958252
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People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying InvadersDickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the...
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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight BackThis damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on. It has become impossible to deny that the planet is...
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Outbreak: Cases in Real-World Microbiology"The science of microbiology is fascinating to those of us who have taken up the challenge of researching and teaching in this largely undiscovered and rapidly expanding field. One of the significant challenges faced by microbiology educators is to balance the need for providing...
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New Mexico's Magnificent Sandia Mountain: The Complete Geological StoryThe magnificent Sandia Mountain forms an enormous rampart towering over the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Regionally, the feature's distinctive "whale back" profile utterly dominates the horizon within a huge area of central New Mexico. This book provides the complete geologic story of the...
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MercuryMercury--rocky and hot. Developing readers learn about our solar system's smallest planet and its key features in this low-level search-and-find beginning reader. Orbiting closest to our sun, Mercury is about the size of Earth's moon. Its gray, wrinkly surface is covered in craters and...
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Meaningful ComplexityEvolution is often described as a complicated subject. Aside from the number of items required to learn the field of Biology, what complicates the study of Biology, even more, are entangled statements. Which are two statements fused into one; thereby creating a meaning that...
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Life in Our Phage WorldWe share the Earth with more than 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 phages. Everywhere they thrive, from well-fed guts to near-boiling acidic springs, from cryoconite holes to endolithic fissures. They travel from one microbial host to the next as virions, their genetic weapons packaged inside a protective protein...
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Laboratory Research NotebookCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press presents the ultimate research notebook, the perfect tool for the student as well as the professional researcher. With 50 carbonless, duplicate pages, and table of contents, the paperback edition can help you organize the most hectic lab schedule. Each...
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Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century AmericaA historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in the popular sciences of animal and human behavior. Are humans innately aggressive or innately cooperative? In...
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Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of InvisibilityThis book takes a comprehensive approach to new ways of thinking about air and its ways of relating to the world, through society, place, objects, environments, and technologies. It seeks to represent the broad spectrum of air and the politics of invisibility that reflect...
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Humans: from the beginning: From the first apes to the first citiesIn just a few years, our understanding of the human past has changed beyond recognition as new discoveries and advances in genetic techniques overturn long-held beliefs and make international news.Drawing upon expert literature and the latest research, HUMANS: FROM THE BEGINNING is a rigorous...
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Human Evolution: The Evolution of the Human Brain (The History of the Evolution and Natural Selection Processes)Your author decided to write this book about human evolution after seeing a science program about evolution on kcet, the public service tv station in the los angeles area.I was impressed with the amount of research going on in this area trying to find...
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Geology of British Columbia: A Journey Through TimeSydney Cannings and Richard Cannings tell the story of the province's geology and the history of its living creatures. Starting 200 million years ago, when there was no British Columbia west of the present Rocky Mountains, the authors take us on a journey through...
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Fundamentals of Anatomy & PhysiologyFor courses in two-semester A&P. Using Art Effectively to Teach the Toughest Topics in A&P Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology helps students succeed in the challenging A&P course with an easy-to-understand narrative, precise visuals, and steadfast accuracy. With the 11th Edition, the author team...
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Essential Cell BiologyEssential Cell Biology features lively, clear writing paired with exceptional illustrations and Dynamic Figures in the Norton Illumine Ebook, making it the ideal textbook for a first course in cell biology. The Sixth Edition incorporates new research throughout, highlighting emerging research areas like COVID-19....
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Essays on Life ItselfCompiling twenty articles on the nature of life and on the objective of the natural sciences, this remarkable book complements Robert Rosen's groundbreaking Life Itself--a work that influenced a wide range of philosophers, biologists, linguists, and social scientists. In Essays on Life Itself, Rosen...
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Dynamics and Kinetics in Structural Biology: Unravelling Function Through Time-Resolved Structural AnalysisDynamics and Kinetics in Structural Biology Understand the latest experimental tools in structural biology with this pioneering work Structural biology seeks to understand the chemical mechanisms and functions of biological molecules, such as proteins, based on their atomic structures. Until recently, these structures have...
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Discovering Political EcologyPolitical ecology is one of the most vibrant fields of environmental research. This book introduces political ecology to a new generation of students in a daring new way: as an interdisciplinary approach to environmental research but also as a series of lived realities and...
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