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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Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence PolicyWill you please just listen to me? If you are a scientist, or a fan of science, have you ever wondered why your fact-based explanation of ground-breaking scientific research falls flat with family, friends, and the general public? Do you want your research to...
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Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate ChangeThis book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis. Its timeliness lies in applying important findings on risk and resilience to runaway climate change. When risk and resilience are brought together in...
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Quantum Mechanics: Theory and ExperimentThis textbook presents quantum mechanics at the junior/senior undergraduate level. It is unique in that it describes not only quantum theory, but also presents five laboratories that explore truly modern aspects of quantum mechanics. These laboratories include "proving" that light contains photons, single-photon interference,...
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Powerful Mushrooms: An Illustrated AnthologyFungi Unveiled: Immerse yourself in cultural tales, scientific revelations, and vivid psychedelic visuals--a botanical masterpiece that enchants both the curious and the connoisseur. Explore the secret lives of 60 mushrooms in Powerful Mushrooms. Powerful Mushrooms tells the story of 60 mushrooms - divided by...
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Por Qu? Recordamos: La Nueva Ciencia de la Memoria / Why We RememberNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLEREl destacado neurocient?fico y miembro de la Fundaci?n Guggenheim, Charan Ranganath, nos lleva a un fascinante viaje a trav?s de la ciencia de nuestras memorias con una claridad y perspicacia excepcionales. Con relatos cautivadores sobre las...
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Physics to Philosophy and BackWhat do we really know about the world? Physics utilizes complex equations to avoid having to answer philosophical questions like this. Consider, for example, the fact that the motion of particles is described in terms of straight lines, while any line that we can...
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Out of The WaySpending twenty-five years of your life making attempts to be godly and Christian-like was, for me, a complete waste of time. Psychology and neuroscience taught me more about behavior than any other source. Plus, I have read lots of books that deal with psychology,...
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On Breathing: Care in a Time of CatastropheA gorgeous, expansive piece of narrative non-fiction about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing...
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Of Poles and Zeros: Fundamentals of Digital SeismologyDigital signal processing has become an integral part of observational seismology. Seismic waveforms and the parameters commonly extracted from them are strongly influenced by the effects of numerous filters, both within the earth and within the recording system. With the advent of numerous software...
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Mountains Before Mountaineering: The Call of the Peaks Before the Modern AgeThe human story of mountains, long before modern mountaineers battled to be 'first' upon their summits Today, mountains are spaces of adventure: hill-walking, skiing, rock-climbing and mountaineering. Mountain regions are treasured as places for human beings to connect with nature, encounter the sublime, and...
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Moss and LichenA fascinating guide to the natural and cultural significance of mosses and lichens. Moss and Lichen is a celebration of the extraordinary biology, beauty, and resilience of two unassuming organisms. Endowed with unique abilities to thrive in extreme habitats, mosses and lichens defy easy...
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Moral AI: And How We Get ThereA balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars...
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Mangifera indica: A Biography of the MangoThe mango, the king of fruits, is also the fruit of desire and the fruit of love. Every aspect of the tree is profoundly intertwined with Indian civilization. The leaves, flowers, and fruits of the mango are depicted in paintings and sculptures, and references...
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Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GISPrized for its creative design, original art, and playful, accessible writing, Making Maps is now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition. The text is restructured to emphasize the importance of the map making process. All components of map making are covered and are brought...
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Life on Earth-Like Planets: Gaia and Her SistersFrom its ancient Greek roots to Lovelock's groundbreaking 1979 book, the concept of Gaia has evolved to depict Earth as a single, intricate organism sustaining life through the interplay of its organic and inorganic elements. From the Hadean epoch, where life's emergence radically transformed...
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Human Emergence and Our Place in the Natural WorldThis book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is incompatible with the natural causality that is the basic presupposition of modern science. That position is essentially based on the reductionist view of modern...
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How Your Brain Is Wired: An Owner's ManualWritten by an award-winning behavioral change expert, this practical guide shows how recent discoveries in the behavioural sciences can help you lead a more positive and rewarding life.As 95 per cent of our brain activity carries on at a subconscious level, we're not always...
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Honeybees, a Natural and less natural historyOn evolution, ecology and the behaviour of honey beesJacques van Alphen describes the research that unravelled the behaviour of honey bees. Fascinating stories! How, for example, can a hive of several tens of thousands of individuals function without a leader? And what about the...
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth CenturyAn accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities--revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, and regicides--that befell the mid-seventeenth-century world and wiped...
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Física II: Electromagnetismo - Optica - Sonido / Apuntes de Clases de Profesor Ing. Víctor E. ChiapperoEste trabajo es el resultado de la corrección de un apunte de clases realizado por un alumno durante el período lectivo 2010 (año muy completo en cuanto al dictado de clases), el cual se había difundido mucho entre los alumnos de Física II y...
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