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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DNA Logic Design: Computing with DNAA DNA computer is a collection of specially selected DNA strands, which when encoded into specific combinations are then subjected to bio-molecular manipulation in order to solve computational problems. Rather than storing information in the 1s and 0s of the binary number system, it...
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Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Articulate BodyRevealing the interplay and influence of dance and scienceduring an age of colonial expansion Bringing together danceand science, two paradigms that explore the nature and possibilities of thebody, this volume illuminates the meanings and articulations of dance innineteenth-century societies. This global collection of studies...
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Consciousness DemystifiedDemystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes. Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingly immaterial experience of consciousness be explained by the material neurons of the brain? There seems to be an unbridgeable gap...
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Coffee: Volume 114Coffee, Volume 112 gives the latest updates on one of the premier global traded commodities. With its annual income of approx. USD 200 billion, it supports the livelihoods of nearly 25 million smallholder farmers. In this updated edition, chapters cover The history and genetic...
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Cloud Warriors: Deadly Storms, Climate Chaos--And the Pioneers Creating a Revolution in Weather ForecastingA deeply-reported and wide-ranging look at the people and technology providing vital weather forecasts, in a world where preparation and prevention is a life-and-death issue. For millennia, humans have tried to understand and predict the weather. The Space Age helped usher in satellites and...
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Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World?and How We Can Take It BackEarly-morning jackhammering from construction down the block. The dull roar of jets flying overhead. Your office mates' phone conversations. We are surrounded by noise, but it is a problem many of us shrug off once the immediate annoyance passes. Yet as gifted science journalist...
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Chemical Geodynamics of the Earths' MantleCreation of this volume of the EMU Notes in Mineralogy Series was motivated by at least two important factors. Firstly, the editors wished to celebrate the success of the two editions ofthe International winter school 'MElting and fluid/melt-rock REactions in the MAntle -MEREMA'. Despite...
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Celestial Navigation: Learn How to Master One of the Oldest Mariner's ArtsCelestial navigation is one of the oldest of the mariner's arts - and one of the most awe-inspiring. It is also essential for every ocean sailor who wants to be able to fix his position should the GPS fail. Tom Cunliffe shows you how...
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Butterflies and Moths of Costa RicaButterflies and Moths of Costa Rica is an in-depth field guide to the majority of species that nature enthusiasts and tourists are eager to see in the region. Richly illustrated accounts include photographs of larvae, pupae, and, when relevant, both male and female individuals....
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Biblical Cosmology: The World According To The Bible And The AncientsSince the Copernican revolution in the 16th Century, mankind has taken on the irrevocable dogma that the Earth is a spinning spherical globe, orbiting the Sun at 66,600 mph, contained within a heliocentric universe. What, though, does the Bible say about this? Can Science...
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A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial CreaturesEnvironmental journalist Alix Morris spends an eye-opening year getting to know these elusive, intelligent creatures, investigating the effects of their extraordinary return from the brink of extinction and how we can try to bring nature back into balance. It might be their large, strangely...
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Apocalyptic Conspiracism: American Evangelicalism in an Age of Climate CrisisIn the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil. How do these groups generate and distribute these truth-claims and why? Using a sociological methodology informed by Bourdieu and Foucault, this book...
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Anatomy & Physiology: The University Student Survival Guide to Ace Anatomy and PhysiologyAnatomy and physiology help you understand the complex systems that make up the human body. To understand the form and function of your body and anyone else's, it is imperative that you learn gross anatomy, histology, and much more. Inside, You Will Discover... A...
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A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity: From the Age of Descartes to the Close of the Nineteenth Century (1910), (Fully Illustrated)In 1910, E. T. Whittaker wrote "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity", which gave a very detailed account of the aether theories from Ren Descartes to Hendrik Lorentz, and which made Whittaker a respected historian of science. Though the book was...
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World Without End: The George Washington Carver ProjectA timely reexamination of the pioneering artist, activist, and scientist, George Washington Carver. World Without End examines the ongoing impact of the groundbreaking African American scientist and artist George Washington Carver. The book reframes Carver's contributions to science, art, and activism alongside the work...
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Workbook for Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection ApproachAuthor: Stuart Warren, Paul WyattPublisher: WileyPublished: 02/02/2010Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.50h x 7.40w x 0.60dISBN: 9780470712269Review Citation(s): Scitech Book News 03/01/2010 pg. 40About the AuthorDr Stuart Warren Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK Dr Warren is the author of the bestselling textbooks...
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Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNAA geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference. Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today often spread misinformation about what biology can and can't tell us about our bodies, minds, and identities. In this...
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When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba VolcanoThe fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--the Earth's largest eruption in the past 28 million years--and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution Some 73,000 years ago, the huge dome of Mount Toba, in today's Sumatra, Indonesia, began...
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Walter Kohn: From Kindertransport and Internment to DFT and the Nobel PrizeWalter Kohn, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and discoverer of the Density Functional Theory (DFT), died in 2016 at the grand age of 93. This book is the first ever biography of Kohn, who led a remarkable life and scientific career, not least the...
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Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's LivesDescribed by one surgeon as "soul-crushing, diamond-making stress," surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties. Drawing back the hospital curtain for a unique and captivating look at the extraordinary skill and dangerous politics of critical surgery in...
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