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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Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental FutureAfter decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales--from the household to the global market--are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now,...
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Goethe's Theory of ColourA groundbreaking text on colour theory, Goethe's seminal work challenges Newtonian theories to explore the human experience and subjective nature of colour. First published in 1810 as Zur Farbenlehre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic work took a pioneering approach to colour science, exploring the...
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Fundamentals of Plant PhysiologyFundamentals of Plant Physiology emphasizes essential concepts, offering a concise, accessible, and focused approach to the topic while maintaining the high standard of scientific accuracy and pedagogical richness for which the Taiz franchise is renowned. This concise and accessible textbook meets the needs of...
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Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction: The Classic TextThis seminal text of Computer Science, the most cited book on the subject, is now available for the first time in paperback. Constraint satisfaction is a decision problem that involves finite choices. It is ubiquitous. The goal is to find values for a set...
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the UniverseNobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune...
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ExoFrontiers: Big questions in exoplanetary scienceThis book is a compendium of key scientific questions, challenges, and opportunities across different areas of exoplanetary science. It provides a starting point for researchers, experts and non-experts alike, to obtain a quick overview of the forefront of exoplanetary science and a vision for...
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ESRI Map Book, Volume 39Every year, works of mapmakers from around the world are selected for the Esri Map Book to demonstrate how geographic information system (GIS) technology helps our governments, businesses, and citizens.Esri Map Book, Volume 39, continues this tradition, showcasing maps and applications that use Esri's...
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Episodes From a Colonial PresentPost-/Decolonial critique exposes and deconstructs global inequality in its epistemic and material dimensions. However, this knowledge tends to hide in universities and in abstract, inaccessible theoretical texts. This collective comic project deals with postcolonial critique of global inequality in everyday life in the spaces,...
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Eating and Being: A History of Ideas about Our Food and OurselvesWhat we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what is good. Eating...
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EarthLight: The Power of EarthLight and the Human PerspectiveExperience the awe and wonder of space through the eyes of Dr. Sian Proctor, mission pilot for the groundbreaking Inspiration4 mission-the first all-civilian mission to orbit. In her latest book, Earthlight, Dr. Proctor shares the profound and transformative experience of viewing Earth from space,...
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Discovering Quarks: Remembering Feynman, Gell-Mann, and TollestrupThis book describes the development of our understanding of the strong interactions in particle physics, through its competing ideas and personalities, its false starts, blind alleys, and moments of glory - culminating with the author's discovery of quarks, real particles living in a deeper...
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Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands YesWhy is it so hard to speak up, even when we know something's wrong? This is the definitive book on defiance--a clear-eyed dissection of the forces that silence us, featuring groundbreaking research and legendary stories of defiance alongside everyday examples and strategies for how...
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Daydreaming in the Solar System: Surfing Saturn's Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space ExplorationA thrilling journey through the solar system that merges imagination with hard science. Imagine traveling to the far reaches of the solar system, pausing for close-up encounters with distant planets, moons, asteroids, and comets, accompanied by a congenial guide to the science behind what...
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Dark: An A to Z of the CosmosThe beginner's guide to the Universe-- in a cosmic, coffee-table book package, perfect for anyone who wants to brush up on their astronomical ABCs.Ever wanted to cry out, "What on Earth is a black hole?" but been afraid you'd be shouting into the abyss?...
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Climate Change and Climate Finance: Current Experience and Future DirectionsAnalyzing the role companies can play in tackling climate change, this book shows how they can set up effective environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks and draft resilient strategies for sustainable activities and investment. It assesses the issue of climate justice, considers the impact...
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Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases: Relaxation, Transfer, and Reactions in Condensed Molecular SystemsThis second edition of Chemical Dynamics in Condensed Phases provides a substantial modification and expansion of the first edition published in 2006. Nitzan offers a uniform approach to diverse problems encountered in the study of dynamical processes in condensed phase molecular systems. The textbook...
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Chaos Theory: A Quick ImmersionThis short work explores the excitement and surprising order of chaos and how studying it has revolutionized scientists' understanding of our world. ENDORSEMENTS: "Books on chaos theory tend to fall one of two ways. The first are those that cannot resist the hype. The...
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A Natural History of the EmiratesFor many people, thoughts of the United Arab Emirates conjure images of ultramodern skyscrapers and rolling sand dunes. However, the Emirates are a rich mosaic of ecosystems and habitats that support surprisingly diverse communities of organisms, and there is growing awareness of the importance...
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Advances in Understanding of Unit Operations in Non-ferrous Extractive Metallurgy 2021Unit metallurgical operations processes are usually separated into three categories: 1) hydrometallurgy (leaching, mixing, neutralization, precipitation, cementation, and crystallization); 2) pyrometallurgy (roasting and smelting); and 3) electrometallurgy (aqueous electrolysis and molten salt electrolysis). In hydrometallurgy, the aimed metal is first transferred from ores and...
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What's Wild: A Half Century of Wisdom from the Woods and Rivers of New England"...as a Wildlife Biologist working with NH native species... Eric's expertise was unmatched." - Colonel Kevin Jordan, Chief of Law Enforcement, NH Fish and Game DepartmentAs the state's first bear biologist in the 1970s, Eric Orff began a half century career as a "forest...
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