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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The Science of Life and Death in FrankensteinThe first book to compile the historical scientific and medical thought that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley. But how did Shelley and her fellow Romantic writers incorporate this debate into their work,...
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Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women ScientistsThe oil and gas industry is one of the richest and most powerful industries in the world. In recent years, company avowals in support of diversity, much-touted programs for "women in STEM," and, most importantly, a tight labor market with near parity in women...
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Quantum Entanglement Lib/EQuantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not...
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How Are Plants Pollinated?Plants make pollen so more plants can grow. The pollen needs to get from plant to plant. How does this happen? Let's investigate pollination!Author: Emily RaijPublisher: Pebble BooksPublished: 08/01/2021Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.13h x 7.17w x 0.32dISBN: 9781977131393Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.4Point...
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Exploring the Building Blocks of Science Book 4 Laboratory NotebookIntroduce kids to the excitement of doing hands-on, real science experiments with Exploring the Building Blocks of Science Book 4 Laboratory Notebook. Each easy to perform experiment encourages students to use critical thinking skills and is organized around the scientific method-the process real scientists...
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Environmental Communication and the Public SphereThe best-selling Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we perceive the environment. Authors Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Robert...
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What Insects Do, and WhyA beautifully illustrated look at the lives and mind-boggling behaviors of insects What Insects Do, and Why takes you on an unforgettable tour of the insect world, presenting these amazing creatures as you have never seen them before. This stunningly illustrated guide explores how...
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Mapping and Forecasting Land Use: The Present and Future of PlanningMapping and Forecasting Land Use: The Present and Future of Planning is a comprehensive reference on the use of technologies to map land use, focusing on GIS and remote sensing applications and methodologies for land use monitoring. This book addresses transversal topics such as...
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Soft Matter in Plants: From Biophysics to BiomimeticsPlants offer some of the most elegant applications of soft matter principles in Nature. Understanding the interplay between chemistry, physics, biology, and fluid mechanics is critical to forecast plant behaviour, which is necessary for agriculture and disease management. It also provides inspiration for novel...
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507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and DevicesThis compendium of ingenious mechanisms employs simple drawings to explain 507 of the small components that constitute complex machinery. Left-hand pages feature illustrations, and facing pages offer brief descriptions of use and operation. Ranging from simple to complex, the mechanisms include cranks, pulleys, drills,...
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Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to VinylThe story of recorded sound--the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl. In Into the Groove, vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects a mind-blowing...
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Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the AnthropoceneWe live in unprecedented times - the Anthropocene - defined by far-reaching human impacts on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health, and explains how these changes affect health outcomes,...
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Canceled Science: What Some Atheists Don't Want You to SeeEric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a physics professor at Ball State University when the letter from a militant atheist arrived and all hell broke loose. The conflict spilled first onto the pages of the local newspaper, and then into the national...
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Handbook of Exact Solutions to the Nonlinear Schrödinger EquationsThis book collects all known solutions to the in one resource nonlinear Schr dinger equation. In addition, the book organizes the solutions by classifying and grouping them based on aspects and symmetries they possess. Accompanied by Mathematica notebooks containing all solutions, it also features...
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Toxin Nation: The Poisoning of Our Air, Water, Food, and BodiesShould we really trust the government, Big Pharma, agribusinesses, factory farms, or the fossil-fuel industry with our safety? We live in a world filled with plastics, heavy metals, food preservatives, processed foods, genetically modified organisms, drugs, ointments, medications, electromagnetic frequencies, radiation, treated water and...
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Time Travel: The Science and Science FictionFact or fiction? Real or impossible? Movement through time explored, examined and explained! Albert Einstein's theory of relativity postulates, and scientists have proven, that the faster you travel, the slower time moves. Clocks on airplanes, satellites and rockets are slower than clocks on Earth,...
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Alzheimer's Disease Decoded: The History, Present, and Future of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia (Second Edition)This book aims to present, educate and inform individuals about Alzheimer's disease in a comprehensive manner. Its scope ranges from the discovery of the disease, epidemiology and basic biological principles underlying it, to advanced stem cell therapies used in the treatment of Alzheimer's. It...
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Her Wilderness Will Be Her MannersAn electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a "natural body" An innovative book-length poem that delves into the intricacies of natural history dioramas, taxidermy, landscape, and women naturalists, Her Wilderness Will Be Her...
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Seaweed: Marine Algae from the Northeast CoastExplore more of the seashore with this fun introductory book about seaweed. Learn the names of the most common varieties and how important these seaweed/marine algae are to people, seabirds, and other sea creatures. Naturalistic watercolor illustrations reveal the beauty of various brown, green,...
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The Contamination of the Earth: A History of Pollutions in the Industrial AgeThe trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century. Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities...
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