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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Novel Engineering, K-8: An Integrated Approach to Engineering and LiteracyWith the Novel Engineering approach, " students become excited about what they are reading, writing, designing, and building! This excitement in turn helps them make strides in engineering and literacy, as well as in their abilities to work together, think creatively and analytically, and...
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Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and NanoscienceMolecular Driving Forces, Second Edition is an introductory statistical thermodynamics text that describes the principles and forces that drive chemical and biological processes. It demonstrates how the complex behaviors of molecules can result from a few simple physical processes, and how simple models provide...
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Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of DesignLeading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being.Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We...
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Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern FranceLies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking.Until the seventeenth century, most mapmakers in France were painters. Schooled...
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Leibniz's Correspondence in Science, Technology and Medicine (1676 -1701): Core Themes and Core TextsLeibniz's correspondence from his years spent in Paris (1672-1676) reflects his growth to mathematical maturity whereas that from the years 1676-1701 reveals his growth to maturity in science, technology and medicine in the course of which more than 2000 letters were exchanged with more...
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Laws of Form: Spencer-Brown at Esalen, 1973This Special Issue of Cybernetics and Human Knowing contains rare material related to G. Spencer-Brown's book Laws of Form and its contents.In 1973 there was a conference at Big Sur at which Spencer-Brown discussed his calculus with a group of scientists. This was the...
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La Conciencia Contada Por Un Sapiens a Un Neandertal / Conscience as Told by A S Apiens to a NeanderthalEL FEN?MENO LITERARIO DE LOS ?LTIMOS A?OS Vuelve el t?ndem m?s exitoso para abordar el mayor misterio de la naturaleza humana: nuestro cerebro «El cerebro vive en un cuarto oscuro . «Tal es el gran misterio al que nos enfrentamos , afirma Arsuaga en...
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Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on EarthA biologist's firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth's surface--and how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth's crust--from methane seeps in the ocean floor...
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HerpetologyHerpetology, Fourth Edition, explains why amphibians and reptiles, which are distantly related evolutionary lineages, are nonetheless grouped in the discipline known as herpetology, and describes the position of amphibians and reptiles within the evolution of vertebrates. Initial chapters present the fossil history of amphibians...
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Hegel's Philosophy of NatureAuthor: Marina F. BykovaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 12/12/2024Pages: 331Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781316519271This title is not returnable
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Guide to Temporal Networks, a (Second Edition)Network science offers a powerful language to represent and study complex systems composed of interacting elements -- from the Internet to social and biological systems. A Guide to Temporal Networks presents recent theoretical and modelling progress in the emerging field of temporally varying networks...
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Group Theory in a Nutshell for PhysicistsA concise, modern textbook on group theory written especially for physicists Although group theory is a mathematical subject, it is indispensable to many areas of modern theoretical physics, from atomic physics to condensed matter physics, particle physics to string theory. In particular, it is...
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Grapevine: Added-Value and Applications Volume 113Grapevine: Added-Value and Applications, Volume 111 in the Advances in Botanical Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on exciting and timely topics such as Biorefinery based bioproducts and future prospective of vineyard and winery waste,...
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Genetic Reconstruction of the Past: DNA Analysis in Forensics and Human EvolutionThe same DNA technology that allows the analysis of a hair or tiny blood spot at a crime scene also enables sequencing the DNA of a bone fragment from a Neanderthal skeleton. Comparing the DNA sequences of different samples and comparing the frequency of...
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Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free WillAn evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that...
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Feynman Lectures on Computation: Anniversary EditionThe last lecture course that Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman gaveto students at Caltech from 1983 to 1986 was not on physics but on computerscience. The first edition of the Feynman Lectures on Computation, publishedin 1996, provided an overview of standard and not-so-standard...
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Ferns: Lessons in Survival from Earth's Most Adaptable PlantsFerns are the most remarkable of plants, and their science is both complex and beautiful. Among our most ancient plants, they have a unique way of reproducing, and their story reveals much about our planet's evolution. Ferns tells a remarkable science story by tracing...
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Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of PhysicsA physicist himself, Gino Segr writes about what scientists do and why they do it with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen, he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics' and the world was about to lose its innocence forever. Known by...
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Evolution for the PeopleAuthor: Peter J. BowlerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/28/2024Pages: 308Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781009448970This title is not returnable
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Earth at PerihelionThe poems in Pamela Hobart Carter's Earth at Perihelion hold luminous visions of "our immense home." Earth itself is a leading character. The deep past-of geology, mythology, and cosmology-returns to the present as music and insight. Creeks mumble in their own language; persons sit...
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