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 Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self"Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder."--Ada Lim?nIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith...
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The Privileged Planet (20th Anniversary Edition): How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for DiscoveryThe Provocative Classic The Privileged Planet in a Fully Revised, 20th Anniversary Edition! Are we just an accident of cosmic evolution? Is Earth a "lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark" as the late Carl Sagan put it? Or is there more to...
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The People's Spaceship: Nasa, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement After ApolloWhen the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from humanity's first voyage to the moon in 1969, NASA officials advocated for more ambitious missions. But with the civil rights movement, environmental concerns, the Vietnam War, and other social crises taking up much of the public's attention,...
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The Great Flood of 1607Author: Barb DrummondPublisher: Barb DrummondPublished: 09/02/2024Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781912829170
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The Gene Book: Explorations in the Code of LifeThe Gene Book: Explorations in the Code of Life is designed to introduce undergraduate college students to foundational concepts in genetics. The text provides in-depth coverage of the essential principles of genetics, from Mendel to molecular gene therapy, and reads like a story, guiding...
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The Cryptozoology of CatsFrom exotic wild species inhabiting unfamiliar settings to elusive forms still unknown to science or thought to be extinct, the Felidae, better known as 'cats', have been reported in sightings from around the world. According to conventional wisdom, they do not exist, but mystery...
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The Book of Facts and Trivia: ScienceEntertaining, informative, and enlightening! Educational, eyebrow-raising, and profound. Science has never been this much fun! Take a weird and wonderful tour of the every branch of science with this treat of stories, trivia, and facts! From Earth's weight gain thanks to the many tons...
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Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running WatersRunning waters are enormously diverse, ranging from torrential mountain brooks, to large lowland rivers, to great river systems whose basins occupy subcontinents. While this diversity makes river ecosystems seem overwhelmingly complex, a central theme of this volume is that the processes acting in running...
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Stormy Weather: Pagan Cosmologies, Christian Times, Climate WreckageComposed as a counter-history of western philosophical and political thought, Stormy Weather explores the role western cosmologies have played in the conquests of paganism in Europe and the Americas, the production of climate wreckage, and the concealment of that wreckage from western humanists and...
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Statistics of Extremes and Records in Random SequencesRare events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods fortunately do not occur every day, but when they do, their effects are devastating. Such rare events are particularly important in understanding and characterizing global warming and climate changes. In addition to natural catastrophes, rare events...
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Statistics for Ecologists Using R and Excel: Data Collection, Exploration, Analysis and PresentationThis is a book about the scientific process and how it is applied to data in ecology. We will learn how to plan for data collection, how to assemble data, how to analyse data and finally how to present the results. The book uses...
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Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern MediterraneanAn invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquity Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us, and their contributions have shaped mathematical practice up to modern times. Yet the mathematical activity of Greek antiquity extended far beyond their achievements...
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Solving Everyday Problems with the Scientific Method: Thinking Like a Scientist (Second Edition)This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, traveling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve problems when...
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Sexo, Evolución y Conducta Humana: ¡Pero qué animales somos!Por qu vivimos en pareja? Por qu somos celosos? Es cierto que las mujeres sienten menos deseo sexual? Cu l es la causa de la infidelidad sexual? Son todos los hombres violadores en potencia? Por qu extirpan el cl toris y cosen los labios...
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Sciences of the Ancient Hindus: Unlocking Nature in the Pursuit of SalvationModern science and medicine would be unrecognizable, and far more primitive, without the immense contribution of the ancient Hindus. They invented everyday essentials such as our base-ten number system and zero as a numeral. The ancient Hindus also developed a sophisticated system of medicine...
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Science-Mart: Privatizing American ScienceThis trenchant study analyzes the rise and decline in the quality and format of science in America since World War II.During the Cold War, the U.S. government amply funded basic research in science and medicine. Starting in the 1980s, however, this support began to...
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Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific InquiryConventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot support...
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Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern BiologyFor the past twenty-five years John Moore has taught biology instructors how to teach biology--by emphasizing the questions people have asked about life through the ages and the ways natural philosophers and scientists have sought the answers. This book makes Moore's uncommon wisdom available...
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Research Methods for Public AdministratorsResearch Methods for Public Administrators contains a thorough overview of research methods and statistical applications for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners. The material is based on established social science methods. Concepts and applications are discussed and illustrated with examples from actual research....
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Remove Before FlightAs a ten-year-old boy inspired by fellow Ohioan, Neil Armstrong, when he landed on the moon in 1969, Scott dreamed of someday becoming part of something larger than himself. Ten years later, through a series of serendipitous life events, Scott Phillips embarked on a...
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