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Science: general issues
Brand: Wiley
Based on the author's highly successful undergraduate course taught at the University of Chicago, Global Warming presents the processes of climate change and climate stability. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this Second Edition not only sum..
107.25£
The evolution of Australian radio astronomy from 1945 to 1960 has been studied in detail by numerous historians of science in recent years. This Open Access book is the first to present an overview of this remarkable chapter in Australian science. T..
80.02£
Brand: Prometheus Books
What if you discovered an infinitesimally thin material capable of conducting electricity, able to suspend millions of times its own weight, and yet porous enough to filter the murkiest water? And what if this incredible substance is created from th..
20.87£
A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes ..
27.00£
Brand: Columbia University Press
The carbon dioxide that industrial civilization spews into the atmosphere has dramatic consequences for life on Earth that extend beyond climate change. CO2 levels directly affect plant growth, in turn affecting any kind of life that depends on plan..
40.38£
Brand: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
A Sunday Times bestseller - now with revised and expanded content on the exciting new science about the gut-brain link. Our gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet we know very little about how it works and many of us are too embarrassed to a..
16.84£
Brand: Sourcebooks
"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." -Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GenePassi..
18.55£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt ..
22.01£
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf p..
20.80£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clock..
73.88£
Brand: Crown House Publishing
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history's brightest female scientists. "Rachel Swaby's no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math."-E..
18.41£
Brand: Princeton University Press
An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine sociality as a product of natural selection. Jerram Brown provides origina..
65.96£
Brand: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag
"Heureka" (ich habe es gefunden) soll Archimedes gerufen haben, als er in der Badewanne lag und sah, wie sein Körper das Wasser verdrängte. Unvermittelt war ihm der Zusammenhang klar, er hatte das Auftriebsgesetz verstanden, was ihm dazu verhalf, de..
18.08£
Brand: The MIT Press
Hidden Wonders focuses on the objects that populate our everyday life-crumpled paper, woven fabric, a sand pile-but looks at them with a physicists' eye, revealing a hidden elegance in mundane physical mechanisms. In six chapters-Building, Shaping, ..
33.13£
The widely acclaimed response to the postmodernists attacks on science, with a new afterword.With the emergence of "cultural studies" and the blurring of once-clear academic boundaries, scholars are turning to subjects far outside their traditional ..
35.44£
Brand: Princeton University Press
This sixth volume of Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences presents articles by ten eminent scholars on the intellectual and social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. CONTENTS The Emergence of Japan's ..
102.35£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences is a continuing series of volumes comprising articles that elucidate the intellectual and social history of the physical sciences from the eighteenth century to the present. The articles offered in Volume ..
34.12£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The first article in this volume, by Tetu Hirosige, is a definitive study of the genesis of Einstein's theory of relativity. Other articles treat topics-theoretical, experimental, philosophical, and institutional-in the history of physics and chemis..
93.25£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day that explodes the myth that science began in Europe - instead celebrating how scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific were integral to this very human storyWe are..
29.99£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that block..
21.30£
Brand: Faber & Faber
We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behavio..
15.92£
Brand: John Murray Press
Think of a number between one and ten.No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity s..
14.24£
Brand: Springer Publishing
This book offers a considered yet entertaining reflection on the progress of modern scientific research. The winding path of science can only be understood by revealing the personal, human side of scientific research, demystifying the actions of the..
34.00£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
This visual guide is packed with amazing diagrams and infographics to answer all your burning scientific head-scratchers - from gravity and black holes to earthquakes and gene therapy.In How Science Works you will find the most fascinating phenomena..
26.33£