Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Claudius Gros
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Complex system theory is rapidly developing and gaining importance, providing tools and concepts central to our modern understanding of emergent phenomena. This primer offers an introduction to this area together with detailed coverage of the mathematics involved.
All calculations are presented...
by D. G. Mackean, Dave Hayward, Doug Wilford
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International Education
Level: IGCSE
Subject: Science
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2017
Make best use of your department's specialist skills with this all-in-one textbook, designed and organized by an experienced Combined and Co-ordinated...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Universe and Solar System Series: The Earth and Moon System Having Trouble on Physics? Need to learn more about our Earth and Moon? This eBook looks into detail about our Earth and Moon System. Other such information, which are contained in this eBook; are: 1: Moon Phases. 2: Characteristics of out...
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks
Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth’s past. The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters—each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon—Donald R. Prothero recounts...
by Paul Morris, Patricia Deo
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
A concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Sciences teaching and learning.
- Approaches each chapter with statements of inquiry framed by key and related concepts, set in a global context
- Supports every aspect of assessment using tasks designed by an experienced MYP educator
- Differentiates...
by Leonardo da Vinci
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Scientist, painter, mechanical engineer, sculptor, thinker, city planner, storyteller, musician, architect — Leonardo da Vinci, builder of the first flying machine, was one of the great universal geniuses of Western civilization. His voluminous notebooks, the great storehouse of his theories and...
Robotics: from Mechanical to Sentient Machines
Thinking Machines, #1
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book is an introduction to Robotics, it aims to introduce the reader to the world of robots, how they work and how science strives to transform them from simple electro-mechanical contraptions into intelligent thinking machines.
The topics of interest this book covers are as follows:
History...
Science in the Archives
Pasts, Presents, Futures
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists;...
Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos
The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
Presents a revolutionary new theory that bridges the divide between science and spirituality
• Discloses the ramifications of non-localized consciousness and how the physical world and spiritual experience are two aspects of the same reality
• Includes contributions from Jane Goodall,...
Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model
A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute...
Field Life
Science in the American West during the Railroad Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology,...
Rock, Bone, and Ruin
An Optimist's Guide to the Historical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the deep past.
The “historical sciences”—geology, paleontology, and archaeology—have made extraordinary progress in...
Biotechnology
A Laboratory Course
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1996
The objectives of this Second Edition of Biotechnology: A Laboratory Course remain unchanged: to create a text that consists of a series of laboratory exercises that integrate molecular biology with protein biochemistry techniques while providing a continuum of experiments. The course begins with basic...
by Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk, Kate Bazilevsky
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
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