Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Intelligent Thought
Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin’s theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the origin and design of living things, but highlights the importance of a scientific understanding in our culture...
The Gaia Hypothesis
Science on a Pagan Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Golding, and then in an extensive collaboration with...
Chemistry at Home
Exploring the Ingredients in Everyday Products
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Hand cream, detergent, shower gel, toothpaste, toilet cleaner, air freshener, lipstick, perfume, low-fat spread, painkiller, diet drink, insect repellent… hundreds of everyday products that make our lives so much better than those of our forebears. And yet most of us know little about the ingredients...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The Advanced Chemistry Series: Chromatography Principles and Optimisation Techniques
Having trouble on understanding Chemistry? Need to find out information about the different types of Chromatography Principles and Optimisation Techniques?. This book contains:
1. The Chromatography...
by Fadhel M. Ghannouchi, Mohammad S. Hashmi
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
This first book on load-pull systems is intended for readers with a broad knowledge of high frequency transistor device characterization, nonlinear and linear microwave measurements, RF power amplifiers and transmitters. Load-Pull Techniques with Applications to Power Amplifier Design fulfills the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Applications of NMR Spectroscopy is an eBook series devoted to publishing the latest advances in the application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy in practical situations. The second volume of this eBook series features five chapters covering NMR spectroscopic analysis of plant polyphenols,...
Weather We Like It or Not!: Cool Games to Play on A Windy Day
Weather for Kids - Earth Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Windy days may sometimes trigger allergies, so it's best to stay indoors. To keep your family entertained inside the house, flip through the pages of this picture book to identify the games that you may want to play. Filled with games that range from easy to difficult, you will definitely find something to love here. Grab a copy today!
Cancer
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Cancer is the second biggest killer in the world, but few of us understand how it works or how we treat it. In this illuminating introduction, Paul Scotting explains the science behind the disease and explores why some of us are more likely to develop it than others. Arguing that we're in a new age...
by Brian B. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Famous as the catalyst of the fight or flight response, adrenaline has also received forensic attention as a perfect, untraceable poison—and rumors persist of its power to revive the dead. True to the spirit of its topic, Adrenaline is a stimulating journey that reveals the truth behind adrenaline’s scientific importance and popular appeal.
And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind
A Natural History of Moving Air
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold.
Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind--the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them--by traveling right through it. Narrating from...
Working Knowledge
Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Isaac explores how influential thinkers in the mid-twentieth century understood the relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of human affairs. He places special emphasis on the practical, local manifestations of their complex theoretical ideas, particularly the institutional milieu of Harvard University.
by Thomas L. Hankins
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 1985
Science and the Enlightenment is a general history of eighteenth-century science covering both the physical and life sciences. It places the scientific developments of the century in the cultural context of the Enlightenment and reveals the extent to which scientific ideas permeated the thought of...
The Silwood Circle
A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the...
Hormones, Heredity, and Race
Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Early in the twentieth century, arguments about “nature” and “nurture” pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists—Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach—who...