Science

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047562Author Christopher J. PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings can be used against you. Where perfumers create customised fragrances to perfectly suit your emotions, and...

Elemental learning.The splendid achievement of Greek mathematics is here illustrated in two volumes of selected mathematical works. Volume I (LCL 335) contains the divisions of mathematics; mathematics in Greek education; calculation; arithmetical...

With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that...

This title is back in print with a revised preface. "Microcosmos" brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to...

Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth, and our societies are larger,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542296Author Matt CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Medicinal plants and plant-derived medicine are widely used in traditional cultures all over the world and they are becoming increasingly popular in modern society as natural alternatives to synthetic chemicals. As more and more natural remedies are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930491083Author Fred Alan WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Moment Point Press Inc,USPublisher Moment Point Press Inc,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437453Author Thornton W BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

The objective of this book is to help readers better understand the links between fossil fuel, greenhouse gas, and climate change in a clear, explanatory format. It avoids sensationalism and politics, using plain language to explain the details of the...

This series is endorsed by Cambridge International to support the full syllabus for examination from 2023.Reinforce learning and deepen understanding of the key concepts in this Workbook, which provides additional support for the accompanying Cambridge...

'It can be used as a supplementary material for teaching thermodynamics and statistical physics at an undergraduate or postgraduate level and can be a great read for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Sciences and Engineering.'Contemporary...

This simplified guide to the night sky includes seasonal GLOW-IN-THE-DARK charts to the stars and constellations and introduces the reader to the solar system, our moon, planets (visible with the naked eye), meteor showers and eclipses. Simply shine a...

In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation's fastest-disappearing resource, warns...

This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of the philosophical foundations of the Web, a new area of inquiry that has important implications across a range of domains. Contains twelve essays that bridge the fields of philosophy, cognitive science,...

This book describes and illustrates in detail the 760 species of mosses currently known to occur in the British Isles and incorporates the most up-to-date information available on classification and nomenclature, together with recent synonyms. The...

Inspire a new generation of capable and curious scientists.This book will help build pupils' understanding through clear explanations, practicals and skills-based activities, ensuring that they're ready for the next step in their learning and promoting a...

"Swords and lances, arrows, machine guns and even high explosives have had far less power over the fate of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea and the yellow-fever mosquito." Both shocking and entertaining, this masterpiece of popular...

This succinct text outlines the main classes of transition metal organometallic complexes and introduces the reader to the chemistry of compounds with metal-carbon *s-bonds: metal carbonyls, metal alkyls, and metal alkylidenes and alkylidnes. The...

First published by the RSPB in 1998, this book is a practical guide to surveying and monitoring techniques for use in the breeding season - in assessing breeding success as well as population levels - and during the winter. It gives instructions for more...

For epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and health-care professionals, real-time and predictive modeling of infectious disease is of growing importance. This book provides a timely and comprehensive introduction to the modeling of infectious...

In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525855Author Steven J. LuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 17mm

With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993417405Author Stephen John ReeveFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Snowgoose BooksPublisher Snowgoose Books

Perhaps the two most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics are relativity and quantum mechanics. Developing a theory that combines the two seamlessly is a difficult and ongoing challenge. This accessible book contains intriguing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297063Author Vaclav SmilFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 162mm * 29mm

This introductory text explains the fundamentals of the chemistry of the natural environment and the effects of mankind's activities on the earth's chemical systems. Retains an emphasis on describing how natural geochemical processes operate over a...

Shocking new insider information that shows what really happened in Wuhan, China, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak and in the ensuing cover-up.The day that Dr. Andrew G. Huff left his senior scientist and vice president role at EcoHealth Alliance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

We are all citizens of the Omniverse, the overarching matrix of energy, spirit, and intelligence that encompasses all that exists: all universes within the multiverse as well as the spiritual dimensions centred on the divine Source that many call God. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486670478Author R.D. MattuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 429Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'O'Keeffe exposes the scandal of the Special Demonstration Squad with empathy and anger' - SAGA'In a country of lockdowns, borders bills and voter ID, O'Keefe's 'arrow of hope' is needed more than ever. In Skylark that arrow will pierce your heart.' -...

For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few 17th-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the...

A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a...

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and...

Quantum mechanics is of central importance in chemistry. To understand matter and its chemical transformations it is necessary to take a microscopic view connecting experimental observation to the properties of constituent molecules. However, at this...

The social-research organization Mass-Observation was founded in 1937. In this book, the true extent and significance of Mass-Observation's unique role in the formation of postwar Britain's idea of itself through the examination of everyday life across...

Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing...