Science

For most of the last century, condensed matter physics has been dominated by band theory and Landau's symmetry breaking theory. In the last twenty years, however, there has been the emergence of a new paradigm associated with fractionalisation,...

This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to reinforce its public standing. It also celebrates the work of a group of the show's fans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PROSE Award - Engineering & Technology 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780262045957Author Katy BornerFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582431413Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Written for students who need help doing their coursework and exams, this book focuses mainly on the skills and techniques that apply to essay writing, but also covers other types of assignment such as posters, talks, PowerPoint^DTM presentations and web...

The Cavendish Laboratory is arguably the most famous physics laboratory in the world. Founded in 1874, it rapidly gained a leading international reputation through the researches of the Cavendish professors beginning with Maxwell, Rayleigh, J. J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838427283Author Mukahang LimbuFormat PaperbackImprint Out-Spoken PressPublisher Out-Spoken Press

According to Darwin, our galaxy is almost certainly teeming with large animal life, but intelligent extra-terrestrial life can come in just two rare forms: senselessly ferocious, without meaning or purpose, or thoughtful and less murderous although never...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445687Author Claude ItzyksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451624465Author Lawrence M KraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Engagingly written and richly illustrated, Putting Meat on the American Table explains how America became a meat-eating nation-from the colonial period to the present. It examines the relationships between consumer preference and meat processing-looking...

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the years prior to the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations,...

Written by meteorologists C. Donald Ahrens and Robert Henson and grounded in the scientific method, METEOROLOGY TODAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 13th edition, shows you how to observe, calculate and synthesize weather...

Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through people and institutions, Jenny Bangham explores the intimate connections between the early infrastructures of blood transfusion and the development of human...

What's in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262693240Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 25mm

This is the fascinating theory from author and futurist Byron Reese, who calls this human superorganism "Agora." In We Are Agora, Reese starts by asking the question, "What is life and how did it form?" From there, he looks at how multicellular life...

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture,...

A provocative and penetrating new life of Galileo, placing the man, his achievements, and his failures in the broader history of the Scientific Revolution Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of...

The world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth's...

The arrow of time refers to the curious asymmetry that distinguishes the future from the past. Reversing the Arrow of Time argues that there is an intimate link between the symmetries of 'time itself' and time reversal symmetry in physical theories,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805071368Author David BarashFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Throughout history, humankind has pursued means to improve the yield of crop plants through selective plant breeding and hybridization. Today, genetic manipulation provides a powerful tool for directing plant breeding. But how is genetic manipulation...

This primer describes important equations of materials and the scientists who derived them. It provides an excellent introduction to the subject by making the material accessible and enjoyable. The book is dedicated to a number of propositions: 1. The...

This book contains discussions of radiation theory, quantum statistics and the many-body problem, and more advanced topics in collision theory. It is intended as a text for a first-year graduate quantum mechanics course.About the AuthorKurt Gottfried...

In the two volumes that comprise this work Roger Penrose and Wolfgang Rindler introduce the calculus of 2-spinors and the theory of twistors, and discuss in detail how these powerful and elegant methods may be used to elucidate the structure and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038430Author Sean A. HartnollFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 24mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956808226Author Hubert ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Salammbo PressPublisher Salammbo PressWeight(grams) 150g

Measured by the accuracy of its predictions and the scope of its technological applications, quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science-as well as one of the most misunderstood. The deeper meaning of quantum mechanics remains...

Every document in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein appears in the language in which it was written, and this supplementary paperback volume presents the English translations of all non-English materials. This translation does not include notes or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888009439Author Claudius PtolemyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Green Lion PressPublisher Green Lion PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 251mm *...

This key new textbook provides a state-of-the-art view of the physics of cloud and precipitation formation, covering the most important topics in the field: the microphysics, thermodynamics and cloud-scale dynamics. Highlights include: the condensation...

This book provides a lively and visual introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity. It brings to life the excitement of this fascinating subject, for an audience including young people at school (post-16) and the general public with an interest in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750349659Author Dennis SherwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics PublishingWeight(grams)...

The use of MATLAB (R) in clinical Medical Physics is continuously increasing, thanks to new technologies and developments in the field. However, there is a lack of practical guidance for students, researchers, and medical professionals on how to...

Clubbing explores the cultures and spaces of clubbing. Divided into three sections: Beginnings, The Night Out and Reflections, Clubbing includes first-hand accounts of clubbing experiences, framing these accounts within the relevant research and a review...

Accessible and engaging, this is the definitive textbook on using teeth to study the demography and ways of life in ancient human communities. Based on extensive laboratory and field experience, this new edition combines archaeological approaches with...

Although less well known outside the field than Edwin Hubble, Walter Baade was arguably the most influential observational astronomer of the twentieth century. Written by a fellow astronomer deeply familiar with Baade and his work, this is the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449529482Author Michael PaFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 11mm

Quantum Optics for Engineers provides a transparent and methodical introduction to quantum optics via the Dirac's bra-ket notation with an emphasis on practical applications and basic aspects of quantum mechanics such as Heisenberg's uncertainty...