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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387664Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Humanity is confronted by and attracted to extremes. Extreme events shape our thinking, feeling, and actions; they echo in our politics, media, literature, and science. We often associate extremes with crises, disasters, and risks to be averted, yet...

Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995250109Author Joan Chandler KomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Peak Performance Institute Inc.Publisher Peak Performance Institute Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667200743Author Sophie CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Portable PressPublisher Portable PressWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 253mm * 198mm *...

How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for...

Many online applications, especially in the financial industries, are running on blockchain technologies in a decentralized manner, without the use of an authoritative entity or a trusted third party. Such systems are only secured by cryptographic...

"Moynihan's book is not merely an attractive and readable descriptive synthesis, but an acute commentary on the development of current theory, opening new areas and refreshingly examining cherished models." -W. John Smith, University of PennsylvaniaThis...

As Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary, the futuristic tools of Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy continue to come to life. This book merges Star Trek scientific lore-how the science of the time informed the implementation of technology in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916457218Author Barrie CondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Sparsile Books LtdPublisher Sparsile Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956687302Author David Avraham NassimFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint H I PublishingPublisher H I PublishingWeight(grams) 293g

Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skill-and as much deception-as Wernher von Braun. America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space travel, he had a closet full of secrets that...

Before any other influences began to fashion life and its lavish diversity, geological events created the initial environments--both physical and chemical--for the evolutionary drama that followed.Drawing on case histories from around the world, Arthur...

Before any other influences began to fashion life and its lavish diversity, geological events created the initial environments--both physical and chemical--for the evolutionary drama that followed.Drawing on case histories from around the world, Arthur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912550305Author May Theilgaard WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Nature Study Guild PublishersPublisher Nature Study Guild...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244941130Author Larry ChurchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 150g

Feedback circuits in general, and op. amp. applications which embody feedback principles in particular, playa central role in modern electronic engineering. This importance is reflected in the undergraduate curriculum where it is common practice for...

This book is to help Parkinson's sufferers who have reached the stage where the following symptoms have been occurring: slow movement (Bradykinesia), shuffling walk, challenges walking uphill, difficulty going up and down stairs, trouble getting out of...

Why seemingly unrelated mathematical truths are connected in simple and beautiful equations continues to stump even mathematicians. This recreational math book takes the reader on a fantastic voyage into the world of natural numbers. From the earliest...

Debate over the nature of science has recently moved from the halls of academia into the public sphere, where it has taken shape as the "science wars." At issue is the question of whether scientific knowledge is objective and universal or socially...

Revised and corrected in December 2018, this book presents the most significant equity derivatives models used these days. It is not a book around esoteric or cutting-edge models, but rather a book on relatively simple and standard models, viewed from...

Meteorites and Their Parent Planets provides an engrossing overview of a highly interdisciplinary field - the study of extraterrestrial materials. The second edition of this successful book has been thoroughly revised, and describes the nature of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780412165009Author Derek PletcherFormat HardbackPage Count 325Imprint Chapman and HallPublisher Chapman and Hall

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770411913Author Joe SchwarczFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 418g

How does science work? Making Truth: Metaphor in Science argues that most laypeople, and many scientists, do not have a clear understanding of how metaphor relates to scientific thinking. With stunning clarity, and bridging the worlds of scientists and...

part of the Heinemann Explore Science New International Edition - a comprehensive, easy-to-use, six-level science programme, designed specially for teachers and students at International schools studying the Cambridge International Examinations Primary...

Whether ghosts, astrology or ESP, up to 80 per cent of the population believes in one or more aspects of the paranormal. Such beliefs are entertaining, and it is tempting to think of them as harmless. However, there is mounting evidence that paranormal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244543938Author Leopoldo Orsini CorvettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 172g

Life is a compelling addition to the Darwin College Lecture Series, in which eight distinguished authors each present an essay from their area of expertise devoted to the theme of 'life'. The book forges connections between art, science and the...

What is a chemical compound? Compounds are substances that are two or more elements combined together chemically in a standard proportion by weight. Compounds are all around us - they include familiar things, such as water, and more esoteric substances,...

Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the subject of extensive scientific study. This book focuses on how percussion instruments vibrate and produce sound and how these sounds are perceived by...

The extragalactic universe, the immense world of a billion galaxies lying beyond out own, is the subject of this book. Our Sun is but a tiny star among a hundred billion other in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, which appears as a luminous veil trailing across...

Build confidence and understanding with our brand new Lower Secondary Science write-in workbooks offering comprehensive coverage of the curriculum framework. Offers a full range of questions for every topic in the student book Provides...

Rust has been called "the great destroyer," the "pervasive menace," and "the evil." "This look at corrosion-its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it-is wide-ranging and...

Wisdom in the Open Air traces the Norwegian roots of the strain of thinking called "deep ecology"-the search for the solutions to environmental problems by examining the fundamental tenets of our culture. Although Arne Naess coined the term in the 1970s,...

Loren Eiseley examines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. His illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristically skillful and compelling synthesis of hard scientific theory, factual evidence, personal anecdotes,...

It is not so very long ago that up-to-date text-books on statistics were almost non-existent. In the last few decades this deficiency has largely been remedied, but in order to cope with a broad and rapidly expanding subject many of these books have been...

The motor vehicle technology covered in this book has become in the more than 125 years of its history in many aspects an extremely complex and, in many areas of engineering science . Motor vehicles must remain functional under harsh environmental...

An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continue to be polluted,and what needs to be done to save this essential natural resourse. Water: A Natural...

What the f*ck is the Dark Web, and how does it even work?Whether it's from dodgy acronym-titled crime shows to news stories designed to terrify you down to your socks we've all heard about sites like Silk Road and the ways criminals use cryptocurrency...