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This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving force for change, and individuals can...

The author chronicles the search for . . . a theory to explain all natural fields and their interaction with particles. . . . Lives and contributions of physicists and cosmologists, starting with the pioneers of scientific cosmology in the 19th century,...

THIS book is an introduction both to Laplace's equation and its solutions and to a general method of treating partial differential equations. Chapter 1 discusses vector fields and shows how Laplace's equation arises for steady fields which are...

Bill Nye The Science Guy knows how cool science can be. After all, everything in the universe involves science. And you already think scientifically everyday, even if you don't know it. So get ready for a universe of amazing fun,you'll have a blast. Read...

"Fragile Web" is a remarkable exploration of the past, present and future of nature's remarkable diversity and how humans will impact upon its uncertain future. Written by a team of international experts, the book is divided into three main sections. The...

"Fragile Web" is a remarkable exploration of the past, present and future of nature's remarkable diversity and how humans will impact upon its uncertain future. Written by a team of international experts, the book is divided into three main sections. The...

Astronomy was a popular and important part of Victorian science, and British astronomers carried telescopes and spectroscopes to remote areas of India, the Great Plains of North America, and islands in the Caribbean and Pacific to watch the sun eclipsed...

This is a critical overview of the various sources of social and political identity in Northern Ireland. The book examines the key variables of sociology - status, class and gender and, in this case, ethno-religion - and explains why ethno-religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912477005Author Chris BatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

This book defies easy categorization but will be one of the most original, thoughtful, and genuinely interesting books published next year. Before the author's mother died, she asked her daughter, Drucilla, to write a book 'that would bear witness to the...

In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively...

Animal science is bizarre and wonderful. At the extreme end of zoology, psychologists are designing personality tests for dogs and logic problems for pigeons. They're giving fish spatial reasoning problems and asking cockatoos to keep a beat. Now,...

Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Why do we think that some things are true, and other things false? Why do we maintain that some things are good, and other things evil? These are questions that have puzzled thinkers for...

With insight and wit, Robert J. Richards focuses on the development of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior from their first distinct appearance in the eighteenth century to their controversial state today. Particularly important in the nineteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615408002Author Ayorinde AwonusiFormat PaperbackImprint DovesbrightsPublisher DovesbrightsWeight(grams) 1089g

Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their...

Alan Parsons had a long and distinguished career as a naval scientist. This book covers his genealogy and his life from childhood to retirement, during which he had successes, failures, joys and sorrows. After a first degree in mathematics and a false...

Revised and Updated 7th Edition. NHS is undergoing one of the most radical changes in the history of health service. The seventh edition has been comprehensively revised to reflect these changes. The book that tells you all you need to know about...

After ten years in a Zen monastery, Proteus knows it's time to leave. A troubled, solitary man, he knows what he seeks is not to be found sitting in meditation. His problem is that, during his time at the monastery, he's discovered something strange...

"Norden"-the region along the northern edge of Europe bordered by Russia and the Baltic nations to the east and by North America to the west-is a particularly fruitful site for the examination of the ever-evolving meaning of landscape and region as place...

A reference guide to astrology.Book InformationISBN 9780572005467Author Edwin RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint W Foulsham & Co LtdPublisher W Foulsham & Co LtdWeight(grams) 57g

Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it had for the survival and...

Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs that caused sonic booms; the irrational nature of the number pi; the fifth taste sensation lurking in...

Science is full of surprises: the peculiar peepshow beginnings of baby incubators; the unexpected positive fallout from the H-bomb; the dinosaurs that caused sonic booms; the irrational nature of the number pi; the fifth taste sensation lurking in...

Rehabilitation Medicine and Thermography presents a comprehensive review of the expanding role of thermography in studying chronic pain and other rehabilitation conditions, as well as its clinical applications in the fields of arthritis, dermatology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615179841Author Richard FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Richard FitzpatrickPublisher Richard FitzpatrickWeight(grams)...

More than 100,000 copies of the first edition of Knowledge and Wonder have been sold, both in the U.S. and abroad. Written expressly for the general reader and beginning science student, the book describes our present scientific understanding of natural...

Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer...

The renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery.Book InformationISBN 9780465098156Author Robert C. GalloFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982598818Author M D Deborah Z BainFormat PaperbackImprint Purelight PublicationsPublisher Purelight PublicationsWeight(grams) 136g

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...

The ionized material that constitutes plasma permeates almost all of the universe beyond the planets and their atmospheres and satellites. This book describes the linear theory of many different waves and instabilities that may propagate in a...

The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839402265Author Anne RooneyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

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...

Click here for an updated 2nd Edition.Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation! is a complete guide to good dissertation and thesis writing. It is written in an accessible style with cartoons and real-life anecdotes to liven up the text. It...

More and more people are now involved in negotiations at all levels in workplaces around the world. Clear and accessible, this invaluable handbook provides sound guidelines for all individuals and group representatives engaged in negotiating with...

"An extraordinary book...With clarity and charm [Dunn] takes the reader into the overlap of medicine, ecology, and evolutionary biology to reveal an important domain of the human condition."-Edward O. Wilson, author of Anthill and The Future of Life ...

As one of our most high-profile Muslim intellectuals, he has also become an increasingly important voice in the media since the events of September 11th 2001. This is the first collection of his writings of one of our most high-profile Muslim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578157696Author Vladimir LefebvreFormat PaperbackImprint Leaf & Oaks PublishersPublisher Leaf & Oaks PublishersWeight(grams) 222g