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With commentary by the greatest physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, this anthology has garnered impressive reviews. PW has called it a gem of a collection" while New Scientist magazine notes the thrill of reading Einstein's own words." From the...

The essays from prominent public intellectuals collected in this volume reflect an array of perspectives on the spectrum of conflict, competition, and cooperation, as well as a wealth of expertise on how games manifest in the world, how they operate, and...

This study of the Tamil diaspora is one of the first full ethnographic studies of a postcolonial migrant community, and a major contribution to the study of migration, globalisation, identity politics and 'long distance' nationalism from an...

Wilkie Collins's later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling-but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972635721Author Jacob NeedlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing...

Diane France loves bones. Why? Because they talk to her. Every skeleton she meets whispers secrets about the life?and death?of its owner. Diane France can hear those secrets because she's a forensic anthropologist, a bone detective. She has the science...

The number of travellers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society? Pierre Levy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has...

A perfect reproduction of the final Apollo 11 Flight Plan. The minute-by-minute time line of activities that put the first men on the moon in July 1969. This official NASA document spelled out the Apollo 11 mission in complete and precise technical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601631022Author Stanton T. FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927763193Author Vesselin PetkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Minkowski Institute PressPublisher Minkowski Institute PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578357287Author Ryan HennessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ryan Hennessy Wastewater MicrobiologyPublisher Ryan Hennessy Wastewater...

Where did the Universe come from? The single biggest and most difficult question that there is. From early religions through Greek Philosophy and Western Science man has always attempted to discover the meaning of our place in the Universe. In the last...

Open up the world of science to your students, enthusing and encouraging them to become focused, questioning and successful scientists, thinkers and problem-solvers. Science and technology encompass some of the most important skills children need to...

This major work outlines the philosophy and methods of the new Science of Oneness. It takes a fresh look at the findings of modern science, including fringe fields such as parapsychology, and integrates them with insights from spiritual traditions...

Marie Curie (1867-1934) was one of the most important woman scientists in history, and she was one of the most influential scientists-man or woman-of the 20th century. Curie postulated that radiation was an atomic property, a discovery that has led to...

Recent events such as the massacres in Dunblane and Arkansas, the deaths of children in terrorist attacks, civil wars and famines, children born with AIDS, and the many abductions and murders of children - including some by children - have placed...

Widely regarded as one of the rare eminent scientists who is also a graceful writer, Ian Tattersall here takes up some of the most controversial questions in evolutionary history in this superb collection of essays. Tattersall stresses that living...

THE purpose of this book is to prescnt a straightforward introduction to complex numbers and their properties. Complex numbers, like other kinds of numbers, are essen tially objects with which to perform calculations a:cording to certain rules, and when...

Bats display astonishing ecological and evolutionary diversity and serve as important models for studies of a wide variety of topics, including food webs, biogeography, and emerging diseases. In "Bat Ecology", world-renowned bat scholars present an...

Death by Euphoria. Dysgenics. Population Death Spiral. Genetic Superhumans. Geomagnetic Reversal. Galactic Collision. Strangelets. Whether we like it or not, everything's going to come to a pretty unpleasant halt on our planet at some point in the future...

Open up the world of science to your students, enthusing and encouraging them to become focused, questioning and successful scientists, thinkers and problem-solvers. Science and technology encompass some of the most important skills children need to...

Will help you appreciate and understand the significance of Isaac Newton's masterpiece--what many regard as the greatest scientific contribution of all time. Despite its dazzling reputation, Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,...

How do "The Matrix", "Avatar", and "Tron" reveal the future of existence? Can our brains recognize where reality ends and virtual begins? What would it mean to live eternally in a digital universe? Where will technology lead us in five, fifty, and five...

One restless summer, anxious and dismayed by mounting crisis and conflict on Earth, poet and journalist Marjolijn van Heemstra learns of a phenomenon known as the overview effect. Experienced by many astronauts when beholding our planet from the...

While geeks' obsessive desire for data makes them constant curators of useless information, it also drives them to great lengths to find the solutions to everyday problems. How do you make the perfect cup of tea? What are the moves that will impress a...

This powerful book critiques mercenary involvement in post-Cold War African conflicts. The contributors investigate the links between the rise in internal conflicts and the proliferation of mercenary activities in the 1990s; the distinction in the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781320893817Author John SammutFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781291916164Author Maria LavelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press Inc

In Art and Politics, Segal explores the collision of politics and art in seven enticing essays. The book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around...

The book presents a new approach to cancer treatment never published before. The treatment is nutritional and naturopathic, based upon an intensive programme of diet and supplementary nutrients, the avoidance of toxins and the use of naturopathic...

Kurt Goedel was an intellectual giant. His Incompleteness Theorem turned not only mathematics but also the whole world of science and philosophy on its head. Shattering hopes that logic would, in the end, allow us a complete understanding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402214523Author Matthew AlperFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061238680Author Patrick BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 232mm...

This book brings together key debates within cultural studies, media studies, criminology and sociology on the relationship between the media and crime in a postmodern society - highlighted by recent controversies on the effects of media portrayals of...

Narrating the well-lived life of the "Chinese Madame Curie" - a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics (1978), the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University, as well as the first female president of the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470114605Author Paul HalpernFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 334g

The book deals with the two scales Bsp,q and Fsp,q of spaces of distributions, where - n in the framework of Fourier analysis, which is based on the technique of maximal functions, Fourier multipliers and interpolation assertions. These topics are...

In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is over. Interviewing scientific luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, Francis Crick, and Richard Dawkins, he...