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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639233663Author Manly P HallFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Lushena Books IncPublisher Lushena Books IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This book provides advanced undergraduate physics and mathematics students with an accessible yet detailed understanding of the fundamentals of differential geometry and symmetries in classical physics. Readers, working through the book, will obtain a...

The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives-for better ...or for worse ...From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled...

If extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existence might well be a Super Bowl broadcast or a stray transmission from the Playboy channel. But, of course, they might seem equally...

George Poinar began collecting amber specimins over thirty years ago, but it was only recently that he, Roberta Poinar, and the rest of his research team astounded the scientific community with the news that they had obtained "live" DNA strands from an...

Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425151010Author William L. Leoschke Ph. D.Format PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams)...

Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for dismantling the sun, enclosing the solar system in a cosmic...

'"If the chanting stops, he will die. My patient will die." I was certain of this-as certain as someone crouching in an unheated tent sitting on the highest mountain in the world can feel about anything.'Dr Ken Kamler knows what happens when bodies are...

'"If the chanting stops, he will die. My patient will die." I was certain of this-as certain as someone crouching in an unheated tent sitting on the highest mountain in the world can feel about anything.'Dr Ken Kamler knows what happens when bodies are...

The Cambridge IGCSE (R) & O Level Essential Biology Workbook, part of the successful Essential Science series, supports independent practice both inside and outside the classroom. The workbook builds and reinforces skills step-by-step to equip EAL...

The Wolfenden Report of 1957 has long been recognized as a landmark in moves towards gay law reform. What is less well known is that the testimonials and written statements of the witnesses before the Wolfenden Committee provide by far the most complete...

For many centuries peatlands have been a source of fascination to naturalists and scientists. When the itinerant John Leland passed through the peatlands of Central Wales in 1538 his comment was 'The pastures and montaynes of Cairdiganshire be so great...

One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century recounts his journey from Hungary and the Nazi invasion to the creation of the first atomic bomb.About the AuthorEugene P. Wigner won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588341600Author Hakima AmriFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741290738Author Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Wtm Publications and Communications Pty LtdPublisher Wtm Publications and...

Time rules our lives. The frenetic purpose - more than we want to admit, is to save time. Think of one of those conveniences that best convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds: the microwave oven. In your hurry sickness, you...

John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence.These 'pillars of science' also defy common...

Many chemists and biochemists require to know the ionization constants of organic acids and bases. This is evident from the Science Citation Index which lists The Determination of Ionization Constants by A. Albert and E. P. Serjeant (1971) as one of the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244713225Author Edmond RoudnitskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 6mm

Since Einstein, physicists have been pursuing a holy grail - a single theory that would order all the subatomic particles in the universe and unify the forces of nature. Such a theory would answer questions like: How did the universe begin? What is the...

First published in 1957, this essential classic work bridged the gap between analytical and theoretical biology, thus setting the insights of the former in a context which more sensitively reflects the ambiguities surrounding many of its core concepts...

African rhythms are at the heart of contemporary black Brazilian music. Surveying a musical legacy that encompasses over 400 years, Rhythms of Resistance traces the development of this rich cultural heritage. Acclaimed author Peter Fryer describes...

What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrongdirection? History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating--and significant--missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665584432Author Graham RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Why does kicking the TV work? What can the US military learn from the lowly bacterium? Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? How does a spark of a single virus trigger an epidemic that claims millions? In recent years,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671628314Author Raymond SmullyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Sibling rivalry and intergenerational conflict are not limited to human beings. Among seals and piglets, storks and burying beetles, in bird nests and beehives, from apples to humans, family conflicts can be deadly serious, determining who will survive...

This book not only brings home the imminence of climate change but also examines the campaign of deception by big coal and big oil that is keeping the issue off the public agenda. It examines the various arenas in which the battle for control of the...

Boeing's 737 is indisputably the most popular and arguably the safest commercial airliner in the world. But the plane had a lethal flaw, and only after several disastrous crashes and years of painstaking investigation was the mystery of its rudder...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991191987Author Justin FinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Sanovaworks/JddPublisher Sanovaworks/Jdd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173848Author Milton RokeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher New York Review BooksWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043731Author Mark H. LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016488Author Alva No Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639231096Author Hilton HotemaFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

This Turning Point book surveys the development of science and its historic and current relationship to Christianity, and reintroduces believers to their rich intellectual heritage.About the AuthorNancy R. Pearcey (PhD, Philadelphia Biblical University)...

cB) 114 7. 8 Constant electric and magnetic fields at right angles (8,Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9780710200013Author R. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401629Author Erik KwakkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

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...