Science & Technology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398834095Author Lily YuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 153mm *...

"What I am really anxious to hear is the final cause of your monstrous fiction. For your false invention seems to have no purpose. What reason can you give me for the circulation of the blood?"William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537117Author Samuel Jay KeyserFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 14mm

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Splendid' GUARDIAN'Utterly fascinating' ROBERT MACFARLANE'A scientific life as dissonant as it was remarkable' FINANCIAL TIMESBased on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal...

Karl Z. Morgan was a physicist at the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was director of health physics from the late 1940s until his retirement in 1972. He collaborated with leading trial lawyer Ken M. Peterson to write this...

The Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-44) was arguably the world's first true Earth scientist. In Celsius: A Life and Death by Degrees, Ian Hembrow reveals what his extraordinary, but tragically short, life and career can teach us about our today...

The first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger PenroseWhen he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935347170Author Mary AlbaneseFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorWith more than three decades in the biopharmaceuticals industry, DR. ESTHER M. ALEGRIA has overseen strategic and operational initiatives in Europe, the United...

Small Game Hunter echoes the author's fascination and appreciation of the strange and wonderful world of insects and spiders. It is a scientific and cultural kaleidoscope of the many encounters that he had across his career and around the globe.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591845515Author Leander KahneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451675764Author Michael HiltzikFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A supplement to Salem Press's Careers in Science series, a career-focused series exploring the fields and occupations of physics, chemistry, and other sciences with an emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) occupations and...

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann...

This book and the study that preceded it highlight the pioneering discoveries through which physicians and biomedical researchers of Greek origin contributed to the progress of clinical medicine, biomedical research and the pharmaceutical industry at the...

Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check the weather forecast. Reginald Sutcliffe and the...

Learn everything you need to know about Albert Einstein, the genius who created the Theory of Relativity and calculated mass-energy equivalence.101 Things You Didn't Know About Einstein provides in-depth, fascinating facts about the famous scientist and...

_Stone Breaker_ is an in-depth, accessible biography of a true American polymath, James Gates Percival. A poet, linguist, and unstable savant, Percival was also a brilliant geologist who walked thousands of miles crisscrossing first Connecticut and then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449903940Author Sue HurwitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 130mm *...

With more than two hundred editions, Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne is one of the most published books in the English language. An environmental study of the eighteenth-century Hampshire parish where White was born and later served as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813929774Author Ivor Noel HumeFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536671Author Cedric VillaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that “Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produced,” and indeed, Rumford was a peer of theirs, and arguably contributed more to the scientific canon, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892541041Author Charlotte Fell-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Publisher Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602230446Author Will TroyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

David Suzuki's autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in Metamorphosis and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzuki reflects on his entire life and his hopes for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501167119Author Katie BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 130mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476730271Author Tom CheshireFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 28mm

One of the most brilliant scientists and most controversial individuals of the twentieth century, Linus Pauling was the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. This unique volume, first published to mark the centenary of Pauling's birth, gathers...

Riley propelled entomology from a collector's parlor hobby of the nineteenth century to the serious study of insects in the Modern Age. This definitive biography is the first full account of a fascinating American scientist whose leadership created the...

Biographic Memoirs Volume 90 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional...

Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United...

When a young girl, Cardy Raper told her mother, "When I grow up I want to be a scientist and make grand discoveries!" Her mother responded, "You could become a nurse." Science was a man's world then. Cardy refused to take "no" for an answer. Her dream...

Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary...

The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world's most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. Humboldt's breath-taking explorations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429679459Author Layne DemarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 23gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 197mm *...

The Woman Who Knew Too Much illuminates the life and achievements of the remarkable woman scientist who revolutionized the concept of radiation risk. For more than 40 years, Alice Stewart (1906-2002) warned that low-dose radiation was more dangerous than...

Biographic Memoirs Volume 87 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501167096Author Katie BoothFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm...

Before Doppler radar and broadcast weather reports, Spanish-born Benito Vines (1837-1893) spent decades observing the skies at Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba, routinely issuing weather reports and forecasts to local newspapers. And before storm...