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Particle Panic! - How Popular Media and Popularized Science Feed Public Fears of Particle Accelerator Experiments

From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting the end of the world will b...

Gifted Mind - The Dr. Raymond Damadian Story, Inventor of the MRI

In 1969, magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRIs) and similar technologies were just an idea in the visionary life saving technologies ...

Altered Policy Landscapes - Fracking, Grazing, and the Bureau of Land Management

This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agen...

Planetary Forest - (Deutsch/Englisch)

Ein partizipatives Kunst-Wissenschafts-Projekt zum Waldsterben Die Veränderungen unserer Wälder - ob es sich hier um tropische oder europ...

Applied Ethics in a Digital World

As advances in disruptive technologies transform politics and increase the velocity of information and policy flows worldwide, the public...

In the Name of Sharks

Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by...

The Dimming of Starlight - The Philosophy of Space Exploration

The Dimming of Starlight is a philosophical treatise on space exploration that presents the fascinating stories of how space technology s...

Beyond Einstein - Life, The Hyperverse, and Everything

This book presents a new unified theory for physics. It uses hyperfluid, hyperspace, and hypervortices to unify electromagnetism, gravity...

Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the inte...

Conscious Healing - Book One on the Regenetics Method

The classic, bestselling book on the emerging field of DNA activation, CONSCIOUS HEALING, now updated and expanded with a wealth of empow...

The Return of Vaman - A Scientific Novel

This collection of science fiction writings by Jayant V. Narlikar offers readers a unique glimpse into the world-famous Indian astrophysi...

The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish - A Critical Edition

This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation of m...

Matobo - Urgestein aus Bulawayo

Wolfgang Blumberg ist im dritten Drittel seines Lebens ein erfolgreicher Rhodesian Ridgeback Züchter geworden. Er beschreibt sein Leben m...

Meathead - Unraveling the Athletic Brain

Meathead bridges scientific discoveries with athletic anecdotes to unravel the neuroscience of exercise for the jock, gym rat, and sports...

Why Trust Science?

Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when...

Impossible Monsters - Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the...

Her Space, Her Time - How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

"This book tells the stories of women physicists from around the world who transformed science. Many of them discovered invisible objects...

Understanding Genes

An accessible but rigorous introduction to genes for non-experts, explaining what genes are and what they can and cannot do.

Berlin: City of Animals - The story of Germany's oldest and most famous zoo

On 1 August 1844, the Zoological Garden of Berlin opened its gates for the very first time. Back then, the Zoo lay outside the city, its ...

The Craft of Research

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of resea...

Down to the Bone - A Leukemia Story

A narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author's life and experiences as a leukemia patient.

Death Without Dignity? - Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Europe

In this book, John Wyatt analyses the arguments in favour of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide and shows how unstable their found...

What Is Art Education? - After Deleuze and Guattari

This edited book gathers seven established art educators-educator artists who address art education from the philosophical position of De...

Trans America - A Counter-History

Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there w...

Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Volume I

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Quantum Theory

Quantum Theory contains the seminal works of quantum theory from the early years of the 20th Century, representing breakthroughs in scien...

The Scientist as Philosopher - Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries

How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators¿, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scie...

Cloud Computing in Astronomy

Why Fish Don't Exist - A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall ...

Nerd A to Z: Your Reference to Literally Figuratively Everything You've Always Wanted to Know

Want to know how likely it is that robots will take over the world? Or what Viking heroes were really like? Find out in this guide to all...

Rivals - How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastio...

The Heat Will Kill You First - Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that ...

Radiation, vibration, environment, human

Ingolf Bernhardt studied physics at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and specialised in the field of biophysics. After successfully com...

The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn - Incommensurability in Science

"This book contains the text of Thomas Kuhn's unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development,...

It's a Gas - The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World

'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill GatesWhy are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and...

Serendipity - The Unexpected in Science

"In science, it frequently happens that researchers look for something and find something else: understanding why leads us to the heart o...

The Long History of the Future - Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here

We love to imagine the future. But why is dramatic future technology always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we'v...

The Clock in the Sun - How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding new light on key di...

Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy

A critical biography of the seventeenth-century scientist's expansive life and work. Robert Hooke was England's first professional scient...

Eating and Being - A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves

"Eating and Being is a book about what we eat and who we are, and how the two are intertwined. Why do we eat what we do, and what do we t...

The 50 Greatest Scientists - The Pioneers Who Have Changed Our World

In this stunning jacketed hardback, Jon Balchin introduces 50 of the world's most influential scientists of all time and explains their r...

Exploring Natural Product Chemistry - The World in a Single Leaf

This book examines and summarises the developments and changes in approaches to organic and natural product chemistry over the past 40 ye...

Waste and Want - A Social History of Trash

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susa...

Letters for the Ages Great Scientists - Private Letters from the Greatest Minds in Science

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists. ?Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a ...

Of Firebirds & Moonmen - A Designer's Story from the Golden Age

This is a designer's story from the Golden Age, of Firebirds and Moonmen. It is the author's story of how, through chance and circumstanc...

Gravity - Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic

Graduate textbook developing powerful approximation methods and their applications to real-life astrophysical systems.

Galileo's Finger - The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for mode...

Sociolinguistic Fieldwork

This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in 'the field'.

300 Problems in Special and General Relativity - With Complete Solutions

A textbook-neutral problems-and-solutions book that complements any relativity textbook at advanced undergraduate or masters level.

Governing Climate - How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future

"After decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales-from the h...

Animal - Exploring the Zoological World

Explore the beauty and diversity of the animal world through more than 300 captivating images from across time and from every corner of t...

Cancer Cytogenetics and Cytogenomics - Methods and Protocols

This detailed volume explores the frontiers of this new era in cancer cytogenetics and cytogenomics, focusing on establishing a karyotype...

Now Is the Time to Collect - Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum Africa Expedition of 1896

The rediscovery of a curator's lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum...

Nonclinical Development of Biologics, Vaccines and Specialty Biologics

Nonclinical Development of Biologics, Biosimilars, Vaccines and Specialty Biologics, Second Edition is a complete reference devoted to th...

How to Feed the World - A Factful Guide

'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internation...

Making Jet Engines in World War II - Britain, Germany, and the United States

Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and lone breakthroughs. With Making Jet Engines, Hermione Gif...

A Diversity of Pathways Through Science Education

This book presents the work of academics who contributed their work at the International Science Education Conference (ISEC) 2021, in ali...

Decolonizing Science and Modernity in South Asia - Questioning Concepts, Constructing Histories

This book offers a unique perspective on the colonial roots of modern science, technology, and medicine (STM) in South Asia. The book que...

Analysis and Control for Fractional-Order Systems

This book focuses on the applications of various types of fractional-order differential equations. The authors present their latest resea...

Radio Wave Propagation of Satellite Systems

This book highlights the fundamental theories and prediction methods of radiowave propagation for the design, building, and operation of ...