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Abū Bakr Ibn Al-ʿarabī (D. 543/1148) - Legacy and Impact on the Transmission of Al-Ghazālī's (D. 505/1111) Thought in Al-Andalus

In this book, the contributors offer an account of the legacy of qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148), a pivotal figure in the trans...

The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

This is the most authoritative and accessible single-volume reference book on applied mathematics. Featuring numerous entries by leading ...

Citrus - A World History

A world history of citrus, from the art of antiquity to the science of the modern era.

Physics of the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies - Multiwavelength Point of View

This book introduces various physical processes related to the formation and evolution of galaxies, such as gravitation, electromagnetism...

How to Create a Mind - The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

A bold exploration of the human brain's potential by the internationally bestselling author of The Singularity is Near

The Glass Cage - How Our Computers Are Changing Us

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable compu...

Staying with the Trouble - Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Experimental Futures

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfig...

The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development followed for many years to come. This record of Teslas pioneering work gathers m...

The Science Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The big ideas in science, simply explained, from anatomy to physics, plus the history of science from Copernicus to present day ideas on ...

Intelligence in the Flesh - Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks

Explores the mind/body debate at the heart of intelligence and what it is to be human, applying technical neuroscience and psychology to ...

Teaching Statistics - A Bag of Tricks

To help overcome the challenges of teaching statistics across various diciplines, Gelman and Nolan have put together this fascinating and...

Profit - An Environmental History

Profit -- getting more out of something than you put into it -- is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the en...

Lean Six Sigma For Dummies

Become a process improvement star with Lean Six Sigma! Thinking Lean? Not in terms of weight loss, but operational efficiency? Then you c...

The Exceptions - Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science

The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radi...

On the Future - Prospects for Humanity

"Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century...

The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables for a Planet in Crisis

One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial Times Before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated around ...

Genetic Resources and Adaptive Management of Conifers in a Changing World

Climatic change causes a mismatch between tree populations on sites they currently occupy and the climate to which they have adapted in t...

Physics for Scientists and Engineers (International Edition)

The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media solution that will help students ...

Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is tra...

The Joy of Science

"In The Joy of Science, Jim Al-Khalili presents eight lessons that serve as a guide to thinking and living life a little more scientifica...

The Social Instinct - How Cooperation Shaped the World

Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us ...

Small Gases, Big Effect - This Is Climate Change

The international bestseller that gives you the facts about climate changeWhen students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to fi...

Science Research Writing - for native and non-native speakers of English (Second Edition)

This book enables STEMM researchers to write effective papers for publication as well as other research-related texts such as a doctoral ...

Broken Places & Outer Spaces

Following her journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, acclaimed sci-fi writer Nnedi Okorafor reveals that wh...

Molecular and Cell Biology For Dummies

Your insider guide to the stuff of life 3.8 billion years old and counting, there's more than a little to know about the fundamentals of ...

Unlocking the Moon's Secrets - From Galileo to Giant Impact

Unlocking the Moon's Secrets tells the fascinating story of how scientists solved the mystery of the Moon's origin and the cause of the M...

Plasticity in the Life Sciences

Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity. Since the early twentieth century, plasticity h...

Into the Clear Blue Sky - The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere

'A fascinating look into some of the cutting edge climate solutions' Bill McKibben Can we really restore the earth's atmosphere within ou...

Artificial Era - Predictions, Problems, and Diversity in AI

A ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, including productivity, and job displacement, while identify...

A Book of Noises - Noes on the Auraculous

In a Flight of Starlings - The Wonder of Complex Systems

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned...

Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement

Metaverse For Dummies

Your first step to understanding what the metaverse is all about You've probably heard that the metaverse--a word that seemingly went fro...

Explanatorium of Science - Where the Wonders of the World are Revealed

This science book shows how the subject really works, with amazing photographs showing the ins and outs of chemistry, physics, and biolog...

Astronomy For Dummies, (+ Chapter Quizzes Online)

Embark on your own personal journey into the night sky. Stardate: Today! Ever catch yourself staring up at the night sky and wondering ju...

The Limits of Genius - The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds

The hilarious, regrettable and downright baffling lesser-known achievements of the men and women who somehow managed to bungle their way ...

Sounds Wild and Broken - Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work - Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study

A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made ...

The Seven Measures of the World

Piero Martin explores how scientific knowledge is built around seven measurements: meter, second, kilogram, kelvin, ampere, mole, and can...

Just About Coping - A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair

In honest stories from her own life and the experiences of some of her patients as she trains to be a psychotherapist, Dr Natalie Cawley ...

The Life Scientific Quiz Book

On the Scent - Unlocking the Mysteries of Smell - and How Its Loss Can Change Your World

A fascinating exploration of how losing our sense of smell can shape our world, and how the global pandemic transformed our understanding...

Origin Story - The Trials of Charles Darwin

By early morning 30 June 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The...

Cultural Selection

Humans learn in ways that are influenced by others. As a result, cultural items of many types are elaborated over time in ways that build...

Private Life of the Atom

The Constitution of Science

How can science be protected, by whom and at what level? Mantzavinos introduces the idea of a 'Constitution of Science' as a vital means ...

The Path to Singularity - How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity

Technology is developing at an increasingly swift pace, and there is likely to be a tipping point when change occurs at a pace so rapid t...

Stitching Science - Exploring Science from A-Z

Science gets the stitched treatment in this stunning science book from textile artist Lauren Wright Vartanian. During the pandemic, Laure...

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers - How Diffusion Shapes Economic Competition

"A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers. When scholars and policymakers consider how te...

Honoring Charlotte Moore Sitterly (Iau S371) - Astronomical Spectroscopy in the 21st Century

This symposium honors the contributions of Charlotte Moore Sitterly as a pioneer of spectroscopy, and astronomical spectroscopy in partic...

The Sociolinguistics of Gender in Public Life

Leibniz's Correspondence in Science, Technology and Medicine (1676 -1701) - Core Themes and Core Texts

Core themes and texts from ten subject areas in Leibniz's correspondence in science, technology and medicine (from 1676 to 1701) provide ...

The Einstein Paradox - The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935

Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book offers a rich context for the famously controversial 1935 paper by Einstein, Podols...

Worked Examples in Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis

Extensive solved exercises and solutions to complement the authors' theoretical text Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Ana...

When the Ice Is Gone - What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future

In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. ...

Isaac Newton - The Biography of an an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer and his Principia Philosophy

Isaac Newton, the eminent English mathematician, physicist, and natural philosopher, left an indelible mark on the Scientific Revolution ...

Why Trust Science?

Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of...

A Medico-Topographical Account of Deoli, Rajputana - with a medical history of the Deoli irregular force

A Medico-Topographical Account of Deoli, Rajputana - with a medical history of the Deoli irregular force is an unchanged, high-quality re...

Phase Transitions in Materials

The new edition of this popular textbook provides a fundamental approach to phase transformations and thermodynamics of materials.

25th Guide to German Biotech Companies

Die Jubiläums-Ausgabe des Guide to German Biotech Companies stellt mehr als 100 Unternehmen mit ausführlichen Porträts in englischer Spra...