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Selected Papers from the Alma Mater Series 1-8.

Studies in simulation

Energy Conscious Heating

In 2007 the EU's leaders decided to combat climate change and increase the EU's energy security while strengthening its competitiveness. ...

High Level Synthesis of Datapaths

A modern mikroelektronikai tervezéshez elengedhetetlenek az automatizált tervezőeszközök. A legnagyobb kihívást a jó minőségű, magas szin...

A history of western technology

A history of the sciences

Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River and Parmachenee Lake - First Winter in the Maine Wilderness

This plain-spoken account of two hunters who spent a winter roaming the wilds of Maine in 1877 is a deeply insightful account of the hunt...

The Color Primer - A basic treatise on the color system of Wilhelm Ostwald

No detailed description available for "The Color Primer".

A Pattern Language - Towns, Buildings, Construction

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town an...

Fundamentals of Statistical Processing, Volume I - Estimation Theory

For practicing engineers and scientists who design and analyze signal processing systems, i.e., to extract information from noisy signals...

The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American p...

The Awesome Life Force

1. Teil der wissenschaftlichen Abhandlung von Cater

Gödel, Escher, Bach. - An Eternal Golden Braid

This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in th...

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...

Electrodynamics from Ampère to Einstein

Three quarters of a century elapsed between Ampere's definition of electrodynamics and Einstein's reform of the concepts of space and tim...

The Non-Local Universe - The New Physics and Matters of the Mind

Two groundbreaking scientists suggest that every particle in the universe is interconnected with some other particle, offering a theory o...

Infinite Minds - A Philosophical Cosmology

The cosmos exists just because of the ethical need for it We, and all the intricate structures of our universe, exist as thoughts in a di...

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...

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...

The Oxford Guide to the History of Physics and Astronomy

With over 150 alphabetically arranged entries about key scientists, concepts, discoveries, technological innovations, and learned institu...

Life as We Know It

Life As we Know It ["LAKI"] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution of prokaryotes to...

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...

The Brain That Changes Itself - Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain' Oliver Sacks 'Utterly won...

Animal Liberation - The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Updated)

"A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals--and, ultimately, at ourselves." -- Chicago Tribune Since its ...

Measurements and their Uncertainties - A practical guide to modern error analysis

This short guide to modern error analysis is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences. No pri...

Teach Yourself Physics

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.W...

The Gendered Self Further commentary on the transsexual phenomenon

Based on the author's experience in treating over 500 gender dysphoric individuals over the last 26 years,The Gendered Self is the story ...

The Moral Landscape - How Science Can Determine Human Values

Bestselling author Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

Moonwalking with Einstein - The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller t...

Free Will

Sam Harris, bestselling author of THE END OF FAITH takes on one of today's liveliest issues: whether or not we actually have free will.

Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50th-Anniversary Edition

This new edition of Kuhn's essential work includes an insightful introduction by Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn. Newl...

Writing Science in Plain English

Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in Writing Science in Plain English, wr...

Scientific Sherlock Holmes - Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics

The Scientific Sherlock Holmes connects Holmes' vegetable poisons with concepts in botany, his use of fingerprinting with forensic scienc...

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

Darwin's Doubt

The Evidence That Darwin Could Not Explain Charles Darwin knew there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did n...

Geist - Gehirn - Genom - Gesellschaft. Wie wurde ich zu der Person, die ich bin? - Vorträge anlässlich der Jahresversammlung vom 20. bis 22. September 2013 in Halle (Saale)

Wie wurde ich zu der Person, die ich bin? Der Band behandelt unser gegenwärtiges Wissen über die natürlichen und kulturellen Wurzeln mens...

Der lange Schatten von Tschernobyl - The Long Shadow of Chernobyl / L’ombre de Tchernobyl

DER LANGE SCHATTEN VON TSCHERNOBYL. National Geographic Fotograf Gerd Ludwig hat in den letzten 20 Jahren Tschernobyl neun Mal besucht. U...

An investigation of arsenic, lead, and mercury in sediment in the international Rio Grande/Rio Bravo watershed - Using a geographic information system

Master's Thesis from the year 1998 in the subject Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health, language: Engl...

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker - A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies

On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker this unique anthology presents thought-provoking texts from 1970 to 2...

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...

Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Volume I

No detailed description available for "Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Volume I".

Gravity - Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic

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

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 ...

Thing Explainer - Complicated Stuff in Simple Words

Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here t...

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 Technological Singularity

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial int...

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 ...

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...

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...

NMR: THE TOOLKIT - How Pulse Sequences Work

This primer describes succinctly the range of NMR techniques commonly used in modern research, and explains how these experiments actuall...

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 ...

Hidden Figures - The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some...

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 Invention of Nature - Alexander von Humboldt's New World

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose id...

Quirky Quarks - A Cartoon Guide to the Fascinating Realm of Physics

Do you love quantum physics, cosmology, and the humor behind the popular television show The Big Bang Theory? Have you been on the lookou...

The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall and Cosmopolitan Entertainment Culture

Focusing on Glasgow¿s earliest surviving music hall, the Britannia, later the Panopticon, this book explores the role of one of the city¿...

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...

The First Transplant Surgeon - The Flawed Genius of Nobel Prize Winner, Alexis Carrel

"Well researched and highly readable, The First Transplant Surgeon pulls off the difficult trick of re-evaluating Dr Alexis Carrel withou...

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...

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...