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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 ...

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...

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...

Post Growth - Life after Capitalism

'Empowering and elegiac' Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now 'Utterly inspiring' Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party 'A masterpiece of me...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

Radical by Nature - The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

"A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (...

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...

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...

The Struggle for Public Health - Seven People Who Saved the Lives of Millions and Transformed the Way We Live

"The fascinating stories of public health innovators who overcame immense obstacles to improve the health of millions.In the nineteenth c...

Science on a Mission - How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean

"What difference does it make who pays for science? This is the question that animates Naomi Oreskes' Science on a Mission. Many might sa...

The Blind Spot - Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

"An argument for the inclusion of the human perspective within science and how it makes science possible"--

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...

Thing Explainer

It's good to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it's much more interesting to know what they do. Richard Feynman once said th...

A Mathematical Picture Book

How can one visualize a curve that fills the entire plane or all of space? Can a polyhedron be smoothly turned inside out? What is the pr...

STURM - STORM

Wind, Wellen und bewegtes Wasser - die drei Elemente der See gehören zu den mächtigsten Naturgewalten, die allein oder gemeinsam das Antl...

Intrepid - India's Journey To Mars And The Women Who Made It Possible

The inspirational true story of India's race to the stars - and the women who made it possible... Perfect for fans of Hidden Figures.

Sea Level - A History

"What do we mean when we talk about sea level? How and why did people begin to measure it? With Wilko Graf von Hardenberg as our guide, w...

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 ...

A Crack in Everything - How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage

What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's grea...

What If We Get It Right? - Visions of Climate Futures

Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an exi...

One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward - One Woman's Path to Becoming a Biologist

The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involv...

Cloud Computing in Astronomy

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...

Protestant Modernist Pamphlets - Science and Religion in the Scopes Era

"This work is a hybrid of a scholarly edition and an academic monograph that focuses on the relation between science and religion in earl...

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 ...

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...

The Cosmic Microwave Background - Historical and Philosophical Lessons

"The untold story of how the cosmic microwave background radiation was interpreted following its discovery is a modern case study of theo...

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...

Intracellular Pathogens - Methods and Protocols

This detailed volume presents cutting-edge approaches to study infection, immunity, and intervention strategies against intracellular pat...

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...