Popular science

"e;The common perception of Alzheimer's from people who haven't experienced it is that it's more like a 'quirk' which all elderly people experience at some point.

This book presents a series of delightful interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy, and even the vacuum itself, reveal their innermost secrets - not only what they are but also how they feel.

This book consists of essays that stand on their own but are also loosely connected.

This book develops the best traditions of this kind of scientific literature.

This book summarizes the main scientific achievements of the blown-up theory of evolution science, which was first seen in published form in 1994.

The Spirit of Russian Science comprises dozens of short and funny true stories about the relations between people working in science, the ways people of science interacted, and their attitudes towards life.

This is a book that sings about the beauty of the fundamental laws of nature.

Generalized versions of the central limit theorem that lead to Gaussian distributions over one and higher dimensions, via arbitrary iterations of simple mappings, have recently been discovered by the author of this publication and his collaborators.

This was the first of a number of seminars dealing with one of the most complex of the new challenges in the 21st century, which call for the participation of a broad range of experts.

In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophic concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined.

Those who survive major earthquakes often report the occurrence of mysterious phenomena beforehand - unusual animal and plant behavior, lightning, strange clouds and malfunctioning electrical appliances.

What is the origin of the universe?

The aims of the International Conference on Physics Education in Cultural Contexts were to explore ways towards convergent and divergent physics learning beyond school boundaries, improve physics education through the use of traditional and modern cultural contexts, and exchange research and experience in physics education between different cultures.

In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories.

This interesting book is a compilation of recent stories from a regular column called "e;Science Monitor"e; in The Straits Times, Singapore's main English daily.

As diverse as they are interesting, the issues within the life sciences never fail to impress and stir controversy among the lay public.

This fascinating book comprises the autobiographical reminiscences and reflections of Monto Ho, M.

A laboratory manual for high schools, colleges, and universities, this book contains more than 80 experiments and lecture demonstrations.

The idea that comets may be connected with the origin of life on Earth was considered heresy a few decades ago, with scientists shying away from this possibility as if from a medieval superstition.

This book covers two aspects of the career of D Allan Bromley: the science policy aspect and the scientific aspect.

Many people are concerned about crises leading to disasters in nature, in social and economic life.

Creativity is a uniquely human ability highly prized and sought after, defining the excellence of individuals, corporations, and nations.

A Physicist Remembers traces the effort to measure electron charge, spin, and momentum density on atoms and solids and to compare experiment with theory.

This is a fascinating and popular account of the very large and the very small, from the universe as a whole to subatomic physics.

Since the mid-1820s, a series of lectures has been delivered each year over the Christmas period in the world-famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution of Great Britain by prominent scientists, addressed specifically to an audience of children.

Brain and mind continue to be a topic of enormous scientific interest.

The Leverhulme Trust (UK) required Charles Oxnard to present a series of public lectures during his tenure of a Leverhulme Professorship at University College, London.

The art of origami, or paper folding, is carried out using a square piece of paper to obtain attractive figures of animals, flowers or other familiar figures.

Symmetry is as simple or as complicated as we are ready to absorb it in everything around us.

All earnest and honest human quests for knowledge are efforts to understand Nature, which includes both human and nonhuman systems, the objects of study in science.

This is the international edition of Prof Rao's popular science book, an elementary introduction intended for high school students and others interested in appreciation of chemistry.

This book compiles all of the test problems and solutions from the 1st through the 8th Asian Physics Olympiad.

This book addresses some of the baffling questions encountered at the final frontier of space and time related to particle physics and cosmology in the context of recent iconoclastic observations and developments.

This book provides a lens through which modern society is shown to depend on complex networks for its stability.

Named a Top Ten Book of 2011 by Physics World, UK.

It is naturally important for any of us to have a correct view of the universe we are in.

This book treats arts as part of science, from the unified perspective of Science Matters.

This is a book unique in structure - a collection of ideas noted on index cards over a period of 40 years.

Exercise Personal Training 101 provides a message of empowerment for personal trainers who believe in the holistic development of their clients.

This volume consists of a selection of the Albert Einstein Memorial Lectures presented annually at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

This book provides realistic answers to hotly debated scientific topics: Science is about quantitative aspects of natural realities (physical, chemical, biological) but it is the result of human intellectual inquiry and therefore not "e;per se"e; materialistic.

Feynman once selected, as the single most important statement in science, that everything is made of atoms.

During a sequence of meals, the author relates the principal features of physics in easy-to-understand conversations with his wife Beth.

This book recalls, for nonscientific readers, the history of quantum mechanics, the main points of its interpretation, and Einstein's objections to it, together with the responses engendered by his arguments.

This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the arts and society.

Did you like Math or Science in school?

Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other.

Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world - all this is somehow enabled by the brain.

Our Place in the Universe tells the story of our world, formation of the first galaxies and stars formed from great clouds containing the primordial elements made in the first few minutes; birth of stars, their lives and deaths in fiery supernova explosions; formation of the solar system, its planets and many moons; life on Earth, its needs and vicissitudes on land and in the seas; finally exoplanets, planets that surround distant stars.

From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time - his own life and the split-second world of the femtosecond.