Science: general issues

In THE PEOPLE YOU ARE, Rita Carter - award-winning science writer and international speaker - offers a new and vital understanding of personality.

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Discover a new and hopeful path forward as you consider your family's approach to social media, screen time, and technology.

A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her lifeClaudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life.

An extraordinary yet little-known scientific advance occurred in the opening years of the nineteenth century when a young amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, gave the clouds the names by which they are known to this day.

Robert Hooke was one of the most inventive, versatile and prolific scientists of the late 17th Century, but for 300 years his reputation has been overshadowed by those of his two great contemporaries, his friend Sir Christopher Wren and his rival Sir Isaac Newton.

Contrary to popular belief, fostered in countless school classrooms the world over, Christopher Columbus did not discover that the world was round.

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) fue uno de los filosofos mas influyentes del siglo XX.

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds One of the most important books yet published this century SpectatorFor as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives.

T'imagines el dia en què es descobreixi vida fora de la Terra?

Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 47: Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies, Part 3 of 5 deals with techniques and technologies in manufacturing and automation systems.

Methods of Enzymatic Analysis, Volume 4 reviews developments in the use of enzymes as tools in analytical biochemistry, including advances in assay techniques.

Cognitive Processes of Nonhuman Primates covers the proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium on Cognition, held at Carnegie-Mellon University on March 26 and 27, 1970.

Absolute Radiometry: Electrically Calibrated Thermal Detectors of Optical Radiation considers the application of absolute radiometry, a technique employed in optical radiation metrology for the absolute measurement of radiant power.

Automatic Titrators focuses on the contributions and effects of modern automation on volumetric analysis.

Nocturnal Malagasy Primates: Ecology, Physiology, and Behavior is composed of different studies investigating the "e;strategies adopted by lesser known nocturnal species of Marosalaza forest to cope with the contrasted seasonal conditions.

Progress in Ape Research presents the papers reported in the conference organized by the staff of Yerkes Primate Research Center in celebrating the centenary of Dr.

Feeding and Nutrition of Nonhuman Primates is a report of a two-day meeting that aims to evaluate the knowledge and information regarding the diet of primates.

Social Play in Primates provides comprehensive discussions on the social aspect of play in the behavior of primates.

Neurobiology of Social Communication in Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective presents evidence on the neural basis of communicative behavior in primates, reevaluating the relationship between human language and animal communication in view of the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees.

Primate Locomotion discusses researches on the concept of primate locomotion.

Newer Methods of Preparative Organic Chemistry, Volume II focuses on several improved methods in preparative organic chemistry.

The Rhesus Monkey, Volume I: Anatomy and Physiology discusses the anatomic and physiological measurement, microscopic anatomy, learning, skills, general behavior, and vocalization of rhesus monkey.

Correlative Microscopy in Biology: Instrumentation and Methods presents the detailed methodology of biological correlative microscopy, a technology that allows the acquisition of multiple data from single tissue block, cell, or section.

Optical Bistability: Controlling Light with Light focuses on optical bistability in nonlinear optical systems.

Physical Science in the Modern World surveys the whole range of the non-biological sciences.

The Study of Prosimian Behavior aims to provide as complete coverage as possible to the field of prosimian behavior.

High-Velocity Impact Phenomena covers a wide range of pertinent topics dealing with impact phenomena.

Electron Microscopy in Material Science covers the proceedings of the International School of Electron Microscopy held in Erice, Itsaly, in 1970.

This guide for the practicing chromatographer who wants a ready source of information on HPLC detection explores and compares existing detection systems and detectors, outlines the common problems associated with a given detector, and offers proven approaches to avoiding such problems.

Our intention has been to write a book that would be useful to people with a variety of levels of interest in this subject.

The integration of confocal microscopy and volume investigation has led to an unprecedented ability to examine spatial relationships between cellular structure and function.

'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature.

Current Research in Protein Chemistry: Techniques, Structure, and Function reviews new techniques and methods for determining the structure and function of proteins.

The need for this second edition is dictated by developments that have occurred in this rapidly changing field and by sins of omission and sins of commission in the first edition.

Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 36 reviews advances in theory and applications of large scale control and dynamic systems.

Why do people have near-death experiences?

Though the concept of "e;the universe"e; suggests the containment of everything, the latest ideas in cosmology hint that our universe may be just one of a multitude of others-a single slice of an infinity of parallel realities.

Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of existential risk, the dangerous mistakes we have yet to pay for, and concrete steps we can take to protect ourselves and future-proof our civilization.

This book argues that it is possible for our study of the natural world to enhance our understanding of God and for our faith to inform and influence our study and application of science.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi OliverAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and technology are changing what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a SoldierHarry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan.

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK Plunge into this rich and thought-provoking A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political.

How will the world be powered in ten years' time?

Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and the universe.

'A ravishing, alarming account of these underwater palaces of wonder, and the existential threat they face from humanity and our warming climate .

ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme.

The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood.

Sunday Times bestsellerWe have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory.

Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world.