Science: general issues

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

The goal of sending humans to Mars is becoming increasingly technologically feasible, but the prospect of space colonization raises important questions about civilizational ethics and collective morality.

Though many separation processes are available for use in todays analytical laboratory, chromatographic methods are the most widely used.

Optical Microscopy: Emerging Methods and Applications covers recent technical advances and new approaches to monitoring and altering cell physiology, examining membrane cytoarchitecture, observing multiple cellular activities and intact organ physiology, plus confocal imaging of live cell function, lifetime imaging, and automated clinical imaging cytometry.

Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection presents an overview of the physics of radiation detection and its applications.

Wine Science, Third Edition, covers the three pillars of wine science - grape culture, wine production, and sensory evaluation.

Advances in Food Research

Advances in Food Research

This is the fifth volume of Advances in Sonochemistry the first having been published in 1990.

Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems presents a novel perspective that relates to current biological knowledge and issues.

What do philosophy and computer science have in common?

Digital image processing, an integral part of microscopy, is increasingly important to the fields of medicine and scientific research.

This interdisciplinary book ties the historical work of Descartes to his successors through current research and critical overviews on the neuroscience of consciousness, the brain, and cognition.

By using nanotechnological methods, we can now poke around protein molecules, genes, membranes, cells and more.

Physics in Biology and Medicine, Third Edition covers topics in physics as they apply to the life sciences, specifically medicine, physiology, nursing, and other applied health fields.

MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE EARTH

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is an analytical tool used by chemists and physicists to study the structure and dynamics of molecules.

As the largest living group on earth, insects can provide us with insight into adaptation, evolution, and survival.

This is the first book to cover the history, structure, and application of atomic force microscopy in cell biology.

Scientists use concepts and principles that are partly specific for their subject matter, but they also share part of them with colleagues working in different fields.

This fully illustrated text explains the basic measurement techniques, describes the commercially available instruments and provides an overview of the current perception of 3-D topography analysis in the academic world and industry, and the commonly used 3-D parameters and plots for the characterizing and visualizing 3-D surface topography.

In this visionary and fundamentally optimistic book, the legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition.

Perspectives in Receptor Research

One of the first books devoted entirely to the subject of Raman microscopy, Raman Microscopy addresses issues of great interest to engineers working in Raman-microscope development and researchers concerned with areas ofapplication for this science.

*; Describes how energy therapies are now gaining acceptance due to irrefutable proof of their effectiveness for clinical conditions from PTSD to phantom limb pain*; Examines the power of group energetics and team chemistry in sports and in society*; Explains how megalithic sacred sites are aligned with Earth's subtle energies and explores the energetics of crop circles and global consciousnessExamining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eric Leskowitz, M.

'The best introduction to personality psychology I have ever read' Robert Hogan, founder and president, Hogan Assessment SystemsWe are each born with a particular genetic makeup and traits that are further shaped by our individual environments and life experiences, creating a personality unique to us.

Scientist, physician, and pastor Stephen Ko explains how to live and worship incarnationally and glorify God with our bodies.

From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication.

While research on ultrasonics has been covered in earlier volumes of the Physical Acoustics series, Volumes 23 and 24 demonstrate the successful commercialization of devices and instruments arising from research in this area.

While research on ultrasonics has been covered in earlier volumes of the Physical Acoustics series, Volumes 23 and 24 demonstrate the successful commercialization of devices and instruments arising from research in this area.

Photobiology integrates a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

This course manual instructs students in recombinant DNA techniques and other essential molecular biology techniques in the context of projects.

This manual is designed as an intensive introduction to the various tools of molecular biology.

Memory conveys the state of knowledge regarding human memory.

This volume, from an international authority on the subject, deals with the physical and instrumentation aspects of measurement science, the availability of major measurement tools, and how to use them.

This new edition has been significantly revised and updated to reflect advances in the field since the publication of the first edition, such as the systematic experimental testing of Preisach models of hysteresis.

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus (17071778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants and animals.

* Expert, up-to-date guidance on the appropriate techniques of local chemical analysis* Comprehensive.

Identifying Marine Diatoms and Dinoflagellates is the second identification manual created from the literature developed for the Advanced International Phytoplankton Course.

G Proteins

***One of Barack Obama's best books of 2024***Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearA revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink itOver the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer.

The developments in the field of ocean acoustics over recent years make this book an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields.

This volume provides an overview of modern acoustical techniques for the measurement of mechanical properties.

Surface science has a wide range of applications that include semiconductor processing, catalysis, vacuum technology, microelectronics, flat-panel displays, compact disks, televisions, computers, environmental monitoring of pollutants, biomaterials, artificial joints, soft tissues, food safety, pharmacy, and many more.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning optical microscopy for scientists and engineers.

Catalysis by Metals and Alloys

During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational.

Since the first publication of this definitive work nearly 40 years ago, this fourth edition has been completely rewritten.

The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts.