Science: general issues

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 194.

Food texture has evolved to be at the forefront of food formulation and development.

Darwinism and the Divine examines the implications of evolutionary thought for natural theology, from the time of publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species to current debates on creationism and intelligent design.

Within key texts of Romantic-era aesthetics, William Wordsworth, S.

Este libro parte de las noticias falsas: desde su nacimiento en la era predigital hasta su «explosión» online.

This book brings together multiple aspects of the recent research conducted in the field of nanotechnology covering topics such as the synthesis of various nanoparticles, nanorods, graphene, graphene oxide-metal composites, characterization of these materials, and ample aspects of various applications including in heavy metal sensing, optoelectronic devices, gas sensing, solar cells, biomedical sensors, role in the drug delivery, and waste-water treatment.

This book brings together multiple aspects of the recent research conducted in the field of nanotechnology covering topics such as the synthesis of various nanoparticles, nanorods, graphene, graphene oxide-metal composites, characterization of these materials, and ample aspects of various applications including in heavy metal sensing, optoelectronic devices, gas sensing, solar cells, biomedical sensors, role in the drug delivery, and waste-water treatment.

Descubre todos los secretos (y un montón de curiosidades) del sistema solar en este espectacular álbum ilustrado de la colección Los Exploradores del Espacio.

The late eighteenth century and subsequent Napoleonic Era witnessed a turning point in the establishment of agricultural science as a well-defined discipline in northern Italy.

Roadkill is a recurrent but often unthought feature of modern life.

This edited volume explores the role of outdoor environmental education in the contemporary society.

This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators.

Where there is data there are questions of ownership, leaks, and worries about misuse.

The relationship between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis has long been contested by doctors and medical professionals, creating numerous implications for the public reputation of alcohol in Britain.

Estamos ante una novedosa propuesta de divulgación científica en la cual se une la visión de mundo y el conocimiento de la cultura mapuche con las matemáticas.

This book proposes a bold idea.

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon.

The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space.

Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science.

What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science?

A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing dataIn the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions.

It used to be: If you see a coyote, shoot it.

Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life?

The genesis of the digital idea and why it transformed civilizationA few short decades ago, we were informed by the smooth signals of analog television and radio; we communicated using our analog telephones; and we even computed with analog computers.

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that?

Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmologya grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spirituality togetherLisa H.

Nautilus Book Awards Silver Award Winner, Animals & Nature Category, 2020 These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to microscopic scales, or out onto the geologic overview.

This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community.

Ecology, like all literary narrative, has the potential for turnabout, surprise, lessons learned, and tragedy.

This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--especially for those who do not think of themselves as experts in quantification, "e;big data,"e; or "e;digital humanities.

Now available in paperback!

There's a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish andasks, "e;How's the water?

From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.

Sir Isaac Newton's publications, and those he inspired, were among the most significant works published during the long eighteenth century in Britain.

Digby Tantam presents the ground-breaking theory of the interbrain, the idea that human beings are endlessly connected by a continuous interplay of non-verbal communication of which we are unaware.

Comment Lilian Thuram a marqué les deux buts du mondial de foot 98 sans rien y comprendre ?

The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception.

Environmental Science: Principles and Practices provides the scientific principles, concepts, applications, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and manmade, evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and examine alternative solutions (such as renewable energy sources) for resolving and even preventing them.

Each book in the Learn Every Day series features one hundred activities contributed by teachers around the world.

Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards.

Humanity now stands at a crossroads between a world of unimaginable wonders and one of unprecedented terrors.

In Prosperos America, Walter W.

Technology Integration and Transformation of Elections in Africa serves as a standard textbook and a reference guide to students in both undergraduate and graduate programs in tertiary institutions where elaborate discourse on the impact of technology to political elections and advancements across the continental Africa have continued to gain weight.

Freeman Dyson's latest book does not attempt to bring together all of the celebrated physicist's thoughts on science and technology into a unified theory.

This detailed book presents recent methodologies for the task of inspecting the genomic world of plants, extracting valuable information, and presenting it in a readable way.

This updated book reflects improvements in a variety of techniques used to study the aptamer field.

Forced-Flow Layer Chromatography takes a close look at the specifics of forced-flow layer chromatography techniques, from their evolution to the nuances of using these techniques in a variety of applications where traditional thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) are not as effective.

The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From?