The principle of the conservation of energy was among the most important developments of nineteenth-century physics, and Robert Mayer, a physician from a small city in Germany, was one of its codiscoverers.
For a wide spectrum of scientists from biomedical and dental researchers to primatologists and physical anthropologists, Emet Schneiderman offers the most accurate and up-to-date presentation of the normal growth of the lower facial skeleton in a primate species.
Violent debate of socialized medicine and health insurance in the United States is punctuated regularly by emotional appeals to the experience of other countries.
In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories.
Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research.
Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer human-like intelligence by artificial means.
Systems governed by non-linear differential equations are of fundamental importance in all branches of science, but our understanding of them is still extremely limited.
A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential?
A sequel to Lectures on Riemann Surfaces (Mathematical Notes, 1966), this volume continues the discussion of the dimensions of spaces of holomorphic cross-sections of complex line bundles over compact Riemann surfaces.
Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally "e;protected"e; for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries.
This is the first complete English translation of Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena--one of the most important and interesting astronomical works of its type to have survived from Greek antiquity.
Einstein's standard and battle-tested geometric theory of gravity--spacetime tells mass how to move and mass tells spacetime how to curve--is expounded in this book by Ignazio Ciufolini and John Wheeler.
Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator's plan for the planetary system--an arrangement thought to be based on harmonic relationships.
The purpose of this book is to explain why red-winged blackbirds are polygynous and to describe the effects of this mating system on other aspects of the biology of the species.
In Hypo-Analytic Structures Franois Treves provides a systematic approach to the study of the differential structures on manifolds defined by systems of complex vector fields.
There have been many demonstrations, particularly for magnetic impurity ions in crystals, that spin-Hamiltonians are able to account for a wide range of experimental results in terms of much smaller numbers of parameters.
Somewhere beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, sealed in bubbles no wider than a pencil lead, is air that fell as snow before Homo sapiens existed.
In this path-breaking work, Paul Thagard draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a theory of conceptual change capable of accounting for all major scientific revolutions.
Hailed as a breakthrough in the understanding of human evolution, The History and Geography of Human Genes offers the first full-scale reconstruction of where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world.
A NEW SCIENTIST BEST NEW SCIENCE BOOK APRIL 2026 Stand out a persuasive case for getting our noses out of our phones and raising our eyes to the skies.
Tony Rothman, profesor de física en Harvard y Princeton, nos guía paso a paso entre grandes temas que ocupan a los cosmólogos contemporáneos, desde la materia oscura a la gravedad cuántica.
Agora mesmo, ao ler estas linas, estas a utilizar a habilidade mais sorprendente e extraordinaria da tua mente: a linguaxe, unha ferramenta unica que usamos os humanos modernos para elaborar o pensamento e para comunicar todo tipo de ideas dunha mente a outra.
