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by Aysha Divan, Janice Royds
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Molecular Biology is the story of the molecules of life, their relationships, and how these interactions are controlled. It is an expanding field in life sciences, and its applications are wide and growing. We can now harness the power of molecular biology to treat diseases, solve crimes, map human...
Ginkgo
The Tree That Time Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first found it useful about a thousand years...
by Michael Ohl
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act.
Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. Behind each act of scientific naming is a story. In this entertaining and illuminating book, Michael Ohl considers scientific naming as a...
The Earthquake Observers
Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet’s hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an earthquake...
Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2007
The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science,...
Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree
The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Leading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for biological order from ancient times to the present and their influence on humans' perception of their place in nature, offering uncommon insight into how we went from standing on the top rung of the biological...
Buckets from an English Sea
1832 and the Making of Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Darwin did not discover evolution. He didn't trip over it on the way to somewhere else the way Columbus discovered the New World. Like the atom, planetary orbits, and so many other scientific constructs, evolution was invented in order to explain striking phenomena. And it has been most successful....
Environmental Soil Physics
Fundamentals, Applications, and Environmental Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1998
Environmental Soil Physics is a completely updated and modified edition of the Daniel Hillels previous, successful books, Introduction to Soil Physics and Fundamentals of Soil Physics. Hillel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, one of the true leaders in the field of environmental sciences. The new...
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
Written in Stone
Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As the media frenzy over Darwinius and the recent proliferation of books on evolution and creationism show, the public is fascinated by debates about evolutionary biology.
Transitional fossils are often featured in news headlines as "missing links" perpetuating a profound misunderstanding...
The Spinning Magnet
The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting power
Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change...
by A.P. Dimri, Amulya Chevuturi
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book examines the meteorological phenomenon known as Western Disturbances (WDs) and traces their influence on the Indian subcontinent. It fully details the unique characteristics and dynamics of these disturbances, which produce large-scale instabilities in the atmosphere over northern India...
The Reenchantment of Nature
The Denial of Religion and the Ecological Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2002
In this provocative assessment of the world's current ecological crisis, the author of the critically acclaimed In the Beginning exposes the false assumptions underlying the conflicts between science and religion, and proposes an innovative approach to saving the planet.
Traditionally, science...
by Dr. Georg Stehli
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A world of pleasure, excitement and new knowledge awaits one who learns to use the microscope — a world in which table salt crystals appear as jewels, a drop of water swarms with life, a butterfly's wings reveal a cascade of multicolored particles. This book is for anyone who would like to enter that...