Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Genesis - In The Beginning
Precursors of Life, Chemical Models and Early Biological Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Genesis – In The Beginning deals with the origin and diversity of Life and early biological evolution and discusses the question of where (hot or cold sources) and when the beginning of Life took place. Among the sections are chapters dealing with prebiotic chemical processes and considering self-replication...
The Human Instinct
How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evolution).
Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Astronomy is by nature an interdisciplinary activity: it involves mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Astronomers use (and often develop) the latest technology, the fastest computers and the most refined software. In this book twenty-two leading scientists from nine countries talk about how...
by Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book is intended to serve as a one-stop reference on fibre-reinforced soils. Over the past 30-35 years, the engineering behaviour of randomly distributed/oriented fibre-reinforced soil, also called simply fibre-reinforced soil, has been investigated in detail by researchers and engineers worldwide....
Advances in Characterization and Analysis of Expansive Soils and Rocks
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This volume includes a collection of technical papers covering two important research topics in geotechnical engineering: (1) the behavior and treatment of expansive soils, and (2) the characterization of rock properties. The twelve studies on expansive soils include investigations into novel stabilization...
by Hyeong Soo Chang, Jiaqiao Hu, Michael C. Fu
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of...
Getting Started with R
An Introduction for Biologists
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
R is rapidly becoming the standard software for statistical analyses, graphical presentation of data, and programming in the natural, physical, social, and engineering sciences. Getting Started with R is now the go-to introductory guide for biologists wanting to learn how to use R in their research....
Genes in Development
Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is pervasive. Yet new scientific discoveries—such as...
Adult Stem Cells
Biology and Methods of Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
This is comprehensive overview of a vital area of scientific enquiry, which covers a broad spectrum of issues. With contributions from some of the key researchers in the field, Adult Stem Cells: Biology and Methods of Analysis offers readers a historical perspective as well as unique insights into...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Research into the field of stem cell biology has developed exponentially over recent years, and is beginning to offer significant promise for unravelling the molecular basis of a multitude of disease states. Importantly, in addition to offering the opportunity to delve deeply into the mechanisms that...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
The Body System Series: The Complete Body System Series and Their Functions Having trouble on Biology? Need to find out information about the organ systems and how they work?. This book contains the five different body systems,plus, three more body systems. This is an excellent book if you need,...
by Alana Monet-Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
The Advanced Biology Series: The Cells and Tissues
From the e books of the Body System Series comes a new series called the Advanced Biology Series. This e book contains all the information you need to understand about the organelles of Eukaryote cells (Animal Cells, Plant Cells, Fungi Cells...
Between Mind and Nature
A History of Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From William James to Ivan Pavlov, John Dewey to Sigmund Freud, the Würzburg School to the Chicago School, psychology has spanned centuries and continents. Today, the word is an all-encompassing name for a bewildering range of beliefs about what psychologists know and do, and this intrinsic interest...
Jonas Salk
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon--a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his...