Other Sciences category: 9579 books
The White Planet
The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
From the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, The White Planet takes readers on a spellbinding scientific journey through the shrinking world of ice and snow to tell the story of the expeditions and discoveries...
The Sociable Sciences
Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world.
Protecting the Ozone Layer
Lessons, Models, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the life support systems of the planet. None of these international agreements have been as successful as the...
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings
How the Universe Makes Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions? This sequel to Embryogenesis deals with the theoretical issues brought up by Embryogenesis, including: the relationship between thermodynamics/entropy and the emergence...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject.
Giving readers an overview...
History of Mathematical Sciences
Portugal and East Asia IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Missionaries, and in particular the Portuguese Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, played a fundamental role in the dissemination of Western scientific knowledge in East Asia. They also brought to Europe a deeper knowledge of Asian countries. This volume brings together a series of essays analyzing...
Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality
The Importance of Being Borderline
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Scientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress...
The Heavens on Earth
Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and...
Praxis
Yugoslav Essays in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume of the Boston Studies is a distillation of one of the most creative and important movements in contemporary social theory. The articles repre sent the work of the so-called 'Praxis' group in Yugoslavia, a heterogeneous movement of philosophers, sociologists, political theorists, historians,...
by Patricia Patchet-Golubev, Andrea Gilpin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
While teaching writing to undergraduate science students, Gilpin and Patchet-Golubev discovered that although many relatively sophisticated manuals for scientific writing exist, most are aimed at mainly professionals or specialists and are of little practical use to the majority of students. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
In this book, the progress during the last ten years is reviewed and future plans outlined to realize and establish the concept of design in the biological sciences.
Design is a leading concept as well as the principal motivation for the creation of artificial systems. A successful design generally...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This invaluable resource discusses the saftey, ethics, and regulations of developing stem cell clinical applications. Each chapter is contributed by a preeminent scientist in the field and covers such topics as clinical safety of stem cell gene therapy, the patentability of hESC technologies, international...
by Chandan K. Sen, Lester Packer
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2002
The critically acclaimed laboratory standard for more than forty years, Methods in Enzymology is one of the most highly respected publications in the field of biochemistry. Since 1955, each volume has been eagerly awaited, frequently consulted, and praised by researchers and reviewers alike. Now with...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This invaluable resource discusses clinical applications with effects and side-effects of applications of stem cells in bone and cartilage regeneration. Each chapter is contributed by a pre-eminent scientist in the field and covers such topics as skeletal regeneration by mesenchymal stem cells,...