Other Sciences category: 9579 books
Exploration and Engineering
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States’ planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the way...
The Ravaging Tide
Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
If, like many Americans, you believe the ongoing tragedy of Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, you need to read this book. In the coming years and decades, the safety of your region, your town, your home may depend on the warnings you'll encounter on these pages. That's because the...
North Pole, South Pole
The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth's Magnetism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This “fantastic story” of one of physics’ great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain).
Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans?...
The Scientists
A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat
In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people...
by Bill Mesler, H. James Cleaves II
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery: How did it begin?
In this essential and illuminating history of Western science, Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II seek to answer the most crucial question in science: How did life begin?...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our desire to understand the global carbon cycle and its link to the climate system represents a huge challenge. These overarching questions have driven a great deal of scientific endeavour in recent years: What are the basic oceanic mechanisms which control the oceanic carbon reservoirs and the partitioning...
The Beak of the Finch
A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did...
The Monkey's Voyage
How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
How did species wind up where they are today? Scientists have long conjectured that plants and animals dispersed throughout the world by drifting on large landmasses as they broke up, but in The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz offers a radical new theory that displaces this passive view....
Forrest Mims' Science Experiments
DIY Projects from the Pages of Make:
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Forrest M. Mims is a revered contributor to Make: magazine, where his popular columns about science-related topics and projects for Makers are evergreen treasures. Collected together here for the first time, these columns range from such simple projects as building an LED tracker for hand-launched...
The Measure of All Things
The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their...
Handbook of Epigenetics
The New Molecular and Medical Genetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2010
Epigenetics is considered by many to be the "new genetics" because of the overwhelming evidence of the contribution of non-genetic factors such as nutrition, environment, and chemical exposure on gene expression. The effects of epigenetics are vast, including tissue/organ regeneration, X-chromosome...
by Eran Hornstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This new volume in the Current topics in Developmental Biology series concentrates on MicroRNAs in Development. It includes chapters on such topics as miRNA networks in neuronal development, let-7 in development, and Hox networks and miRNA. With an international team of authors, this volume is a must-have...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
JAK tyrosine kinases and STAT transcription factors constitute a signaling pathway, which is activated by cytokines. By activating gene transcription it regulates essential biological responses to environmental cues. The Jak-Stat pathway is involved in the regulation of cell development, differentiation,...
by Michel Neidhart
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
DNA Methylation and Complex Human Disease reviews the possibilities of methyl-group-based epigenetic biomarkers of major diseases, tailored epigenetic therapies, and the future uses of high-throughput methylome technologies.
This volume includes many pertinent advances in disease-bearing research,...