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by John J. Berger, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Climate Myths is both a primer on climate change and a definitive rebuttal of climate science denial. The book can thus be used to help educate students, teachers, and the general public about the controversy over climate change. Climate Myths puts the campaign against climate science in historical,...
by Don Ray
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
The Universe is big, cold, violent, and doomed. What could be reassuring about this?! Welcome on a voyage through a universe of personal relevance, potential, and purpose. Your voyage will cross the blank space on the map between science and spirit. Can these words even appear at peace together? Surely...
The New Martians
A Scientific Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
The year is 2035, and the crew from the first expedition to Mars is returning to Earth. The crewmembers are anxious to get home, and ennui pervades the ship. The mood is broken by a series of mysterious events that jeopardize their safety. Someone or something is threatening the crew. Is it an alien...
by Charles R. Fitts
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Groundwater Science, Second Edition — winner of a 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association — covers groundwater's role in the hydrologic cycle and in water supply, contamination, and construction issues. It is a valuable resource for students and instructors...
The Science of Why 2
Answers to Questions About the Universe, the Unknown, and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
An all-new volume of science questions to delight, entertain, and inform readers of all ages, from bestselling author Jay Ingram.
Bestselling author and commentator Jay Ingram is back to explain the magic and mysteries of the world around us.
Jay takes readers on a tour of the universe,...
Dr. Joe's Brain Sparks
179 Inspiring and Enlightening Inquiries into the Science of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Prepare to be amazed once again.
Did you know what when you shake a ketchup bottle you're practicing thixotropy? That the ancient Greeks made themselves look less ancient by inventing moisturizer? That the mysterious drug obecalp* is as effective as homeopathy and many herbal cures? From the...
by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial...
Betrayal of Science and Reason
How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In this hard-hitting and timely book, world-renowned scientists and writers Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich speak out against what they call the "brownlash." Brownlash rhetoric, created by public relations spokespersons and a few dissidscientists, is a deliberate misstatemof scientific findings...
by James E Shelby
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book provides a concise and inexpensive introduction for an undergraduate course in glass science and technology. The level of the book has deliberately been maintained at the introductory level to avoid confusion of the student by inclusion of more advanced material, and is unique in that its...
by Nobody!
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
"Nobody Knows Evolution!: Bulldogs, Rottweilers and the Intelligent Designers" unifies science, religion and mysticism in a way that is sure to irritate everybody!
“Nobody! drags Darwin’s theory kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century. It's a hole-in-one!” Nobody...
Book of Science Stuff
Wacky experiments, schocking discoveries, odd facts &other outrageous curiosities
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Rather than paying tribute to the great discoveries and discoverers, the BOOK OF SCIENCE STUFF takes a fun look at the silly, hilarious, horrible underbelly of science. In a series of enjoyable short accounts, it focuses on the failures, reveals the petty squabbles, and introduces the "nerds"...
by Henry Smith Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
To speak of a prehistoric science may seem like a contradiction of terms. The word prehistoric seems to imply barbarism, while science, clearly enough, seems the outgrowth of civilization; but rightly considered, there is no contradiction. For, on the one hand, man had ceased to be a barbarian long...
by Frank R. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Geology for Nongeologists introduces basic concepts in geology: how rocks, minerals, and fossils are classified, how wind, ice, and water have shaped the earth, how mountains are formed, and how volcanoes, geysers, earthquakes, glaciers, and groundwater work to modify the physical structure of Earth....
Science for Life
A manual for better living
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the media and the internet, to give a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about changing our lives for the better. Discover the much-advertised...