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Rise of the Necrofauna
The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray.
A New Yorker “The Books We Loved in 2017” Selection
A Science News Favorite Book of 2017
A Sunday Times "Must Read"
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Curious Folks Ask 2
Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Why do lizards do pushups? What will happen if the Earth’s magnetic field reverses? How does water get from the roots to the tops of trees? Why and how do stars die? Is there really such a thing as the green flash? In Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Answers about Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond,...
The Mangle in Practice
Science, Society, and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and...
Life Science
Third Grade Science Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
If your child is struggling with science, then this book is for you; the short book covers the topic and also contains 5 science experiments to work with, and ten quiz questions.
This subject comes from the book “Third Grade Science (For Home School or Extra Practice)”;...
How Science Works: Evolution
A Student Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Evolution is just a theory, isn’t it? What is a scientific theory anyway? Don’t scientists prove things? What is the difference between a fact, a hypothesis and a theory in science? How does scientific thinking differ from religious thinking? Why are most leading scientists atheists? Are science...
Third Grade Science
For Homeschool or Extra Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This workbook, with 30 science experiments and 50 quiz questions, covers the following topics:
Matter, Light, Energy, Life Science, and Earth Science
If you are homeschooling (or if you are just trying to get extra practice for your child), then you already know that science workbooks and curriculum...
by Michael Slezak
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating,...
The Living Universe
Bringing Science, Finance and Society to Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
Dr Elisabet Sahtouris interviewed by Psychiatrist Dr Nicholas Beecroft. Elisabet Sahtouris is an internationally known Evolution Biologist. In this interview Elisabet inspires us to understand the universe as a conscious, living system. She illustrates this with examples of how the theory applies...
Kraken
The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some...
Why Do Onions Make Me Cry?
Answers to Everyday Science Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Discovery Channel host and acclaimed writer Jay Ingram helps you find the answers to questions you've never really settled, like “What is déjà vu?” “Why do we blink?”, “Why are yawns contagious?” and the perennial “Do we really use only 10% of our brains?”
Note that this book...
The Perversity of Things
Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards...
by Jerzy Leszczynski
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2004
Computational tools have been permanently deposited into the toolbox of theoretical chemists. The impact of new computational tools can hardly be overestimated, and their presence in research and applications is overwhelming. Theoretical methods such as quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, and statistical...
by Andrew May
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen. Yet not everyone was taken by surprise. From super-powerful atomic weapons to rockets and space travel, readers of science fiction (SF) had seen it all before.
Sometimes...
The Place of Probability in Science
In Honor of Ellery Eells (1953-2006)
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Science aims at the discovery of general principles of special kinds that are applicable for the explanation and prediction of the phenomena of the world in the form of theories and laws. When the phenomena themselves happen to be general, the principlesinvolved assume the form of theories; and when...