Methodology category: 1297 books
Systems Thinking
Intelligence in Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The core belief underlying this book is that the most useful and effective models to strengthen our intelligence are system ones, developed following the logic of Systems Thinking. Such models can explore complexity, dynamics, and change, and it is the author’s view that intelligence depends on...
Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre
The Doctor Who Weighed the Soul, and Other True Tales
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that science sometimes takes a path through the ridiculous...
Accidental Medical Discoveries
How Tenacity and Pure Dumb Luck Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs:
A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for...
Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics
North American Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
With an exciting new look, math diagnostic tool, and a research roadmap to navigate projects, this new edition of Andy Field's award-winning text offers a unique combination of humor and step-by-step instruction to make learning statistics compelling and accessible to even the most anxious of students....
Fermat's Enigma
The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution
"I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet...
13 Things That Don't Make Sense
The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology, chemistry to psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement of scientific discovery.Science’s best-kept secret is this: even today, thereare experimental results that the most brilliant scientists cannot explain. In the past,...
Farewell to Reality
How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist).
Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental...
by Robert Murray-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Graphene is a two dimensional material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb or chicken wire structure. It is the thinnest material known to man and yet is also one of the strongest materials there is. It conducts electricity as well as copper and is better than all...
by Mary Roach
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**A New York Times / National Bestseller
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.**
Grunt tackles the science...
The Science Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The Science Book explores how scientists have sought to explain our world and the universe, and how scientific discoveries have been made.
A new title in DK's successful "Big Ideas, Simply Explained" series, this book on science and the history of science looks at topics such as why...
by Albert Einstein, Neil Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Authorized Albert Einstein Archives Edition: An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein’s place in scientific history.
In this fascinating collection of articles and speeches, Albert Einstein reflects not only on the scientific method at work in his own theoretical...
Reinventing Discovery
The New Era of Networked Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books...
Using R for Data Analysis in Social Sciences
A Research Project-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Statistical analysis is common in the social sciences, and among the more popular programs is R. This book provides a foundation for undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences on how to use R to manage, visualize, and analyze data. The focus is on how to address substantive questions...
Playing on the Edge
Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand...