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by Harry Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science’s pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the...
by Justin L. Bauer, Yoo Jung Kim, Andrew H. Zureick
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. . . . We must understand and circumvent this dangerous discouragement. No one can predict where the future leaders of science will come from.”—Carl...
Explaining Research
How to Reach Key Audiences to Advance Your Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Explaining Research is the first comprehensive communications guidebook for scientists, engineers, and physicians. Drawing on knowledge gleaned from a forty-year career in research communications, Dennis Meredith maps out how scientists can utilize sophisticated tools and techniques to disseminate...
Passionate Minds
The Inner World of Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 1997
The popular stereotype of the scientist as mad boffin or weedy nerd has been peddled widely in film and fiction, with the implication that the world of science is far removed from the intellectual and emotional messiness of other human activities. In Passionate Minds, distinguished scientist Lewis...
The Outer Limits of Reason
What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits...
by David G. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
A quantitative introduction to the Earth's atmosphere for intermediate-advanced undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on underlying physical principles. This edition has been brought completely up-to-date, and now includes a new chapter on the physics of climate change which builds...
Wave Propagation in Nanostructures
Nonlocal Continuum Mechanics Formulations
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Wave Propagation in Nanostructures describes the fundamental and advanced concepts of waves propagating in structures that have dimensions of the order of nanometers. The book is fundamentally based on non-local elasticity theory, which includes scale effects in the continuum model. The book predominantly...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Revision 2A - This short technical paper presents a new standard model for Elementary Particles. All elementary particle masses are related by simple math. This math is similar to the math used for wifi signals and it is called 1024-QAM. The 1024-QAM table graphically displays how all elementary particles...
by Yasumichi Aoki, Kiyoshi Hayasaka, Toru Iijima;Toshihide Maskawa;Masaharu Tanabashi;Koichi Yamawaki
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI) was founded at Nagoya University in 2010 under the directorship of T Maskawa, in celebration of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for M Kobayashi and T Maskawa, both who are alumni of Nagoya University. In commemoration...
Statistical and Thermal Physics
With Computer Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This textbook carefully develops the main ideas and techniques of statistical and thermal physics and is intended for upper-level undergraduate courses. The authors each have more than thirty years' experience in teaching, curriculum development, and research in statistical and computational physics.
Statistical...
Diving Deeper into SCUBA... Science
Practical and Theoretical Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
You will find in this book some valuable and reliable lessons about safe diving
The editors of and authors of this book are a cadre of scientists and physicians with broad experience and knowledge of diving physiology and decompression theory. As is often the case, it requires a group effort...
Rendering Life Molecular
Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive. Figuring out how to make these unruly...
Forts and Forays
A Dragoon in New Mexico, 1850-1856
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Forts and Forays is a rare account of frontier soldiering in the pre-Civil War Southwest by an enlisted man. James A. Bennett joined the regular army in 1849 and was stationed in New Mexico for six years before he deserted to Mexico. Assigned to the First Dragoons, he visited most major New Mexico...
Character in Action
The U.S. Coast Guard on Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
How does the U.S. Coast Guard create, instill, and maintain leadership throughout a 40,000 member force spread across the United States? A former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and a best-selling author combine their knowledge of the subject to offer a formula for success. Donald T. Phillips, who...