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Field Life
Science in the American West during the Railroad Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology,...
by Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
An Introduction to Astronomy by F.R. Moulton - The definitive text for learning about the amazing science of Astronomy.
The progress of mankind has been marked by a number of great intellectual movements. At one time the ideas of men were expanding with the knowledge which they were obtaining...
Service Science
The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Features coverage of the service systems lifecycle, including service marketing, engineering, delivery, quality control, management, and sustainment
Featuring an innovative and holistic approach, Service Science: The Foundations of Service Engineering and Management provides a new perspective...
Physics in the Arts
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Physics in the Arts is a concise, 328-page four-color entry in the Complementary Science Series, designed for science enthusiasts and liberal arts students requiring or desiring a well-developed discussion of physical phenomena, particularly with regard to sound and light. This book offers an alternative...
Crime Science
Methods of Forensic Detection
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The O.J. Simpson trial. The Lindbergh kidnapping. The death of Marilyn Monroe. The assassination of the Romanovs. The Atlanta child murders. All controversial cases. All investigated with the latest techniques in forensic science. Nationally respected investigators Joe Nickell and John Fischer explain...
The Problem of Information
An Introduction to Information Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2003
Information can be conceptualized in two fundamentally yet contradictory ways_it appears in the world as both a physical and a cognitive phenomenon. The dilemma information specialists face is similar to that of physicists who must cope with light as both a wave and a particle. Unlike physics, however,...
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...
The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science
The Very Best Backyard Science Experiments You Can Do Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science is Neil Downie's biggest and most astounding compendium yet of science experiments you can do in your own kitchen or backyard using common household items. It may be the only book that encourages hands-on science learning through the use of high-velocity, air-driven...
by Brian Gabriel
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
We live in an Acceleration Age. There has never been a time in history in which humans have experienced so much progress, nor progress at such a rapidly increasing rate.
Consider the rush of progress in DNA sequencing. Beginning in 1990, it took over a decade and almost $3 billion to decode...
by Ralph Ewig
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
5 Stars *****
Don't Fear the Reaper
I highly recommend this book. I couldn't put it down!
On one level, this is pure space opera. It's an exciting adventure with a flawed hero who is so very human that I couldn't help but root for him, a heroine I could really identify with, and a truly...
by Charles E. Gannon
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
A new entry in the critically acclaimed Caine Riordan science fiction series by three-time Nebula nominee Charles E. Gannon! Science fiction on a grand scale. Prequels Raising Caine, Trial by Fire and Fire with Fire were all Nebula Award finalists. Charles E. Gannon is also the winner of the Compton...
Rat In The Skull
& Other Off-Trail Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Hugo Nominee Story First Time Ever in a Book! Robert Silverberg calls Phillips "A master!" Find out why in Rat in the Skull & Other Off-Trail Science Fiction. Here is Hugo Award nominee science fiction author Rog Phillips' first-ever collection featuring his award nominee short novel,...
Bullard: From Cadet To Commander
The Prize-Winning Classic of a Life in the Space Patrol
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
The Prize Winning Classic of the Space Patrol. Originally published for adults, this 1950s saga of a young man growing up in the Space Patrol won a Boys Clubs of America Award when it was republished for a young adult audience. Galaxy science fiction magazine said, "Nice to have these and expert...
Systems and Computer Science
Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Western Ontario September 10-11, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965. The primary purposes of the Conference were the promotion of research and the development of the teaching of computer science in Canadian universities....