This best-selling dictionary contains 9,200 entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, and astronomy. This new edition includes expanded coverage ... 続きを読む
Over 9,500 clear and concise entries, including bone morphogenetic protein, Convention on Biological Diversity, genome editing, Ice Cube Experiment, multi-core processor,&n ... 続きを読む
Comprehensive coverage of over 1,600 measurement terms taken from a broad range of fields, including astronomy, electromagnetics, geology, photography, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and temper ... 続きを読む
Donald Worster's A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muir's full private correspo ... 続きを読む
In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified approach in which science is seen as a living and ev ... 続きを読む
Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length-but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. ... 続きを読む
This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and ... 続きを読む
In All Talked Out J.D. Trout exemplifies the power of science in a philosopher's hands, and takes a welcome look at the resulting fate of philosophy. Based on his 2013 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lectures ... 続きを読む
Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of ne ... 続きを読む
How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their theory, it is there to hand? Otavio Bueno and Steven French address that question through a detailed examination ... 続きを読む
