Category: Science

By Gerard K. O'Neill

ISBN-10: 0553110160

ISBN-13: 9780553110166

Whilst Princeton physicist Gerard ok. O'Neill released the 1st variation of excessive Frontier again within the mid Seventies (just 4 years after "Rocket Man," to be exact), he simply assumed that a few of us will be dwelling in orbit through now. Or because the house experiences Institute's George Friedman places it in a brand new essay for this 3rd variation of O'Neill's pioneering paintings, the L5 society's slogan "L5 in '95!" definitely wasn't touching on 2095.

In excessive Frontier, O'Neill had mapped out a simple, obviously attainable route to placing people into house completely and sustainably, utilizing Nineteen Seventies materiel and current-day Zubrin-style knowledge. yet O'Neill died in 1992 seeing humanity no towards satisfying his daring imaginative and prescient. Freeman Dyson issues out in a brand new advent to this version that during some ways we've really backslided, that the foreign area Station (and the present position of NASA) is "not a breakthrough at the street to the excessive Frontier. It's a huge step backward, a setback that may take many years to overcome."

yet O'Neill's notion of pursuing an inexhaustible strength provide (solar strength in area) and unending room to extend continues to be tantalizingly beautiful. The technological know-how has merely gotten more straightforward, and the ethical vital has purely develop into extra reported, with the planet's assets ever progressively squeezed and the hot wisdom mass-extinction occasion in the world is almost inevitable. (O'Neill calls the excessive Frontier the one probability to make human life--perhaps all lifestyles within the universe-- unkillable) The excessive Frontier is as intriguing a learn because it ever was once, and 6 new chapters offer context for the advances made within the 25 years seeing that O'Neill's unique manifesto.

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By David Oates

ISBN-10: 0585256020

ISBN-13: 9780585256023

ISBN-10: 0870713574

ISBN-13: 9780870713576

ISBN-10: 0870713582

ISBN-13: 9780870713583

By Christopher R. Kelly, Jaime Landman

ISBN-10: 1437722385

ISBN-13: 9781437722383

The Urinary method, second variation presents a concise and hugely visible method of the fundamental sciences and scientific pathology of the kidney, bladder, and ureters. This quantity within the Netter selection of scientific Illustrations (the CIBA "Green Books") has been elevated and revised through Drs. Christopher Rehbeck Kelly and Jaime Landman to catch present scientific views in nephrology and urology - from general anatomy, histology, body structure, and improvement to glomerular and tubular illnesses, infections, urological surgical procedures, and cancers. It additionally good points hundreds and hundreds of radiologic and pathologic pictures to complement the vintage Netter illustrations, in addition to new illustrations created
• Get entire, built-in visible advice at the kidney, ureters, and bladder in one resource, from uncomplicated sciences and general anatomy and serve as via pathologic conditions.
• Adeptly navigate present controversies and well timed issues in medical drugs with assistance from specialist editors, authors, and the enter of a global advisory board.
• Gain a wealthy, accomplished medical view of the urinary method through seeing vintage Netter anatomic illustrations part via facet with state of the art radiologic photographs, pathology slides, and the most recent molecular biology findings.
• Visualize the well timed subject matters in nephrology and urology, together with HIV-associated nephropathy, hepatorenal syndrome, laparoscopic and robot surgical procedures, and tumor cryoblation.
• See present medical options captured within the visually wealthy Netter inventive culture through contributions from Carlos Machado, MD, and different artists operating within the Netter style.
A trustworthy and potent reference at the urinary procedure with the visible help of Netter

By Daniel J. Fairbanks

ISBN-10: 1616145668

ISBN-13: 9781616145668

This persuasive, elegantly written ebook argues that figuring out evolution hasn't ever mattered extra in human historical past. the writer not just makes use of facts from archaeology, geography, anatomy, biochemistry, radiometric courting, cellphone biology, chromosomes, and DNA to set up the inescapable end that we advanced and are nonetheless evolving, he additionally explains intimately how overall healthiness, nutrition creation, and human effect at the setting are depending on our wisdom of evolution. this can be crucial interpreting for gaining a fuller appreciation of who we're, our position within the nice expanse of lifestyles, and the significance of our activities.

By John D. Barrow

ISBN-10: 0316082597

ISBN-13: 9780316082594

John D. Barrow's Pi within the Sky is a profound -- and profoundly diversified -- exploration of the realm of arithmetic: the place it comes from, what it's, and the place it's going to take us if we stick with it to the restrict in our look for the final word which means of the universe. Barrow starts through investigating even if math is a merely human invention encouraged through our functional wishes. Or is it anything inherent in nature ready to be discovered?

In answering those questions, Barrow presents a bridge among the often irreconcilable worlds of arithmetic and theology. alongside the best way, he treats us to a heritage of counting around the world, from Egyptian hieroglyphics to logical friction, from quantity mysticism to Marxist arithmetic. And he introduces us to a number of unusual people who have inspiration a few of the private and strangest innovations that human minds have ever proposal, from Lao-Tse to Robert Pirsig, Charles Darwin, and Umberto Eco. Barrow therefore offers the old framework and the highbrow instruments essential to an realizing of a few of today's weightiest mathematical techniques.

By Julien Lesgourgues, Gianpiero Mangano, Gennaro Miele, Sergio Pastor

ISBN-10: 1139615866

ISBN-13: 9781139615860

He function that neutrinos have performed within the evolution of the Universe is the point of interest of 1 of the main interesting examine components that has stemmed from the interaction among cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. during this self-contained e-book, the authors assemble all facets of the function of neutrinos in cosmology, spanning from leptogenesis to primordial nucleosynthesis, their position in CMB and constitution formation, to the matter in their direct detection. The publication begins by way of guiding the reader via points of basic neutrino physics, akin to the normal cosmological version and the statistical mechanics within the increasing Universe, prior to discussing the background of neutrinos in chronological order from the very early phases till this day. This well timed booklet will curiosity graduate scholars and researchers in astrophysics, cosmology and particle physics, who paintings with both a theoretical or experimental concentration.

By Wen-Ching Lee, Joseph R. Testa (auth.), Gary D. Kruh MD, PhD, Kenneth D. Tew PhD, DSc (eds.)

ISBN-10: 1468484370

ISBN-13: 9781468484373

ISBN-10: 1468484397

ISBN-13: 9781468484397

In contemporary years, nice strides were made within the box of melanoma examine. Now, with uncomplicated technological know-how of melanoma, a number interrelated themes resembling tumor suppressor genes, apoptosis, transcriptional law, pharmacology of anticancer medicines, cytogenetic strategies, oncogenes, and sign transduction are completely addressed. Written for oncologists and healthcare execs, this new finished reference additionally discusses smooth learn innovations used to enquire the molecular etiology and therapy of human melanoma. issues are defined utilizing nontechnical phrases. jointly, whole reference listings and over two hundred illustrations supply an intensive, but introductory, inspect the advanced box of cancer.

By Thomas S. Kuhn

ISBN-10: 0226458148

ISBN-13: 9780226458144

A very good booklet could have the ability to alter the best way we see the realm, yet a superb ebook truly turns into a part of our day-by-day attention, pervading our considering to the purpose that we take it without any consideration, and we disregard how provocative and hard its rules as soon as were—and nonetheless are. The constitution of clinical Revolutions is that sort of ebook. while it was once first released in 1962, it used to be a landmark occasion within the historical past and philosophy of technological know-how. Fifty years later, it nonetheless has many classes to teach.

With The constitution of medical Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of clinical growth, arguing that transformative principles don’t come up from the day by day, slow technique of experimentation and knowledge accumulation yet that the revolutions in technology, these leap forward moments that disrupt accredited considering and supply unanticipated rules, ensue outdoor of “normal science,” as he referred to as it. even though Kuhn was once writing whilst physics governed the sciences, his rules on how medical revolutions convey order to the anomalies that amass through the years in learn experiments are nonetheless instructive in our biotech age.

This new version of Kuhn’s crucial paintings within the heritage of technology comprises an insightful advent via Ian Hacking, which clarifies phrases popularized through Kuhn, together with paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn’s principles to the technological know-how of this day. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the publication, Hacking’s advent presents very important history info in addition to a modern context. Newly designed, with an improved index, this version can be eagerly welcomed through the following iteration of readers looking to comprehend the historical past of our views on technology.

By Barbara A. Gylys, Regina M. Masters

ISBN-10: 0803639716

ISBN-13: 9780803639713

A programmed studying, word-building procedure is perfect for self-paced studying and assessment.

By Alenka Poplin (auth.), Beniamino Murgante, Osvaldo Gervasi, Andrés Iglesias, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3642218865

ISBN-13: 9783642218866

The five-volume set LNCS 6782 - 6786 constitutes the refereed lawsuits of the foreign convention on Computational technology and Its functions, ICCSA 2011, held in Santander, Spain, in June 2011. The 5 volumes comprise papers featuring a wealth of unique examine ends up in the sector of computational technology, from foundational matters in machine technological know-how and arithmetic to complicated functions in nearly all sciences using computational recommendations. the themes of the absolutely refereed papers are based in response to the 5 significant convention issues: geographical research, city modeling, spatial data; towns, applied sciences and making plans; computational geometry and purposes; computing device aided modeling, simulation, and research; and cellular communications.