Category: Science

By Cathy N. Davidson

ISBN-10: 1101517727

ISBN-13: 9781101517727

"As scholarly as [it] is . . . this publication approximately schooling occurs to double as an positive, even exciting, summer season read." —The long island Times

A impressive mixture of technological know-how and its real-world software, Now you notice It sheds gentle on one of many maximum difficulties of our ancient second: our faculties and companies are designed for the final century, now not for a global during which know-how has reshaped the way in which we expect and examine. during this knowledgeable and positive paintings, Cathy N. Davidson takes us on a travel of the way forward for paintings and schooling, introducing us to visionaries whose groundbreaking principles will quickly impact each area of our lives, from colleges with curriculums equipped round games to offices that use digital environments to coach employees.

By Noga Arikha

ISBN-10: 0060731176

ISBN-13: 9780060731175

Physicians in historical Greece believed 4 humours flowed in the human body—blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler—determining a person's future health, temper, and personality. no longer till the 17th century might a extra complicated view of the anatomy start to emerge. yet by means of then humoural idea had already develop into deeply ingrained in Western language and thought—and endures to today in mind-blowing ways.

Interweaving the histories of medication, technology, psychology, and philosophy, Passions and Tempers explores the uncanny endurance of those variable, invisible fluids. it is going to swap how we view our actual, psychological, and emotional selves.

By Ismail Yüksel Genç, Eduardo Esteves, Abdullah Diler

ISBN-10: 1634858239

ISBN-13: 9781634858236

Seafood and similar items have a tremendous position within the human nutrition; it presents for the protein wanted and has a dietary composition that has favorable well-being affects on people. contemplating the swift raise on this planet inhabitants and the call for when it comes to protein wishes which are supplied by way of seafood, the required have to guarantee the standard and protection of seafood items has been prioritized. because of dietary composition, impartial pH, excessive moisture content material, vulnerable connective tissue and residing atmosphere (fresh and seawater), seafood is especially perishable. holding the standard and safeguard of seafood wishes greater realization in comparison to different foodstuff items.
This guide compiles contemporary tools and functions, in addition to applied sciences applied to assure the standard and security of assorted forms of seafood from harvesting to the retail point. The prestige of rising and hurdle expertise purposes, genomic, mathematical and computer-based equipment, caliber economics including chemical, sensory and microbiological adjustments, and quality/safety of seafood items are reviewed and mentioned during this e-book. The emphasis on less-known or under-valued species from diversified locales used to be intentional. This guide is an abridged, streamlined yet rather entire reference for meals engineers and technologists, manufacturers from the undefined, and undergraduate and graduate scholars learning this box of academia. (Imprint: Nova)

By A. Rupert Hall, Marie Boas Hall

ISBN-10: 0486144992

ISBN-13: 9780486144993

Author note: A. Rupert corridor (Editor)
Publish yr note: First released January 1st 1962
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Between 1450 & 1630 technology skilled a metamorphosis. right here readers will locate not just a transparent, succinct & authoritative account of the paintings of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Harvey & a bunch of others: they're going to locate principles & people with regards to the background in their occasions. the writer tells how scientists lived & how they stored in contact with one another. specifically, she makes us realize how they checked out the realm & what they thought of their very own fields of analysis. Like these of whom she writes, the writer recoginises no department among technology & humanism. the result's a e-book that be as deeply fascinating to the overall reader because it might be invaluable to historians of science.

"The endeavour to appreciate occasions in nature is as previous as civilisation. In each one of its 3 nice seminal areas--the chinese language, the Indian & the W. Asian-European--men attempted to discover a common sense within the mysterious & an order within the chaotic. They made many makes an attempt, occasionally revealing unusual similarities in those completely different societies, to specific normal truths from which specific occasions might stick to as rational, understandable results. They attempted to explain & examine which will comprehend, for males couldn't stay on the earth with out trying to assign factors to the issues that occur in it."-- General Introduction

General Introduction
The triumph of Our New Age
The excitement & satisfaction of nature
The Copernican Revolution
The nice debate
The body of guy & its ills
Ravished by way of magic
The makes use of of mathematics
The service provider & reorganisation of science
Circles look in physiology
Circles vanish from astronomy
Debate one of the stars
Epilogue
Bibliography & Notes
Index

By Robert B. Laughlin

Now not considering Richard Feynman has a Nobel Prize-winning physicist written with as a lot panache as Robert Laughlin does during this revelatory and crucial ebook. Laughlin proposes not anything lower than a brand new manner of figuring out basic legislation of technological know-how. during this age of superstring theories and Big-Bang cosmology, we're used to considering the unknown as being impossibly far away from our daily lives. the sides of technological know-how, we're advised, lie within the first nanofraction of a moment of the Universe's life, in any other case in geographical regions so small that they can't be glimpsed even via the main subtle experimental suggestions. yet we haven't reached the top of technological know-how, Laughlin argues-only the tip of reductionist pondering. If we reflect on the area of emergent houses as an alternative, unexpectedly the inner most mysteries are as shut because the nearest ice dice or grain of salt. And he is going farther: the main basic legislation of physics-such as Newton's legislation of movement and quantum mechanics -are in truth emergent. they're homes of enormous assemblages of topic, and whilst their exactness is tested too heavily, it vanishes into nothing.A various Universe takes us right into a universe the place the vacuum of area should be thought of a type of reliable topic, the place sound has quantized debris similar to these of sunshine, the place there are numerous stages of topic, not only 3, and the place steel resembles a liquid whereas superfluid helium is extra like a high-quality. it's a universe teeming with typical phenomena nonetheless to be chanced on. this can be a actually mind-altering booklet that exhibits readers a stunning, exquisitely appealing and mysterious new world.</Div>

By Jack Mydlo (Editor), Ciril J. Godec (Editor)

ISBN-10: 0080497896

ISBN-13: 9780080497891

ISBN-10: 0122869818

ISBN-13: 9780122869815

A big translational booklet bridging the distance among technological know-how and scientific drugs, Prostate melanoma experiences the organic strategies that may be implicated within the affliction, reports present remedies, highlighting the pitfalls the place proper and examines the clinical advancements that may lead to novel remedies sooner or later. Key beneficial properties* presents a translational source for scientists and clinicians engaged on prostate melanoma* stories present surgical interventions and highlights their comparable pitfalls* offers the newest laparoscopic suggestions with figures and illustrations of step by step systems* bargains perception into the potential of novel methods to remedy sooner or later* comprises own views from sufferers

By Tim Spector

ISBN-10: 0297866311

ISBN-13: 9780297866312

Publish 12 months note: First released in 2012 through W&N
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If you proportion many of the comparable genetic fabric, what makes you so varied out of your siblings? How a lot are the belongings you decide to do daily made up our minds by way of your genes and what sort of is your personal unfastened will?

Drawing on his personal state of the art examine of exact twins, best geneticist Tim Spector indicates us how a similar upbringing, an analogous surroundings, or even an identical detailed genes can result in very assorted results. difficult, unique, and enlightening, Identically Different is helping us comprehend what makes each one people detailed and so quintessentially human.

By Sheldon Krimsky

ISBN-10: 0231539401

ISBN-13: 9780231539401

"Stem cells" became associated with either new frontiers in scientific technological know-how and political and moral controversy. the sphere, besides the rising sector of regenerative drugs, is developing the stipulations for a time while broken tissue and organs should be repaired via customized mobilephone remedy as simply because the physique upkeep itself, consequently revolutionizing the therapy of diverse ailments. but to acquire human embryonic stem cells, scientists needs to break human embryos -- a prospect that has provoked excessive reactions one of the American public.

Addressing the ethical and moral problems with stem mobilephone learn whereas additionally teaching readers concerning the organic functionality and scientific purposes of those cells, this booklet gains fictional characters undertaking compelling inquiry and debate. members examine the clinical, political, and socio-ethical dimensions of stem telephone technology utilizing genuine language, research, and arguments taken from medical, philosophical, and renowned literature.

Each discussion facilities on a particular, recognizable subject, equivalent to the guidelines carried out by way of the George W. Bush management proscribing using embryonic stem cells; the aptitude position of stem cells in customized medication; the ethics of cloning; and the sale of eggs and embryos. also, audio system debate using stem cells to regard paralysis, diabetes, stroke results, macular degeneration, and melanoma.

Educational, wonderful, and conscientiously researched (with three hundred references to clinical literature), Stem mobile Dialogues could be incorporated in any attempt to assist the general public comprehend the technology, ethics, and coverage issues of this promising box.

By James Gunn

ISBN-10: 0810854201

ISBN-13: 9780810854208

Updates and expands technological know-how fiction student James Gunn's definitive, Hugo Award-winning serious quantity approximately Isaac Asimov and his contributions to the technological know-how fiction style.

By P. Hodge (auth.)

ISBN-10: 9400720246

ISBN-13: 9789400720244

This booklet summarizes the collection of data on and the starting to be figuring out of M33 from the Twenties, while Hubble first decided its actual nature, to the twenty first century, while the Hubble Telescope probed deeply into its many secrets and techniques. With its average symmetrical spiral constitution, and its being no longer tilted an excessive amount of and close to adequate to permit special reports of its stars, M33 is well-suited for the research of a customary spiral galaxy.
In this paintings, Paul Hodge locations present examine on M33 (and comparable galaxies) in either old and worldwide views. The ebook is written in a language obtainable for experts and non-specialists, for pro and novice astronomers, for scientists and the curious public and, most significantly, for students.