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• Author(s): William J. Bond • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyLarge regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However, despite the widespread occurrence of such f...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Physics - Atomic & Molecular"The whole thing was basically an experiment," Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): W. David Lee | Jeffrey Drazen | Phillip A. Sharp • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAn argument that technology accelerates biological discover...

• Author(s): Joel R. Primack • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyIn this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the hist...

• Author(s): David Keith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeA leading scientist argues that we must consider deploying climate engineering technol...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Sandra C. Greer • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralA guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers.This book offers the ...

• Author(s): Wyman | Richard • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyGlobal Climate Change and Life on Earth focuses on the greenhouse effect and its relation...

• Author(s): David Deutsch • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThe New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o...

• Author(s): Paul Davies • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyRagnarok. Armageddon. Doomsday. Since the dawn of time, man has wondered how the world would end. In The Last Three Minutes, Pau...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): W. B. Gratzer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Molecular BiologyThe 63 articles collected in this book appeared in the news and reviews section of Nature between January 1969 and August 1...

• Author(s): Sylvia Noble Tesh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralOrdinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on ...

• Author(s): Karen C. Seto | Anette Reenberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)International experts examine the effects of urbanizati...

• Author(s): Juris Dilevko | Lisa Gottlieb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merel...

• Author(s): William J. Long | Peter Brecke • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book is the first systematic examination of the impact of reconciliation on restoring and maintaining peace following civil and...

• Author(s): William B. Meyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely h...

• Author(s): James M. Buchanan • Publisher: MIXIG • Publisher Imprint: MIXIG • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThe Calculus of Consent, the second volume of Liberty Fund's The Selected Works of Gord...

• Author(s): Esther Green Bierbaum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General In this second edition to Museum Librarianship, the author offers guidance ...

• Author(s): Kelly McGonigal • Publisher: Avery Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Avery Publishing Group • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Personal Growth - HappinessBased on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wil...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be...

• Author(s): Deborah Adelman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionDemonstrates the relevance, rigor, and creativity of interpretive research methodologies for political science and its...

• Author(s): Samuel Bowles • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThis edited collection looks at the emerging relationship between politics and economics. The analysis of power relations - tr...

• Author(s): Barbara J. Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralBarbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, sh...

• Author(s): Harvey Green • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: World - GeneralA rich, authoritative look at a material that plays an essential role in human culture Wood has been a central ...

• Author(s): Georges Canguilhem • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: HistoryThe Normal and the Pathological is one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. It tak...

• Author(s): Barbara J. Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralBarbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, sh...

• Author(s): J. D. Bernal • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryJ. D. Bernal's monumental work Science in History is the first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between science and society throughout h...

• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette India • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Aims & ObjectivesMerging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schoo...

• Author(s): Morris Berman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Reenchantment of the World is a perceptive study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful chal...

• Author(s): Davydd Greenwood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - PhysicalThe theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...

• Author(s): Lee Strobel • Publisher: Harperchristian Resources • Publisher Imprint: Harperchristian Resources • BISAC: Christian Education - AdultIn this ten-session small group Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), Faith Under Fire: ...

• Author(s): Judy Rosenblith | Edward M. Kennedy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyHow Jerry Wiesner, presidential science adviser and president of MIT, worked to make a better and safer world,...

• Author(s): Bruce E. Kaufman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations

• Author(s): C. J. Cherryh • Publisher: Astra Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Astra Publishing House • BISAC: Time TravelTogether for the first time in one volume--all four novels in the dark science fiction epic, the Morgaine Cycle. The g...