Search results for “[Subject: science-nature-general]”

• Author(s): Anna Botsford Comstock | Verne N. Rockcastle • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: ReferenceA matchless handbook for decades, this classic work has been the natural history bible for count...

• Author(s): Thor Hanson • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - OrnithologyAs seen on PBS's American Spring Live, one of America's great nature-writers explores the magic and science...

• 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): Bernd Heinrich • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin • Publisher Imprint: Houghton Mifflin • BISAC: EssaysSome of the world's greatest writings on ravens and other birds, insects, trees, elephants, and more, collected for the first time in b...

• Author(s): I. F. Spellberg • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)This book, previously published in hardback, has now been republished in paperback and added to th...

• Author(s): Jacob Bronowski • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralJacob Bronowski truly educated an enormous number of members of that diffuse population usually referred to, with a hint of condescension, as educa...

• Author(s): Matthias Gross • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThe relationship between ignorance and surprise and a conceptual framework for dealing with the unexpected, as seen in ecolo...

• Author(s): Tobias Fischer • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Animals - GeneralThe first anthology on animal music and communication, with contributions from leading scientists, researchers and music...

• Author(s): Jane Gregory | Steven Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsDoes the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communi...

• Author(s): Roger Hill | Kirk Junker | Eileen Scanlon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Study & TeachingCommunicating Science will be an invaluable source-book for those eager to learn about or enter the professi...

• Author(s): Peter Marshall • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis powerful book provides the first comprehensive overview of the...

• Author(s): Paul Wapner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralHow environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a prop...

• Author(s): Joseph Rouse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThis lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences...

• 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): Werner Schroeder • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Chemistry - AnalyticKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Massenwirkungsgesetz" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Gerald Weissmann • Publisher: Basic Books (AZ) • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books (AZ) • BISAC: HistoryIn this retrospective of Gerald Weissmann's best-known essays, the reader is treated to his unique perspective on what C. P. Snow on...

• Author(s): Len Fisher • Publisher: Perseus Books Group • Publisher Imprint: BasicBooks • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Chaotic Behavior in SystemsThe process of "self-organization" reveals itself in the inanimate worlds of crystals an...

• Author(s): Roger Hill | Kirk Junker | Eileen Scanlon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Study & TeachingCommunicating Science will be an invaluable source-book for those eager to learn about or enter the professi...

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EnergyA comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthe...

• Author(s): Eileen Scanlon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsCommunicating Science is an ideal introduction for anyone who wants to learn about the relationship between science, the med...

• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: Physics - RelativityAn accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According to Einstein himself, t...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - RelativityThe legendary introduction to physics from the subject's greatest teacher "The whole thing was basically ...

• 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): E. Buddecke • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biochemistry"Buddeckes Grundriss der Biochemie ist als didaktisch hervorragendes Lehrbuch f�r Studenten besonders geeignet."Prof. em. Dr. Ha...

• Author(s): Stephen H. Schneider | Penelope J. Boston • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceThe Gaia hypothesis suggests that life is an active participant in shaping the physical and chemical enviro...

• Author(s): James G. Needham • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Natural HistoryThis is a guide to the practical study of the sources in wild nature of our living. It contains a series of study outl...

• Author(s): Stephen Nash • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceMillipedes and Moon Tigers explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public pol...

• Author(s): Harold J. Abrahams | Marion B. Savin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryElihu Thomson (1853-1937) was one of the most inventive scientists of his time and one of the few truly scientific inventors. ...

• Author(s): Peter Marshall • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsProviding an overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient religions and philoso...

• Author(s): Stephen R. Barley | Julian E. Orr • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBetween Craft and Science brings together leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, industrial relations, manage...

• Author(s): William Bechtel • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Research & MethodologyAn analysis of two heuristic strategies for the development of mechanistic models, illustrated with historical examples from the...

• Author(s): Michael E. Lynch | Steve Woolgar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralThe essays in this book provide an excellent introduction to the means by which scientists convey their ideas. While diverse in th...

• Author(s): Leslie Day • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biology "This little gem fills you in on everything finned, furred, feathered, or leafed, and how to ...

• Author(s): Bob Tostevin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental Policy This book explores two contradictory realities: our continuing belief that nature is subject...

• Author(s): Leslie Day | Mark A. Klingler | Michael R. Bloomberg • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Biology"This little gem fills you in on everything finned, ...

• Author(s): Howard Youth | Mark A. Klingler | Robert E. Mumford • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: ReferenceA field guide to plants and animals commonly found in the nation's ...