» książki » Science - History
 |
Science, Society, and the Search for Life in the Universe
ISBN: 9780816526130 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are we alone in the universe? As humans, are we unique or are we part of a greater cosmic existence? What is life s future on Earth and beyond? How does life begin and develop? These are age-old questions that have inspired wonder and controversy ever since the first people looked up into the sky. With today s technology, however, we are closer than ever to finding the answers.
Astrobiology is the relatively new, but fast growing scientific discipline that involves trying to understand the origin, evolution, and distribution of life within the universe. It is also one of the few... Are we alone in the universe? As humans, are we unique or are we part of a greater cosmic existence? What is life s future on Earth and beyond? How do...
|
cena:
73,12 |
 |
Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology
ISBN: 9780817313128 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For two and a half centuries, Philadelphians have been actively involved in archaeological research. In particular, three vital and venerable cultural institutions the American Philosophical Society (founded 1743), the Academy of Natural Sciences (founded 1812), and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (founded 1893) have nurtured the "systematic study of antiquities." For two and a half centuries, Philadelphians have been actively involved in archaeological research. In particular, three vital and venerable cultu... |
cena:
131,65 |
 |
Stationary Sequences and Random Fields
ISBN: 9780817632649 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has a dual purpose. One of these is to present material which selec- tively will be appropriate for a quarter or semester course in time series analysis and which will cover both the finite parameter and spectral approach. The second object is the presentation of topics of current research interest and some open questions. I mention these now. In particular, there is a discussion in Chapter III of the types of limit theorems that will imply asymptotic nor- mality for covariance estimates and smoothings of the periodogram. This dis- cussion allows one to get results on the asymptotic...
This book has a dual purpose. One of these is to present material which selec- tively will be appropriate for a quarter or semester course in time ser...
|
cena:
402,53 |
 |
Mathematical Modeling in Ecology: A Workbook for Students
ISBN: 9780817634216 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mathematical ecology is the application of mathematics to describe and understand ecosystems. There are two main approaches. One is to describe natural communities and induce statistical patterns or relationships which should generally occur. However, this book is devoted entirely to introducing the student to the second approach: to study deterministic mathematical models and, on the basis of mathematical results on the models, to look for the same patterns or relationships in nature. This book is a compromise between three competing desiderata. It seeks to: maximize the generality of the...
Mathematical ecology is the application of mathematics to describe and understand ecosystems. There are two main approaches. One is to describe natura...
|
cena:
402,53 |
 |
Transfiniteness: For Graphs, Electrical Networks, and Random Walks
ISBN: 9780817638184 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "What good is a newborn baby?" Michael Faraday's reputed response when asked, "What good is magnetic induction?" But, it must be admitted that a newborn baby may die in infancy. What about this one- the idea of transfiniteness for graphs, electrical networks, and random walks? At least its bloodline is robust. Those subjects, along with Cantor's transfinite numbers, comprise its ancestry. There seems to be general agreement that the theory of graphs was born when Leonhard Euler published his solution to the "Konigsberg bridge prob- lem" in 1736 8]. Similarly, the year of birth for electrical...
"What good is a newborn baby?" Michael Faraday's reputed response when asked, "What good is magnetic induction?" But, it must be admitted that a newbo...
|
cena:
201,24 |
 |
Handbook of Crystal Structures and Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth Intermetallics
ISBN: 9780849342615 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rare-earth intermetallics, also known as lanthanide elements, play an important role in the study of magnetic materials and the development of semi- and super-conducting materials. This handbook provides an up-to-date compilation of crystallographic, physical, and magnetic data on rare-earth intermetallic compounds. Over 20 different structure types are described in detail with an emphasis on how crystal structure can affect magnetic properties. Theoretical models for magnetic interactions are described as well as the impact of crystal electric fields on transport properties, magneto...
Rare-earth intermetallics, also known as lanthanide elements, play an important role in the study of magnetic materials and the development of semi- a...
|
cena:
1292,61 |
 |
How We Hear Music: The Relationship Between Music and the Hearing Mechanism
ISBN: 9780851159409 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey of intervals and scales, tone pitch, loudness and time in Western music raises many questions about the hearing mechanism and throws doubt on the conventional role of harmonics. James Beament's account of how musical sounds are coded by the ear and the brain's processing units, provides answers to most of these questions. It concludes that music started with simple instruments which voices imitated, and that the need to know sound direction determined the characteristics of hearing. This book will interest students, practising musicians and music...
Choice Outstanding Academic Title A survey of intervals and scales, tone pitch, loudness and time in Western music raises many questions about the hea...
|
cena:
113,67 |
 |
The Diary of Thomas Giordani Wright, Newcastle Doctor, 1826-1829
ISBN: 9780854440450 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Giordani Wright was a very successful nineteenth-century doctor who died, aged ninety, in 1898. He kept a remarkable diary during the last three years of his medical apprenticeship in the 1820s, which is published here for the first time. Working as assistant in the 'extensive colliery practice' of Mr James McIntyre, Surgeon, Wright had responsibility for 'six collieries around Newcastle and the inferior practice of the house'. He had to make long rounds on horseback, and cope with dreadful accidents and diseases as well as with the demands of his 'reserved proud and selfish' master....
Thomas Giordani Wright was a very successful nineteenth-century doctor who died, aged ninety, in 1898. He kept a remarkable diary during the last thre...
|
cena:
195,11 |
 |
New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery
ISBN: 9780876111482 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "New Lands, New Men," the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America's leading historians tells the dramatic story of three centuries of exploration that witnessed Europeans exploring the Pacific and Northwest, Americans setting out across their own immense continent, and finally, Americans exploring new worlds: the oceans, Japan, the polar regions.
Spanning the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Second Great Age of Discovery was marked by the Enlightenment's ideals of science and progress. Explorers from James Cook to George Catlin, from Charles... In "New Lands, New Men," the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America's leading historians tells the dramatic story of th...
|
cena:
117,02 |
 |
Dark Sky Legacy
ISBN: 9780879755416 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The way mankind has responded to the dark sky throughout history has determined humanity's scientific - and cultural - progress. In this way, astronomy is in some way connected to everything. This fascinating theme is explored in Dark Sky Legacy.
George Reed examines the powerful influence of the cosmos on cultural and societal development, reviewing mankind's historical propensity for projecting human experience into a cosmic framework and the centuries-old relationship between astronomy and astrology, the result of which is the emergence of the age of science. Since then, he writes, the... The way mankind has responded to the dark sky throughout history has determined humanity's scientific - and cultural - progress. In this way, astronom...
|
cena:
196,56 |
 |
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
ISBN: 9780884023272 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits. Far from a mere trade, horticulture profoundly affected Jewish and Persian mystical poetry and caused deep changes in Ottoman arts. It contributed to economic and political changes in Judea, Al Andalus, Japan, Yuan China, early modern Mexico, Europe, and the United States. This book explores the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen and...
From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the re...
|
cena:
174,32 |
 |
Stories of Luther Burbank and His Plant School
ISBN: 9780898758269 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
105,92 |
 |
The Art of Glass
ISBN: 9780900682377 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
169,82 |
 |
The Universal Frame: Historical Essays in Astronomy, Natural Philosophy and Scientific Method
ISBN: 9780907628958 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
718,83 |
 |
Assigning Liability for Superfund Cleanups: An Analysis of Policy Options
ISBN: 9780915707645 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Implementing the Superfund programme has been a controversial challenge for the US Environmental Protection Agency. Potentially responsible parties are often unwilling to enter into voluntary agreements to clean up contaminated sites. This book looks at the existing approach to assigning liability.
Implementing the Superfund programme has been a controversial challenge for the US Environmental Protection Agency. Potentially responsible parties ar...
|
cena:
170,68 |
 |
The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit
ISBN: 9780974935973 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna, psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham, chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities. Through challenge and synergy they venture where few have gone before, leading their readers on an exciting journey of discovery. Their discussions focus on the evolution of the mind, the role of psychedelics, skepticism, the psychic powers of animals, the structure of... Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence... |
cena:
70,41 |
 |
Bechamp or Pasteur?: A Lost Chapter in the history of biology
ISBN: 9780980297607 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains new editions of two books which have been available only sporadically in the decades since their publication. R.Pearson's "Pasteur: Plagiarist, Imposter" was originally published in 1942, and is a succinct introduction to both Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp, and the reasons behind the troubled relationship that they shared for their entire working lives. Whereas Pearson's work is a valuable introduction to an often complex topic, it is Ethel Douglas Hume's expansive and well-documented "Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology" which provides the...
This volume contains new editions of two books which have been available only sporadically in the decades since their publication. R.Pearson's "Pasteu...
|
cena:
111,24 |
 |
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
ISBN: 9781400031580 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the eighteenth century, the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that seemingly could digest and excrete its food. A few decades later, Europeans fell in love with -the Turk, - a celebrated chess-playing machine built in 1769. Thomas Edison was obsessed for years with making a talking mechanical doll, one of his few failures as an inventor. In our own time, scientists at MIT are trying to build a robot with emotions of its own.
What lies behind our age-old pursuit to create mechanical life? What does this pursuit tell us about human nature? In Edison's Eve... During the eighteenth century, the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that seemingly could digest and excrete its food. A few dec...
|
cena:
75,81 |
 |
Rudolf Magnus: Physiologist and Pharmacologist (1873-1927)
ISBN: 9781402004612 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most medical doctors have probably during their studies heard of the Magnus and De Kleijn reflexes' and may have been aware of their relation to posture. But they know little about their significance and nothing about the man who unravelled the complex physiology of these reflexes and about his work. Rudolf Magnus lived from 1873 until 1927. His work on the physiology of posture was initiated during a short period of work with Sherrington in Liverpool in 1908. Though Magnus was also an authority in the field of pharmacology, it was particularly his neurophysical work on posture... Most medical doctors have probably during their studies heard of the Magnus and De Kleijn reflexes' and may have been aware of their relation to po... |
cena:
402,53 |
 |
Recollections of Tucson Operations: The Millimeter-Wave Observatory of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory
ISBN: 9781402032356 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The author recounts the behind-the-scenes activities of the staff from the beginnings at Kitt Peak to the closing of the Tuscon offices.
A personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The author recounts the behind-the... |
cena:
402,53 |
Czytaj nas na:
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
