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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
PETER WOHLLEBEN · Dutton Pages: 208 Format: Hardcover
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The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.In this first-ever... |
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Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America
Jeffrey H Skevington · Princeton University Press Pages: 512 Format: Flexibound
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A groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as hover flies) of northeastern North America. Flower flies are, along with bees, our most important pollinators. Found in a varied range of habitats, from... |
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Women in Global Science: Advancing Academic Careers through International Collaboration
Kathrin Zippel · Stanford University Press Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segre? · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 351 Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
Jim Baggott · Oxford University Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers... |
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Star-craving mad : tales from a travelling astronomer
F Watson · Allen & Unwin Pages: 334 Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A journey through time and space with Australia's best known astronomer, Fred Watson Fred Watson knows all about the madness that drives people to understand the Universe and unlock its secrets. Now you can join Australia's best-known astronomer on a unique tour to unravel the mysteries... |
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
Beau Lotto · Hachette Books Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what... |
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