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CVs, Resumes, and LinkedIn: A Guide to Professional English
Adrian Wallwork · Springer; 2014 edition
Format: Book
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Are you a graduate, postgraduate or PhD student? Are you simply looking for a new job in the private or public sector, in research or industry? If your aim is to produce a professional CV or resume, then this book is for you. Based on interviews with recruiters and HR managers, and an analysis... |
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Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
Mark L. Winston · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Being among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writes—from the low hum of tens of thousands of insects and the pungent smell of honey and beeswax, to the sight of workers flying back and forth between flowers and the hive. The experience of an apiary slows our sense of time,... |
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Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
Mark Maslin · Oxford University Press; 3 edition
Format: Book
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Climate change is still, arguably, the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. Previously published as Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction, the new edition has been renamed Climate Change: A Very Short introduction, to reflect the important... |
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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight
Vanessa Potter · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,... |
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Royal Horticultural Society Companion to Scented Plants
Stephen Lacey · Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover
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Royal Horticultural Society Companion to Scented Plants by Stephen Lacey is a classic gardening title which introduces the fundamental aspects of design with fragrant plants, and explains how to achieve effects that please the eye as well as the sense of smell. There are chapters on structural... |
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Strange Survivors: How Organisms Attack and Defend in the Game of Life
One? R Paga?n · BenBella Books
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
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Life is beautiful, ruthless, and very, very strange.In the evolutionary arms race that has raged on since life began, organisms have developed an endless variety of survival strategies. From sharp claws to brute strength, camouflage to venom -- all these tools and abilities share one purpose:... |
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The House of Owls
Tony Angell · Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting... |
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Mars 3-D: A Rover's-Eye View of the Red Planet
Jim Bell · Sterling; Revised & Expanded edition
Format: Hardcover
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Planetary scientist Jim Bell leads us on another exhilarating tour of the Red Planet—and this revised, expanded edition of Mars 3-D includes the latest images from NASAs revolutionary Mars Science Laboratory mission. Brief essays survey the advanced technologies and promising discoveries... |
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than... |
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Where There's Dark...: An Alternative Model of the Universe
David John Smith · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
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According to the Standard Model of Cosmology, the entire universe was created at a single point in place and time, inflated rapidly and continued expanding to the universe we observe today. How could all the mass of the universe fit in a single point? How could everything be created from... |
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Biocode: The New Age of Genomics
Dawn Field · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the biocode - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the future.... |
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Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Judith S. Weis · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Marine pollution occurs today in varied forms--chemical, industrial, and agricultural-and the sources of pollution are endless. In recent history, we've seen oil spills, untreated sewage, eutrophication, invasive species, heavy metals, acidification, radioactive substances, marine litter,... |
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Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits
John Gribbin · Prometheus Books, 2014.
Pages: 295
Format: Print book
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A mind-blowing glimpse into the near future, where quantum computing will have world-transforming effects.The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality... |
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The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
Clive Finlayson · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Improbable Primate, Clive Finlayson takes an ecological approach to our evolution, considering the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change, particularly availability of water, played a critical... |
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