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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
James O'Brien · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most popular and widely known characters in all of fiction, Sherlock Holmes has an enduring appeal based largely on his uncanny ability to make the most remarkable deductions from the most mundane facts. The very first words that Sherlock Holmes ever says to Dr. Watson are, "How... |
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Criminal Justice: A Very Short Introduction
Julian V Roberts · Oxford University Press, 2015.
Pages: 137
Format: Print book
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The criminal justice system is wide ranging; from the crimes themselves and policing to the sentencing of offenders and prisons. In this Very Short Introduction Julian V. Roberts draws upon the latest research and current practices from a number of different countries around the world.... |
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Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do
Daniel T. Willingham · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Book
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How parents and educators can teach kids to love reading in the digital age Everyone agrees that reading is important, but kids today tend to lose interest in reading before adolescence. In Raising Kids Who Read, bestselling author and psychology professor Daniel T. Willingham explains... |
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich · Pantheon
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies.Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze... |
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Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
David R Montgomery · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A MacArthur Fellow's impassioned call to make agriculture sustainable by ditching the plow, covering the soil, and diversifying crop rotations.The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared... |
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark,... |
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CNC Tips and Techniques: A Reader for Programmers
Peter Smid · Industrial Press
Pages: 238
Format: Book
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Overview During the past decade, Peter Smid wrote dozens of column for Shop Talkmagazine that addressed the full gamut of CNC topics, such as tapping and threading and knurling; program length and memory needs; G-codes, M-functions, cycles, macros ... and more still. Ever since Shop... |
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Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-Four Books That Can Change Lives.
David Denby · Henry Holt, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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A bestselling author and distinguished critic goes back to high school to find out whether books can shape livesIt's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work,... |
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