Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington
by Philosophical Society of Washington
L'Apiculture Perfectionnée, Ou Théorie Et Application Pratique de la Direction Des Rayons (Sciences)
by Greslot-J
Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience
by Richard L Knight and Suzanne Riedel
In Aldo Leopold and an Ecological Conscience ecologists, wildlife biologists, and other professional conservationists explore the ecological legacy of Aldo Leopold and his A Sand County Almanac and his contributions to the environmental movement, the philosophy of science, and natural resource management. Twelve personal essays describe the enormous impact he has had on each author, from influencing the daily operations of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the creation of a land-use ethics...
Scientific American Presents Nobel Prize Winners on Genetics and Evolution (Scientific American Presents)
by American Scientific and Scientific American
"The ubiquity of the digital lifestyle has forced us to write and think about technology in a different way."-Steven Johnson In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds the arrival of a new generation of technology writing. Whether it is Nicholas Carr worrying that Google is making us stupid, Dana Goodyear chronicling the rise of the cellphone novel, Andrew Sullivan explaining the rewards of blogging, Dalton Conley lamenting the sprawling...
The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. As a leading figure in the creation of the National Science Foundation, the organizer of the Manhattan Project, and an adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman during and after World War II, he played an indispensable role in the mobilization of scientific innovation for a changing world. A polymath, Bush was a cofounder of Raytheon, a pioneer of computing t...
Discover the real science behind 2001, ET, Signs, and all your favorite fictional alien civilizations. As space telescopes continue to search for life in this unearthly Universe, the crucial questions remain unanswered. Are we awake to the revolutionary effects on human society and science that alien contact will bring? And how is it possible to imagine the unknown? The Science of Aliens tells the compelling story of how the portrayal of alien life has evolved over time. Taking examples from s...
Guide Des Étrangers Dans Le Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Avec l'Autorisation de l'Administration (Sciences)
by Ve L Curmer
Les Sciences Physiques Et Naturelles À l'École Et Dans La Famille (Sciences)
by Campagne-E-M
Catalogue d'Une Riche Collection de Tableaux Des Peintres Les Plus Célèbres Des Différentes Écoles (Sciences)
by Sans Auteur
Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career—both his successes and his failures—and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of scienc...
La Matiere Brute et la Matiere Vivant, Etude sur l'Origine de la Vie et de la Mort
by Joseph Delboeuf