Fun and fascinating science is everywhere, and it's a cinch to learn--just ask a science teacher! We've all grown so used to living in a world filled with wonders that we sometimes forget to wonder about them: What creates the wind? Do fish sleep? Why do we blink? These are common phenomena, but it's a rare person who really knows the answers--do you? All too often, the explanations remain shrouded in mystery--or behind a haze of technical language. For those of us who should have raised o...
San Francisco Birds (Pocket Naturalist Guides) ()
by James Kavanagh and Waterford Press
The Princeton Guide to Evolution
The Princeton Guide to Evolution is a comprehensive, concise, and authoritative reference to the major subjects and key concepts in evolutionary biology, from genes to mass extinctions. Edited by a distinguished team of evolutionary biologists, with contributions from leading researchers, the guide contains some 100 clear, accurate, and up-to-date articles on the most important topics in seven major areas: phylogenetics and the history of life; selection and adaptation; evolutionary processes; g...
Children's Encyclopedia Science is bursting with incredible facts about the scientific world, covering key areas such as science, space, weather, the human body and inventions. This beautifully illustrated science encyclopedia for kids is the perfect book to get your child fascinated about the world around them. Children's Encyclopedia Science includes a wide variety of subjects, from atoms and planets to hurricanes and muscles. These enthralling topics will get your child thinking about the wor...
Biotechnology is one of the major new technologies of the twenty-first century that covers multi-disciplinary issues, including recombinant DNA techniques, cloning, genetics, and the application of microbiology to the production of goods. It continues to revolutionize treatments of many diseases, and it is used to deal with environmental solutions. The Biotechnology Procedures and Experiments Handbook provides practicing professionals and biotechnology students over 150 applied, up-to-date labo...
This book represents the life's work of Richard Evans Schultes, one of the fathers of modern ethnobotany and the greatest plant explorer of our age, including nearly 50 years of field research in the Northwest Amazon. The authors describe nearly 1500 species and varieties.
Volume 4 of the Handbook of Colloid and Interface Science is a survey into the applications of colloids in a variety of fields, based on theories presented in Volumes 1 and 2. The Handbook provides a complete understanding of how colloids and interfaces can be applied in materials science, chemical engineering, and colloidal science. It is ideally suited as reference work for research scientists, universities, and industries.
A comprehensive reference to what is measured, how and why. Measurement is constantly all around us. It forms the foundations of science - the ohms and amps of physics and the moles and isotopes of chemistry - and shapes our every day. Our relationships with measurement start the moment we wake and check the day's temperature and continue until the precise second we go to sleep. But beyond the familiar measurements, hundreds more are listed in this entertaining and revealing reference. The me...
The word "nomogram," meaning the "law in graphical form," properly includes alignment diagrams, network charts, and many other graphical forms. By the 1950s, the term "nomogram" came to refer to alignment diagrams exclusively. In this first broad compiling of American nomograms, approximately seventeen hundred alignment diagrams, network charts, and other graphical forms from 97 technical journals are presented, conveniently indexed. Only those technical periodicals were searched which patently...
Instant Mathematics pulls together all the pivotal mathematical theories and discoveries into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From zero to the Riemann Hypothesis, from primes to irrational numbers, and from Pythagoras to John Nash and Roger Penrose, every key figure, theory or term is expressed in succinct and lively text and graphics. Perfect for th...
Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest
by Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Danna Lytjen, Bruce Newhouse, and Nick Otting
Sedges are key members of many Northwest ecosystems, performing critical roles in wetlands, prairies, savannas, steppes, and forests. They are often the dominant ground cover in flood plains, along stream banks, and in wet meadows and marshes. Their extensive, fibrous root systems prevent erosion by binding soils, while their dense foliage traps sediment, making them critical elements in the restoration of wetland and riparian systems. Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest is the fi...
Esta nueva edición de Ciencia está completamente actualizada con los descubrimientos que cambiaron nuestro mundo para siempre. Un viaje a través de la historia de la ciencia, pasando por cada evento, teoría, experimento y figura que debes conocer para entender el significado de cada descubrimiento y su lugar dentro del pensamiento científico. Este magnífico libro de ciencia en español narra la historia y el progreso científico desde la antigua geometría griega hasta la física cuántica, pasand...
Science maps that can help us understand and navigate the immense amount of results generated by today's science and technology.Cartographic maps have guided our explorations for centuries, allowing us to navigate the world. Science maps have the potential to guide our search for knowledge in the same way, allowing us to visualize scientific results. Science maps help us navigate, understand, and communicate the dynamic and changing structure of science and technology—help us make sense of the a...
Safety Officer II: the Material Safety Data Sheet Manager, Macintosh Version
by Raymond
Kaplan Medical's medEssentials for the USMLE Step 1 provides a visually focused review, streamlined by recent test-takers to emphasize the most frequently tested topics. This high-yield reference guide is ideal for first- and second-year medical students, both to prep for Step 1 and to supplement med school curricula. This comprehensive guide:Highlights the highest-yield review concepts for all topics tested on the USMLE Step 1Includes all core science concepts covered in medical programs and t...