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by Milan M. 'Cirkovic (Author)The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question Where is everybody? In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies. This book shows how Fermi's paradox is intricately connected with many fields of learning, technology, arts, and eve...

Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution - Paperback

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by Aaron Ellison (Editor), Lubomir Adamec (Editor)Carnivorous plants have fascinated botanists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, physiologists, developmental biologists, anatomists, horticulturalists, and the general public for centuries. Charles Darwin was the first scientist to demonstrate experimentally that some plants could actually attract, kill, digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey; his book Insectivorous Plants (1875) remains a widely-cited classic. Since then, many movie...

Gene's-Eye View of Evolution - Hardcover

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by J. Arvid Ågren (Author)'Arvid Ågren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligent understanding to pull it into a coherent story. As if that wasn't enough, he gets it right.' (Richard Dawkins) To many evolutionary biologists, the central challenge of their discipline is to explain adaptation, the appearance of design in the living world. With the theory of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darw...

Power of Narrative: Climate Skepticism and the Deconstruction of Science - Paperback

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by Raul P. Lejano (Author), Shondel J. Nero (Author)There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but across other ideologically-torn nations around the globe as well. At its heart is climate skepticism, an ideological watershed that has become a core belief for millions of people despite a large scientific consensus supporting the science of anthropogenic climate change. While many scholars have exa...

Art of the Bee: Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies - Hardcover

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by Robert E. Page (Author)The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They've painted our landscapes with flowers through their pollination activities, and they have evolved the most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the environment. The parallels between human and insect societies have been explored by countless ...

The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex - Paperback

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by Harold J. Morowitz (Author)When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters came together to form the first living cell, that was emergence. When the activities of the neurons in the brain result in mind, that too is emergence. In The Emergence of Everything, one of the leading scientists invo...

Science, Truth, and Democracy - Paperback

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by Philip Kitcher (Author)Striving to boldly redirect the philosophy of science, this book by renowned philosopher Philip Kitcher examines the heated debate surrounding the role of science in shaping our lives. Kitcher explores the sharp divide between those who believe that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is always valuable and necessary--the purists--and those who believe that it invariably serves the interests of people in positions of power. In a daring turn, he rejects both perspecti...

Scientific Papers Made Easy: How to Write with Clarity and Impact in the Life Sciences - Hardcover

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by Stuart West (Author), Lindsay Turnbull (Author)Writing scientific publications is a fundamental step in the research process. Furthermore, as science becomes more interdisciplinary and the number of journals continues to expand, individual papers increasingly need to stand out to be read and have any form of impact. It is widely assumed that students and early career scientists will simply acquire the necessary expertise. However, this could not be further from the truth - many early caree...

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by Lee Smolin (Author)Lee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through black holes, each of which may result in a new big bang and a new universe. Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of physics, favoring those universes which best ...

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by Robert Pool (Author)We have long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparat...

Emergence: A Philosophical Account - Paperback

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by Paul Humphreys (Author)Interest in emergence amongst philosophers and scientists has grown in recent years, yet the concept continues to be viewed with skepticism by many. In this book, Paul Humphreys argues that many of the problems arise from a long philosophical tradition that is overly committed to synchronic reduction and has been overly focused on problems in philosophy of mind. He develops a novel account of diachronic ontological emergence called transformational emergence, shows t...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science - Paperback

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by Eric Margolis (Editor), Richard Samuels (Editor), Stephen P. Stich (Editor)The philosophy of cognitive science is concerned with fundamental philosophical and theoretical questions connected to the sciences of the mind. How does the brain give rise to conscious experience? Does speaking a language change how we think? Is a genuinely intelligent computer possible? What features of the mind are innate? Advances in cognitive science have given philosophers important tools for addressing these...

Tales of the Quantum: Understanding Physics' Most Fundamental Theory - Hardcover

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by Art Hobson (Author)Everybody has heard that we live in a world made of atoms. But far more fundamentally, we live in a universe made of quanta. Many things are not made of atoms: light, radio waves, electric current, magnetic fields, Earth's gravitational field, not to mention exotica such a neutron stars, black holes, dark energy, and dark matter. But everything, including atoms, is made of highly unified or "coherent" bundles of energy called "quanta" that (like everything else) obey cer...

Limits of the Self: Immunology and Biological Identity - Paperback

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by Thomas Pradeu (Author), Elizabeth Vitanza (Translator)What counts as an individual in the living world? What does it mean for a living thing to remain the same through time, while constantly changing? These questions are the province of immunology, one of the most dynamic fields in biology. Immunology answers these questions with its theory of "self" and "nonself" which has dominated the field since the 1940s. Thomas Pradeu argues that this theory is inadequate, because immune responses to...

Resource and Environmental Management: Third Edition - Paperback

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by Bruce Mitchell (Author)In order to optimally manage the environment and natural resources, it is vitally important to recognize that there is much more to consider than just the environment itself and the natural resources it provides. A key consideration is also the interrelationship between natural ecosystems and human involvement and behavior. This interaction is where the field of environmental resource management comes into play: the complex ecological and sociological systems of the ...

Micro- and Nanofabrication for Beginners - Hardcover

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by Eiichi Kondoh (Author)In this book, the fundamentals of micro- and nanofabrication are described on the basis of the concept of "using gases as a fabrication tool." Unlike other books available on the subject, this volume assumes only entry-level mathematics, physics, and chemistry of undergraduates or high-school students in science and engineering courses. Necessary theories are plainly explained to help the reader learn about this new attractive field and enable further reading of speci...

Food Science: Research and Technology - Paperback

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by A. K. Haghi (Editor)Food Science: Research and Technology presents a broad selection of new research in food science and reflects the diversity of recent advances in the field. Chapters include a study on the use of microbial enzymes for flavor and production in food production; studies of various natural foods, including litchi (lychee), pinto beans, and chickpeas; the content and antioxidant activity of dried plants; new applications of galactosidases in food products; a study of the med...

Reflections on Volcanic Glass - Paperback

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by Lucas Rm Johnson (Editor), Kyle P. Freund (Editor), Nicholas Tripcevich (Editor)This volume results from the 2021 International Obsidian Conference (IOC), a virtual symposium held in the spring of 2021. Originally scheduled as an in-person event at the University of California, Berkeley, the conference transitioned to a virtual venue due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. More than 70 participants from a wide range of time zones stayed up into the wee hours of the night to hear the presenta...

Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft - Paperback

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by Jay Gallentine (Author)Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliff-hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. But it all really happened Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by previously unpublished photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the ...

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void - Paperback

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by Mary Roach (Author)The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA's new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth. Number of Pages: 352 Dimensions: 0.77 x 8.29 x 5.47 IN Publication Date: October 04, 2022

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Paperback

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by Mary Roach (Author)For two thousand years, cadavers - some willingly, some unwittingly - have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make hist...

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by Mark Windschitl (Author), Jessica Thompson (Author), Melissa Braaten (Author)2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented. The book is org...

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by John McPhee (Author)The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion yearsTwenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth...

Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse - Paperback

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by Dave Goulson (Author) Number of Pages: 336 Dimensions: 0.89 x 7.97 x 5.34 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 27, 2022

Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It - Hardcover

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by Christof Koch (Author)"Deeply personal and infinitely digestible, Then I Am Myself the World is a remarkable must-read for anyone interested in knowing their mind."―Judson Brewer MD, PhD, New York Times-bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety The world's leading investigator of consciousness argues that by understanding what consciousness does--cause change in the world--we can understand its origins and its future  In Then I Am Myself the World, Christof Koch explores the only thing we ...

The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity - Hardcover

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by Nancy Cartwright (Author), Jeremy Hardie (Author), Eleonora Montuschi (Author)Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity--are insufficient for the job. Here we propose a new model of science which places its products front and centre...

Solar System: A Visual Exploration of All the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun--Updated Edition - Hardcover

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by Marcus Chown (Author)An astonishing journey through space and time. Experience all the wonders of our interplanetary neighborhood through fascinating text, original graphics, and stunning photographs. Never before have the wonders of our solar system been so immediately accessible to readers of all ages. Award-winning writer and broadcaster Marcus Chown combines science and history to explore the planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and more, as well as the historical figures ...

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness - Paperback

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by Peter Godfrey-Smith (Author) Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keeper...

Cyber Persistence Theory: Redefining National Security in Cyberspace - Paperback

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by Michael P. Fischerkeller (Author), Emily O. Goldman (Author), Richard J. Harknett (Author)A bold re-conceptualization of the fundamentals driving behavior and dynamics in cyberspace. Most cyber operations and campaigns fall short of activities that states would regard as armed conflict. In Cyber Persistence Theory, Michael P. Fischerkeller, Emily O. Goldman, and Richard J. Harknett argue that a failure to understand this strategic competitive space has led many states to misapply the logic...

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by Ursula Goodenough (Author)For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The Sacred Depths of Nature, eminent biologist Ursula Goodenough shows us that the scientificworld view need not be a source of despair. Indeed, it can be a wellspring of solace and hope. This eloquent volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with ...

Southwest Foraging: 117 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Barrel Cactus to Wild Oregano - Paperback

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by John Slattery (Author)"No one has advanced wild foraging in the desert Southwest as much as John Slattery." --Gary Paul Nabahn, director of the Center for Regional Food Studies, University of Arizona The Southwest offers a veritable feast for foragers, and with John Slattery as your trusted guide you will learn how to safely find and identify an abundance of delicious wild plants. The plant profiles in Southwest Foraging include clear, color photographs, identification tips, guidance on h...

Waves and Beaches: The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast - Hardcover

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by Kim McCoy (Author), Willard Bascom (Author)The Bestselling Classic Updated for Surfers, Sailors, Oceanographers, Climate Activists, and Those Who Love the Sea First published in 1963 and updated in 1979, this classic was an essential handbook for anyone who studies, surfs, protects, or is fascinated by the ocean. The original author, Willard Bascom, was a master of the subject and included a wealth of information, based on theory and statistics, but also anecdotal observation and personal ...