Great Scientists

Deep Learning has achieved great success in many challenging research areas, such as image recognition and natural language processing. The key mer...

Unrivaled in its coverage and unique in its hands-on approach, this practical guide to the design and construction of scientific apparatus, or labo...

Reducere. This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn...

The book places a clear emphasis of the impact of information technology on the business world, drawing on recent literature and examples. Similarl...

The original edition of Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics was used with great success for single-semester courses on nuclear and particl...

Reducere. In this original and integrated approach to theoretical reasoning in physics, Malcolm Longair illuminates the subject from the perspective of real ...

Reducere. Complete recipes spread across 15 chapters to help you overcome commonly faced issues by Python for everybody across the globe. Each recipe takes a...

Reducere. More than 10, 000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great be...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless in...

Reducere. This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn...

Reducere. DescriptionThe rise of modern science has brought with it increasing acceptance among intellectual elites of a worldview that conflicts sharply bot...

Reducere. What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with the...

DescriptionThe Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2, 600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In th...

Reducere. The Great Drama - The Millennial Harbinger. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is editor of t...

Reducere. DescriptionWild Migrations: Atlas of Wyoming's Ungulates tells the story of the long-distance migrations that elk, mule deer, moose, pronghorn, big...

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

Reducere. Delve into the story of science - from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics - with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, disc...

Reducere. Which books inspired some of the world's most successful people - and why? Come on a journey of literary exploration and find out how books can imp...

Reducere. Mankind's extinction is about to begin. The world's best scientists are baffled when bizarre, immovable black stones appear across the globe, and s...

Reducere. Get started solving problems with the Python programming language This book introduces some of the most famous scientific libraries for Python: * P...

Reducere. In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this moving and eloquent portrait, John Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. ...

An original account of willful ignorance and how this principle relates to modern probability and statistical methods Through a series of colorful ...

Reducere. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is now recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for h...

Reducere. Albert Einstein once lamented that "so many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of tr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sandra MarkleIn 2007 only thirty Amur leopards remained in the wild. Scientists knew they needed to do more to help these b...

Reducere. A complete reference on sasquatch in BC, from fossilized footprints and petroglyphs to modern-day sightings and current scientific research. The mo...

Reducere. While many scientists believed influenza would cause the next great pandemic, no one was prepared for the new strain of coronavirus that appeared i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patricia NewmanIllustrator: Annie CrawleyPlastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toot...

"Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved, " Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for conf...

Reducere. The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora. Since 1995, there has been a renewed i...

Reducere. Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, ...

Reducere. In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940...

A seminal work reissued with a new introduction from Judit Szekacs-Weisz and welcoming words from Ivan Ward and Carol Siegel. It features stories o...

From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environme...

Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists h...

Reducere. In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, ``The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of t...

Reducere. DescriptionHey Sky, I'm On My Way is a book featuring influential women throughout history. In this gorgeously illustrated book artist Ilu Ros take...

Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories. Collected here are twenty-six amon...

Contributor(s): Author: Andrei StraumanisDesigned for use as a supplement to a traditional text to encourage active and collaborative learning in t...

Reducere. Satisfy the shark-fact feeding frenzy These torpedo-shaped swimmers are an obsession for many kids. In Everything Sharks, exciting photos depict gr...

Reducere. Get the inside track on the incredible lives of history's biggest names, from William Shakespeare to Oprah Winfrey, and Anne Frank to Julius Caesar...

Proposing that people lived (and live) in "emotional communities"--each having its own particular norms of emotional valuation and expression--Barb...

To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation, and all of nature existed purely for his benefit. The shift from the philosophy of the Mid...

Reducere. Travel back in time and witness both everyday life and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through the ages. Bringi...

Reducere. A classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe, written by a well-known author. Now brought back into print in this revised and updated ed...

Reducere. Culture of honor is what social scientists call a society that organizes social life around maintaining and defending reputation. In an honor cultu...

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement...

Reducere. Thus far, the dominant paradigms through which modern scientists have viewed nature have been structured primarily around Newtonian and Darwinian a...

Delve into the story of science - from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics - with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, disc...

Now in new trade paper editions, these classic biographies of two of the greatest 20th Century mathematicians are being released under the Copernic...

Reducere. Crassostrea virginica, the eastern oyster. These humble bivalves are the living bones of the Chesapeake and the ecological and historical lifeblood...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of ...

Praise for William Dunham s Journey Through Genius The GreatTheorems of Mathematics "Dunham deftly guides the reader throughthe verbal and logical ...

Reducere. In volume two, students will watch as Copernicus's systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe--to the dismay of establishm...

Reducere. In a world of facts and figures, can an intellectual have faith? Is it possible to believe anything the Bible says? Yes, and one man will show you ...

Reducere. In The Art of Scientific Investigation, originally published in 1950, W.I.B. Beveridge explores the development of the intuitive side in scientists...

Reducere. Richard Hough's vivid narrative captures all the excitement of this age of discovery and establishes Cook as a link between the vague scientific sp...

Reducere. Throughout American history, determined African Americans havebecome healers. As doctors, nurses, and scientists, they have madevital contributions...

From the author of the long-running #1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams and the reasons why people fol...

Reducere. Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, s...

Reducere. This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States...

Reducere. DescriptionDelicate Europe escapes from the Evil Great Tartary The consensual world history was manufactured in Europe in XVI-XIX centuries with po...

Reducere. An unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America's most brilliant--and most divisive--scien...

Reducere. The DeepIn a twilight land, two warring powers -- the Reds and the Blacks -- play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from b...

Reducere. The classic personal account of Watson and Crick's groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, now with an introduction by Sylvia Nasar, auth...

DescriptionIn 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, traveled to St Kilda to study the island's flora and fauna and to learn abou...

Reducere. DescriptionHow the delicate and civilized Europe escaped from Great Tartary.The consensual world history was manufactured in Europe in XVI-XIX cent...

America the Beautiful showcases the stunning spaces closest to our nation's heart--from the woods in the Great Appalachian Valley that Davy Crocket...

Reducere. The fabled Great Bear Rainforest stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from northern Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of th...