Great Scientists

Reducere. Time Is Running Out In Two Realities.In one world, a lethal virus threatens to destroy all life as scientists and governments scramble to find an a...

DescriptionWith lyrical language that captures the majesty of the natural world coupled with fun narrative featured throughout, this spirited pictu...

We can all be heroes. That's the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad ...

Reducere. Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms,...

Reducere. From the age of Galileo until the early years of the 20th century, scientists grappled with seemingly insurmountable paradoxes inherent in the theo...

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

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. In The World of William Penn Foster explores the wide sphere of the humble Quaker, William Penn. From the courtyards of the Sun King to the royal c...

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

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe archaeopteryx was a prehistoric creature that many scientists believe was the first bird. Your mission: to track down this creature ...

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

Reducere. What was the real City of Atlantis? A fantasy? A real place? Both?The Greek philosopher Plato (c. 429 - 347 BCE) describes the City of Atlantis in ...

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

Reducere. Orbs and the Afterlife: Survival of the Soul Discover the link between the orb phenomenon and our true identities as eternal souls Read firsthand a...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the importa...

Reducere. "Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his ple...

Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and a...

Reducere. The "Brownian movement" was first described in 1828 by the botanist Robert Brown. While investigating the pollen of several different plants, he ob...

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

Reducere. Explores an area that has long intrigued scientists and educators: the linkages between the side of the body we favor for seeing, hearing, touching...

Reducere. This lively, colorful guidebook provides everything you need to know to help your child get inspired, succeed in school and map a path forward in t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher SartainMost human suffering comes about as a result of a mistaken sense of self-identity. One suffers because t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Isabel Sanchez VegaraIllustrator: Katie WilsonNew in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover th...

Babylonian myths, inherited in Mesopotamia from Sumeria, influenced by the ancient Assyrians represent a pinnacle of human achievement in the perio...

Reducere. In Tibet, geologist David R. Montgomery heard a local story about a great flood that bore a striking similarity to Noah's Flood. Intrigued, Montgom...

Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of ...

Reducere. A 2001 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner A 2001 Christianity Today Award of Merit winner Phillip E. Johnson highlights the deficiencies in science a...

Reducere. At the same time that he charged Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the great Northwest, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned William...

Reducere. This valuable text begins with the general theory of diffraction through the use of Fourier transforms. The author then applies the general results...

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...

DescriptionBy 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful o...

Reducere. Simulations of God is a brilliant, provocative work by one of the great creative scientists of the twentieth century, John Lilly, M.D.. In it he ex...

Description**The National Bestseller** From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled...

Incredibly rich and realistic illustrations take readers up close to the curious creatures and plants that thrive in the vast severe habitat of the...

Reducere. Do bromeliads ever harm their hosts? Are they parasites? Can any of them really live on air? How many kinds live in Florida? Are the pretty ones ea...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge; Illustrated and published for the first time in 1909. Covers the reformation in Germany, the Net...

DescriptionThe Art of Creative Thinking provides clear, practical guidelines for developing one's powers as a creative thinker. Using examples of e...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Trudi TrueitAdventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Virginia HummelDiscover the link between the orb phenomenon and our true identities as eternal souls Read firsthand account...

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

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

Reducere. The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ag...

Reducere. By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientist...

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

This lecture took place in the largest auditorium of the Moscow State University (named after M. V. Lomonosov). This special event was organized fo...

Reducere. Who wouldn't want to know the answer to the question: "WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?" For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists, and mystics have st...

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

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

In this highly readable study, one of the great pioneers of modern science examines how people and animals display varieties of emotions via their ...

DescriptionIn the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incr...

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. 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 Midd...

DescriptionThe final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality--a critically important examination of poverty around the ...

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. America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cult...

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

Reducere. One of the greatest experimental scientists of all time, Michael Faraday (1791-1867) developed the first electric motor, electric generator, and dy...

Reducere. DescriptionKicksology is your all-access pass into the fascinating, colorful world of running shoes--and what makes up a perfect pair of kicks.Spor...

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...

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. Charles Darwin, George Washington Carver, and Jane Goodall were once curious kids with pockets full of treasures! When you find something strange a...

Reducere. In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Jesse Owens, the ...

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the i...

Reducere. Deep below the Atlantic Ocean, guarded by hundreds of dolphins, lie the astonishing remains of an Atlantis-like lost city called Marinth. Its disap...

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