Nature's Fabric: Leaves in Science and Culture

Challenges modern ideas on the interaction of science, nature and human culture, with far-reaching consequences for how we govern our world.

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In Sight is a memoir about how a love of science and discovery drove Julia Levy, a celebrated scholar and biotech CEO, to work her way through gend...

This book concerns the roles of scientific testimony in science and society. It argues that intra-scientific testimony is not in conflict with the ...

Reducere. It was August 27, 1885. In a hospital in Lima, Peru, a student named Daniel Carrion was preparing to infect himself with a dreaded disease . . . He...

A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world--and to understand our collective obsession with this captivating color Search human histo...

Reducere. Din Cuprins: ◊ Cum se face o literatura prin ideea de geniu◊ Tehnicile spontaneitatii◊ In cautarea poporului de poeti. Literatura si demografie◊ O ...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Margaret (Professor, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massac...

Pioneering work on bud and plant shapes, indicating there are universal laws which guide an organism's growth into predetermined patterns.

Reducere. Concise and highly regarded, this treatment of Green's functions and their applications in science and engineering is geared toward undergraduate a...

Reducere. Fă cunoştinţă cu muncitorii din uimitoarea Fabrică a Corpului Uman. Trăgând de tendoane, furnizând sângele şi secretând saliva, tipii ăştia se spet...

Reducere. From a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns. How does life prospe...

Reducere. The power of pigment is pervasive throughout the planet and the cosmos. Without pigment, life would cease to exist. In fact, it is the key element ...

Reducere. Cichlid fishes are amazing creatures. In terms of sheer number of species, they are the most successful of all families of vertebrate animals, and ...

Reducere. When Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler -- all deeply religious -- dislodged the earth from the center of the universe, science and religion separated...

A unique and illuminating perspective on how the interpretative strategies of Science and Theology relate.Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressAuthor(s): ...

The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed independently of science, has been under fire by philosop...

Reducere. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind ...

This book shows K 12 STEM teachers how to maximize their effectiveness with students by shifting to an inquiry-based instructional approach and cre...

Offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students. ...

Illuminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural means "good, " from misinformation about health choices to justifications for sexism, ...

This textbook develops a coherent view of differential equations by progressing through a series of typical examples in science and engineering tha...

Reducere. Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exp...

Reducere. Know how to adapt quantum computing and machine learning algorithms. This book takes you on a journey into hands-on quantum machine learning (QML) ...

Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this -beautiful question.- With Nobe...

Reducere. Buzz Leaves the Family of Colors, is about one color who is struggling to find his place in a crayon box full of other beautiful and unique colors....

Reducere. In this book, scientist Philip Callahan shows how "civilized" insanity is turning Ireland away from her naturally harmonious, aesthetically pleasin...

Reducere. Din Cuprins: ◊ Cum se face o literatura prin ideea de geniu◊ Tehnicile spontaneitatii◊ In cautarea poporului de poeti. Literatura si demografie◊ O ...

A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the q...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Fariha RoisinNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 217 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Reducere. What was the great and golden secret known to Leonardo Da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Why were they forbidden to reveal it? Can...

Reducere. Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing tex...

Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities (reciprocity, cooperation, empathy) and cogni...

Reducere. It was a time of destruction of lives and futures and of rebirth and rebuilding. In his lively style with a wide sweep of insights Peter Lindenfeld...