Ways Into Science

Reducere. This book provides hands-on tutorials with just the right amount of conceptual and motivational material to illustrate how to use the intuitive int...

Genetic counselors advise patients and families affected by or at risk of genetic disorders. They educate them about inheritance, diseases, and scr...

DescriptionLiving across Africa and the Caribbean, this widely dispersed primate population must adapt to different environmental challenges. How d...

A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva Meijer develops a new, ground-breaking theory of language ...

Reducere. Delivers specific guidelines for implementing human caring within teaching practices along with a wealth of examplesGrounded in the belief that tra...

Reducere. For many students, doing research is often a joyless struggle. This book provides practical advice on how to do research in a concise way. It uses ...

DescriptionThis extensively illustrated book presents the astrophysics of galaxies since their beginnings in the early Universe. It has been thorou...

DescriptionThis second edition of Information Services Today: An Introduction demonstrates the ever-changing landscape of information services toda...

DescriptionCultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three di...

For decades early childhood educators in high-quality programs have understood that the transition into reading and writing occurs naturally when y...

Reducere. More than 60 percent of all English words have Greek or Latin roots; in the vocabulary of the sciences and technology, the figure rises to more tha...

DescriptionWork-based learning is Joe Raelin's unique way of incorporating a number of action strategies--such as action learning, action science, ...

Reducere. Choose your faction, pick your weapon, and prepare for an astonishing vision of the world of Azeroth like you've never seen before Built by best-se...

This textbook is perfect for a math course for non-math majors, with the goal of encouraging effective analytical thinking and exposing students to...

All societies have their own customs and beliefs surrounding death. In the West, traditional ways of mourning are disappearing, and although Wester...

Reducere. Prejudice influences people's thoughts and behaviors in many ways; it can lead people to underestimate others' credibility, to read anger or hyster...

Whether you're designing consumer electronics, medical devices, enterprise Web apps, or new ways to check out at the supermarket, today's digitally...

We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rate...

The Art and Science of Embodied Research Design: Concepts, Methods, and Cases offers some of the nascent perspectives that situate embodiment as a ...

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the int...

During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen (1882-1974) incorporated a deep focus on science into his...

Recipient of the 2021 NAGC Curriculum AwardAmericans throw away 254 million tons of trash every year, and students are naturally curious about wher...

Reducere. Why have elephants--and our preconceptions about them--been central to so much of human thought? From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancie...

Sports analytics has gathered tremendous momentum as one of the most dynamic fields. Diving deep into the numbers of sports can be game changing or...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book offers insights into changes brought about by the enormous growth of the internet. There are new ways to share cultural herita...

Reducere. Over the past 50 years, scientists have made incredible progress in the application of genetic research to human health care and disease treatment....

Society and Economy--a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology--is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's id...

Reducere. The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural h...

Reducere. Burmese pythons are invading Florida. These enormous snakes are native to Southeast Asia, so when one showed up dead along the side of a Florida hi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dr Thomas Zoega RamsoyHow do we make decisions on what to buy and what to pay for it? Why are we affected by brands and pri...

DescriptionThis volume explores the interaction of poetry and mathematics by looking at analogies that link them. The form that distinguishes poetr...

Reducere. DescriptionApplied Mathematics for Personal Finance provides a general introduction to the ways that mathematics can be applied to personal financi...

Reducere. This important volume examines how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of color, are being taken from our schools and ...

Reducere. Every single one of us matters in the process of transforming our future - but do we really believe that? What if we are underestimating our indivi...

Reducere. DescriptionIntermittent Fasting for Longevity and PerformanceYour cells are constantly monitoring the nutrient status of the cells to determine whe...

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively ne...

Reducere. Can a monkey own a selfie? Can a chimp use habeas corpus to sue for freedom? Can androids be citizens? Increasingly, such difficult questions have ...

Reducere. Big history becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown, the first guide in English to a new approach to hist...

DescriptionFrank Kermode has long held a distinctive place among modern critics. He brings to the study of literature a fine and fresh critical int...

"New Kinds of Smart is an intelligent book about intelligence, the many things that go into it, and how educators can help students to get more of ...

Reducere. George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of C...

DescriptionIf the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science, " then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As ...

Reducere. Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and di...

Reducere. It isn't easy to be a phage. First, what is a phage? A phage is a virus that infects Bacteria. To succeed, a phage must encounter, recognize, and e...

Supernova presents a series of intertwined and unconventional love stories with a bit of science and spirituality added to the mix. The characters ...

Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read. Some of it is...

Our ability to talk about God's action in the world is closely tied to our understanding of causality. With the advent of modern Newtonian science ...

Reducere. You are about to read a powerful set of strategies that model excellence going back thousands of years into the past to find the most effective way...

DescriptionViolent crime tragically ruins lives and communities, yet we know how to stop it and help victims. Governments agree on how to get resul...

DescriptionPlace-based education is on the rise. Tired of "teaching to the test, " educators are looking for authentic ways to connect their curric...

DescriptionIn this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humani...

Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether you're desig...

Reducere. Award NameLocus AwardsAward categoryScience FictionKim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such ...

Reducere. Every single one of us matters in the process of transforming our future - but do we really believe that? What if we are underestimating our indivi...

Reducere. A breathtaking account of six years of research into consciousness that begins with an exploration of "other dimensions" and ends with an entire Th...

Reducere. DescriptionBringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing ...

A groundbreaking argument for the political rights of animals In When Animals Speak, Eva Meijer develops a new, ground-breaking theory of language ...

Reducere. A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed.We need imagination now more than ever—to find new opportunities, rethink o...

Reducere. The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural h...

DescriptionAlchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like 'that wet blanket is a loose cannon', but admire 'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player', and all the ...

This is the tale of the modern Space Age, detailing all the risks, rewards and rivalries that have fueled space exploration over the decades. Jump ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Judith HowardIt is not unusual for educators today, whether in the early childhood, primary or secondary sectors, to be con...

Part biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from New York Times journalist and bests...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tyler Woods FerrellVery few golfers naturally find the elite golf swing--but it does exist. Golf science has helped reveal ...

Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...

Reducere. All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a lar...

Reducere. A NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD WINNING SERIES FROM MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan returns ...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo summers ago, scientists removed a tiny piece of flesh from Philip Ball's arm and turned it into a rudimentary "mini-brain." The skin...

Reducere. Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it...