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Sciku brings together more than 400 revealing, poignant, witty haiku on scientific subjects.  Read More >>

""Scientists other than quantum physicists often fail to comprehend the enormity of the conceptual change wrought...  Read More >>

It also covers the history of our scientific understanding of light. The dark as well as the bright sides of light...  Read More >>

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Chapter 5 focuses on problems resulting from introduction of alien animals and from re-introduction of animal species...  Read More >>

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""Mood Matters"" makes the radical assertion that all social events ranging from fashions in music and art to the...  Read More >>

Guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood. This book offers the...  Read More >>

The theory of nonlinear, complex systems has become by now a proven problem-solving approach in the natural sciences....  Read More >>

Karl Popper, Back to the Presocratics Harvard University physicist and historian of Science, Gerald Holton, coined...  Read More >>

In the tradition of Scared Sh*tless, 1003 hilariously disturbing facts that will leave readers wondering Are you...  Read More >>

A compelling career memoir by an award-winning neuroscientist describes how while studying his own family's brain...  Read More >>

Provides an introduction to QED (quantum electrodynamics), that part of quantum field theory describing the interactions...  Read More >>

This book places children's literature at the forefront of early twentieth-century debates about national identity...  Read More >>

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We unearth some of the most wonderful microscopic images of the human body ever created. We get to see the wonder...  Read More >>

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Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved...  Read More >>

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has...  Read More >>

Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer...  Read More >>

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The Heinz Nixdorf Museum Forum (HNF) is the world’s largest c- puter museum and is dedicated to portraying the past,...  Read More >>

Among them were world-renowned physicists Max Planck, Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg. After the war most scientists...  Read More >>

B. Jack Copeland celebrates the life and work of one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. Best known...  Read More >>

Naturally occurring DMT may produce prophecy-like states of consciousness and thus represent a bridge between biology...  Read More >>