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Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science

Theories for Everything: An Illustrated History of Science

by John Langone

Theories for Everything highlights the rich, compelling stories behind science's greatest discoveries and the minds and methods that made them possible. Authoritative, entertaining, and easy to follow, it provides indispensable information on our current theories about the natural and physical world as well as a concise overview of how those ideas evolved. Filled with illustrations, topical essays, and... (more)

How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life

How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life

by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta M. Golinkoff

In their first three years of life babies face the most complex learning endeavor they will ever undertake as human beings: They learn to talk. Now, as researchers make new forays into the mystery of the development of the human brain, authors Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, both developmental psychologists and language experts, offer parents a powerfully insightful guidebook to how infants--even... (more)

The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

by Boyd Rice, Ikujiro? Nonaka

How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. In The Knowledge-Creating Company,... (more)

How to Read Your Star Signs: The Only One-Volume Guide To Your Sun, Moon and Rising Signs

How to Read Your Star Signs: The Only One-Volume Guide To Your Sun, Moon and Rising Signs

by Sasha Fenton

The best-selling guides to your Sun, Moon and Rising Signs are fully updated and available for the first time in one volume. If you read your stars every day you will know your Sun sign and what it says about your basic personality. But your Rising Sign, and your Moon can reveal far more about the real you, and the three taken together will give you the most accurate self-portrait of all. With this easy-to-read... (more)

Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution

Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution

by Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margulis

Lynn Margulis, one of the most provocative scientific thinkers of our time, and her son, the writer Dorion Sagan, here present a selection from their many essays published in the last decade and a half. Margulis's scientific contributions are legendary. Her proposal that eukaryotic cells (the cells of all multicellular animals and plants) are made up of symbiotic unions of more primitive cells was at first widely... (more)

Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human SexualityLynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan

Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality

by Dorion Sagan, Lynn Margulis

Chemically Active: Experiments You Can Do at HomeThomas L. Allen, Vicki Cobb

Chemically Active: Experiments You Can Do at Home

by Vicki Cobb

Gives instructions for performing a variety of experiments, using easily available materials, that illustrate some basic principles of chemistry.

Physics and Philosophy

by James Hopwood Jeans

1942. The aim of this book is to discuss, and to some extent explore, that borderland territory between physics and philosophy in an interesting and contemporary light. Contents: what are physics and philosophy; how do we know; the two voices of science and philosophy; the passing of the mechanical age; the new physics; from appearance to reality; some problems of philosophy.

Rang & Dale's Pharmacology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

Rang & Dale's Pharmacology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

by H. P. Rang

A straightforward way to master a complex subject! This bestselling textbook presents all the knowledge you need to get through your pharmacology course and beyond-using a clear and accessible approach that makes the material easy and interesting to learn. Progressing logically from a molecular understanding of receptors and drug actions to the clinical uses of the most important groups of drugs, it delivers the... (more)

Harry Potter: Book 7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety , and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the... (more)

The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

by Thornton W. Burgess

A plump little meadow mouse, always an inviting target for hungry hunters in the Green Meadow, spends much of his time avoiding the clutches of Hooty the Owl, Reddy Fox and Old Granny Fox, Mr. Blacksnake and other pesky predators as he explores the Old Briar-patch and Farmer Brown’s orchard.

Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)

Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)

by Scott E. Page, John H. Miller

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, ... (more)

Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age

Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age

by Bart Kosko

Would you still be you if a chip replaced your brain? Who draws the line in the digital age? Those with the most power? Does the digital age even have black-and-white parameters? Where does one country's Internet jurisdiction end and another's begin? Who owns the ocean or the moon -- or your genome blueprint? Bart Kosko sheds new insight on these questions and shows how a revolutionary way of thinking will affect... (more)

Wheater's Basic Histopathology: A Color Atlas and Text (Basic Histopathology (Wheater's/ Burkitt))

Wheater's Basic Histopathology: A Color Atlas and Text (Basic Histopathology (Wheater's/ Burkitt))

by Alan Stevens MBBS FRCPath, James S. Lowe BMedSci BMBS DM FRCPath, Barbara Young BSc Med Sci(Hons) PhD MB BChir MRCP FRCPA

This atlas and text of histopathology provides a practical collection of color photomicrographs of diseased human tissue to supplement standard pathology texts. An ideal companion to Wheater's Functional Histology, this new edition gives more emphasis to the scientific basis of disease and clinicopathological correlations.

Medical Neurosciences: An Approach to Anatomy, Pathology, and Physiology by Systems and Levels

Medical Neurosciences: An Approach to Anatomy, Pathology, and Physiology by Systems and Levels

Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN. Textbook for medical students correlating anatomy, embryology, physiology, pathology, and biochemistry with clinical neurology. Previous edition: c1994. Includes new sections on: neurophysiology, mechanisms of neuropathic pain, and neurochemical systems. Illustrated. Softcover. DNLM: Nervous System Diseases.

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology

by Richard B. Odom, Harry Loren Arnold

For expert guidance on a full range of dermatologic conditions, consult the premier resource on the diagnosis and management of skin problems. The 9th Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to bring you the latest clinical findings and up-to-date treatments. The New Edtion features information on over 50 new diseases including, MAGIC snydrome, SAPHO syndrome, basal follicular hamartoma, CD3... (more)

Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods

Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods

by James Campbell Todd

State Univ. of New York, Syracuse. Major textbook and reference for students and specialists in clinical pathology and laboratory medicine. Includes color plates and halftone illustrations. Previous edition: c1996. DNLM: Laboratory Techniques and Procedures.

Lynxes (Early Bird Nature Books)

by Barbara Keevil Parker

Fundamental University Physics: Volume II, Fields and Waves (Addison Wesley series on Physics)Marcelo Alonso, Edward J. Finn

Fundamental University Physics: Volume II, Fields and Waves (Addison Wesley series on Physics)

by Edward J. Finn, Marcelo Alonso

Thermodynamics

by J. P. Holman, Kenneth Wark

This edition has been revised to include the following enhancements: a greater emphasis on thermoeconomics and real-world applications; more design problems; more real world and visual problems; and a revamped design and pedagogical programme.

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