Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance. In this book a multidisciplinary team of specialists and scientists presents innovative process-oriented approaches to the…
Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science
The perfect gift for anyone with an interest in our scientific history, "When the Earth Was Flat" exposes the scientific theories that were once widely believed to be true but have since been disproved. Featuring ideas that now seem more crazy than credible, from the human body …
Reveals how recurring patterns in nature are accounted for by a single governing principle of physics, explaining how all designs in the world from biological life to inanimate systems evolve in a sequence of ever-improving designs that facilitate flow
Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achie…
How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do makes an argument for a view of human learning that engages the affective-volitional processes of becoming students alongside and in conjunction with processes of knowing.
How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do makes an argument for a view of human learning that engages the affective-volitional processes of becoming students alongside and in conjunction with processes of knowing.
Offering a sweeping tour of fantastic physics and cosmic history, Gravity's Engines provides a view of the most fearsome places in the universe, and finally asks what it will take to see the event horizon of a black hole
Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will
Makes the geometric world of polyhedra accessible to professionals, students, and laypeople Dedicated to the memory of the legendary geometer H.S.M. Coxeter and the many-faceted design scientist Arthur L. Loeb Not to be missed book for schools, public libraries, and coffee table…
Between the 8th and 15th centuries, scholars and researchers working from Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and philosophy to new heights. It was Musa al-Khwarizmi, for instan…
Innovation Generation presents a fascinating new approach to creative thinking. Using a system of idea-generating methods honed over her illustrious career as a physician, researcher, professor, teacher, and Dean, Roberta Ness provides all the tools needed to learn how to cast a…
