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Interface Science in Drinking Water Treatment
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
It is difficult to imagine anything more important to the human population than safe drinking water. Lack of clean drinking water is still the major cause of illness and death in young children in developing countries. In more fortunate communities, where water treatment is practiced, the primary...
The End of Life as We Know It
Ominous News From the Frontiers of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
"It's happening this second. Scientists are re-imagining and re-engineering the world forever. With brutal honesty and engaging story-telling, Michael Guillen gives us a clear-eyed look at a future that is already here. Consider this unsettling, brilliantly written, must-read book your official wake...
by Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya, Pranav Pandya
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Spirituality and science are two different pursuits of mankind. Each has contributed, in its own way, towards the enrichment of human life and culture. The doors should be kept open between them for mutual cooperation and exchange.
Recent past was an era of confusion and there have been instances...
The Taboo of Subjectivity
Toward a New Science of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This book takes a bold new look at ways of exploring the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness within the context of science and religion. Alan Wallace draws careful distinctions between four elements of the scientific tradition: science itself, scientific realism, scientific materialism,...
The Science Book
From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
**From astronomy to psychology, this beautifully illustrated chronology presents the most important and groundbreaking milestones in science. **
Award-winning author Cliff Pickover (The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical Book) gathers into one fully illustrated volume the most important...
Fire in the Mind
Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Are there really laws governing the universe? Or is the order we see a mere artifact of the way evolution wired the brain? And is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA, and information fill the role once occupied by gods? These questions lie at the heart of George Johnson's...
Going Underground
The Science and History of Falling through the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
This book follows the historical trail by which humanity has determined the shape and internal structure of the Earth. It is a story that bears on aspects of the history of science, the history of philosophy and the history of mathematics. At the heart of the narrative is the important philosophical...
by Jayant V. Narlikar
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This collection of science fiction writings by Jayant V. Narlikar offers readers a unique glimpse into the world-famous Indian astrophysicist’s vivid and highly imaginative concepts and stories.
The fictional material comprises a witty short story ("The rare idol of Ganesha") that...
by Nigel Sanitt
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
First published in 1996, Science as a Questioning Process evaluates scientific theories through from Darwinian evolution to relativity, and from quantum theory to cosmology. It offers an examination of these theories, in terms of a compromise between resolvable empirical questions, and theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2000
The 75th Anniversary Celebration of the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering of the American Chemical Society, in 1999 sparked this third edition of Applied Polymer Science with emphasis on the developments of the last few years and a serious look at the challenges and expectations...
Hydropedology
Synergistic Integration of Soil Science and Hydrology
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Hydropedology is a microcosm for what is happening in Soil Science. Once a staid discipline found in schools of agriculture devoted to increasing crop yield, soil science is transforming itself into an interdisciplinary mulch with great significance not only for food production but also climate change,...
Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies
A Generalized Approach to Thermal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Science of Heat and Thermophysical Studies provides a non-traditional bridging of historical, philosophical, societal and scientific aspects of heat with a comprehensive approach to the field of generalized thermodynamics. It involves Greek philosophical views and their impact on the development of...
Black and Brown Planets
The Politics of Race in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Black and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Endangering Science Fiction Film explores the ways in which science fiction film is a dangerous and endangering genre. The collection argues that science fiction's cinematic power rests in its ability to imagine ‘Other’ worlds that challenge and disturb the lived conditions of the ‘real’...