Science category: 476400 books
Eureka
Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
When it comes to science, too often people say "I just don't have the brains for it"--and leave it at that. Why is science so intimidating, and why do people let themselves feel this way? What makes one person a scientist and another disinclined even to learn how to read graphs? The idea...
by Mary Baker Eddy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Rudimental Divine Science answers some of the most-commonly asked questions about Christian Science. Through a question-and-answer format, Mary Baker Eddy, offers a clear, simple explanation of Christian Science and highlights metaphysical ideas basic to its teachings. First published in 1887, this...
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2014
Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
Science in China, 16001900
Essays by Benjamin A Elman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science...
Science
Antiquity and its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sales in classics, the history of ideas and the history and philosophy of science. Modern science and...
The Bold and the Brave
A History of Women in Science and Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have striven throughout history to gain access to education and careers in science and engineering. Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40 years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that contextualize the obstacles women have...
Science and the Social Good
Nature, Culture, and Community, 1865-1965
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
From the beginnings of industrial capitalism to contemporary disputes over evolution, nature has long been part of the public debate over the social good. As such, many natural scientists throughout American history have understood their work as a cultural activity contributing to social stability...
by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology: the surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire...
Science Fair Season
Twelve Kids, a Robot Named Scorch . . . and What It Takes to Win
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
This is the engaging true story of kids competing in the high-stakes, high-drama world of international science fairs. Every year the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair brings together 1,500 high schoolers from more than 50 countries to compete for over $4 million dollars in prizes...
by Jon Agar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global.
Science's claim to access universal truths about the natural world made it an...
Worlds of Their Own
A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
History is written by the winners; including the histories of science and scholarship. Unorthodoxies that flourish at the grassroots are often beneath the contempt of historians. Zetetic astronomy (flat-Earth science) was a household term in Victorian England, but not a single reference to it is found...
by Henri Poincaré
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The Foundations of Science Henri Poincaré, french mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science (1854-1912) This ebook presents «The Foundations of Science», from Henri Poincaré. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter...
It Began with Babbage
The Genesis of Computer Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
As a field, computer science occupies a unique scientific space, in that its subject matter can exist in both physical and abstract realms. An artifact such as software is both tangible and not, and must be classified as something in between, or "liminal." The study and production of liminal...
Ten Billion Tomorrows
How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality and Shapes the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will...