Copernicus imprint: 75 books
Curve Ball
Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and this book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans. These include how to...
American Normal
The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Asperger's Syndrome, often characterized as a form of "high-functioning autism," is a poorly defined and little-understood neurological disorder. The people who suffer from the condition are usually highly intelligent, and as often as not capable of extraordinary feats of memory, calculation,...
The Pathological Protein
Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Prions are an entirely new class of pathogens, and scientists are just beginning to understand them. Although they have plagued humans and animals for 3 centuries, only in the last 2 decades have researchers linked them to diseases like Mad Cow. This book tells the strange story of their discovery,...
Return of the Crazy Bird
The Sad, Strange Tale of the Dodo
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Using the history of the concept of extinction with the dodo as a case study, Pinto-Correia carefully weaves together story fragments to give a cohesive eye-opening view of 17th century exploration and the grave ramifications it had for the survival and extinction of many species. More importantly,...
HEAVY!
The Surprising Reasons America Is the Land of the Free—And the Home of the Fat
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
America’s emerging “fat war” threatens to pit a shrinking population of trim Americans against an expanding population of heavy Americans in raging policy debates over “fat taxes” and “fat bans.” These “fat policies” would be designed to constrain what people eat and drink –...
S=EX²
The Science of Sex
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
You have in your hands the most rigorous, complete and readable book ever written about the fascinating science of human sexuality. This book goes beyond the well-worn sexual education advice and the usual evolutionist psychology. After The Brain Snatcher, Pere Estupinyà comes back with the first...
Beg to Differ
The Logic of Disputes and Argumentation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book aims to familiarize readers in a very simple and easy manner the rules and proper procedures of rational debate. It will help reduce the frustration that many experience when engaging in debates. The proper conduct of debate is both fun and mentally stimulating, and we trust that implementing...
Experimenting on a Small Planet
A Scholarly Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand...
How Nature Works
the science of self-organized criticality
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex systems with a firm mathematical basis. This theory describes how many seemingly desperate aspects of the world, from stock market crashes to mass extinctions, avalanches...
by David S. Goodsell
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2009
Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we’re dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine (unfortunately, neither is currently feasible). Think of the wonders we could witness firsthand: antibodies...
The Hunt for Planet X
New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2010
Ever since the serendipitous discovery of planet Uranus in 1871, astronomers have been hunting for new worlds in the outer regions of our solar system. This exciting and ongoing quest culminated recently in the discovery of hundreds of ice dwarfs in the Kuiper belt, robbed Pluto from its ‘planet’...
The Universal Machine
From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
The computer unlike other inventions is universal; you can use a computer for many tasks: writing, composing music, designing buildings, creating movies, inhabiting virtual worlds, communicating...
This popular science history isn't just about technology but introduces the pioneers: Babbage, Turing,...
Gaia’s Body
Toward a Physiology of Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
If the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have something like a physiology. It must have systems and processes that perform living functions. In Gaia's Body, Tyler Volk describes the environment that enables the biosphere to exist, various ways of looking at its "anatomy"...
Lee de Forest
King of Radio, Television, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to develop a light valve, a device for writing and reading sound using light patterns. While he received many...