Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Human Diversity
Its Nature, Extent, Causes and Effects on People
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Human diversity, with its myriad of different conditions involving biology, psychology, and social structures, remains one of the biggest challenges — and opportunities — facing the species. With many government and
by Jean-Pierre Tignol
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
The book gives a detailed account of the development of the theory of algebraic equations, from its origins in ancient times to its completion by Galois in the nineteenth century. The appropriate parts of works by Cardano, Lagrange, Vandermonde, Gauss, Abel, and Galois are reviewed and placed in their...
The Pull of History
Human Understanding of Magnetism and Gravity through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
by Stephen Hawking
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993
Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theory and has played a major role in the development of cosmology and black hole physics.
Hawking's early work, partly in collaboration with Roger Penrose,...
Understanding Experimental Planning for Advanced Level Chemistry
The Learner's Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
This book is a continuation of authors' previous six books — Understanding Advanced Physical Inorganic Chemistry, Understanding Advanced Organic and Analytical Chemistry, Understanding Advanced Chemistry Through Problem Solving Vol. I & II, Understanding Basic Chemistry and Understanding Basic...
Understanding Basic Chemistry
The Learner's Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book, the fourth in a series of Understanding Chemistry books, deals with Basic Chemistry.
Written for students taking either the University of Cambridge O-level examinations or the GCSE examinations, this textbook covers essential topics under both stipulated chemistry syllabi. The book...
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
The Learner's Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Written for students taking either the University of Cambridge O-level examinations or the GCSE examinations, this guidebook covers essential topics and concepts under stipulated chemistry syllabi. The topics are explored through an explanatory and inquiry-based approach. They are interrelated and...
Understanding Advanced Chemistry Through Problem Solving
The Learner's ApproachVolume 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Written for students taking either the University of Cambridge Advanced Level examinations or the International Baccalaureate examinations, this guidebook covers essential topics and concepts under both stipulated chemistry syllabi. The book is written in such a way as to guide the reader through...
Understanding Advanced Chemistry Through Problem Solving
The Learner's ApproachVolume 1: Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Written for students taking either the University of Cambridge Advanced Level examinations or the International Baccalaureate examinations, this guidebook covers essential topics and concepts under both stipulated chemistry syllabi. The book is written in such a way as to guide the reader through...
by Fuxiang Han
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book contains advanced subjects in solid state physics with emphasis on the theoretical exposition of various physical phenomena in solids using quantum theory, hence entitled “A modern course in the quantum theory of solids”. The use of the adjective “modern” in the title is to reflect...
Problems for Metagrobologists
A Collection of Puzzles with Real Mathematical, Logical or Scientific Content
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This book is a collection of over 200 problems that David Singmaster has composed since 1987. Some of the math problems have appeared in his various puzzle columns for BBC Radio and TV, Canadian Broadcasting, Focus (the UK popular science magazine), Games and Puzzles, the Los Angeles Times, Micromath,...
Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis
A Technologist's Search for a Black Swan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis: A Technologist's Search for a Black Swan describes the story of the author's work and struggles in the field of energy research. The author's experience in the field spans from work with Admiral Rickover and the Nuclear Navy to research with NASA designing...
Beyond the Galaxy
How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way and Discovered the Entire Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
A look up at the night sky reveals a treasury of wonders. Even to the naked eye, the Moon, stars, planets, the Milky Way and even a few star clusters and nebulae illuminate the heavens. For millennia, humans struggled to make sense of what's out there in the Universe, from all we can see to that which...
by Julio A Gonzalo
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Beginning with the famous Olber's paradox, a number of cosmological paradoxes, such as the missing mass, dark energy, and the baryon-to-photon ratio, have been and are today the subject of many scientific controversies. The Big Bang model, anticipated by Lemaitre in 1927 and reformulated twenty years...