Science

Ever since the human mind awoke to its own existence, it has wondered about its cosmic significance. By dispelling myths and religious convictions,...

Marooned in Los Angeles by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard."Stranded...

Discussing the role biosensors play in detecting and monitoring environmental substances, Biosensors and Environmental Health provides key facts th...

'Profound and utterly absorbing. Kucharski elegantly explores how proof is not just a mathematical concept but a vital tool in decision-making, jus...

Digital Transformation Management for Agile Organizations highlights and explores new dynamics regarding current digital developments globally scal...

This volume belongs to the new critical edition of the complete works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626). The edition presents the works in broadly chron...

The questions that drive Priscilla Long’s Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Whe...

How the World Flows acts like a microscope that pulls the reader into the barely noticeable, Lilliputian world of fluids at small scales--the micro...

In this title, first published in 1984, Peter Morton argues that in late Victorian Britain a group of novelists and essayists quite consciously sou...

Science and technology are responsible for almost every advance in our modern quality of life. Yet science isn't just about laboratories, telescope...

Walled Gardens: Autonomy, Automation, and Art After the Internet is the study of a young generation of artists characterised by their engagement wi...

John Bachman (1790–1874) was an internationally renowned naturalist and a prominent Lutheran minister. This is the first collection of his writings...

'The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.' Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an att...

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology analyzes the cultural significance of recurring attempts since the time of Darwin to extract social and moral ...

Genetic technologies have moved off the pages of science fiction and into our everyday lives. Internists now offer genetic testing for cancers and ...

Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects ...

Technologies such as tablets, plagiarism software, and learning videos are now an important part of teaching and learning around the world. The und...

The absence of water supply infrastructure is a critical issue that affects the sustainability of cities in the developing world and the quality of...

'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating th...

Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand their own mind and to find a spiritual path that is compatible with scienceAs an impressionable ...

This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an interesting and i...

Offering deep insight into the connections between design choice and the resulting statistical analysis, Design of Experiments: An Introduction Bas...

Why do we want- and why do we do- so many things that are bad for us? And how can we stop? In Mean Genes economist Terry Burnham and biologist Ja...

Charles Darwin (1809–82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Dar...

Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States’ digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and polic...

The notion of ‘the human’ is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and...

On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent re...