Science and Technics / Science

Relativistic Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei

by Markus Boettcher, Daniel E. Harris & Henric Krawczynski

Written by a carefully selected consortium of researchers working in the field, this book fills the gap for an up-to-date summary of the observational and theoretical status. As such, this monograph includes...

High Temperature Plasmas: Theory and Mathematical Tools for Laser and Fusion Plasmas

by Karl-Heinz Spatschek

Filling the gap for a treatment of the subject as an advanced course in theoretical physics with a huge potential for future applications, this monograph discusses aspects of these applications and provides...

A Guide to Academia

by Prosanta Chakrabarty

A Guide to Academia is a handbook for all those individuals thinking seriously about going to graduate school. Written by an author with extensive experience navigating the academic world, the book explains...

A Guide to Academia: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job

by Prosanta Chakrabarty

A Guide to Academia is a handbook for all those individuals thinking seriously about going to graduate school. Written by an author with extensive experience navigating the academic world, the book explains...

Human Population Genetics

by John H. Relethford

Introductory guide to human population genetics and microevolutionary theory

Providing an introduction to mathematical population genetics, Human Population Genetics gives basic background on the mechanisms of...

Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation

by Andreas Tolk

Explore the military and combat applications of modeling and simulation

Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation is the first book of its kind to address the three perspectives that...

Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation

by Andreas Tolk

Explore the military and combat applications of modeling and simulation

Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation is the first book of its kind to address the three perspectives that...

Comprehensive Chiroptical Spectroscopy, Applications in Stereochemical Analysis of Synthetic Compounds, Natural Products, and Biomolecules

by Nina Berova, Prasad L. Polavarapu & Koji Nakanishi

This book provides an introduction to the important methods of chiroptical spectroscopy in general, and circular dichroism (CD) in particular, which are increasingly important in all areas of chemistry, biochemistry,...

Medical Toxicology of Drug Abuse: Synthesized Chemicals and Psychoactive Plants

by Donald G. Barceloux

This book provides a broad reference covering important drugs of abuse including amphetamines, opiates, and steroids. It also covers psychoactive plants such as caffeine, peyote, and psilocybin. It provides...

Ethnobiology

by E. N. Anderson, Deborah Pearsall & Eugene Hunn

The single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of Ethnobiology

The field of ethnobiology—the study of relationships between particular ethnic groups and their native...

Green Corrosion Inhibitors: Theory and Practice

by Vedula S. Sastri

A book to cover developments in corrosion inhibitors is long overdue. This has been addressed by Dr Sastri in a book which presents fundamental aspects of corrosion inhibition, historical developments and the...

Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

by Amir D. Aczel

In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léeacute;on Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior...

Embryos in Deep Time: The Rock Record of Biological Development

by Marcelo R. Sánchez

How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts...

Practice Makes Perfect Geometry

by Carolyn Wheater

Practice Makes Perfect has established itself as a reliable practical workbook series in the language-learning category. Now, with Practice Makes Perfect: Geometry, students will enjoy the same clear, concise...

As Time Goes By

by Alfred John Dalrymple

On the Everest trail... Alfred hires Nell Barton Jangmu Sherpa to be porter, and to listen when he reads from his new book. Alfred believes that the Ground of Being is consciousness. He thinks time, distance,...

Religion and Science: The Basics

by Philip Clayton

Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once held to be compatible, most people now perceive them to be in conflict. This...

Kickers #2: Fake Out

by Rich Wallace & Jimmy Holder

Introducing a soccer series for new readers

Kickers #2

The Kickers soccer league is heating up, and Ben's team, the Bobcats, has two losses, one win, and one tie. Ben knows he can pull his team out of its...

Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

by Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete & Michael Redclift

Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the...

ADVANCES IN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY

by John R. Sabin

Advances in Quantum Chemistry presents surveys of current topics in this rapidly developing field that has emerged at the cross section of the historically established areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry,...

Inorganic Photochemistry

by Rudi van Eldik & Grazyna Stochel

The Advances in Inorganic Chemistry series present timely and informative summaries of the current progress in a variety of subject areas within inorganic chemistry, ranging from bio-inorganic to solid state...