Science and Technics / Science

Self-Organized Surfactant Structures

by Tharwat F. Tadros

Highlighting recent developments as well as future challenges, this series of volumes covers such topics as emulsions, nano-emulsions, nano-dispersions and novel techniques for their investigation. It also considers...

Introduction to Proteomics: Principles and Applications

by Nawin C. Mishra & Günter Blobel

A world-class, concise guide to all things proteomics

This book provides a highly authoritative introduction to the promising and fast-advancing field of proteomics, examining the role proteomics plays in the...

Pollination and Floral Ecology

by Pat Willmer

Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully...

Gas Sweetening and Processing Field Manual

by Maurice Stewart & Ken Arnold

Although the processing of natural gas is in many respects less complicated than the processing and refining of crude oil, it is equally as necessary before its use by end users. The actual process used to separate...

Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

by Spencer Wells

Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and...

Relativity - The Special and General Theory

by Albert Einstein

Originally published in 1916. PREFACE: The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical...

The Problem of Space Travel

by Herman Potočnik Noordung

Herman Potocnik Noordung’s ‘Inhabitable Wheel’.

In 1929, an Austro-Hungarian - Slovene called Herman Potocnik published a book under the pseudonym of ‘Noordung’. The book was Das Problem der Befahrung...

My Inventions and Other Writings

by Nikola Tesla & Samantha hunt

The fascinating autobiography of the legendary inventor behind the radio, wireless energy, robotics, and much more.

Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age, his lifelong feud with Thomas...

GPS For Dummies

by Joel McNamara

Need directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology you’ve dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make the most of it.

If you have a GPS unit or plan to buy...

Scientific Inference

by Harold Jeffreys

Originally published in 1931. The present work had its beginnings in a series of papers published jointly some years ago by Dr Dorothy Wrinch and myself. Both before and since that time several books purporting...

A Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science

by Rubin H. Landau, Jose Paez & Cristian C. Bordeianu

Computational physics is a rapidly growing subfield of computational science, in large part because computers can solve previously intractable problems or simulate natural processes that do not have analytic...

Relativistic Celestial Mechanics of the Solar System

by Sergei Kopeikin, Michael Efroimsky & George Kaplan

This authoritative book presents the theoretical development of gravitational physics as it applies to the dynamics of celestial bodies and the analysis of precise astronomical observations. In so doing, it...

Neuroscience for Dummies

by Frank Amthor

Get on the fast track to understanding neuroscience

Research into the human brain has exploded in recent years, and neuroscience has become a major program at many universities and a required course for a wide...

A Natural History of the Senses

by Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos,...

Approximate Dynamic Programming: Solving the Curses of Dimensionality

by Warren B. Powell

Praise for the First Edition

"Finally, a book devoted to dynamic programming and written using the language of operations research (OR)! This beautiful book fills a gap in the libraries of OR specialists and...

Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes: Designed Synthesis, Unusual Reactions, and Coordination Chemistry

by Lawrence T. Scott, Marina A. Petrukhina & Harold W. Kroto

This book is the first of its kind to reflect upon the intense and rapidly growing interest in open geodesic polyaromatic molecules, specifically focusing on their synthesis and reactivity in metal binding...

Computational Strategies for Spectroscopy: From Small Molecules to Nano Systems

by Vincenzo Barone

Computational spectroscopy is a rapidly evolving field that is becoming a versatile and widespread tool for the assignment of experimental spectra and their interpretation as related to chemical physical effects....

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy: An Introduction to Principles and Practices

by Paul van der Heide

This book introduces readers interested in the field of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) to the practical concepts in this field. The book first introduces the reader to the language and concepts used...

Evo-Devo of Child Growth: Treatise on Child Growth and Human Evolution

by Ze'ev Hochberg

Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and development, examining each stage and transition...

Progress in Inorganic Chemistry

by Kenneth D. Karlin

PROGRESS in Inorganic Chemistry

The cutting edge of scientific reporting

Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry experimentation. Progress in Inorganic Chemistry continues...