Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Biologi och biovetenskap Essäer Konst Konst: teman och motiv Matematik och naturvetenskap Särskilda konstnärer Zoologi
Fredrik Sjöberg fick 2004 sitt stora litterära genombrott med Flugfällan. Tillsammans med Flyktkonsten (2006) och Russinkungen (2009) bildar den en halvt självbiografisk trilogi, befolkad av äventyrliga naturforskare och glömda konstnärer, däribland Kamtjatkaresenären René Malaise, akvarellmålaren Gunnar Widforss och…
Mica is a broad term encompassing about forty minerals, ranging from the common to the rare, many at times forming excellent crystals jewelers use. This book feaures examples recently described among the 115 striking color photos and electron micrographs that illustrate the text. A detailed entry for each type includes…
A beautiful waterfowl source book for carvers, taxidermists, ornithologists, and waterfowl enthusiasts. Close-up photographs show detailed feather patterns, color, and species information. Full species descriptions accompany these beautiful and important illustrations. A comprehensive state-by-state guide for observing…
The moon landing remains the most astonishing and impressive accomplishment of manned space travel to this day. In July 1969, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced the bold plan, the first astronaut set foot on another celestial body. While Project Apollo: The Early Years covered the exciting…
In just two-and-a-half years, beginning in 1964, two unmanned and ten manned flights took place in the Gemini program. This program was the turning point in the space race with the USSR; from then on the Americans took the lead. Flights lasting two weeks, into the Van Allen Belt, the first extravehicular activities,…
Project Mercury was America’s entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the race for supremacy in space. With immense effort, and in record time, NASA, the newly created spaceflight organization, developed a space transport system with…
From common toads and turtles to sea horses, cephalopods, and triggerfish, Tim Phelps’s mandalas cast an artistic eye on the real and imagined micro-architecture of animals. Vibrant illustrations and an engaging narrative invite the reader to wonder at nature’s seemingly endless variety of forms, from the…
The Ozarks highland region of the Midwest, located in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, contains beautiful mineral specimens for those with sharp eyes and a keen interest to discover minerals. Over 500 images represent the collectible minerals of the western Ozarks tristate district and Missouri’s Viburnum…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Förhistoriska människor Humanbiologi Matematik och naturvetenskap
Vilka är vi människor egentligen? Och hur kan vi veta säkert?
I en grotta i Filippinerna hittades år 2003 kvarlevorna från en människoliknande varelse. Homo floresiensis, som den kom att kallas, blev snabbt en världsnyhet ett arkeologiskt fynd från en tidigare okänd gren på mänsklighetens släktträd. Men var det…
When newly paired American bald eagles nested in a tulip poplar tree at the United States National Arboretum, the American Eagle Foundation partnered with the Department of Agriculture and the National Arboretum to launch the DC Eagle Cam Project. With 63 million views from 100 countries during 2016, the raptor parents…
Texas is known worldwide as a rich resource for the intricate Cretaceous-age echinoids widely sought by professional and amateur paleontologists. With much of the scientific literature on Texas Cretaceous echinoids decades old, here is an updated and detailed guide for identifying this rich fossil fauna. After a brief…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Djur och natur Ethology & animal behaviour Livsstil, hobby och fritid Matematik och naturvetenskap Zoologi
Hur låter valars kärlekssång? Hur kan en hund lära sig namnet på över tusen föremål? Hur fungerar fågelsångens grammatik? Och vad menar fladdermössen med sitt surrande i sommarnatten?
Djurens sätt att kommunicera var länge ett mysterium, men på senare år har vetenskapen tagit stora steg mot att verkligen förstå…
This is the first published guide to Herkimer diamonds, striking quartz crystals, that includes all important aspects of interest to anyone curious about this unique form of the mineral quartz. Over 210 vivid color images of important specimens, associated minerals, and field shots illustrate the informative text and…
In this tie-in to their popular ’The Skeptics Guide to the Universe’ podcast, Steven Novella, along with ’Skeptical Rogues’ Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella and Evan Bernstein explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the biggest scientific myths, fallacies and…
Seeing fluorescent minerals up close for the first time is an exciting experience. The colors are so pure and the glow is so seemingly unnatural, that it is hard to believe they are natural rocks. Hundreds of glowing minerals are shown, including Aragonite, Celestine, Feldspar, Microcline, Picropharmacolite, Quartz,…
A colorful look at 3.5 billion years of stromatolites, peculiar structures produced by primitive life forms that lived over vast spans of geologic time. At once diverse, attractive, and sometimes puzzling, fossilized stromatolites are found worldwide in sedimentary rocks—often presenting striking patterns—where they…
Fascinating color photos let you see whales in their natural habitat. Learn about their behavior, external anatomy, and physical features. Discussed in the text are the humpback, minke, finback, and the rarely seen right whales, baleen whales that eat by taking in thousands of gallons of water and schools of fish or…
Dinosaurs weren’t the only “players” on the earth during the Triassic and Jurassic geologic periods, a fact quickly proven with 415 impressive color photos of fossilized plant, animal, and avian life from that distant past! Presented along with dinosaur fossils large and small, are collectible ammonites, belemnites,…
In addition to attracting flocks of tourists every summer, Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard have a wide variety of feathered visitors and permanent residents. From a vast collection of images of birds captured by noted bird photographer Roger S. Everett, forty Cape & Island birds are gathered in…
The Atlantic coast, from Maryland north to New England, is part of a major flyway for migrating birds, and therefore an important destination for birdwatchers and other nature lovers. From the great variety of birds found along the shores and wetlands of the Atlantic coast noted bird photographer Roger S. Everett has…
Updated values and text revisions have been made to this popular and thorough guide to Candlewick crystal, one of the most popular lines of glass produced by the Imperial Glass Corporation of Bellaire, Ohio, which was introduced in 1936 and manufactured until the company’s closing in 1984. Today this pattern,…
This is much-awaited sequel to LaMotte’s ever-popular Pure Sea Glass. This elegant compilation reveals extraordinary stories of healing along with profiles of 14 sea glass collections from regions of the United States. The reader is presented with more aspects on shard identification and exposed to the role history…
This guide to celestial navigation has been popular ever since it first appeared in 1969. Revised in 1982, Celestial Navigation is a quick, easy, and thorough explanation (with realistically worked problems) of the practice of celestial navigation at sea, using simple and inexpensive equipment. Extracts from the…
Take a photographic journey through nesting season with a newly mated osprey pair. In this true raptor adventure, the ospreys prepare a nest and mate, but their eggs do not hatch. Through an unlikely twist of events, biologists swap the unviable eggs with hatchlings from an ill-fated nest. Witness the heartwarming…
Since its discovery by a teenager in 1859, thousands of specimens of lustrous black tourmaline crystals from Pierrepont, New York, have found their way into both museum and private mineral collections worldwide. Pierrepont is a classic American mineral locality and a popular site for field collecting, and the discovery…
The moon landing remains the most astonishing and impressive accomplishment of manned space travel to this day. In July 1969, just eight years after President John F. Kennedy announced the bold plan, the first astronaut set foot on another celestial body. While Project Apollo: The Early Years covered the exciting…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Matematik och naturvetenskap
The history of collecting natural history specimens touches upon many aspects of our past. The fascination with nature was at least as important for its view of humanity as for science. One telling example is the Timm Natural Collection at Engelsberg Ironworks, created by the ironworks proprietor Gabriel Casper Timm…
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents…
An introduction to complex analysis for students with some knowledge of complex numbers from high school. It contains sixteen chapters, the first eleven of which are aimed at an upper division undergraduate audience. The remaining five chapters are designed to complete the coverage of all background necessary for…
Kategorier: Matematik Matematik och naturvetenskap Pedagogik Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Undervisning i specifika ämnen
Rapporter och studier visar att elever som får traditionell matematikundervisning har ytliga kunskaper som snabbt glöms bort och att de ofta är oengagerade inför skolmatematiken. Kreativa resonemang i matematikundervisningen handlar om hur lärare kan planera och genomföra en mer elevaktiv undervisning, som leder till…
Vector calculus is the fundamental language of mathematical physics. It pro vides a way to describe physical quantities in three-dimensional space and the way in which these quantities vary. Many topics in the physical sciences can be analysed mathematically using the techniques of vector calculus.
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Från 2010 till 2015 har jag lagt fram en delvis annorlunda syn på filosofi och inte minst fysik som ämnen som fortsätter att belysa varandra trots att de nuförtiden utvecklas rätt separat. Är filosofin egentligen smygvetenskap? Är fysiken egentligen smygfilosofi?
Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you – your DNA, your skin, your memories – have come to…
Kategorier: Dataanalys Forskning och informationshantering Matematik Matematik och naturvetenskap Medicin och omvårdnad Medicin: allmänt Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Sannolikhetskalkyl och matematisk statistik
Vad är kvantitativa metoder? Hur kan de användas? Hur genomför man och planerar en undersökning? Hur kan och bör man tolka olika resultat och vilka osäkerhetsfaktorer finns det att ta hänsyn till vid resultattolkningar? Hur hjälper oss slumpen i att förstå och tolka rimligheten i olika resultat?
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Time series analysis concerns the mathematical modeling of time varying phenomena, e.g., ocean waves, water levels in lakes and rivers, demand for electrical power, radar signals, muscular reactions, ECG-signals, or option prices at the stock market. This book gives a comprehensive presentation of stochastic models and…