Provided here is a detailed picture of the lives and environments of whales and seals, including chapters on anatomy, adaptation to aquatic life, nutrition, migration, reproduction, and paracites and enemies. The interaction of man with these marine animals is also explored, as is their paleontology. New information…
Over 140 color photos, diagrams, and text reveal the crystal structures, habits, names, and changing family relationships of silicate crystals. This thorough guide provides an introduction to crystallography, the current classification of silicate structures, and reviews orthosilicates, disilicates, chain silicates,…
560 color photos and engaging text take readers on a journey back to a world first of tropical climates and then plunging into an Ice Age. It covers the Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene Epochs, and includes a dazzling array of fossils, including plants, mollusks, sharks, insects, mammoths, and mastodons.…
The rich and diverse world of fluorescent minerals is explored in this sweeping survey. Breathtakingly pure colors, with their ethereal glow, immediately capture your attention. Did you know that color television is a result of the study of fluorescing minerals?
Fresh finds of fluorescent minerals are showing up…
This fascinating and beautiful guide provides detailed information and over 160 striking photos and drawings of four species of small mountain owls found in America’s Rocky Mountains, with special focus on the inhabitants of the Rocky Mountains National Park: the Flammulated Owl, Northern Pygmy-Owl, Northern…
Explore the rich fossil record of the Paleozoic Era, from the Cambrian (545 million years ago) through the Permian (almost 300 million years ago) with 650 high quality color photos and detailed, highly readable text. Following his successful work on the earliest fossils, the author now starts at that time in earths…
Gain insight to the current world of Botanical Art and see the work of 65 top artists from throughout America. Gorgeous flowers, leaves, plants, roots, and vegetables have been beautifully drawn and painted and are displayed here. See 220 colorful images that bring modern techniques and a contemporary eye to this…
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,…
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,…
Sempervivum have long fascinated gardeners and are useful plants for gardening situations in which other plants might fail. Many people are aware of only a single, rather uninteresting green cultivar, but selections from the wild and the work of hybridizers have resulted in over 7,000 cultivars with a range in size…
Without the mighty Saturn V rocket, the Apollo 11 moon landing would not have been possible in July 1969. Even today, nearly fifty years later, it remains by far the largest and most powerful rocket ever used. Equipped with computers that are easily surpassed today by any mobile phone, the Saturn V was an unprecedented…
Garnet, with its many color varieties, is a favorite of both mineral collectors and gemologists. Superb examples are found at many locales worldwide, in both igneous and metamorphic rocks. Other members of the group are prized by species collectors and micromount enthusiasts. Over 120 color photos of these beautiful…
The definitive resource for mineral collectors, this comprehensive book describes the structural relationships among orthosilicate
minerals, known for their hardness and brilliant colors, and the geological conditions that create prized specimens. It is illustrated with nearly 500 structure diagrams, color photos, and…
In this second book on Paleozoic fossils, over 840 all new specimens from this period are provided, organized by biologic (taxonomic) position. It is a real eye candy feast for fossil enthusiasts. Come and explore the fossil evidence for a world that was ancient and long gone when the dinosaurs ruled the earth.…
Kategorier: Astronomi, rymd och tid Kosmologi och universum Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
Har universum några gränser? Hade tiden en början, kan den gå bakåt och kommer den få ett slut?
I denna klassiker får komplexa frågor begripliga svar. Med stor berättarglädje djupdyker Stephen Hawking i svarta hål, antimateria, kvantmekanik och Big Bang, och tar läsaren ett steg närmare skapelsens hemligheter.
Kosmos…
’Required reading for everyone’ Adam RutherfordMedicine, education, psychology, economics – wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science’s astonishing predictive power.
Learn specific details about additional members of the herd of wild Chincoteague Ponies on Assateague Island by collecting and trading this second set in the popular series of Chincoteague Pony trading cards. As with the previous set, each card shows both sides of the pony for identification purposes. Every pony has a…
We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of ’aliens’ as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations on…
Humanity’s greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers. But how, exactly, do our brains learn?
In How We Learn, leading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene delves into the…
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Den här boken är berättelsen om en förmåga som i grunden…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens historia
Under 1920- och 30-talet arbetade rasbiologiska institutet i Uppsala, under Herman Lundborgs ledning, med att samla information som kunde ligga till grund för dess forskning. Institutets personal utförde inte denna uppgift på egen hand. Från första början samarbetade de med en mängd individer ur den svenska…
Stefan Gates asks and answers all the questions about farts, so that you don’t have to.
What is a fart?
Do all creatures fart?
Why do farts smell?
Why do we find them so embarrassing… and so darned funny?!
Broadcaster and obsessive fartologist Stefan Gates tackles these pressing issues in Fartology, the…
The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal consciousness.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations’ Dr Rangan ChatterjeeThere is nothing more essential to our health and…
From the author of How Emotions Are Made, a myth-busting primer on the brain in the tradition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.
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…
Kategorier: Institutioner och lärda sällskap Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens historia Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Tvärvetenskap Vetenskapshistoria (samhällsvetenskap och humaniora)
Hur kom den vision som dynamitkungen från Sverige nedtecknade i sitt testamente att utvecklas till ett av världens mest prestigefyllda och omdiskuterade priser?
I Andens olympiska spel är huvudpersonen inte Alfred Nobel, utan det Nobelpris som kom att bli hans arv. Men även den Nobelstiftelse, de individuella…
Fabulous foliage – artists have drawn inspiration from the form and intricate textures of foliage since the beginning of time. This beautiful book and its accompanying Mac and PC compatible CD contain over 150 photographs of summer, autumn, and evergreen foliage, as well as grasses, groundcovers, and tropical and…
Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Vetenskapspolitik och forskningsfinansiering
God forskning skapar förutsättningar för ekonomiskt välstånd, stödjer en växande högteknologisk arbetsmarknad och stimulerar det demokratiska samtalet. Forskningens centrala plats i samhället innebär att den kommer att styras på olika sätt, särskilt då medel ska fördelas. I detta häfte analyseras hur olika typer av…
Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Vetenskapspolitik och forskningsfinansiering
Vetenskapen och det omgivande samhället är samman vävda i ett invecklat ömsesidigt beroendeförhållande. Forskningen ska vara fri och utföras med nödvändig långsam noggrannhet. Samtidigt förväntas den snabbt kunna förse beslutsfattare och andra aktörer med lättillgänglig kunskap för att möta olika samhällsutmaningar. I…
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…
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…
Just as she did with North Korea, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick explores one of the most hidden corners of the world. She tells the story of a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level that is one of the most difficult places in all of China for foreigners to visit. Ngaba was one of the first…
”Stefan Buijsman är verklighetens Sheldon Cooper i ’The Big Bang Theory’, men med ofantligt mycket större social kompetens.”Svenska Dagbladet
Hur kan vi förstå vår vardag med simpel matematik? I Siffrorna visar holländska Stefan Buijsman hur trafikljus,…
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…