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…
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,…
Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince muse on multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout.
Covering billions of concepts and conundrums, they tackle everything from the Big Bang to parallel universes, fierce creatures to…
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…
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The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms.
Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince…
In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes – both human and literary – that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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,…
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.…
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,…
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…
World-renowned woodturner Dick Sing takes you through all the steps needed to create delightful and decorative miniature birdhouses. Starting with a basic birdhouse, Dick illustrates how to set up and turn the body, roof, perch, and finial. Clear, step-by-step instructions show wood preparation, proper use of equipment…
From the years of design and manufacturing through launch and deployment to the extraordinary images and the new science they inform, Infinite Cosmos showcases the revelations coming from the James Webb Space Telescope-the sharpest planetary vistas and the deepest views of the cosmos humankind has ever seen.
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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,…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Biokemisk teknik Bioteknik Genteknik Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Reportage och samlingar av journalistiska texter Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
Den nya genteknikens framväxt har gått i rasande fart. När de första genmodifierade barnen föddes i Kina 2018 blev det tydligt att mänskligheten stod inför möjligheter som vi förut bara fantiserat om. Med gensaxen crispr kan vi troligen bestämma våra barns…
This compendious, but very readable, volume by one of the legends of Tibetan Singing Bowl playing has quickly established itself as the definitive study. Particularly useful is the wide scope of the book, which includes not just Tibetan bowls and the techniques used to sound them, but, also, Chinese bells, drilbu and…
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…
One of the world’s leading astrobiologists takes us on an awe-inspiring journey across the cosmos to investigate some of humanity’s most profound questions.
This book is about the hidden, surprising, and sometimes beautiful ways in which ideas from physics are being applied to important questions facing our lives and society today; questions so complex or personal that they are normally considered beyond the realms of science.
Why are some relationships unstable, while…
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…
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…
This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters —…
The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. Each breakthrough emerged from new sets of brain modifications, and equipped animals with a new suite of…
Kategorier: Artificiell intelligens Etiska frågor och debatter Etiska frågor: vetenskaplig och teknisk utveckling Informationsteknik Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor Systemvetenskap
Hur kommer AI-utvecklingen att påverka dig, dina vänner och din familj? Hur kommer den att påverka ditt yrkesliv? Och vad innebär den för vårt demokratiska samhälle?
Den tekniska utvecklingen kring AI går i en rasande fart. Den förändrar inte bara hur vi arbetar,…