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Book SynopsisAn insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writersTrade Review"For Phillips, the lives she wants to depict are not accounts of maternal self-sacrifice and denial, but instead, narratives that portray the mother as a hero." -- Frieda Klotz - Sunday Independent"The Baby on the Fire Escape looks at the extreme ways some female artists have overcome the restraints of parenthood… The book’s strength lies in Phillips’s nimble talents as a portraitist." -- Lucy Scholes - The Sunday Telegraph"Does motherhood prevent women from having an active creative life, or enhance it? Do babies need to be out of mind as well as out of sight for creative work to be done? […] Julie Phillips has written a spirited and thoughtful account of a handful of figures from mid-20th-century Britain and America who have grappled with these dilemmas." -- Lara Feigel - RA Magazine"The opening section on Alice Neel is a searing account of the complexities of balancing (or not) being a mother and an artist—and the often heavy price women pay… [The Baby on the Fire Escape] explores the difficult issues around the subject with no judgment and or neat conclusions—and is all the richer for it." -- José da Silva - The Art Newspaper"A brilliant, vital text" -- Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, author of The Year of the Cat

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Book SynopsisCelebrate the rise of superwomen and discover the science behind the abilities of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Black Widow, Catwoman, and more! Superhero fiction has been with us for almost a century; high-octane tales crammed with concepts and contrasting themes, from superpowers and the post-human, to masked vigilantes and immortality. In that time, superwomen have evolved from comic book caricatures (created by men, for men) to stronger representations of female power.The Science of Superwomen looks at this evolution, from its hypersexualised origins to today’s more nuanced diversity. Focusing on characters from Star Wars and X-Men, as well as the likes of Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Captain Marvel, Harley Quinn, Wednesday Addams, Doctor Who, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Science of Superwomen explores the relationship between superhero film and fiction and the underlying science of our ever-evolving

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Book SynopsisDoes the rotation of the Earth really make your day? Do you like to hear chemistry puns, periodically? Do you distrust atoms because they make up everything? Then this illustrated collection of hundreds of witty science jokes, puns, and silly fact-based zingers will brighten many cycles around the sun.Science is great because it helps us understand the world around us through systematic and methodical experimentation, observation, and the testing of theories and weighing of evidence. Pretty Good Science Jokes proves incontrovertibly that it's also hilarious. What kind of dog do chemists prefer? Laboratory retrievers. Did you hear about the restaurant on the moon? The food was out of this world, but there was no atmosphere. What do plants eat between meals? Light snacks. Why do biologists look forward to casual Fridays? They can wear their genes to work. Gathering the best, most irresistibly corny, and slyly funny jokes from the fields of chemistry, biology, technology, physics, geology, astronomy, math, zoology, and more, this giftable hardcover collection sneaks scientific fact and insights into the basis of each humorous quip, making it a rewarding celebration for science lovers and a welcome invitation for the scientifically curious.FOR STEM STUDENTS AND EDUCATORS:A fun and accessible way to introduce and reinforce scientific concepts through humor. CORNY HUMOR, CLASSY PACKAGE: Okay, maybe chemistry jokes are like CObalt RadoN and Yttrium: CoRnY. But this nicely designed hardcover book is both humor-packed and highly giftable. HUNDREDS OF JOKES! DOZENS OF ILLUSTRATIONS!: This delightful collection of 200+ jokes and puns is enhanced by funny color illustrations throughout by noted humor illustrator Johnny Sampson.Perfect for: Fans of dad jokes, puns, knock-knocks, riddles, and one-liners Kids, teens, and adults interested in science Educators, teachers, professors, librarians, and students looking for a fun and accessible way to explore scientific ideas and STEM curriculum Anyone working in a scientific field

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart I: AN INTRODUCTION TO INQUIRY. 1. Human Inquiry and Science. 2. Paradigms, Theory, and Social Research. 3. The Ethics and Politics of Social Research. Part II: THE STRUCTURING OF INQUIRY: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE. 4. Research Design. 5. Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Measurement. 6. Indexes, Scales, and Typologies. 7. The Logic of Sampling. Part III: MODES OF OPERATION: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE. 8. Experiments. 9. Survey Research. 10. Qualitative Field Research. 11. Unobtrusive Research. 12. Evaluation Research. Part IV: ANALYSIS OF DATA: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE. 13. Qualitative Data Analysis. 14. Quantitative Data Analysis. 15. The Logic of Multivariate Analysis. 16. Statistical Analyses. 17. Reading and Writing Social Research. APPENDICES. A. Using the Library. B. GSS Household Enumeration Questionnaire. C. Random Numbers. D. Distribution of Chi Square. E. Normal Curve Areas. F. Estimated Sampling Error. Preface. Acknowledgments.

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Book SynopsisReiji wants two things in life: a black belt in karate and Misa, the girl of his dreams. Luckily, Misa's big brother is the captain of the university karate club and is ready to strike a deal: Reiji can join the club if he tutors Misa in linear algebra. Follow along in The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra as Reiji takes Misa from the absolute basics of this tricky subject through mind-bending operations like performing linear transformations, calculating determinants, and finding eigenvectors and eigenvalues. With memorable examples like miniature golf games and karate tournaments, Reiji transforms abstract concepts into something concrete, understandable, and even fun. As you follow Misa through her linear algebra crash course, you'll learn about: Basic vector and matrix operations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication Linear dependence, independence, and bases Using Gaussian elimination to calculate inverse matrices Subspaces, dimension, and linear span Practical appliTrade Review"I'm glad to have found this . . . it puts in two of my favorite things, which is math and manga."—Math Thrive Tutoring, YouTube"[The Manga style] makes the material easy to leaf through and learn in a quick, enjoyable fashion."—Dr. Dobb's"The images are incredibly helpful in visualizing the examples and concepts."—Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading"The Manga Guides are highly recommended to parents who wish to offer an alternative to the often staid presentations of this material."—Greg Barbrick, Blog Critics"I believe this book is something quite a few students will find useful in their study arsenal and a perfect complement to study notes and other available resources."—Sam Worboys, The Otaku's Study"Whether you're a student needing some help or a parent trying to help their child, the Manga Guide books are a great asset. Not everyone learns the same way, and these books are a wonderful, alternative learning tool."—Sheena McNeil, Sequential Tart"I think you could hand this to any good student in algebra or beyond and they would be able to figure a lot of this stuff out on their own."—Tom DeRosa, Teach Forever"This is an impressive series that consistently makes very difficult academic topics more interesting and a little easier for students."—Matthew Helmke"I just wish they'd had this book when I was in school!"—Cute Everything"I would wholeheartedly recommend [The Manga Guide to Linear Algebra] to students just learning the subject as well as to anyone needing to brush up."—Gail Carmichael, The Female Perspective of Computer Science BlogTable of ContentsPrologue: Let the Training Begin! Chapter 1: What Is Linear Algebra? Chapter 2: The Fundamentals Chapter 3: Intro to Matrices Chapter 4: More Matrices Chapter 5: Intro to Vectors Chapter 6: More Vectors Chapter 7: Linear Transformations Chapter 8: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisA lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1966, THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE has held its own as a clear and authoritative introduction to the world of biochemistry. This fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest developments in DNA and protein synthesis, cell regulation, and their social and medical implications.

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond''s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations.Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond''s Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future.What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island?What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids?Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat?Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond''s Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be sur

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Book SynopsisA vibrant exploration of the world's newest languagewhere it came from, how it works and where it's going

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Book SynopsisTimely, relevant and extremely student-friendly, Andersen/Hill Collins' RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER: INTERSECTIONS AND INEQUALITIES, 10th edition, equips you with a multidimensional perspective on today's social issues. Written by two leading authorities in the field, this classic anthology uses a diverse collection of writings by a variety of scholars to demonstrate how the complex intersection of people's race, class, gender and sexuality shapes their experiences in U.S. society. Professors Andersen and Hill Collins begin each section with in-depth introductions to provide an analytical framework for understanding social inequality. Completely up-to-date, the readings cover current--and often controversial topics--including undocumented students, myths about immigrant crime, growing inequality, the role of social media in social movement mobilization, health care inequality and more.Table of ContentsPREFACE. ABOUT THE EDITORS. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS. PART I: WHY RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER STILL MATTER. Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins. 1. Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference" by Audre Lorde. 2. "From a Native Daughter" by Haunani Kay-Trask. 3. "Label Us Angry" by Jeremiah Torres. 4 "It Looks Like a Demon": Black Masculinity and Spirituality in the Age of Ferguson by Jamie D. Hawley and Staycie L. Flint. PART II: SYSTEMS OF POWER AND INEQUALITY. Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins. A. RACE. 5. "The Persistence of White nationalism in America" by Joe Feagin. 6. "Racial Formation" by Michael Omi and Howard Winant. 7. "Color-Blind Privilege: The Social and Political Functions of Erasing the Color Line in Post Race America" by Charles A. Gallagher. 8. "White Privilege" by Peggy McIntosh. B. ETHNICITY. 9. "What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar about Identity" by Abby Ferber. 10. "Must-See TV: South Asian Characterizations in American Popular Media" by Bhoomi K. Thakore. 11. "We are all Americans: the Latin Americanization of race relations in the United States" by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Karen S. Glover. 12. "Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?" by Mary C. Waters. C. CLASS, CAPITALISM, AND INEQUALITY. 13. "Is Capitalism Gendered and Racialized?" by Joan Acke. 14. "Race as Class" by Herbert J. Gans. 15. "Media Magic: Making Class Invisible" by Gregory Mantsios. 16. "Toxic Inequality" by Thomas M. Shapiro. D. GENDER. 17. "Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: ���Doing Gender��� across Cultural Worlds" by Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson. 18. "From Transgender to Trans" by Joelle Ruby Ryan. 19. "More than Men: Latino Feminist Masculinities and Intersectionality" by Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha. 20. "Keep Your "N" in Check: African American Women and the Interactive Effects of Etiquette and Emotional Labor" by Marlese Durr and Adia M. Harvey Wingfield. E. SEXUALITY. 21. "Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality" by Patricia Hill Collins. 22. "The Invention of Heterosexuality" by Jonathan Ned Katz. 23. "Good Girls": Gender, Social Class, and Slut Discourse on Campus" by Elizabeth A, Armstrong, Laura T. Hamilton, Elizabeth M. Armstrong, and J. Lotus Seele. 24. "Queering the Sexual and Racial Politics of Urban Revitalization" by Donovan Lessard. PART III: SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL ISSUES. Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins A. JOBS, WORK, and THE LABOR MARKET. 25. "Jobless Ghettos: The Social Implications of the Disappearance of Work in Segregated Neighborhoods" by William J. Wilson. 26. "Working Class Growing Pains" by Jennifer M. Silva. 27. "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?: A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" by Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan. 28. "Gender Matters: So Do Race and Class: Experiences of Gendered Racism on the Wal-Mart Shop Floor" by Sandra E. Weissinger. B. FAMILIES AND RELATIONSHIPS. 29. "Our Mothers' Grief: Racial-Ethnic Women and the Maintenance of Families" by Bonnie Thornton Dill. 30. "LGBT Sexuality and Families at the Start of the Twenty-First Century" by Mignon R. Moore and Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfhe. 31. "The Good Daughter Dilemma: Latinas Managing Family and School Demands" by Roberta Espinoza. 32. "Loving across Racial Divides" by Amy Steinbugler. C. EDUCATION AND HEALTH. 33. "From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools" by Gloria Ladson-Billings. 34. "Academic Resilience among Undocumented Latino Students" by William Perez, Roberta Espinoza, Karina Ramos, Heidi M. Coronado, and Richard Cortes. 35. "Michael���s Story: "I Get Into So Much Trouble Just by Walking:" Narrative Knowing and Life at the Intersections of Learning Disability, Race and Class" by David J. Connor. 36. "Health Inequities, Social Determinants, and Intersectionality" by Nancy L��pez and Vivian L. Gadsden. D. CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONAL IDENTITY. 37. "The First Americans: American Indians" by C. Matthew Snipp. 38. "Is This a White Country, or What?"" by Lillian B. Rubin. 39. "Are Asian Americans Becoming "White"?" by Min Zhou. 40. "Feeling Like a Citizen, Living as a Denizen: Deportees Sense of Belonging" by Tonya Golash-Boza. E. VIOLENCE AND CRIMINALIZATION 41. "Policed, Punished, Dehumanized: The Reality for Young Men of Color Living in America" by Victor M. Rios. 42. "The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation" by Rub��n G. Rumbaut and Walter Ewing. 43. "Refugees, Race, and Gender: The Multiple Discrimination against Refugee Women" by Eileen Pittaway and Linda Bartolomei. 44. "The Intersectional Paradigm and Alternative Visions to Stopping Domestic Violence: What Poor Women, Women of Color, and Immigrant Women Are Teaching Us about Violence in the Family" by Natalie J. Sokoloff. PART IV: INTERSECTIONALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE. Introduction by Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins. A. MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE. 45. "Race, Gender, and Virtual Inequality: Exploring the Liberatory Potential of Black Cyberfeminist Theory" by Kishonna L. Gray. 46. "Talking Back to Controlling Images: Latinos��� Changing Responses to Racism over the Life Course" by Jessica Vasquez-Tokos and Kathyrn Norton-Smith. 47. ""This is for the Brown Kids!" Racialization and the Formation of "Muslim" Punk Rock" by Amy D. McDowell. 48. "Frozen in Time: The Impact of Native American Media Representations" by Peter A. Leavitt, Rebecca Covarrubius, Yvonne A. Perez, and Stephanie A. Fryberg. B. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVISM. 49. "Immigrant Rights are Civil Rights" by Hana Brown and Jennifer A. Jones. 50. "Intersectional Mobilization, Social Movement Spillover, and Queer Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement" by Veronica Terr��quez. 51. "Movement Intersectionality: The Case of Race, Gender, Disability, and Genetic Technologies" by Dorothy Roberts and Sujatha Jesudason. 52. "Growing Food and Justice: Dismantling Racism through Sustainable Food Systems" by Alfonso Morales. 53. "(Re)Imagining Intersectional Democracy from Black Feminism to Hashtag Activism" by Sarah J. Jackson."

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Book SynopsisJoin Kanna, Kanta, Yamane, and Gloria in The Manga Guide to the Universe as they explore our solar system, the Milky Way, and faraway galaxies in search of the universe s greatest mysteries: dark matter, cosmic expansion, and the Big Bang itself. As you rocket across the night sky, you ll become acquainted with modern astronomy and astrophysics, as well as the classical discoveries and theories on which they re built. You ll even learn why some scientists believe finding extraterrestrial life is inevitable! You ll also learn about: Discoveries made by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Hubble, and other seminal astronomers Theories of the universe s origins, evolution, and geometry The ways you can measure and observe heavenly bodies with different telescopes, and how astronomers calculate distances in space Stellar classifications and how the temperature, size, and magnitude of a star are related Cosmic background radiation, what the WMAP satellite discovered, and scientists predictiTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue: A Tale that Begins on the MoonChapter 1: Is Earth the Center of the Universe?Chapter 2: From the Solar System to the Milky WayChapter 3: The Universe Was Born with a Big BangChapter 4: What Is It Like at the Edge of the Universe?Chapter 5: Our Ever-Expanding UniverseIndex

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Book SynopsisEverything s gone screwy at Tagai Academy. When the headmaster forces Minagi s entire class to study Einstein s theory of relativity over summer school, Minagi volunteers to go in their place. There s just one problem: He s never even heard of relativity before! Luckily, Minagi has the plucky Miss Uraga to teach him. Follow along with The Manga Guide to Relativity as Minagi learns about the non-intuitive laws that shape our universe. Before you know it, you ll master difficult concepts like inertial frames of reference, unified spacetime, and the equivalence principle. You ll see how relativity affects modern astronomy and discover why GPS systems and other everyday technologies depend on Einstein s extraordinary discovery. The Manga Guide to Relativity also teaches you how to: Understand and use E = mc2, the world s most famous equation Calculate the effects of time dilation using the Pythagorean theorem Understand classic thought experiments like the Twin Paradox, and see why lenTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue: Outrageous Closing CeremonyChapter 1: What Is Relativity?Chapter 2: What Do You Mean, Time Slows Down?Chapter 3: The Faster an Object Moves, the Shorter and Heavier It Becomes?Chapter 4: What Is General Relativity?EpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book will take you on a journey through our physical universe, based on current, established science. The journey starts with the simplest fundamental particles, such as quarks and electrons, and ends with the most complex of all material objects our human brains.Our universe has evolved through forming communities of things, with simpler things coming together in new groupings to make more complex things. So, every thing in the universe is a community of things, and at every level a community is greater than the sum of its separate parts.If we view the universe in terms of communities, it takes the form of a hierarchy of eight levels of communities, from protons and neutrons to human societies. And at every level in this universal hierarchy, the communities are bound together by ceaseless interactive exchanges.So, our universe reveals itself as a dynamic hierarchy, sustained by endless exchanges between members of the communities at every level. Each of us is the universe in microcosm, for we each embody all eight levels of the universal hierarchy.It is through things coming together and forming communities that the universe, with us now in it, has come to be what it is.Andrew McNeil has a PhD in metallurgy. He first worked in university research and then, for twenty years, he taught secondary school science.

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Book SynopsisHumans, animals and disease. They're all inter-related, so why do we keep ignoring the elephant in the room?It's well known that Covid-19 may have come from a bat, but diseases are often transmitted in the other direction too. Humans have passed diseases to animals countless times through history, and it's the cross-currents of this relationship between humans, animals and disease that are explored by Liz Kalaugher in The Elephant in the Room. Taking the reader on a globe-trotting journey through time, Kalaugher presents a series of fascinating case histories of human-related wildlife diseases. Among the stories featured here are the early humans who may have carried pathogens responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals, the native birds of Hawaii that have been devasted by human-introduced disease, and the Tasmanian tiger that has been lost to the sands of time. Examining these tales and drawing on first-hand accounts from experts around the world, The Elephant in the Room is both a tragic history and an inspirational call to arms. It doesn't have to be this way. By learning from the past, it's possible to create a better, healthier environment for ourselves, our wildlife and our planet.

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Book SynopsisA mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious minds from the bestselling author of Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps?Own the room with this hilarious collection of fact-tastic myth-busters and jaw-dropping trivia exploring science, history, sport and lesser-known facts from across the universe.Did you know that the Moon has a Bishop?That ostriches DON'T bury their heads in the sand?And that powdered rice was used as cement in the Great Wall of China?What do souls weigh?What can't 60% of the human population smell?And what on earth is rhinotillexomania?And the big one...are farts actually invisible?The answers to these questions are all here.Challenge your brain, turn your world upside down and relish the irresistible mix of wit and wisdom.It's also a perfect gift for the brainiac in your life.

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Book SynopsisScientific progress depends on good research, and good research needs good statistics. But statistical analysis is tricky to get right, even for the best and brightest of us. You'd be surprised how many scientists are doing it wrong. Statistics Done Wrong is a pithy, essential guide to statistical blunders in modern science that will show you how to keep your research blunder-free. You'll examine embarrassing errors and omissions in recent research, learn about the misconceptions and scientific politics that allow these mistakes to happen, and begin your quest to reform the way you and your peers do statistics. You'll find advice on: Asking the right question, designing the right experiment, choosing the right statistical analysis, and sticking to the plan How to think about p values, significance, insignificance, confidence intervals, and regression Choosing the right sample size and avoiding false positives Reporting your analysis and publishing your data and source code ProcedTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: An Introduction to Statistical SignificanceChapter 2: Statistical Power and Underpowered StatisticsChapter 3: Pseudoreplication: Choose Your Data WiselyChapter 4: The p Value and the Base Rate FallacyChapter 5: Bad Judges of SignificanceChapter 6: Double-Dipping in the DataChapter 7: Continuity ErrorsChapter 8: Model AbuseChapter 9: Researcher Freedom:Good Vibrations?Chapter 10: Everybody Makes MistakesChapter 11: Hiding the DataChapter 12: What Can Be Done?NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisFinally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner's immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master.

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Book SynopsisWhether you are a student struggling to fulfil a maths or science course or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of maths competency, A MIND FOR NUMBERS offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor, Barbara Oakley, knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with maths. She flunked her way through secondary school maths and science courses, before enlisting in the army immediately after graduation. When she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy severely limited her options - both to rise in the military and to explore other careers - she returned to school with a newfound determination to re-tool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble throughout her entire life.In A MIND FOR NUMBERS, Dr. Oakley lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning maths and science - secrets that even dedicated and successful students wish they''d known earlier. Co

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Book SynopsisDaniel C. Dennett''s Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined by scientific laws? Here, Daniel Dennett provides an impassioned defense of free will. But rather than freedom being an eternal, unchanging condition of our existence, in reality, he reveals, it has evolved: just like life on the planet and the air we breathe. Evolution is the key to resolving this greatest of philosophical questions - and to understanding our place in the world as uniquely free agents. Dennett shows that far from there being an incompatibility between contemporary science and the traditional vision of freedom and morality, it is only recently that science has advanced to the point where we can see how we came to have our unique kind of freedom. ''A serious book with a

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Book SynopsisUnderstand the real-life science behind crime scene investigation Forensics For Dummiestakes you inside the world of crime scene investigation to give you the low down on this exciting field. Written by a doctor and former Law & Order consultant, this guide will have you solving crimes along with your favorite TV shows in no time. From fingerprints and fibers to blood and ballistics, you''ll walk through the processes that yield significant information from the smallest clues. You''ll learn how Hollywood gets it wrong, and how real-world forensics experts work every day in fields as diverse as biology, psychology, anthropology, medicine, information technology, and more. If you''re interested in a forensics career, you''ll find out how to break in?and the education you''ll need to do the type of forensics work that interests you the most. Written for the true forensics fan, this book doesn''t shy away from the details; you''ll learn what goes on at the morgue asTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Cracking Open the Case 5 Chapter 1: Understanding the World of Forensic Science 7 Defining Forensics: The Science of Catching Criminals 8 Integrating science into the practice of law 8 Drawing from other sciences 9 Getting the Big Picture: Forensic Science in Action 9 Starting out small: Basic forensic services 10 Looking at physical forensic science 11 Delving into biological forensic science 11 Investigating the Crime Lab 12 Creating the first crime lab 12 Identifying common procedures 13 Peeking Inside the Criminalist’s Toolbox 15 The Cornerstone of Forensic Science: Locard’s Exchange Principle 15 Looking at Locard’s principle in action 16 Reading the trace evidence 17 Determining who did what where 17 Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Forensics Team 19 Gathering the Evidence: The Criminalist at Work 20 From Analyzing Blood to Identifying Bugs: Forensic Science Specialists 22 Forensic Investigation’s Head Honcho: The Medical Examiner 24 Looking at two forensic systems 24 Checking out the duties of a coroner or medical examiner 25 Following the medical examiner in action 26 Dealing with the Dead: The Coroner’s Technician 27 Testifying as an Expert 28 Understanding the court system 28 Getting to the heart of the “truth” 30 Understanding the role of expert testimony 30 Chapter 3: Collecting and Protecting the Evidence 33 Assessing the Scene of the Crime 33 Distinguishing between primary and secondary crime scenes 34 Arriving at a crime scene 34 Preserving and processing the scene 35 Documenting the procedure 36 Reconstructing the crime scene 37 Recognizing a staged crime scene 39 Classifying the Evidence 39 Determining whether evidence is direct or circumstantial 40 Discerning physical from biological evidence 40 Understanding reconstructive evidence 41 Identifying associative evidence 41 Differentiating class and individual evidence 41 Analyzing the evidence 43 Locating the Evidence 43 Obtaining a search warrant 44 Searching without a warrant 45 Collecting and Preserving the Evidence 46 Searching the area 46 Gathering the evidence 47 Packaging the evidence 48 Collecting control samples 48 Protecting the chain of custody 49 Locating a Missing Corpse 50 Chapter 4: Delving into the Criminal Mind 53 Defining the Role of the Forensic Psychiatric Professional 53 Differentiating forensic from clinical psychiatry 54 How the mind matters in forensics 55 Assessing the Brain 55 Getting started with a medical history and physical exam 56 Digging into the psyche 57 Asking the right questions 58 Employing dubious techniques 58 Dealing with Deception 59 Recognizing lying perps 59 Debunking the eyewitness 60 Dealing with false confessions 61 Assessing Competence and Sanity 62 Determining a defendant’s competence 63 Defining insanity, loosely 63 Tracking Serial Offenders 64 Classifying the multiple murderer 65 Making the monsters 65 Profiling the Perpetrator 68 Assessing the perpetrator’s psyche 70 Taking trophies and souvenirs 72 Distinguishing MO from signature 72 Profiling the victim: Victimology 74 Drawing boundaries: The killer’s domain 75 Linking Criminals and Crime Scenes 76 Part 2: Analyzing the Evidence 77 Chapter 5: Fingerprints: Your Personal Signature 79 Getting a Grip on Fingerprints 79 Measuring bodies: A precursor to fingerprinting 80 Using ridge patterns 83 Making Matching Easier: Classifying Prints 84 Grouping by arches, loops, and whorls 84 Developing the Henry System 86 Speeding up identification: AFIS 86 Locating Those Sneaky Prints 88 Seeking latent prints 89 Powdering the print 89 Using chemistry to expose prints 90 Cleaning up the print: Digital techniques 91 Chapter 6: Painting A Gruesome Picture: Bloodstain Analysis 93 Understanding Blood’s Character 94 Thicker than water 94 Looking into blood clotting 95 Oozing, gushing, and dripping 95 Analyzing Bloodstain Patterns 96 Finding clues in passive bloodstains 96 Analyzing projected blood spatters 98 Classifying projected spatters 100 Latching on to transfer patterns 103 Reconstructing the crime scene from bloodstains 105 Putting It All Together: A Hypothetical Case 106 Chapter 7: Leaving Impressive Impressions: Shoes, Tires, and Tools 109 Stepping Out: Shoeprints as Evidence 110 Characterizing and using shoeprints 111 Matching sole to soul — so to speak 111 Collecting shoe impressions 113 Making the match 115 Tracking Down Tires 116 Analyzing tire-track evidence 117 Obtaining tire impressions 119 Prying Clues from Tool Marks 120 Characterizing and using tool marks 120 Capturing tool impressions 121 Finding Facts in Fabrics 123 Chapter 8: Burning Down the House: Is It Arson? 125 Striking the Match: Looking into Fire-Starters 126 Determining Where and How the Fire Started 127 Using other people’s eyes and ears 128 Locating the point of origin 128 Figuring out how it happened 129 Igniting the blaze 130 Heating Things Up: Accelerants 131 Collecting samples at the scene 131 Taking it to the lab 132 Digging deeper into iffy samples 133 Drawing conclusions from testing 135 Investigating Homicidal Fires 135 Location, location, location 135 Poisoned by air 136 Evaluating Explosive Situations 137 Defining explosives 137 Investigating a bombing scene 138 Part 3: Examining the Body 139 Chapter 9: Determining the Cause and Manner of Death: Forensic Autopsies 141 Defining Death and Declaring It as Such 141 Searching for a definitive method 142 Determining the causes and mechanisms of death 143 Uncovering the four manners of death 144 Shadowing the Forensic Pathologist 145 Discovering what makes an autopsy forensic 146 Deciding who gets autopsied 146 Performing an Autopsy 148 Identifying the body 148 Conducting an external examination 148 Dissecting the body 152 Sniffing out clues in chemicals: Toxicology 155 Filing the Official Autopsy Report 155 Chapter 10: Identifying Unknown Victims 157 Identifying the Body 158 Sifting through the artifacts 159 Examining scars, birthmarks, and tattoos 160 Finding evidence of wounds or disease 160 Fingerprinting the dead 162 Checking out the choppers 162 Using DNA To Make the ID 164 Dem Bones, Dem Bones: Working with Skeletons 164 Determining whether bones are human 165 Determining age 165 Estimating stature 166 Determining sex 167 Determining race 168 Seeking individual characteristics 169 Estimating time since death 170 Handling burned bones 171 Determining cause and manner of death 171 Reconstructing Faces 173 Comparing Photographs 174 Chapter 11: Estimating the Time of Death 177 Defining Time of Death 178 Examining the Body to Estimate Time of Death 178 Measuring body temperature 178 Stiffening up: Rigor mortis 179 Getting the blues: Lividity 181 Determining the rate of decay 182 Dealing with other possibilities 186 Breaking the surface: When sinkers become floaters 186 Gazing into the eyes 187 Gathering Other Clues 187 Discovering what was on the menu 187 Getting buggy 188 Checking other scene markers 189 Chapter 12: Ouch! That Hurts: Traumatic Injuries and Deaths 191 Unleashing the Power of Guns and Gun Evidence 192 Tracking those tricky bullets 192 Studying entry and exit wounds 192 Analyzing shotgun patterns 194 Slicing, Dicing, and Stabbing 195 Taking the Hit: Blunt-Force Trauma 197 Scraping and abrading 197 Bruising and battering 198 Breaking bones 200 Getting toothy: Bite marks 202 Moaning and groaning: My aching head 204 A Shocking Situation: Electrocution 207 Wreaking havoc: Electricity’s path through your body 207 Assessing the damage 208 The R Word: Dealing with Rape 209 Conducting a rape exam 210 Dealing with fatal assaults 212 Chapter 13: Gasping for Air: Asphyxia 213 Understanding Asphyxia 213 Gasping for Oxygen: Suffocation 214 Suffocating environments 214 Smothering 215 Choking sensations 215 Applying pressure: Mechanical asphyxia 216 Suffocating gases 216 Grasping Strangulation 217 Finding common threads in strangulations 218 Hands on: Manual strangulation 218 Applying a ligature 220 Hangings 221 Inhaling Deadly Air: Toxic Gases 223 That sneaky carbon monoxide 223 Deadly cyanide 224 Getting down with sewer gas 226 Drowning: Water, Water Everywhere 226 Finding the manner of death 226 Diving deeper to identify drownings 227 Part 4: Utilizing the Crime Lab 229 Chapter 14: Analyzing Blood and Other Bodily Fluids: Serology 231 Blood: Life’s Most Precious Fluid 231 Understanding blood 232 Blood typing: The ABO system 232 Identifying a Bloodstain’s Source 233 Answering the first question: Is it blood? 234 Knowing when blood’s really human 235 Narrowing the focus: Whose blood is it? 237 Testing for Paternity 239 Inheriting your blood type 239 Determining fatherhood 240 Looking at Other Bodily Fluids 241 Checking for semen 241 Checking for saliva 243 Detecting vaginal fluid 244 Chapter 15: Looking Deep Inside: DNA Analysis 245 Opening an Instruction Manual for Your Cells 245 Understanding the nuts and bolts of DNA 246 Mine, mine, all mine: Uniqueness and DNA 247 Fingering Criminals Using DNA Fingerprints 248 Tracking down and preserving DNA 249 Looking into the genome 249 Repeating yourself: How duplication identifies you 251 Understanding the DNA Fingerprinting Process 252 Getting even smaller with SNPs 253 Making the match 254 Shedding cells: Touch DNA 256 Keeping it in the family: Familial DNA 256 Using DNA to Determine Lineage 256 Who’s yer daddy? Paternity testing 257 Who’s yer granny and granddaddy? Mitochondrial and Y-STR DNA 258 Indexing DNA: The CODIS system 261 Chapter 16: Testing for Drugs and Poisons: The Toxicology Lab 263 Understanding Poisons 263 Defining Toxicology 264 Seeking Toxins 265 Collecting samples 266 Determining the cause and manner of death 268 Examining the Testing Procedures 269 Presuming the results 270 Confirming the results 271 Interpreting the results 272 Looking at Common Drugs 274 Understanding alcohol 275 Getting down with depressants 277 Hopping up: Stimulants 278 Taking a trip with hallucinogens 279 Dirty deeds: Date rape drugs 281 Sniffing and huffing 282 Bulking up 282 Checking Out Familiar Poisons 283 Chapter 17: Picking Apart Trace Evidence 287 Defining Trace Evidence 287 Understanding Analytical Instruments 288 Peering through the microscope 289 Testing the chemical makeup of trace materials 290 Splitting Hairs: Linking Crime to Coiffure 291 Dissecting hair’s anatomy 291 Matching criminal to curly lock 292 Fiddling with Fibers 296 Classifying fibers 296 Collecting fibers 297 Comparing fibers 297 Breaking down the fiber 298 Cracking the Mysteries of Glass 298 Looking into how glass becomes evidence 299 Analyzing and matching glass 299 Breaking glass 300 Puttering with Paints 302 Dissecting paint 303 Solving the puzzle 304 Getting Down and Dirty: Soils and Plants 304 Identifying soils 304 Looking at plants and seeds 305 Chapter 18: Bang! Bang!: Analyzing Firearms Evidence 307 Figuring Out Firearms 308 Extracting Info from Ammo 309 Handling bullets 310 Breaking down bullets 310 Determining caliber and gauge 311 Shuffling through shell casings 312 Getting Groovy: Comparing Rifling Patterns 312 Understanding rifling 313 Reading the ridges 314 Searching for answers in databases 315 The Proof’s in the Powder: Gunshot Residues 316 Tracing gasses and particles 316 Testing for GSR 317 Determining distance 318 Chapter 19: Questioning the Validity of Documents 321 Analyzing Handwriting 322 Obtaining standards 323 Comparing handwriting 324 Fingering forgers 326 Exposing Alterations 327 Wiping away writing 327 Eradicating the original 327 Adding words 328 Looking for Indentions 329 Examining Papers and Inks 329 Distinguishing papers 330 Identifying inks 330 Dissecting Typewriters and Photocopiers 332 Hunting and pecking for clues 332 Finding distinctive traits in copies 333 Part 5: The Part of Tens 335 Chapter 20: Ten Famous Forensic Cases 337 Using a Homemade Ladder: The Lindbergh Kidnapping 337 Sacco and Vanzetti and Sacco’s Gun 339 Ted Bundy’s Bite Marks 340 Stella Nickell’s Trail of Fingerprints 341 Finding Fibers on Jeffrey MacDonald 342 Georgi Markov and the Lethal Umbrella 344 The Hendricks Family’s Last Meal 345 Picturing John List 346 Being Anastasia Romanov 347 Faking Hitler’s Diaries 348 Chapter 21: Ten Ways Hollywood Gets It Wrong 351 The Quick Death 351 The Pretty Death 352 The Bleeding Corpse 352 The Exact Time of Death 353 The One-Punch Knockout 353 The Disappearing Black Eye 354 The Fast-Acting Poison 354 The Untraceable Poison 355 The Instant Athlete 355 The High-Tech Lab 356 Chapter 22: Ten Great Forensic Careers 357 Criminalist 358 Crime Scene Investigator 359 Forensic Investigator 359 Forensic Pathologist 360 Forensic Pathology Technician 360 Forensic Anthropologist 361 Forensic Toxicologist 361 Fingerprint Examiner 362 Forensic Document Examiner 362 Forensic DNA Analyst 363 Index 365

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Book SynopsisA leading scientist and an award-winning cartoonist team up to provide a complete, up-to-date course in college-level chemistry, covering the history of the scientific field, as well as such topics as physical and organic chemistry, biochemistry, environmental chemistry, physics as chemistry, electrochemistry, and more.

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Book SynopsisFrom dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, this book takes readers on a global journey deep into the earth’s past. Locked in Time showcases fifty of the most astonishing fossils ever found, brought together in five chapters that offer an unprecedented glimpse at the behavior of prehistoric animals.Trade ReviewA rousing romp through the fossil record. Dean R. Lomax's storytelling and Bob Nicholls's artwork reanimate the lifestyles and behaviors of long-extinct species. Revel along as old bones, teeth, and footprints tell the tale of dinosaur mating dances, fighting mammoths, and pterodactyl nurseries. -- Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh paleontologist and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the DinosaursVividly told with stunning illustrations, Locked in Time is an essential book for any fossil fan. 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Book SynopsisLiving on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.Trade Review"Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet exposes us to the active remnants of gigantic past human errors—the ghosts—that affect the daily lives of millions of people and their co-occurring other-than-human life forms. Challenging us to look at life in new and excitingly different ways, each part of this two-sided volume is informative, fascinating, and a source of stimulation to new thoughts and activisms. I have no doubt I will return to it many times."—Michael G. Hadfield, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa"Facing the perfect storm strangely named the Anthropocene, this book calls its readers to acknowledge and give praise to the many entangled arts of living which made this planet liveable and which are now unravelling. Grandiose guilt will not do, we need to learn noticing what we were blind to, a humble but difficult art. The unique welding of scholarship and affect achieved by the texts here assembled tells us that learning this art also means allowing oneself to be touched and induced to think and imagine by what touches us."—Isabelle Stengers, author of Cosmopolitics I and Cosmopolitics II"What an inventive, fascinating book about landscapes in the anthropocene! Between these book covers, rightside-up, upside-down, a concatenation of social science and natural science, artwork and natural science, ghosts of departed species and traces of our own human shrines to memory... Not a horror-filled glimpse at destruction but also not a hymn to romantic wilderness. Here, guided by a remarkable and remarkably diverse set of guides, we enter into our planetary environments as they stand, sometimes battered, sometimes resilient, always riveting in their human—and non-human—richness. Arts of Living On a Damaged Planet is truly a book for our time."—Peter Galison, Harvard University"Calling a book ‘mandatory reading’ usually feels hyperbolic, but it's justified in the case of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. A stunning collection of essays from scientists, writers and artists on humankind's impact on the planet, and how we all can survive it."—Shelf Awareness"This vibrant, moving, and philosophical two-sided essay collection reminds us of all the ways that human beings and the natural world are interconnected. Deborah Bird Rose’s piece on the “shimmer of life” alone makes the book worth reading."—Chicago Review of Books"There’s a poetry in facts. And as this book reveals, there is an increasing amount of courage and acceptance to be found in understanding even the most destructive changes in plant and wildlife that the overheated Anthropocene will bring us."—Santa Fe New Mexican"Well worth reading: a frank, luminous set of dispatches from future worlds and fractured pasts."—Full Stop"Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet is a strikingly aesthetic object, carefully curated at the level of form as well as content. It makes a convincing case for the relevance of ‘hard science’ to art and politics."—Glasgow Review of Books"The Anthropocene is characterised by extreme and irreversible changes to the environment, resulting in an exponential scarcity of living beings and threats to most life systems on earth. In response to this precarity, the editors and contributors to Arts suggest that we must collectively observe and study the world around us to attune our co-existence more authentically to these ecologies, through increased knowledge about both the impacts of past actions and our embeddedness in multispecies webs."—Environmental Values"By focusing on entanglement and haunting in this double-sided book, the contributors in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet demand a reconceptualisation of what it means to be active participants in the Anthropocene. They also want us to recognise that our standing is not at all separate from nature, time, or matter."—Gothic Nature Journal"The editors of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet set out to illustrate through storytelling the ambivalent entanglements of ghosts and monsters in the Anthropocene as a practical means toward broadening our knowledge-creation of the challenges of a world in the making. If the scientific community takes to heart their offering (and the offerings of those who came before them), the scientific paradigm-shift (that started with feminist science studies, the civil rights movement, and environmentalism) from objectivity to subjectivity might just take hold as a dominant epistemology."—Hypatia Reviews"Arts of Living is a provocative dispatch from the edges of humanity’s new condition."—Sedimenta Table of ContentsContentsGhosts on a Damaged PlanetIntroduction: Haunted Landscapes of the AnthropoceneElaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Heather Anne Swanson1. A Garden or a Grave?: The Canyonic Landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego RegionLesley SternIn the Midst of Damage2. Marie Curie's Fingerprint: Nuclear Spelunking in the Chernobyl ZoneKate Brown3. Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being TrashedDeborah Bird RoseFootprints of the Dead4. Future Megafaunas: A Historical Perspective on the Scope for a Wilder AnthropoceneJens-Christian Svenning5. Ladders, Trees, Complexity, and Other Metaphors in Evolutionary ThinkingAndreas Hejnol6. No Small Matter: Mushroom Clouds, Ecologies of Nothingness, and Strange Topologies of SpacetimematteringKaren Barad7. Haunted Geologies: Spirits, Stones, and the Necropolitics of the AnthropoceneNils BubandtWhat Remains8. Ghostly Forms and Forest HistoriesAndrew S. Mathews9. Establishing New Worlds: The Lichens of PetershamAnne PringleCoda: Concept and ChronotopeMary Louise PrattContributorsIndexContentsMonsters and the Arts of LivingAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bodies Tumbled into BodiesHeather Anne Swanson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan1. Deep in AdmirationUrsula K. Le Guin Inhabiting Multispecies Bodies2. Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the TroubleDonna Haraway 3. Noticing Microbial Worlds: The Post Modern Synthesis in BiologyMargaret McFall-NgaiBeyond Individuals4. Holobiont by Birth: Multilineage Individuals as the Concretion of Cooperative ProcessesScott F. Gilbert5. Wolf, or Homo Homini LupusCarla Freccero6. Unruly Appetites: Salmon Domestication “All the Way Down”Marianne Elisabeth Lien7. Without Planning: The Evolution of Collective Behavior in Ant ColoniesDeborah M. GordonAt the Edge of Extinction8. Synchronies at Risk: The Intertwined Lives of Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knot BirdsPeter Funch9. Remembering in Our Amnesia, Seeing in Our BlindnessIngrid M. ParkerCoda. Beautiful Monsters: Terra in the Cyanocene Dorion SaganContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisCovers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every masters- or PhD-level physicist should be exposed to, but often isn't: statistical physics, optics (waves of all sorts), elastodynamics, fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and special and general relativity and cosmology.Trade Review"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Textbook / Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers""Kip S. Thorne, Co-Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics""Roger D. Blandford, Co-Winner of the 2016 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy and Winner of the 2020 Shaw Prize in Astronomy""It is a matter for celebration when two illustrious theoreticians such as Kip Thorne and Roger Blandford provide an in-depth description of the fundamentals of classical physics. . . . The sheer amount of material covered and the effort that has gone into condensing it into a single, beautifully produced volume is extraordinarily impressive."---Malcolm Longair, Nature"A tour through macroscopic physics that features modern treatments of classical topics and insightful treatments of modern ones. . . . Modern Classical Physics is a magnificent achievement."---Edward Witten, Physics Today"An excellent tool for students and researchers as an introduction to classical subjects usually missing from most modern physics curricula. . . . A valuable reference for physicists about modern approaches of the development and applications of classical physics."---Miguel A. F. Sanjuán, Contemporary Physics

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Book SynopsisGenius demystified, the Dummies way! In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized modern physics with his theory of relativity. He went on to become a twentieth--century icon--a man whose name and face are synonymous with "genius. " Now, at last, ordinary readers can explore Einstein's life and work in this new For Dummies guide.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: A Genius Awakens 5 Chapter 1: Who Was Einstein? 7 Chapter 2: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man 17 Chapter 3: 1905: Einstein’s Miracle Year 37 Part II: On the Shoulders of Giants: What Einstein Learned in School 47 Chapter 4: A Clockwork Universe 49 Chapter 5: The Arrow of Time 69 Chapter 6: Einstein’s Most Fascinating Subject 81 Chapter 7: And There Was Light 97 Part III: The Special Theory of Relativity 111 Chapter 8: Relativity Before Einstein 113 Chapter 9: Riding on a Beam of Light 123 Chapter 10: Clocks, Trains, and Automobiles: Exploring Space and Time 135 Chapter 11: The Equation 147 Part IV: The General Theory of Relativity 161 Chapter 12: Einstein’s Second Theory of Relativity 163 Chapter 13: “Black Holes Ain’t So Black” 187 Chapter 14: Was Einstein Right about Relativity? 211 Part V: The Quantum and the Universe 229 Chapter 15: Atoms Before Einstein 231 Chapter 16: Quantum Leap: God Plays Dice 247 Chapter 17: Einstein and the Bomb 269 Chapter 18: Einstein’s Greatest Blunder 289 Chapter 19: Not a Blunder After All 303 Part VI: The Part of Tens 319 Chapter 20: Ten Insights into Einstein’s Beliefs on Religion and Philosophy 321 Chapter 21: Ten Women Who Influenced Einstein 329 Appendix A: Glossary 339 Appendix B: Einstein Timeline 343 Index 349

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDynamic explanations break down difficult topics, and DK's classic visual approach makes these subjects accessible to all inquisitive young minds. * City Kids *

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Book SynopsisNoriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the Asagake Times. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye. In The Manga Guide to Calculus, you'll follow along with Noriko as she learns that calculus is more than just a class designed to weed out would-be science majors. You'll see that calculus is a useful way to understand the patterns in physics, economics, and the world around us, with help from real-world examples like probability, supply and demand curves, the economics of pollution, and the density of Shochu (a Japanese liquor). Mr. Seki teaches Noriko how to: Use differentiation to understand a function's rate of change Apply the fundamental theorem of calculus, and grasp the relationship between a function's derivative and its integral Integrate and differentiateTrade Review"The Manga Guide to Calculus would make an excellent supplement for anyone seeking a firmer intuitive grasp of the subject. It is entertaining, and it does an excellent job of exploring the meaning and relevance of calculus to the physical world."—Mathematical Association of AmericaTable of ContentsPrologue: What is a Function?Chapter 1: Let's Differentiate a Function!Chapter 2: Let's Learn Differentiation Techniques!Chapter 3: Let's Integrate a Function!Chapter 4: Let's Learn Integration Techniques!Chapter 5: Let's Learn About Taylor Expansions!Chapter 6: Let's Learn About Partial Differentiation!Index

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Book SynopsisKumi loves to eat, but she's worried that her passion for junk food is affecting her health. Determined to unlock the secrets of dieting, she enlists the help of her brainy friend Nemoto and his beautiful biochemistry professor, Dr. Kurosaka. And so it begins... Follow along in The Manga Guide to Biochemistry as Kumi explores the mysteries of her body's inner workings. With the help of RoboCat, the professor's friendly endoscopic robot, you'll soar through the incredible chemical machinery that keeps us alive and get an up-close look at biopolymers like DNA and proteins, the metabolic processes that turn our food into energy, and the enzymes that fuel our bodies' chemical reactions. As you dive into the depths of plant and animal cells, you'll learn about: The metabolism of substances like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and alcohol How the energy powerhouses known as mitochondria produce ATP DNA transcription and the different types of RNA that work together to translate the geneTrade Review"Another manga guide that helps make the complex subject matter, in this case biochemistry, accessible and easy to learn thanks to its easy to digest format."—Active Anime"This might just be one of the most exciting products I have seen yet."—The Otaku's StudyThe Manga Guide to Biochemistry "will go a long way towards de-mystifying the subject and give you a lot of good tools to reason through."—Michael Larsen, TESTHEAD"An excellent introduction to biochemistry."—TCM Reviews"A great way to learn about how your body processes food and not be bored by a textbook."—Things To Do In LA"I appreciate this series' willingness to eschew traditional learning sequences in favour of intuition, learning in context, and developing ideas organically from previous knowledge. Another enjoyable entry to the series."—Sleeping Hedgehog, A Journal of An Untraditional Nature"Do you love manga? Do you love science? You’ll love this book!"—Jaime Herndon, BookRiotTable of ContentsPrologueChapter 1: What Happens Inside Your Body?Chapter 2: Photosynthesis and RespirationChapter 3: Biochemistry in Our Everyday LivesChapter 4: Enzymes are the Key to Chemical ReactionsChapter 5: Molecular Biology and the Biochemistry of Nucleic AcidsEpilogue

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Book SynopsisExam Board: AQALevel: GCSE 9-1Subject: Combined Science: Trilogy HigherSuitable for the 2024 examsTargeted practice questions covering the GCSE grade 9-1 curriculumThis Collins AQA Combined Science Trilogy GCSE 9-1 Higher Workbook contains topic-based questions as well as a full practice paper and answers, with lots of realistic practice opportunities.With a workbook and practice exam paper in one book, it contains plenty of practice opportunities to ensure the best results.For even more practice QR codes link directly from the topics in the workbook to online worked solution videos.Includes: grading guidance on the page to indicate different levels selection of questions covering each topic topic-by-topic practice complete exam-style paper online video solutions for every topic

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Book SynopsisFrom the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology,with a twist. The book''s lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, excluding physics , energy , galaxy , or even universe . Through the eyes of a fictional scientist (Student-People) hunting for dark matter with one of the biggest telescopes (Big-Seers) on Earth (Home-World), cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores the most important ideas about our universe (All-there-is) in language simple enough for anyone to understand.A unique blend of literary experimentation and science popularization, this delightful book is a perfect gift for any aspiring astronomer. The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the universe on a human scale, and the result is out of this world.Trade Review"A delightful little gem for adults and children alike that leads you on a unique journey with its hypnotic, disarming prose. There are many books that attempt to creatively explain the universe in simple terms; this is one of the few that succeeds." --Bruce Bassett, Head of Cosmology at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, and author of Introducing Relativity "The Edge of the Sky ranges from exoplanets, through dark matter and dark energy and even supersymmetry... without any technical words. Speaking as someone who works on the "Big Ring" in the "city in a land full of safe places to put your money in": this is big fun, and amazing that so much can be said in so few words." --Jonathan Butterworth, Professor of Physics, University College London "The Edge of the Sky is a highly original book, which explains the foundations and the latest discoveries and ideas in astronomy: from planets and life elsewhere in the universe to dark energy and the multiverse. Roberto Trotta, a leading cosmologist from Imperial College London, has managed to achieve this by only using fewer than the 1,000 most common words of the English language. This is an inspiring book for everyone." --Ofer Lahav, Perren Professor of Astronomy, University College London "Cosmology and astrophysics are confusing at the best of times. But, against all the quantum odds, Dr. Roberto Trotta has managed to explain the topics using just 1,000 unique words. Readers of The Edge Of The Sky will be treated to a delightful, poetic journey into our world, other worlds and beyond without ever feeling like their vocabulary is holding them back. And yet that is not this book's greatest achievement. More impressive than the linguistic poetry and more profound that the hard science herein is the overwhelming sense of awe and wonder this book gifts the reader. This book will appeal to any adult who as eight year child looked up to the stars and wondered about the universe. Best of all, the eight year olds of today don't have to wait until they are adults to discover it for themselves." --Stephen Follows, Writer and Film Producer "Cosmology and astrophysics are confusing at the best of times. But, against all the quantum odds, Dr. Roberto Trotta has managed to explain the topics using just 1,000 unique words. Readers of The Edge Of The Sky will be treated to a delightful, poetic journey into our world, other worlds and beyond without ever feeling like their vocabulary is holding them back. And yet that is not this book's greatest achievement. More impressive than the linguistic poetry and more profound that the hard science herein is the overwhelming sense of awe and wonder this book gifts the reader. This book will appeal to any adult who as eight year child looked up to the stars and wondered about the universe. Best of all, the eight year olds of today don't have to wait until they are adults to discover it for themselves." --Stephen Follows, Writer and Film Producer "Jargon is a perpetual problem in communicating frontier science to a general audience: everyday specialists are so immersed in their specialized argot that we cease to be aware of the barrier it creates. I therefore applaud this attempt to describe the current state of cosmology in the most stripped-down language possible. The result is transparent, and also full of marvelously vivid turns of phrase, such as "Mr. Einstein's Dark Push." Definitely an original and distinctive addition to the literature in this area." --John Peacock FRS, Professor of Cosmology, University of Edinburgh "A tale as beautiful as the great spiritual stories - with the difference that this one is built on a solid foundation of fact." --David J Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College London, and author of The Improbability Principle "A delightful little gem for adults and children alike that leads you on a unique journey with its hypnotic, disarming prose. There are many books that attempt to creatively explain the universe in simple terms; this is one of the few that succeeds." --Bruce Bassett, Head of Cosmology at the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, and author of Introducing Relativity "Never before did we know so much about our universe, the All-There-Is. But are we getting any closer to understanding essential components of its true nature, dark matter and dark energy, which dominate by far over the visible, familiar matter? With rare candor and true learning, Roberto Trotta takes us on an intimate adventure in search of possible answers, as he charts the story of our universe from a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang to the present - while conveying at the same time the very human, at once exhilarating and humbling experience of this search. All this by using merely seven hundred and seven out of the thousand most common words of the English language, charmingly arranged to shake off the familiar, leaving us to marvel at our Home-World and at the mysteries that lie beyond its edge." --Laura Baudis, Professor of Physics, University of Zurich "Roberto Trotta's clever metaphors illuminate dark matter and dark energy. This book is a delightful, poetic, and informative read about all there is in the Universe." --Edward Frenkel, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Love and Math "The Edge of the Sky is an enthralling read that turns on its head the conventional (and in my view thoroughly misguided) wisdom that complicated scientific ideas can only be described using complicated language. Roberto Trotta takes the reader on a fascinating and entertaining journey through the very latest discoveries in astrophysics and cosmology, using only the 1000 most common English words, but never compromising on the clarity and detail of his scientific descriptions. The Edge of the Sky captures with child-like wonder the mysteries of the cosmos in language accessible to everyone, making it eminently suitable for children of all ages!" --Martin Hendry, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Glasgow "A wonder-full not-afraid story-telling try-it-and-see, about big-sky-study of today with only the ten-hundred most used words. Very not-usual, most good. Fun, too. Buy now!" --Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, and author of Visions of Infinity "A simplified but by no means simplistic introduction to modern cosmology and physics -- the flagship sciences of the 'All-There-Is.'... An entertaining exercise...for those student-people who like to ponder the All-There-Is while testing the always-inadequate limits of language." --Kirkus Reviews "Trotta's deft word choices quickly draw the reader into a surprisingly vivid alternate reality where student-persons (scientists) strive to pierce the mysteries of the All-There-Is: the universe... [T]he spare writing is elegant, even poetic. Literary experiments tend either to work or to flail with awkwardness; in Trotta's hands, this beautifully written book, with its limited vocabulary, soars." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "[A] surprisingly clear, and often poetic, primer on such complicated topics as the big bang, dark energy and the possibility of multiverses." --Scientific American "[A] poetic primer on the universe... The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is is one part children's book for grownups, one part imaginative exercise in economical yet lyrical language, and wholly wonderful." --Brain Pickings "Our Universe is described by only six numbers. In this entertaining and enjoyable book, Trotta recounts our knowledge of the cosmos with only the most 700-odd used words in the English dictionary. His extremely original approach conveys all the information with the most minimalistic use of language. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about the latest discoveries about our Universe within the framework of an "avant-garde" and experimental writing style." --Raul Jimenez, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Barcelona "How many different chords must you know before you can appreciate a symphony? How many different brush strokes must you master before you can appreciate a painting? How many different words do you need to use to appreciate the wonders of the universe? Roberto Trotta claims just 1,000, and bravely put pen to paper to try and prove it in this enjoyable short volume." --Lawrence M. Krauss, Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, and the author A Universe from Nothing and The Physics of Star Trek. "Our Universe is described by only six numbers. In this entertaining and enjoyable book, Trotta recounts our knowledge of the cosmos with only the most 700-odd used words in the English dictionary. His extremely original approach conveys all the information with the most minimalistic use of language. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about the latest discoveries about our Universe within the framework of an "avant-garde" and experimental writing style." --Raul Jimenez, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Barcelona "How many different chords must you know before you can appreciate a symphony? How many different brush strokes must you master before you can appreciate a painting? How many different words do you need to use to appreciate the wonders of the universe? Roberto Trotta claims just 1,000, and bravely put pen to paper to try and prove it in this enjoyable short volume." --Lawrence M. Krauss, Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University, and the author A Universe from Nothing and The Physics of Star Trek "The extraordinary story of the Universe and our journey to understand it is not an easy one to tell to the general public. But because it is the story that binds us all together, it is important to tell it in myriad ways to reach as many people as possible. The Edge of the Sky is an inventive, enjoyable and thought-provoking contribution to that effort." --Nature "The Edge of the Sky... is probably the strangest and most poetic popular science book I've ever read. [Trotta] limits himself to using the 1,000 most common words in English... the effect is to produce a strangely hypnotic, poetic quality that reminded me of Longfellow attempting a science prose poem." --Brian Clegg, Huffington Post blog "A remarkable feat."--Vocabulary.com "If you are puzzled by the reports from the telescopes (Far-Seers) moving through space finding new things, then this book will satisfy the scientist (Student-Person) in you."--Roanoke Times "This charmingly accessible book is ideal for someone just dipping a toe into astrophysics and cosmology for the first time, with an interesting gimmick that lends his prose the flavor of folklore or myth."--Jennifer Ouellette, Scientif American's Cocktail Party Physics blog

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