Resultaten gefilterd op "Joseph Henry Press"

Wormwood Forest

Mary Mycio

• Paperback | Engels
• When a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioact... Lees meer

Biotechnology

• Paperback | Engels
• Biotechnology--the manipulation of the basic building blocks of life--is rapidly advancing in laboratories around the world. It has become routine to ... Lees meer

The Man Who Stopped Time

Brian Clegg

• Hardcover | Engels
• The photographs of Eadweard Muybridge are immediately familiar to us. Less familiar is the dramatic personal story of this seminal and wonderfully ecc... Lees meer

Paying the Price

National Academy of Sciences, Joseph Henry Press

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Hazards and Disasters
• This book considers the effectiveness of insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events such as natural disasters--and how insurance ... Lees meer

Firepower in the Lab

Kumar

• Hardcover | Engels
• Today's world poses a triple threat to the American population: infectious diseases, contamination of food and water, and bioattacks (biowarfare or bi... Lees meer

We're Friends, Right?

William A Corsaro

• Paperback | Engels
• Sociologists often study exotic cultures by immersing themselves in an environment until they become accepted as insiders. In this fascinating account... Lees meer

Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion

Francisco J Ayala

• Hardcover | Engels
• With the publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin established evolution by common descent as the ... Lees meer

The Grid

Phillip F Schewe

• Paperback | Engels
• The electrical grid goes everywhere--it's the largest and most complex machine ever made. Yet the system is built in such a way that the bigger it get... Lees meer

Disasters by Design

Dennis Mileti

• Paperback | Engels | Natural Hazards and Disasters
• Disasters by Design provides an alternative and sustainable way to view, study, and manage hazards in the United States that would result in disaster-... Lees meer

Biodiversity II

A Joseph Henry Press Book

• Paperback | Engels
• "The book before you...carries the urgent warning that we are rapidly altering and destroying the environments that have fostered the diversity of lif... Lees meer

Halley's Quest

Julie Wakefield

• Hardcover | Engels
• For most people, Edmond Halley is best known for accurately predicting the periodic appearance of the comet that ultimately would bear his name. But h... Lees meer

Nobel Prize Women in Science

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

• Paperback | Engels
• Since 1901 there have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them--about 3 percent--have been women. Why? ... Lees meer

Biotechnology Unzipped

A Joseph Henry Press Book, Eric S Grace

• Paperback | Engels
• In this update to the very popular first edition of the same name, skilled science popularizer Eric Grace helps readers understand what biotechnology ... Lees meer

Unknown Quantity

John Derbyshire

• Hardcover | Engels
• Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, ... Lees meer

American Hazardscapes

• Hardcover | Engels | Natural Hazards and Disasters: Reducing Loss and Building Su
• Barrier islands. Flood plains. Earthquake faults. Sometimes the environment poses threats to our well being, yet many of us continue to choose to live... Lees meer

Swords Into Market Shares

A Joseph Henry Press Book, Glenn E Schweitzer

• Hardcover | Engels
• While researching this book, Glenn Schweitzer met four Moscow physicists who were trying to license Russian technology to western firms for product ma... Lees meer

In the Beat of a Heart

John Whitfield

• Hardcover | Engels
• For centuries, scientists have dreamt of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Science now offers powerful explanations for both the dazzling div... Lees meer

People Person

Diane O'Connell

• Paperback | Engels | Women's Adventures in Science (Joseph Henry Press)
• Marta Tienda sees life stories in numbers. She is a sociologist, a scientist who studies human society. Numbers are the tools she uses to uncover fasc... Lees meer

Fed Up!

Susan Okie

• Hardcover | Engels
• Once dismissed by the medical profession as a purely cosmetic problem, obesity now ranks second only to smoking as a wholly preventable cause of death... Lees meer

Einstein Defiant

Edmund Blair Bolles

• Paperback | Engels
• "I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also... Lees meer

Gorilla Mountain

Rene Ebersole

• Paperback | Engels | Women's Adventures in Science (Joseph Henry Press)
• Amy Vedder leads a wild life. How many people can say they were once a member of a mountain gorilla family? Amy Vedder is a wildlife biologist, a scie... Lees meer

Struck by Lightning

Jeffrey S Rosenthal

• Paperback | Engels
• From terrorist attacks to big money jackpots, Struck by Lightning deconstructs the odds and oddities of chance, examining both the relevant and irreve... Lees meer

Robo World

Jordan D Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Women's Adventures in Science (Joseph Henry Press)
• Cynthia Breazeal is a creature creator. Armed with electronic gadgets, software programs, and her endless imagination, she creates lifelike machines t... Lees meer

True Genius

Vicki Daitch, Lillian Hoddeson

• Paperback | Engels
• What is genius? Define it. Now think of scientists who embody the concept of genius. Does the name John Bardeen spring to mind? Indeed, have you ever ... Lees meer