The Universe
A Biography
John Gribbin
The Universe: A Biography makes cosmology accessible to everyone. John Gribbin navigates
the latest frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know ....
320 pages | colour illus | Allen Lane
Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0713998571 |
#162736A |
£25.00
Water
A Cosmic History
Paul Murdin and Robin McKie
Presents a new theory of the early origin of water suggesting that life is commonplace
throughout the universe. ....
288 pages | Bloomsbury
Hbk | NYP 01/2007 | 074754820X |
#106394A |
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Water and the Search for Life on Mars
David Harland
Mars has long been believed to have been cold, dead and dry for aeons, but there is now
striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in ....
239 pages | 162 illus |
Springer
Pbk | 2005 | 038726020X | #158331A |
£16.50
Whitaker's Almanac Little Book of Astronomy
Mike Flynn
Do you ever find yourself marvelling at the mysterious dark world beyond our skies? Bursting
with captivating images, this handy reference book is all you need to explore ....
144 pages | Col illus | A & C Black
Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 071368237X |
#161075A |
£9.99
Engineering & Materials Science
The Material World
Rodney Cotterill
Using the cosmos as a backdrop, Rodney Cotterill delivers a fascinating journey of Nature's
materials, from the atom to the living organism. This is a beautifully ....
500 pages | 303 col figs | CUP
Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0521451477 |
#161638A |
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Sustainable Development for Engineers
A Handbook and Resource Guide
Karel Mulder
It is crucial that engineers - from students to those already practising - have a deep
understanding of the environmental threats facing the world, if they are to become part ....
288 pages | Greenleaf
Hbk | 2006 | 1874719195 | #161853A |
£28.95
History of Science
Atoms and Alchemy
Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution
William R Newman
Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by
many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. ....
235 pages | 8 color plates | Chicago UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0226576965 | #157508A |
£35.00
Pbk | 2006 | 0226576973 | #157507A |
£14.00
Explaining the Cosmos
The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy
Daniel W Graham
Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates.
Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham ....
368 pages | Princeton UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0691125406 | #161618A |
£29.95
The Intelligibility of Nature
How Science Makes Sense of the World
Peter Dear
In The Intelligibility of Nature, Peter Dear considers how science as such has evolved and how it
has marshaled itself to make sense of the world. His intellectual journey ....
350 pages | 6 halftones, 20 line
drawings | Chicago UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0226139484 | #157436A |
£17.50
Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine
An Encyclopedia
Edited by Thomas F Glick, Steven Livesey and Faith Wallis
Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia details the whole scope of
scientific knowledge in the medieval period in more than 275 A-to-Z entries. This ....
624 pages | Routledge
Hbk | 2006 | 0415969301 | #157289A |
£100.00
Science and Technology in World History
An Introduction
James
E McClellan and Harold Dorn
Now in its second edition, this bestselling textbook may be the single most influential study of
the historical relationship between science and technology ever published. ....
464 pages | 66 illus, 61 halftones |
Johns Hopkins UP
Hbk | 2006 | 0801883598 | #158180A |
£43.50
Pbk | 2006 | 0801883601 | #158179A |
£15.50
Mathematics
A Beautiful Math
John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
Tom Siegfried
Millions have seen the movie and thousands have read the book but few have fully appreciated
the mathematics developed by John Nash's beautiful mind. Today, Nash's ....
256 pages | Joseph Henry Press
Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 0309101921 |
#163021A |
£16.99
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Biomathematics
Modelling and Simulation
Edited by JC Misra
This book on modelling and simulation in biomathematics will be invaluable to researchers who
are interested in the emerging areas of the field. Graduate students in ....
110 pages | World Scientific
Hbk | 2006 | 9812381104 | #161254A |
£76.00
Infinite Ascent
A Short History of Mathematics
David Berlinski
From the Renaissance onwards, mathematics has had a near-mystical status. If the pragmatic
Romans, and Christian Europe, did not share the Greeks' fascination with ....
192 pages | Phoenix
Hbk | 2006 | 0297848518 | #162177A |
£14.99
Pbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0753821834 |
#162209A |
£7.99
Introduction to Applied Mathematics for Environmental
Science
DF Parkhurst
This book teaches mathematical structures and how they can be applied in environmental
science. Each chapter presents story problems with an emphasis on derivation. Linear and ....
317 pages | 67 illus | Springer
Hbk | 2006 | 0387342273 | #161274A |
£48.50
Mathematics for Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Edited by Y Takeuchi, Y Iwasa and Kazunori Sato
Dynamical systems theory in mathematical biology has attracted much attention from many
scientific directions. The purpose of this volume is to discuss the many rich and ....
190 pages | 50 illus | Springer
Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 3540344276 |
#162001A |
£69.00
Mathematics in Nature
Modeling Patterns in the Natural World
John A Adam
From rainbows, river meanders, and shadows to spider webs, honeycombs, and the markings
on animal coats, the visible world is full of patterns that can be described ....
360 pages | Col plates, tabs | Princeton
UP
Hbk | 2004 | 0691114293 | #142045A |
£26.95
Pbk | 2006 | 0691127964 | #160399A |
£15.95
Scale-Free Networks
Complex Webs in Nature and Technology
Guido Caldarelli
A variety of different social, natural and technological systems can be described by the same
mathematical framework. This holds from Internet to the Food Webs and to the ....
336 pages | 120
line drwaings and
halftones | OUP
Hbk | NYP 04/2007 | 0199211515 |
#162706A |
£49.95
Physics
Basic Theoretical Physics
A Concise Overview
Uwe Krey and Anthony Owen
This concise treatment embraces, in four parts, all the main aspects of theoretical physics (I .
Mechanics and Basic Relativity, II. Electrodynamics and Aspects of Optics, ....
380 pages | 15 illus | Springer
Hbk | NYP 12/2006 | 3540368043 |
#161992A |
£38.50
Chaos
A Very Short Introduction
Lenny Smith
Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause and effect can be
subject to chaos, denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour, and sometimes ....
144 pages | 15 b/w illus | OUP
Pbk | NYP 01/2007 | 0192853783 |
#158239A |
£6.99
Einstein, Bohr and the Quantum Dilemma
From Quantum Theory to Quantum Information
Andrew Whitaker
Quantum theory, the most successful physical theory of all time, provoked intense debate
between the twentieth century's two greatest physicists, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. ....
480 pages | - | CUP
Pbk | 2006 | 0521671027 | #160605A |
£27.99
Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics
Carlo Giunti and Chung W Kim
This book deals with neutrino physics and astrophysics - a field in which some of the most
exciting recent developments in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology took ....
436 pages | 179 line drawings | OUP
Hbk | NYP 03/2007 | 0198508719 |
#161967A |
£45.00
Lost Causes in Physics
RF Streater
"Lost Causes in Theoretical Physics" deals with a selection of research topics in theoretical
physics that have (almost) been proven to be a dead-end or continue at least ....
200 pages | Springer
Hbk | NYP 11/2006 | 3540365818 |
#162389A |
£30.50
The Problems of Physics
Anthony
Leggett
Is the universe infinite, or does it have an edge beyond which there is, quite literally, nothing?
Do we live in the only possible universe? Why does it have one time ....
192 pages | 9 line drawings | OUP
Pbk | 2006 | 0199211248 | #160544A |
£19.99
The Quantum Zoo
A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universe
Marcus Chown
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general
theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the ....
200 pages | - | Joseph Henry Press
Hbk | 2006 | 0309096227 | #159090A |
£16.95
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