Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2469 resultados

Paul Strathern

En este libro elegante, erudito y, aún así, entretenido, Paul Strathern desenmaraña la dramática historia de la química a través de la búsqueda de los elementos. Para enmarcar esta historia recurre a la vida del científico ruso Dimitri Mendeléiev. Éste se quedó dormido sentado a su mesa y despertó habiendo concebido la Tabla Periódica de los elementos en sueños, la idea matriz ...

Douglas Mulhall

Nicholas Wade

Drawing on startling new evidence from the human genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has bee...

Joshua Greene

The Boston Globe"Surprising and remarkable... Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars."Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the wo...

Dava Sobel

Katherine Tasheff Carlton

Ken Coupland

Deborah Halber

Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room... "The Skeleton Crew" provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement--and one another--at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and...

Petranek, Stephen

Seth Darling / Doug Sisterson / Douglas L Sisterson

The essential climate-debate handbook everything you need to know about climate science to change mindsHave you ever heard someone say that climate change is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that there can t be global warming because it still gets so cold out? While the claims climate-change deniers make can seem, on their surface, quite plausible, they simply don t hold...

A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" Across the country, fracking--the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing--is being touted as the nation's answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politici...

William Klug

Known for its focus on conceptual understanding, problem solving, and practical explanations, this best-seller strengthens problem solving coverage and explores the essential genetics content today's students need to know. This edition maintains the book's briefer, less-detailed approach to teaching core concepts. New features of the Eighth Edition include four new Special Topi...

William Klug

This valuable manual provides a detailed, step-by-step solution or extended discussion for every problem in the text in a chapter-by-chapter format. The handbook also contains extra study problems and a thorough review of the concepts and vocabulary. ...

Paul Bogard

The "terrific ... moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking" book "(Publishers Weekly) "that will open your eyes to the night. A brilliantly starry night is one of nature's most thrilling wonders. Yet in our world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer experience true darkness. Eight out of ten Americans born today won't ever live where they can s...

Austin, John

Author and toy designer John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions with diagrams to show stealth warriors how to build 37 different ninja weapons for the modern era. Each of the projects in "MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 4" are built from common household and office items--plastic utensils, markers, clothespins, paper clips, wire hangers, and discarded packaging...

Davis, Andrew S, Phd

This handbook covers basic neurodevelopmental research that any paediatric neuropsychologist will need to know. The authors discuss practical issues in paediatric assessment, and provide a comprehensive overview of the most common medical conditions that neuropsychologists encounter while dealing with paediatric populations. ...

Lezak, Muriel Deutsch / Howieson, Diane B / Bigler, Erin D

The long-awaited new edition of this time-honored classic has arrived. Now in its Fifth Edition, the text includes fully updated testing references and a neuroimaging primer. ...

De La Maza, Luis M

A unique visual reference for the diagnostic microbiology laboratory. Conceived by a team of authors with decades of classroom and laboratory experience.Includes more than 730 brilliant, four-color images of common pathogenic bacteria and descriptions of the methods used to identify them.Valuable illustrative supplement for lectures and laboratory presentations, this easy-to-us...

Vasil, Michael L

Hotez, Peter J

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are the most common infections of the world s poor, but few people know about these diseases and why they are so important. This second edition of "Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases" provides an overview of the NTDs and how they devastate the poor, essentially trapping them in a vicious cycle of extreme poverty by preventing them from w...

Macrina, Francis L

This text on scientific integrity covers topics including: ethics and the scientist; mentoring; authorship and peer review; use of humans and animals in biomedical experimentation; managing conflict of interest; and collaborative research. ...

Hacker, Jorg

Comprehensive examination of the current understanding of pathogen adaptation and microevolution. Introduces the rapidly evolving field of genome plasticity, presents the latest research findings, and explores the relevance of these findings to infection and infection control. Compiles and analyzes current investigations on the genome fluidity of pathogenic microbes. Explores b...

Gilligan, Peter H

"Cases in Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases" challenges students to develop a working knowledge of the variety of microorganisms that cause infections in humans. This valuable, interactive text will help them better understand the clinical importance of the basic science concepts presented in medical microbiology or infectious disease courses.The cases are presented ...

Salyers, Abigail A

Discover the strategies bacterial pathogens use to survive and multiply. Focuses on core principles based on the growing understanding of the underlying similarities among pathogens and their mechanisms of action, and is a recommended text for one-semester microbiology courses. Presents the latest research to help students explore the mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens cau...

Anderson, Rodney P

Presenting case studies covering a broad variety of subject areas, including general, environmental & industrial microbiology this text integrates current outbreaks that have featured in news headlines. ...

Versalovic, James

The Manual of Clinical Microbiology is the most authoritative reference in the field. ...

Atlas, Ronald M

Handbook of Microbiological Media, Fourth Edition is an invaluable reference for every medical, veterinary, diagnostic, and academic laboratory, and now in its fourth edition, it is even more complete. This edition carries on the tradition of CRC Press handbook excellence, listing the formulations, methods of preparation, and uses for more than 7000 microbiological media. With ...

Garcia, Lynne S

A collaborative effort of 150+ clinical microbiologists, medical laboratory technologists, and laboratory supervisors. Provides step-by-step protocols and descriptions to enable clinical microbiologists and laboratory staff personnel to perform all analyses, including appropriate quality control recommendations, from the receipt of the specimen through processing, testing, inte...

Estill, Lyle

Biodiesel in North America is in its infancy. As air quality deteriorates in major centres, governments are scrambling for ways to reduce emissions and are embracing biodiesel in their fleets. Conferences on biodiesel are often 'inaugural', as society begins discussing this fuel in earnest. Lightly touching on the technical aspects of the fuel, its qualities and specifications,...

Gipe, Paul

Paul Gipe presents an overview of the use of wind energy around the world providing information on planning, purchasing, siting, and installing a wind system and the integration of wind power with solar photovoltaics. ...