Explore the rich fossil record of the Paleozoic Era, from the Cambrian (545 million years ago) through the Permian (almost 300 million years ago) w...

Modern science is so much specialised that it seems utopic to try to follow it all at once. This new book is aimed at crossing the gap between spec...

Research in science education has recognised the importance of presenting physical science within a history and philosophy of science (HPS) perspec...

A reprint of the Routledge edition of 1935.

This book is about the already present supremacy of technology in the contemporary world. As we speak, the mind is being substituted by thinking ma...

Most books in cryptography deal with theory, generally introducing mathematically expressed algorithms without taking into account new research or ...

Applying mathematics to biology has a long history, but only recently has there been an explosion of interest in the field. Some reasons for this i...

During WWII there was an attempt to achieve invisibility called the Philadelphia Experiment. Afterward occurred the now famous time travel experime...

The central problem in QSPR (Quantitative Structure-Property Relationship) I QSAR (Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship) is to convert chem...

Science, like the universe, is expanding and accelerating. This book outlines the many gifts that science has bestowed upon our quality of life ran...

This publication presents findings on students' perceptions of their teaching experience in New Zealand science classrooms. It highlights some impo...

The role of universities in constructing regional advantage is high on the political as well as on the research agenda.

Scientific and technical knowledge and guidance influences not just policy related to science and technology, but also many of today's public polic...

In Gobekli Tepe' near Urfa, an ancient city in south-eastern Turkey, stand 11,000 year old concentric rings of old massive T shaped pillars. The ca...

In Gobekli Tepe' near Urfa, an ancient city in south-eastern Turkey, stand 11,000 year old concentric rings of old massive T shaped pillars. The ca...

What can one life teach about the unfolding of opportunities into developing careers? From a 20th century social scientist at the forefront of scie...

The first chapter of this book is a fact sheet, providing data on past, current and proposed NASA appropriations. The second chapter provides an ov...

A scientist is always led by intellectual curiosity; obviously he has collected information about the subjects of the field of interest in a system...

In many real-world applications, the problems with the data used for scheduling such as processing times, set-up times, release dates or due dates ...

Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the gl...

Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major's earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle w...

In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment...

Systems-thinking, a holistic approach that puts the study of wholes before that of parts, is an effective means of dealing with real-world situatio...

Research and development in scientific computing and computational science has considerably increased the power of numerical simulation. Engineers ...

The Catholic Church today is accustomed to o en being ridiculed and criticised. Well known scientists such as Richard Dawkins treat religion in gen...

The Catholic Church today is accustomed to o en being ridiculed and criticised. Well known scientists such as Richard Dawkins treat religion in gen...

The importance of the Arctic in many fields of human activity strongly increased over the past decades. The academic scientific research demonstrat...