Category: Science

Doing Qualitative Research (Research Methods for Primary Care (Paperback))

Price: $7.00

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc : August 1999

Seller ID: 598452

ISBN-13: 9780761914983

Binding: Trade Paperback

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HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The MIT Press : February 1998

Seller ID: 532224

ISBN-13: 9780262692113

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How science fiction's most famous computer has influenced the research and design of intelligent machines.I became operational... in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.Inspired by HAL's self-proclaimed birth date, HAL's Legacy reflects upon science fiction's most famous computer and explores the relationship between science fantasy and technological fact. The informative, nontechnical chapters written especially for this book describe many of the areas of computer science critical to the design of intelligent machines, discuss whether scientists in the 1960s were accurate about the prospect...
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In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (Basic Bioethics)

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Publisher: The MIT Press : February 2003

Seller ID: 495554

ISBN-13: 9780262134286

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Timely and provocative essays on bioethical questions brought to the forefront by the bioterrorist threat.The war on terrorism and the threat of chemical and biological weapons have brought a new urgency to already complex moral and bioethical questions. In the Wake of Terror presents thought-provoking essays on many of the troubling issues facing American society, written by experts from the fields of medicine, health care policy, law, political science, history, philosophy, and theology. One of the first potential casualties of catastrophic circumstances is civil liberties. In the past, medi...
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Multiplayer: The Social Aspects of Digital Gaming (Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education)

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Publisher: Routledge : December 2013

Seller ID: 496561

ISBN-13: 9780415828864

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In the past decade, digital games have become a widely accepted form of media entertainment, moving from the traditional 'core gamer' community into the mainstream media market. With millions of people now enjoying gaming as interactive entertainment there has been a huge increase in interest in social multiplayer gaming activities. However, despite the explosive growth in the field over the past decade, many aspects of social gaming still remain unexplored, especially from a media and communication studies perspective. Multiplayer: Social Aspects of Digital Gaming is the first edited volume o...
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Scientists Confront Creationism

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Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : March 1984

Seller ID: 453631

ISBN-13: 9780393301540

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The recent massive attack by fundamentalist Christians on the teaching of evolution in the schools has left scientists indignant and somewhat bewildered. Creationist arguments have seemed to them a compound of ignorance and malevolence, and, indeed, there has been both confusion and dishonesty in the creationist attack. First, there has been a confusion, partly deliberate, of the fact that organism have evolved with theories about the detailed mechanics of the process. The facts of evolution are clear and are not disputed by any serious scientific worker.
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The Art of Yellowstone Science - Mammoth Hot Springs as a Window on the Universe

Price: $15.00

Publisher: : January 2016

Seller ID: 655721

ISBN-13: 9780997303926

Binding: Hardcover

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018 (The Best American Series ®)

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Publisher: Mariner Books : October 2018

Seller ID: 501444

ISBN-13: 9781328987808

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science," New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. "Things aren't perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things than ever before." The twenty-six pieces assembled here chart the full spectrum of those discoveries. From the outer reaches of space, to the mysteries of the human mind, to the changing culture in labs and universities across the nation, we see time and again the sometimes rocky,...
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Too Big: Rebuild by Design's Transformative Response to Climate Change

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Publisher: nai010 publishers : March 2018

Seller ID: 742526

ISBN: 9462083150

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books : January 1971

Seller ID: 522601

ISBN-13: 9780345326492

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW
Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again.
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Serpents of Paradise

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : October 2013

Seller ID: 255647

ISBN-13: 9780805031331

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words.

The selections gathered here are arranged chronologically by incident, not by date of publication, to offer Edward Abbey's life from the time he was the boy called Ned in Home, Pennsylvania, until his death in Tucson at age 62. A short note introduces each of the four parts of the book and attempts to identify what's happening in the author's life at the time. When relevant, some details of publishing history are provided.

Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: Failure of Health Care in Urban America

By: Abraham, Laurie Kaye

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Publisher: : January 2015

Seller ID: 813404

ISBN-13: 9780226001395

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead is an unsettling, profound look at the human face of health care. Both disturbing and illuminating, it immerses readers in the lives of four generations of a poor, African-American family beset with the devastating illnesses that are all too common in America's inner-cities. The story takes place in North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop. Although surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, North Lawndale is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country. Headed by Jackie Banes, who over...
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This is Improbable Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research

By: Abrahams, Marc

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oneworld Publications : August 2014

Seller ID: 437033

ISBN-13: 9781780743615

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The mind behind the infamous Ig Nobel Prizes presents an addictive collection of improbable research all about us - and you Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and outs of the very improbable evolutionary innovation that is the human body (brain included): - What's the best way to get a monkey to floss regularly? - How much dandruff do Pakistani soldiers have? - If you add an extra henchman to your bank-robbing gang, how much more money will you 'earn'? - How many dimples will be found on the cheeks of 28,282 Gree...
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Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

By: Abram, David

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 534814

ISBN-13: 9780679776390

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception. For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people with other animals, plants, and natura...
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A Natural History of the Senses

By: Ackerman, Diane

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Publisher: Vintage : September 1991

Seller ID: 629178

ISBN-13: 9780679735663

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.

"Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in." --The New York Times
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A Natural History of the Senses

By: Ackerman, Diane

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Publisher: Vintage : September 1991

Seller ID: 648434

ISBN-13: 9780679735663

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.

"Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in." --The New York Times
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A Natural History of the Senses

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Vintage : September 1991

Seller ID: 770308

ISBN-13: 9780679735663

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.

"Delightful . . . gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in." --The New York Times
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Moon by Whale Light : And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

By: Ackerman, Diane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : November 2009

Seller ID: 469786

ISBN-13: 9780679742265

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Ackerman, Jennifer

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin Press : May 2020

Seller ID: 716361

ISBN-13: 9780735223011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. "There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries -- What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communic...
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Entanglement

By: Aczel, Amir

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Plume : September 2003

Seller ID: 501434

ISBN-13: 9780452284579

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them? Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now.

Entanglement tells the astounding story of the scientists who set out to complete Einstein's work. With accesible language and a highly entertaining tone, Amir Aczel shows us a world where the improbable--from unbreakable codes to teleportation--becomes possible.
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Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science

By: Aczel, Amir

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Seller ID: 390628

ISBN-13: 9780743464796

Binding: Trade Paperback

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He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet L on Foucault always knew that a mysterious force of nature was among us. Like Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and others before him, Foucault sensed a dramatic relationship between the rotating skies above and the seemingly motionless ground beneath our feet. But it wasn't until 1851 -- in Paris, inside the Panth on, and in the company of fellow amateur scientist Napoleon III -- that Foucault swung a pendulum and demonstrated an extraordinary truth about the world: that it turns on its axis. Pendulum is a fascinating journey through ...
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