Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present. On a damp weeknight in ...
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"Mathletics" is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade Boggs more valuable than a ...
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'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is' - John von Neumann. Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one hundred essential questions about ...
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A Wiley Survival Guide on our Energy Future Concerned about our energy future? Turn to this guide for easy-to-grasp and up-to-date coverage of the many aspects of the energy value chain: * Oil and natural gas * Coal * Fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect * Energy from water * Biomass * Solar energy * Geothermal energy * Wind energy * Nuclear ...
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Based on the bestselling book, "Rivers of North America", this new guide stands as the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of more than 180 of the highest profile rivers in Europe. With numerous full-color photographs and maps, this book includes conservation ...
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Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy and not very bright, easily driven to extinction ...
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In De bètacanon komen vijftig kernbegrippen uit de natuurwetenschappen aan de orde, variërend van het getal nul tot ecologie, van evolutie tot plastics, van Einstein tot de koolzuurcyclus, van formules tot de oerknal. In korte opstellen, die in de bijlage 'Kennis' van de Volkskrant verschenen, leiden vijftig jonge ...
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Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology. It is all of them, and it is time for a text that integrates the disciplines. This is such a text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the sciences. The consequences of smallness and quantum behaviour are well known and described Richard Feynman's ...
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The complex impact that man has on aquatic ecosystems creates a need for assessment systems that are able to adequately appraise and integrate the effects of various pressures. Chemical analysis alone can easily overlook some factors vital for life. With the adoption of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000 which defined the ...
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De Wereld Bosatlas is in een aantal jaren uitgegroeid tot het Nederlandse standaardwerk. Deze editie is volledig geactualiseerd en sterk uitgebreid; een cartografisch meesterwerk! Alle bijzonderheden op een rij: De wereld in 640 pagina's met kaarten, satellietbeelden en stadsplattegronden, nieuwe zeer gedetailleerde kaart van Nederland (26 ...
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