The instant Sunday Times bestseller – a beautiful story of rebellion and scienceChosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian and Prospect'Popular science has rarely been so good' ProspectIn June 1925, twenty-thr ..

1. Introduction 2. The Development of the Galaxies 3. Hertzsprung-Russell Diagrams 4. Physical Conditions in Stellar Interiors 5. Thermonuclear Reaction Rates 6. Hydrogen thermonuclear Reactions 7. Steallar Evolution 8. Helium Thermonuc ..

Olvidaos de Jurassic Park y de todo lo que creéis saber sobre los dinosaurios: no hay nada que sea cierto (¡o casi nada!). Este libro está lleno de revelaciones inesperadas, rigurosas y desternillantes, sobre los grandes reptiles del pasado. Con la g ..

The Winning Equation for Success in Chemistry is Practice, Practice, Practice This book will help you apply concepts and see how chemistry topics are interconnected. Inside are numerous lessons to help you better understand the

Explains structure of nine regular solids and many semiregular solids and demonstrates how they can be used to explain mathematics. Instructions for cardboard models. Over 300 illustrations. 1971 edition.

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris–a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedri

A bestselling introductory course that covers all areas of trigonometry, including: the theory and equations of tangent, sine and cosine, dimensions and angles, radians, ratios, compound angles and circles related to triangles.

A fascinating guide to a career in marine biology written by bestselling journalist Virginia Morell and based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the field–essential reading for someone considering a path to this profession. For the l

The Divine Proportion reveals a number of simple patterns: It is seen in the seed patterns of fruits, the family tree of bees, the pyramids of Egypt, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance paintings, the human body, shells … the list is endless.Mathema

The New York Times bestseller: ‚You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life.‘-Jon Stewart When the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an ic ..

Calculus is the mathematical method for the analysis of things that change, and since in the natural world we are surrounded by change, the development of calculus was a huge breakthrough in the history of mathematics. David Acheson charts the histor ..

Much of math history comes to us from early astrologers who needed to be able to describe and record what they saw in the night sky. Whether you were the king's court astrologer or a farmer marking the best time for planting, timekeeping and numbers ..