From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is „selfish,“ do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like virtue an ..

2012 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Dirac is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest physicists. He was one of the founders of quantum mechanics and quantum ..

The Craft of Scientific Writing is designed to help scientists and engineers–both professionals already active in the disciplines as well as students preparing to enter the professions–write about their work clearly and effectively.§The author, who ..

AUTHOR Chris McMullen earned his Ph.D. in physics from Oklahoma State University and currently teaches physics at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. He developed the Improve Your Math Fluency series of workbooks to help students beco

At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutti ..

Already acknowledged by students and teachers as an essential resource for learning and revision, this updated sixth edition is a valuable reference for veterinary practitioners and for those who own and work with horses.

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently f ..

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, „The Theory That Would Not Die“ is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay ..

Today, young cosmetics researchers who have completed their graduate studies and have entered a cosmetics company are put through several years of training before they become qualified to design cosmetics formulations themselves. They are trained so ..

Michio Kaku's „Physics of the Future: The Inventions that will Transform our Lives“ is a hypothetical journey through the next 100 years of scientific innovation, as told by the scientists who are making it happen. We all wish we could predict the fu ..

Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, delivers a bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge.

1. Introduction 2. Degrees 3. Isomorphic Group 4. Trees 5. Connectivity 6. Traversability 7. Digraphs 8. Matchings and Factorization 9. Planarity 10. Coloring Graphs 11. Ramsy Numbers 12. Distance 13. Domination Appendix 1 ..