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Scientific American The Amateur Astronomer

Scientific American The Amateur Astronomer

Scientific American

Predict the orbit of a satellite? Record sunspots? Finally, here is the book you've been waiting for! From the longest-running column in Scientific American's history comes this collection of fascinating projects for the amateur astronomer.
Scientific American Science Desk Reference

Scientific American Science Desk Reference

Scientific American

Now Scientific American presents this one-volume, easy-to-use reference to the exciting and ever-changing world of science and technology.
Scientific American: How Things Work Today

Scientific American: How Things Work Today

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A collection of articles and essays explain the inner workings of such technological wonders as subways, electron microscopes, Velcro, spy satellites, and the artificial heart. Scientific American kno
Scientific American Explores the Hidden Mind: A Collector's ...

Scientific American Explores the Hidden Mind: A Collector's ...

Scientific American

Free when packaged with any Worth text. This special collector's edition features articles that reveal the mysterious inner workings of mind and brain.
Scientific Freedom

Scientific Freedom

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Scientific Freedom is the first comprehensive collection covering both the state of scientific progress and the ethics, law and history of scientific research.
Dictionary of scientific biography

Dictionary of scientific biography

American Council of Learned Societies

Also available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library under the title Complete dictionary of scientific biography.
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Rebecca Hirsch

Scientific American. Scientific American/Nature America, 2010. Web. 4 Oct. 2012. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Lori Zimmer. “MIT Scientists Create Artificial Solar Leaf That Can Power Homes.” Inhabit. Inhabit.com, 28 Mar. 2011. Web. 4 Oct. 2012. 6.
Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision

Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision

John Cornwell

Offering a new scientific paradigm that moves beyond the accepted scientific approach of reductionism and accounts for the whole, a collection of essays by today's leading mathematicians, astronomers, neoroscientists, and philosophers ...
The End of War

The End of War

John Horgan

That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent.
Genesis: The Evolution of Biology

Genesis: The Evolution of Biology

Jan Sapp

"The Origin of Life," Scientific American 192 (1954): 44-53; Iris Fry, The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview (New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers University Press, 2000); Robert Shapiro. A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation ...
Superconductor Applications: SQUIDs and Machines

Superconductor Applications: SQUIDs and Machines

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Brian Schwartz. A series of edited volumes comprising multifaceted studies of contemporary scientific issues by some of the best scientific minds in the world, assembled in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division. Series B: Physics  ...
Benjamin Banneker: American Scientific Pioneer

Benjamin Banneker: American Scientific Pioneer

Myra Weatherly

Biography of the African-American man who, as a self-taught mathematician and astronomer, helped survey the site of the Nation's Capitol and published several popular almanacs.
The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking

The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking

Kenneth Hoover

A concise introduction to the fundamental concepts of social scientific thinking, this classic text--a favorite with students for over 30 years--makes scientific thinking, research methods and statistics accessible to undergraduates at a ...
African American Inventors

African American Inventors

Otha Richard Sullivan

Profiles the lives of twenty-five African American inventors who made significant scientific contributions from the eighteenth century to modern times.
Preserve Your Love for Science: Life of William A Hammond, ...

Preserve Your Love for Science: Life of William A Hammond, ...

Bonnie Ellen Blustein

3 W. Bruce Fye, The Development of American Physiology: Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore and London, 1987). 4 Quoted in W. Bruce Fye, "Growth of American Physiology 1850—1900," in Physiology in the American ...
Energy

Energy

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch

A selection of annotated references to unclassified reports and journal articles that were introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system and announced in Scientific and technical aerospace reports (STAR) and ...
American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity

American Christianities: A History of Dominance and Diversity

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Eva Garroutte, Janette Beals, Ellen Keane, et al., “Religiosity and Spiritual Engagement in Two American Indian Populations,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48, no. 3 (September 2009): 480–500. timothy s. lee From the Coercive to ...
Scientific Attitude, Scientific Aptitude And Achievement

Scientific Attitude, Scientific Aptitude And Achievement

D.B. Rao

Bibliography 1 73 Bhaskara Rao, D., G. Sundara Rao and S Aruna and L. Rathaiah, "Scientific Attitudes and Personality Traits of Prospective Science Teachers". Progressive Educational Herald 3 (January 1989), 62-66. Bhaskara Rao ...
A Coursebook on Scientific and Professional Writing for ...

A Coursebook on Scientific and Professional Writing for ...

M. N. Hegde

A Coursebook on Scientific and Professional Writing for Speech-Language Pathology is divided into three parts covering basic writing skills that are the foundation of good writing, scientific writing in accordance with the fifth edition of ...
Isaac Newton: And the Scientific Revolution

Isaac Newton: And the Scientific Revolution

Gale E. Christianson

Explores the life and scientific contributions of the famed English mathematician and natural philosopher.
Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution

Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution

Gale E. Christianson

Explores the life and scientific contributions of the famed English mathematician and natural philosopher

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