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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxix, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behavior of materials. But for a century it has also been the problem child of science: it has been plagued by intense disagreements between its inventors, strange paradoxes, and implications that seem like the stuff of fantasy. Whether it's Schrödinger's cat--a creature...
23) How we decide
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvii, 302 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making--and how it can help us make better choices.
Author
Series
Alex Carter novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the ice to examine them up close. But as her study progresses,...
25) Falling awake
Author
Language
English
Description
An expert in dream research, Isabel Wright finds her life becoming a nightmare when she loses her job at a sleep research center and becomes involved with a client, Ellis Cutler, an operative for a classified government agency.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 28 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Market research is big business, with clients demanding more and better ways of finding out what their customers want. Case studies show how market research is changing and the impact of new technology. Classic divisions: The internet is now widely used in market research - as are mobile phones and other new techniques. But the classic divisions of market research still apply. We explain qualitative and quantitative research: also primary and secondary...
28) The grand design
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2010
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (ca. 69 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time)deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions--Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?--and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection of overlapping theories (including string theory) that fill...
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An analysis of what can be learned from psychopaths incorporates advances in brain scanning and neuroscience to illustrate the scale of mental health that impacts everyone, the role of functional psychopathic behaviors in success, and the misunderstandings that impact treatments.
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cites the essential contributions of millions of ordinary people who contribute to the scientific process by volunteering in cooperation with scientists to help collect and discover information, tracing the history of citizen scientists and how they are reshaping scientific awareness.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is revealed in piercing detail the true story of the extraordinary group that aimed to bring about a technological dawn that would change the world'and succeeded....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
957 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"As Serious Eats's culinary nerd-in-residence, J. Kenji López-Alt has pondered [how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-rare from edge to edge when you cut into it] and more. In [this book], Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don't work that well,...
35) Random acts of medicine: the hidden forces that sway doctors, impact patients, and shape our health
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with A.D.H.D.? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you're not running? What do surgeons and salesmen have in common? Which annual event made people 30 percent more likely to contract COVID-19? As a University of Chicago-trained economist and Harvard medical school professor and doctor, Anupam Jena is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 12 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Earth's climate has a long history of drastic fluctuation. From ice ages to long periods of warmth, there are natural occurrences such as volcanic eruptions and changes in the Sun's intensity that affect the climate. More recently, there is wide speculation that activities associated with the Industrial revolution have altered the atmosphere and have negatively affected the climate. This program demonstrates how scientists measure, study and research...
38) Piranha
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 10
Language
English
Description
During a covert operation, Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the Oregon--but when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite their planning and attempts to assassinate them, Cabrillo and his team struggle to fight back against an enemy who seems to be able to anticipate their every move.
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enigmalogist Jeremy Logan who specializes in investigating inexplicable phenomena probes strange happenings at the Newport, RI, mansion that houses the Symposikon think tank.
40) Mystical brain
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Is it possible to shed light on the states of grace experienced by mystics and meditators? Mystical Brain shows us the most recent discoveries of scientific research on this phenomenon in North America and abroad.
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