Télécharger le livre :  Drilling Down
For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2011-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Figuring It Out
This is a book of mathematical stories — funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2010-10-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Hot Stove Economics
The final out of the World Series marks the beginning of baseball's second season, when teams court free agents and orchestrate trades with the hope of building a championship contender.The real and anticipated transactions generate excitement among fans who discuss the...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2010-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Doomsday Lobby
Federal patronage of science was never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, but they did seek to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Art” by granting inventors patent rights. However, direct subvention to scientists and scientific organizations was...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2010-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  When Doctors Kill
It would come as no surprise that many readers may be shocked and intrigued by the title of our book. Some (especially our medical colleagues) may wonder why it is even worthwhile to raise the issue of killing by doctors. Killing is clearly an- thetical to the Art and...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2010-06-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Hunt for Planet X
Ever since the serendipitous discovery of planet Uranus in 1871, astronomers have been hunting for new worlds in the outer regions of our solar system. This exciting and ongoing quest culminated recently in the discovery of hundreds of ice dwarfs in the Kuiper belt,...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2010-01-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Not Invited to the Party
Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-10-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Thinking in Circles About Obesity
Today’s children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its associated health problems. Heretofore, the strategy to slow obesity’s...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Tunguska Mystery
The purpose of the book is a dual one: to detail the nature and results of Tunguska investigations in the former USSR and present-day CIS, and to destroy two long-standing myths still held in the West.The first concerns alleged “final solutions” that have ostensibly...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-08-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Chance Rules
Chance continues to govern our lives in the 21st Century. From the genes we inherit and the environment into which we are born, to the lottery ticket we buy at the local store, much of life is a gamble. In business, education, travel, health, and marriage, we take...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Bubbles, Booms, and Busts
This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse. It describes the distribution of wealth,...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars
Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars is about the costs of health care and their impact on health. The U.S. health care system is the largest sector in the biggest economy, and the US spends significantly more per capita on health care than any other country, yet it ranks...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Machinery of Life
Imagine that we had some way to look directly at the molecules in a living organism. An x-ray microscope would do the trick, or since we’re dreaming, perhaps an Asimov-style nanosubmarine (unfortunately, neither is currently feasible). Think of the wonders we could...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-04-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Food Bites
Readers will be captivated by this brilliant and superbly written book – a voyage around the world of food science. Especially so, as their guide is Prof. Richard Hartel, professor of Food Engineering at UW-Madison, USA. Prof. Hartel has for the last four years penned a...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2009-03-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Full Meridian of Glory
[the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble] Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in 2003; its sales have reached 40 million worldwide. The book mixes a small...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2008-12-25
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Télécharger le livre :  How Spacecraft Fly
The aim of this popular science text is to explain aerodynamic and astrodynamic flight without the use of mathematics, in an informal style, for non-technical readers who are interested in spaceflight and spacecraft. The book will open with a concise introductory...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2008-12-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Hot House
Global warming is extremely complex because it deals with so many different characteristics of the Earth and their complex interactions. It is addressed by almost all sciences including many aspects of geosciences, atmospheric, the biological sciences, and even...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2007-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Living Off the Land in Space
Human civilization has evolved to the point at which we can consider tapping space resources and expanding beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The Introduction surveys possible motivations for large-scale human emigration to space. Since our early ancestors began to move out of...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2007-08-24
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Télécharger le livre :  A Seat on the Aisle, Please!
In the course of a lifetime, more than half of all women will experience some form of debilitating pelvic disease or discomfort, including chronic urinary tract infections, various kinds of incontinence, pelvic floor prolapse, and interstitial cystitis. Surprisingly,...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2007-07-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist
Explains the methods that rocket scientists use—expressed in a way that could be applied in everyday life. The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, ideas from sci-fi, personal stories and...

Editeur : Copernicus
Parution : 2007-05-26
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