Mathematics & Science Books

Have you been wondering how well your students understand engineering and technology concepts? Have you been wishing for formative assessment tools in both English and Spanish? If so, this is the book for you. Like the other 11 books in the bestselling...

This book looks at significant current grassland problems and issues, and provides an insight into grassland productivity in diverse areas of the world, with their various production systems. There is a focus on recent technical advances and the...

Analyzes Derrida's 1975 seminar "La vie la mort" as a deconstruction of biology with relevance to his work more broadly.In Biodeconstruction, Francesco Vitale demonstrates the key role that the question of life plays in Jacques Derrida's work. In the...

This book explores the basic principles of wound healing, and the innovative use of nanotechnology, including smart 3D printed hydrogels and bioactive nanomaterials in the process, and discusses the role of the immune system in wound healing. This book...

This book demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of plant high-throughput phenotyping and functional phenomics; emphasizing the significance of automated machinery, robotics, remote sensing, and computational tools, including artificial intelligence...

The book addresses new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage collectors

Proposes an in-depth formal framework for generalized Tonnetze, takes an algebraic approach, studies systems of k-chords in n-TET scales derived from a given k-mode through mode permutations and chord root translations, by combining key ideas of the...

For this second edition, the complete text has been thoroughly revised. A description of plans for new accelerator facilities has been added, as well as new results on cosmic ray physics, dark matter and dark energy. The usage of natural units has been...

The book gives details of recent advances for the conservation and transformation of priority plant species and explores biotechnological interventions and advancements in medicinal plant diversity analysis, transformation and conservation. It will be...

Blood Stain Pattern Analysis with an Introduction to Crime Scene Reconstruction, Fourth Edition provides criminal investigators and forensic scientists with a complete and comprehensive handbook on bloodstain pattern analysis.

The book discusses recent advancement and updates in the molecular diagnostics of fungal phytopathogens. The techniques covered in the seventeen chapters helps in understanding the importance of early detection of fungal pathogens and their toxins in...

Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize given resources. Emphasizing the mathematical and statistical features of forest sampling to assess classical dendrometrical quantities, Sampling Techniques for...

Bayesian statistical methods have become widely used for data analysis and modelling in recent years, and the BUGS software has become the most popular software for Bayesian analysis worldwide. Authored by the team that originally developed this...

Combining facets of health physics with medicine, An Introduction to Radiation Protection in Medicine covers the background of the subject and the medical situations where radiation is the tool to diagnose or treat human disease. Encouraging newcomers to...

With many examples throughout and clear explanations of key concepts, this book focuses on the genetic interaction networks as a paradigm for interpreting the complexity of molecular biology at a genomic scale. The authors describe the experimental...

A bestseller for nearly 25 years, this book helps applied statisticians and researchers effectively analyze the kinds of nonstandard data sets encountered in the real world. Written by two long-time researchers and professors, this second edition has...

How can one systematically show that computer codes are correctly solving equations? Verification of Computer Codes in Computational Science and Engineering sets forth a powerful procedure called OVMSP: Order-Verification via the Manufactured Solution...

This combinatorics text provides in-depth coverage of recurrences, generating functions, partitions, and permutations, along with some of the most interesting graph and network topics, design constructions, and finite geometries. It presents the computer...

Random sets as models for set-valued observations, are a new type of data proving useful in areas such as survey sampling, biostatistics, and intelligent systems. This is the first text to explore the topic in depth, using extended probability theory to...

This handbook is the first exhaustive study of virtually all of the mathematical aspects of curve-based public key cryptography. It provides a wealth of ready-to-use algorithms enabling fast implementation along with recommendations for selecting...

This Research Note addresses several pivotal problems in spectral theory and nonlinear functional analysis in connection with the analysis of the structure set of zeroes of a general class of nonlinear operators. Appealing to a broad audience, it...

Discussing the role biosensors play in detecting and monitoring environmental substances, Biosensors and Environmental Health provides key facts that can be applied to other areas of health and disease and a "mini-dictionary" of key terms and summary...

This collection of essays spans pure and applied mathematics. Readers interested in mathematical research and historical aspects of mathematics will appreciate the enlightening content of these essays. Highlighting the pervasive nature of mathematics...

This book presents a taxonomic account of families of order Tubiflora, namely, Verbenaceae, Labiatae, Solanaceae, and Scrophulariceae, which contain several interesting endemic genera and species that are important for understanding the developmental...

This book introduces advanced numerical-functional analysis to beginning computer science researchers. The reader is assumed to have had basic courses in numerical analysis, computer programming, computational linear algebra, and an introduction to real,...

It is one of the curious oddities of our time that we talk so much about the scientific method as if it is one singular entity when, in point of practice, it is anything but. The ultimate linchpin in science is decided not by how we go about doing it,...

Just think of your father's sperm as a starting off point. A usual male produces about 100 million sperm per ejaculation. Only one of those sperm will survive the arduous journey to its terminal apex. How many sperm does a male produce in, say, an...

The idea that the world is an illusion which betrays its real origin has a long tradition and can be found in the writings of Hindu rishis, early Greek philosophers, and Christian gnostics. What is perhaps surprising is to find such a rich literature on...

This book explores the future of philosophy in a digital age. Exploring such subjects as the death of the book, global positioning intelligence, artificial psychic implants, and the reverse engineering of the brain. The meditating Buddha as a...

This book provides an overview of Ken Wilber's view of evolutionary theory in light of his Integral philosophy. It also provides a pointed critique of why Wilber consistently misreads and misunderstands Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

This engineering text is directed toward Forensic Engineers who areinterested in determining the causal factors of bicycle accidents. Theauthor, a Professional Engineer and competitive cyclist and triathlete, hasorganized the engineering literature for...

In this book, you will learn about Earth's most powerful telescopes. Study the use and basic design of telescopes as well as their cousins - binoculars and microscopes - that share similar designs. Focusing on such examples, the science of optics will...

It gets confusing when you're trying to communicate with someone across the globe and on a different timezone. The purpose of this book is to help you recognize the 24 time zones of the world. There will be a discussion on the historical background of...

There is science behind every action, even the simplest like opening a door. This book serves as a brief introduction to force by explaining the relationship between a push and a pull. The first chapter will explain what force is. It is then followed by...

This book will introduce your second grader to the concept of motion. It will begin with an explanation of how both living and non living things move. It will then touch briefly on Newton's Laws of Motion. The second chapter will talk about the forces...

There is one universal truth about energy: it is neither created or destroyed, only transformed. This book will discuss how energy is transformed in living and nonliving systems. It will begin with a brief explanation of some of the most common energy...

It is a fact that all living things need energy to survive. However, energy cannot be created nor destroyed so how do you get? The topic of this book is the food web. It describes how energy from one organism is transferred to another organism. More...

There's so much material out there about the universe but only a few cater to second graders. This book is one of them. Written with young readers in mind, it utilizes techniques that allow for the effective understanding of information presented. It...

You may think that the Earth is ginormous but in reality, it is tiny compared to other heavenly bodies in the solar system. The sun and the moon directly affect the Earth. In this book, you will learn about the patterns that we see and experience...

Did you know that big, complex machines can be broken down into six simple machines? This book will introduce your second grader to the six simple machines that make work easy. The first chapter will differentiate between a simple and compound machine...