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  • Spark from the Deep
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    Spark from the Deep

    Spark from the Deep tells the story of how human beings came to understand and use electricity by studying the evolved mechanisms of strongly electric fish. These animals have the ability to shock potential prey or would-be predators with high-powered...
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  • Spline Functions
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    Spline Functions

    This book is a continuation of the author's earlier book Spline Functions: Computational Methods, published in 2015 by SIAM. This new book focuses on computational methods developed in the last ten years that make use of splines to approximate functions...
    $206.00

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  • Calculus for the Natural Sciences
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    Calculus for the Natural Sciences

    In this textbook on calculus of one variable, applications to the natural sciences play a central role. Examples from biology, chemistry, and physics are discussed in detail without compromising the discussion of the mathematics essential to differential...
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  • Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion
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    Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion

    The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged. Surprisingly free from the constraints of traditional natural philosophy, he developed a view of the world in...
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  • Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra
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    Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra

    Fit for students just starting to build a background in mathematics, this textbook provides an introduction to numerical methods for linear algebra problems. Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra is ideal for a flipped classroom, as it provides...
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  • Applied Numerical Linear Algebra
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    Applied Numerical Linear Algebra

    Applied Numerical Linear Algebra introduces students to numerical issues that arise in linear algebra and its applications. A wide range of techniques are touched on, including direct to iterative methods, orthogonal factorizations, least squares,...
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  • Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia
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    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia

    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia provides in-depth coverage of fundamental topics in numerical linear algebra, including how to solve dense and sparse linear systems, compute QR factorizations, compute the eigendecomposition of a matrix, and solve...
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  • Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia
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    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia

    Numerical Linear Algebra with Julia provides in-depth coverage of fundamental topics in numerical linear algebra, including how to solve dense and sparse linear systems, compute QR factorizations, compute the eigendecomposition of a matrix, and solve...
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  • Location Estimation from the Ground Up
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    Location Estimation from the Ground Up

    The location of an object can often be determined from indirect measurements using a process called estimation. This book explains the mathematical formulation of location-estimation problems and the statistical properties of these mathematical models...
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  • Auto Mechanics
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    Auto Mechanics

    The history of automobiles is not just the story of invention, manufacturing, and marketing; it is also a story of repair. Auto Mechanics opens the repair shop to historical study -- for the first time -- by tracing the emergence of a dirty, difficult,...
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  • Edison's Electric Light
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    Edison's Electric Light

    In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly -- and prematurely -- proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that led to the successful completion of his...
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  • Probability and Mathematical Statistics
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    Probability and Mathematical Statistics

    This book develops the theory of probability and mathematical statistics with the goal of analyzing real-world data. Throughout the text, the R package is used to compute probabilities, check analytically computed answers, simulate probability...
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  • Solitons in Two-Dimensional Shallow Water
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    Solitons in Two-Dimensional Shallow Water

    Web-like waves, often observed on the surface of shallow water, are examples of nonlinear waves. They are generated by nonlinear interactions among several obliquely propagating solitary waves, also known as solitons. In this book, modern mathematical...
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  • Differential Dynamical Systems
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    Differential Dynamical Systems

    Differential equations are the basis for models of any physical systems that exhibit smooth change. This book combines much of the material found in a traditional course on ordinary differential equations with an introduction to the more modern theory of...
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  • Resurgent Commons
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    Resurgent Commons

    Once dismissed as "tragedy," the commons have been making a comeback. Amid intensifying social and environmental injustices in neoliberal regimes, scholars and activists have turned to the commons - historically, the shared ownership of land - as a way...
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  • What about Darwin?
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    What about Darwin?

    Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as...
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  • The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
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    The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish

    Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, led a remarkable -- and controversial -- life, writing poetry and prose and philosophizing on the natural world at a time when women were denied any means of a formal education. Lisa T. Sarasohn acutely examines...
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  • Resurgent Commons
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    Resurgent Commons

    Once dismissed as "tragedy," the commons have been making a comeback. Amid intensifying social and environmental injustices in neoliberal regimes, scholars and activists have turned to the commons - historically, the shared ownership of land - as a way...
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  • Early FM Radio
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    Early FM Radio

    The commonly accepted history of FM radio is one of the twentieth century's iconic sagas of invention, heroism, and tragedy. Edwin Howard Armstrong created a system of wideband frequency-modulation radio in 1933. The Radio Corporation of America (RCA),...
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  • Super Structures
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    Super Structures

    Ever wonder how a graceful and slender bridge can support enormous loads over truly astonishing spans? Why domes and free—standing arches survive earthquakes that flatten the rest of a city?Physicist Mark Denny looks at the large structures around us --...
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  • Never Pure
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    Never Pure

    Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better...
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  • Looking for a Few Good Males:
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    Looking for a Few Good Males:

    Why do female animals select certain mates, and how do scientists determine the answer? In considering these questions, Erika Lorraine Milam explores the fascinating patterns of experiment and interpretation that emerged as twentieth-century researchers...
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  • Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?
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    Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?

    After visiting Russia in 1921, the journalist Lincoln Steffens famously declared, ""I have seen the future, and it works."" Steffens referred to the social experiment of technological utopianism he found in the Soviet Union, where subway cars and farm...
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  • Death Rode the Rails
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    Death Rode the Rails

    For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year...
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  • God-or Gorilla
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    God-or Gorilla

    As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory, Constance Areson Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debates in the not-too-distant past. Set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age, Godor Gorilla explores the...
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  • Competing with the Soviets
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    Competing with the Soviets

    For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military engagement. The Cold War placed two opposite conceptions of the good society...
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  • Making Sense of Science
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    Making Sense of Science

    Science is at the heart of contemporary society and is therefore central to the social sciences. Yet science studies has often encountered resistance from social scientists. This book attempts to remedy this by giving the most extensive, thorough and...
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  • Reshaping Communications
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    Reshaping Communications

    `It is a clich [ac]e but this book is timely, welcome and indeed a breath of fresh air....It is of particular value for people concerned with public communications, political economy, economics and the relationship between society and technology...
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  • Reshaping Communications
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    Reshaping Communications

    `It is a clich [ac]e but this book is timely, welcome and indeed a breath of fresh air....It is of particular value for people concerned with public communications, political economy, economics and the relationship between society and technology...
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  • Reshaping Communications
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    Reshaping Communications

    `It is a clich [ac]e but this book is timely, welcome and indeed a breath of fresh air....It is of particular value for people concerned with public communications, political economy, economics and the relationship between society and technology...
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  • Just A Theory
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    Just A Theory

    Some people claim that evolution is 'just a theory'. Do you know what a scientific theory really is? Just a theory is an overview of the modern concepts of science. A clear understanding of the nature of science will enable you to distinguish science...
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  • A Consumer's Guide To Laboratory Tests
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    A Consumer's Guide To Laboratory Tests

    This is an informative, accessible, layperson's guide to laboratory tests that helps you to understand the many kinds of tests that are performed, exactly what is being tested, and, most importantly, what the results mean. This excellent, easy-to-use...
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  • The Harmonious Universe
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    The Harmonious Universe

    From quarks to quasars, this stimulating survey of the main branches of science provides lay readers with a broad scientific understanding of our fascinating universe. Award-winning scientist and popular science writer, Keith Laidler explains the major...
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  • Albert Einstein's Vision
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    Albert Einstein's Vision

    In clear and eloquent language, Parker helps us appreciate the breadth and richness of Einstein's vision, discussing the renowned scientist's lesser-known contributions, from Einstein's theories supporting time travel, to his research on curved space,...
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  • Of Molecules and Men
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    Of Molecules and Men

    Though written forty years ago, this succinct, lucid explication of the scientific facts remains the perfect primer for the lay reader curious about the ongoing biological revolution and is amazingly prescient in light of recent developments. It is a...
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  • Of Molecules and Men
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    Of Molecules and Men

    Though written forty years ago, this succinct, lucid explication of the scientific facts remains the perfect primer for the lay reader curious about the ongoing biological revolution and is amazingly prescient in light of recent developments. It is a...
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  • Unintelligent Design
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    Unintelligent Design

    Physicist Mark Perakh critically reviews recent trends toward harmonising religion and science. From intelligent design theories to arguments allegedly proving the compatibility of biblical stories with scientific data and 'Bible codes' containing secret...
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  • Opticks
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    Opticks

    Before Newton completed his masterpiece, "The Principia Mathematica", he had established his reputation with this treatise on the properties of light. Though on a narrower topic, this work is as impressive in its own right as "The Principia", for it...
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  • The Gemini Syndrome
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    The Gemini Syndrome

    In "The Gemini Syndrome", two professional astronomers have produced a highly readable and well-referenced response to claims by astrologers that their theories are scientifically based. The authors elucidate the glaring internal inconsistencies...
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  • The Fringe of the Unknown
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    The Fringe of the Unknown

    Here is a fascinating study by L Sprague de Camp of controversial and often little-known happenings in science and technology, with an emphasis on the wayward activities of those who dabble in fringe science.
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  • Science and the Quest for Meaning
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    Science and the Quest for Meaning

    In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science within the humanistic context from which it...
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  • Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals
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    Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals

    These two essays by the famous 19th-century champion of Darwin's theory of evolution tackle a subject that is still a major focus of ethical debates today: the relation of science as a whole, and specifically evolutionary ideas, to ethics and morality...
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  • Defending Science-Within Reason
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    Defending Science-Within Reason

    Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence and method tackles vital questions about science and its...
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  • Wicked Environmental Problems
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    Wicked Environmental Problems

    ""Wicked"" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena...
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