Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&browse=true&N=3+6061 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714550 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714559 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705076 Science tell s us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. Emphasizing surprising and personal stories of scientists both famous and unsung, this audiobook traces the march of science through the centuries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1664045 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738420 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693169 A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and youll firewalk across hot coals and sweat it out in Death Valley, experience intense fever and fire, learn about the invention of matches and the chemistry of cooking, drink crude oil, and explore thermonuclear weapons and the hottest moment of all time-the big bang. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, forest fires, droughts-its clear that todays world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand heat? Written in Streevers signature spare and refreshing prose, HEAT is an a compulsively readable personal narrative that leaves readers with a new vision of an everyday experience-how heat works, its history, and its complete connection to daily life-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713210 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676086 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738421 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687125 A clarifying, fascinating, urgently needed book on radiation--what it is, what should and shouldnt concern us about it, and what place radiation and radiation-related technologies have in our world. The universe and our galaxy and planet Earth were born in a nuclear explosion. We live on a radioactive planet, and without radiation there would be no life here. While radiation can be dangerous, it is also deeply misunderstood and often mistakenly feared. Now, Dr. Robert Peter Gale--one of the worlds leading experts on radiation--and Eric Lax set the record straight, correcting myths and establishing facts with an exceptional depth of knowledge and the ability to impart that knowledge in an impartial, lucid and compelling manner. Demystifying societys trigger words for anxiety--Uranium, Plutonium, Iodine-131, X-ray, CT scan, radiation of food--the authors explore the science, benefits, and risks of radiation exposure, drawing on the most up-to-date research and on Gales extensive experience treating victims of radiation accidents around the globe. Here is an illuminating and essential guide to our post-Chernobyl, post-Fukushima world-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738425 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687309 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742145 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696121 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696363 Neil Shubin takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we are the way we are. Starting once again with fossils, Shubin turns his gaze skyward. He shows how the entirety of the universes 14-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies. From our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system), he makes clear, through the working of our eyes, how the evolution of the cosmos has had profound effects on the development of human life on earth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738401 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693124 With characteristic flair, insight, and humor, Feynman discusses topics physics students often struggle with and offers valuable tips on addressing them. Included here are three lectures on problem-solving and a lecture on inertial guidance omitted from The Feynman Lectures on Physics. An enlightening memoir by Matthew Sands and oral history interviews with Feynman and his Caltech colleagues provide firsthand accounts of the origins of Feynmans landmark lecture series--P. 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This plain-English guide makes the micro world understandable and accessible, and its packed with fully explained examples to help you tackle the tricky equations like a pro! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738429 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712319 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683914 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714077 Arizona is a geologists playground, with a scientifically intriguing story behind every rocky outcrop, dry playa, and sparkling spring. Arizona Rocks! tells the stories of 44 of the best geologic sites in the state. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715279 One of New Jerseys seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741981 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712183 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738396 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696406 One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time. A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike. Irmscher sheds new light on Agassizs fascinating partnership with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a science writer in her own right who would go on to become the first president of Radcliffe College. But theres a dark side to the story. Irmscher adds unflinching evidence of Agassizs racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans looked to men of science to mediate race policy. The books potent, original scenes include the pitched battle between Agassiz and his student Henry James Clark as well as the merciless, often amusing exchanges between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray over Agassizs stubborn resistance to evolution. A fascinating life story, both inspiring and cautionary, for anyone interested in the history of American ideas--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713889 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705075 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738419 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738947 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738400 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1665350 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671979 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738412 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738403 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731243 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738394 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696197 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738431 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675070 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738392 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684520 A biography of Dorothy Wrinch-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669109 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741971 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682841 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742402 Explores the idea of big data, which refers to our newfound ability to crunch vast amounts of information, analyze it instantly, and draw profound and surprising conclusions from it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682829 While many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. From fin-de-sicle Paris to Rat Pack-era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles. The 2008 crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling, but even more, it was a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists. Models--whether in science or finance--have limitations; they break down under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the hands of people who didnt understand their purpose, and didnt care. It was a catastrophic misuse of science. The solution, however, is not to give up on models; its to make them better. Weatherall reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance. This book is riveting history that will change how we think about our economic future.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738430 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711807 A first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur ... beginning with classical mechanics--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698298 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738415 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738398 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696409 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676953 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698295 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684890 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738397 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738409 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741958 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684924 Shubin shows how the entirety of the universes fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies as he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system) through the workings of our eyes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621947 Rabid charts the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies. In the absence of vaccination--as was true up until the late nineteenth century--the rabies virus caused brain infections with a nearly 100 percent fatality rate, both in animals and in humans, and the suffering it inflicted became the stuff of legend. The transmission of the virus--often from dog to man--reawakened a primal fear of wild animals, and the illness violent symptoms spoke directly to mankinds fear of the beast within. The cultural response was to create fictional embodiments of those anxieties--ravenous wolfmen, bloodsucking vampires, and armies of mindless zombies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671797 Evidence for a purely Darwinian account of human origins is supposed to be overwhelming. But is it? In this provocative book, three scientists challenge the claim that undirected natural selection is capable of building a human being, critically assess fossil and genetic evidence that human beings share a common ancestor with apes, and debunk recent claims that the human race could not have started from an original couple. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615614 Explains climate change-- its implications for the future, and what we can, and cannot, do to avoid further change. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518690 Newly updated throughout, and now covering 118 elements, this crystal-clear guide to the periodic table illuminates the basic concepts of chemistry as it traces the history and development of our knowledge of the material world. Albert Stwertka makes complex ideas and terms easily understandable, drawing upon engaging historical anecdotes and everyday examples to clarify the text. Since the second edition, many new elements have been discovered, including Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, and Copernicium, and the elements currently called Ununtrium, Ununpentium, Ununhexium, Ununseptium, and Ununoctium. The third edition provides thorough coverage of all these new discoveries. In addition to the new elements, Stwertka has brought the information about the elements in the second edition up-to-date, based on the latest research. He discusses a cylindrical molecule of carbon known as a nanotube, which has become a do-all wonder substance, touted for use in everything from X-ray machines to paint. A new form of the element boron has been found that is nearly as hard as diamond. Its superior heat resistance could make it attractive for certain industrial uses. And a new particle detector using ultra-pure liquid xenon has been constructed beneath 5,000 feet of rock in Italy to detect dark matter. Stwertka also covers the 2010 Nobel-winning work on graphene, an ultrathin form of carbon that is vital for future generations of computers and touch screens, the discovery of new superconductors, and the development of new uses for the rare earth elements--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1663788 Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents - people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks - society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be self-organized. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that top-down approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a bottom-up approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities. Building on these successes, the book argues that the complex-systems view of the social sciences has now matured sufficiently for it to be possible, desirable and perhaps essential to attempt a grander objective: to integrate these efforts into a unified scheme for studying, understanding and ultimately predicting what happens in the world we have made. Such a scheme would require the mobilization and collaboration of many different research communities, and would allow society and its interactions with the physical environment to be explored through realistic models and large-scale data collection and analysis. It should enable us to find new and effective solutions to major global problems such as conflict, disease, financial instability, environmental despoliation and poverty, while avoiding unintended policy consequences. It could give us the foresight to anticipate and ameliorate crises, and to begin tackling some of the most intractable problems of the twenty-first century.--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668014 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684885 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668052 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668173 Preternaturally hardened whale dung is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre digestive by-product ambergris. Despite being one of the worlds most expensive substances (its value is nearly that of gold and has at times in history been triple it), ambergris is also one of the worlds least known. But with this unusual and highly alluring book, Christopher Kemp promises to change that by uncovering the unique history of ambergris. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667956 The modern industrialized world is a complex system on a scale never before witnessed in the history of humankind. Technologically dependent, globally interconnected, it offers seemingly limitless conveniences, choices, and opportunities. Yet this same modern civilization may be as unstable as a house of cards, fear complexity scientists like John Casti. All it would take to downsize our way of life is a nudge from what Casti calls an X-event, an unpredictable occurrence with extreme, even dire, consequences. When an X-event strikes--and scientists believe one will--finance, communication, defense, and travel will stop dead in their tracks. The flow of food, electricity, medicine, and clean water will be disrupted for months, if not years. This book provides a tour of the catastrophic outlier scenarios that could quickly send us crashing back to the preindustrial age.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615616 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681742 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647743 A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624193 Presents an optimistic assessment of how a technologically connected world can enable a better if different future, outlining a rising model of political change that breaks traditional categories of thinking and enables positive solutions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1616398 Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb, and Eve, a highly regarded humanitarian and journalist, who fought alongside the French Resistance during WWII. As a woman fighting to succeed in a male dominated profession and a Polish immigrant caught in a xenophobic society, she had to find ways to support her research. Drawing on personal interviews with Curies descendents, as well as revelatory new archives, this is a wholly new story about Marie Curie--and a family of women inextricably connected to the dawn of nuclear physics-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667921 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646987 Join the quest for truth. Understand what science means, how it came about, and why it matters. A modern understanding of the world is unthinkable without science, but what exactly is it? What does it mean to say that something is scientific? How are its results justified? From the genetic basis of life, to the structures of the universe and the atom, TEACH YOURSELF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE explores how the key ideas that shape our world have been developed.