Browse Bestsellers
271 to 280 of 390 books
-
Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography
By offering access to the latest ideas, concepts, and theories in human geography – accompanied by a strong foundation in the fundamentals – this handbook builds knowledge about places ... > read more -
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an ... > read more -
Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, An (2nd Edition)
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the dramatic changes and advancements in astrophysics that have occurred over the past decade. The ... > read more -
How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary
Why do golf balls have dimples? How does an iPod turn binary digits into Bon Jovi? How do microwave ovens cook? How does a pitcher make a curveball curve and a knuckleball jitter?Why don't you ... > read more -
Chemistry
Materials Science
Inorganic Chemistry
Educational Policy
Scientific Conduct
Educational Psychology
Macroscale and Microscale Organic Experiments
This flexible, reliable, accurate manual includes both macroscale and microscale procedures for each experiment. The level and writing style of the text, which emphasizes biochemical and biomedical ... > read more -
ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription
Designed as a companion to ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Seventh Edition and as a recommended study tool for ACSM certifications, this book covers all the major aspects of ... > read more -
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see ... > read more -
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the ... > read more -
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
Colorado and its neighboring states battle thousands of wildfires every year, scrub and sagebrush blazes often ignited by lightning strikes in the dry, hot days of summer. A vast, intertwined ... > read more -
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
In this companion volume to the two-part NOVA television special by the same title, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and astronomy writer Donald Goldsmith attempt to cram 14 billion years of ... > read more
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 138,584
