Virtual Environment Books

• Aviation
  Vehicles
  Early Birds
  Virtual Environment
  Virtual Reality
  Behavioral Science
   
  

  Microsoft Flight Simulator as a Training Aid: A Guide for Pilots, Instructors, and Virtual Aviators

  PC-based simulations, though touted by many in the aviation community as excellent flight training aids, are not being used to their full potential. This guide and the accompanying CD illustrate how ...  > read more
• Nature
  Grassland
  Wild Animals
  Biology
  Botany
  Life Sciences
   
  

  Plants of the Rocky Mountains

  Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are ...  > read more
• Endangered Plants
  Nature
  Botany
  Grassland
  Psychedelic Drugs
  Pests and Parasites
   
  

  The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications

  The most comprehensive guide to the botany, history, distribution, and cultivation of all known psychoactive plants• Examines 414 psychoactive plants and related substances• Explores how ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Space Policy
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
   
  

  Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space

  An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a ...  > read more
• Public Health
  Diseases and Conditions
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Information Technology
  Bioethics
  Ethics
   
  

  The Medical Detectives (Plume)

  It all seems routine. You come home from a weekend in the mountains and complain of a headache the next day. Tuesday you have a slight fever and spend the day in bed. But that night, tossing in ...  > read more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Accident and Trauma
  Disaster Plan
  Social Issues
  Psychology
   
  

  Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

  When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these ...  > read more
• Space Policy
  Human Biology
  Anthropology
  Space Exploration
  Aviation
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Stiff

  An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's ...  > read more
• Earth Science
  Geology
  Earthquakes
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Nature
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
   
  

  Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (9th Edition)

  To understand timely issues such as natural disasters and environmental challenges–and to evaluate solutions to related problems–the average citizen needs a basic awareness of the ...  > read more
• Origin of Life
  Extinction
  Healthy Aging
  Nature
  Dinosaurs
  Earth Science
   
  

  Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic (Life of the Past)

  Before the Age of Dinosaurs there was an age in Earth's history known as the Triassic. It was a world of truly fantastic creatures, a genetic stew of the ancient and the modern. During this time ...  > read more
• Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Albert Einstein
  Mathematics
  Space Station
  Space Telescopes
   
  

  The Nature of Space and Time

  Who doesn't love a good argument? When physics heavyweights Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose delivered three sets of back-and-forth lectures capped by a final debate at Cambridge's Isaac Newton ...  > read more

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