Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape — the Calabi-Yau manifold — that may store the hidden dimensions of our...

Ib A Svendsen This book is intended as an introductory textbook for graduate students and as a reference book for engineers and scientists working in the field of coastal engineering....

Pavel Novak, AIB Moffat, C Nalluri Hydraulic Structures demonstrates to the advanced undergraduate student the design of hydraulic structures in practice. It does this by explaining dam engineering, the design...

Robert G Dean Robert A Dalrymple “Chapter on wave maker theory is new material, generally not found in text books. The authors pull together good stuff from various widely scattered...

Simon Singh When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the...

Jeffre L Witherly Galen P Perry Darryl L Leja Medical science constantly demands our attention, as patients or relatives, concerned citizens, voters, investors, or simply curious individuals. But for those...

Barbara Charton John Tietjen Thoroughly revised and updated, The Facts On File Dictionary of Marine Science contains over 2,500 entries-500 new to this edition-dealing with the basic vocabulary of marine...

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature...

G Sciutto and CA Brebbia Reviewing topics such as construction, freight handling, multimode transportation, multiuse of ports including tourism, ergonomics and environmental, financial and legal aspects, this book contains the...

John Gribbin John Gribbin is one of the few science writers who is equally comfortable writing about biology as about physics, and this beginner's guide will take the reader through...

NE Genge THE ULTIMATE READERS’ GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS! An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect’s wool...

Dr Mike Goldsmith  Albert Einstein is the genius who invented e=mc². He is possibly the brainiest scientist in history—and the battiest! But did you know that Al's life was almost...