John Bloom In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of...

Richard E Leakey and Roger Lewin Through the discovery of fossil remains in Africa, the author draws conclusions about the nature of prehistoric life and its influence on modern culture....

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Jeremy Rifkin When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and...

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Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, MD From the author of How to Create a Mind comes a book about the science behind radical life extension.Startling discoveries in the areas of...

Paul Davies How did life begin? Did it start here, by blind chance or by necessity, or was Earth seeded by extraterrestrial visitors? (And, if so, how did they arise?)...

Mark Lynas The No Logo of climate change - a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened...

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...