An epic, fate-fighting adventure like no other. A stunningly imagined new series. The Nightsilver Promise is a future classic, stunningly imagined. A Game of Thrones for middle-grade that is perfect for fans of Nevermoor, Philip Pullman, and Neil Gaiman.

Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?"
Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to ...

Reflecting emerging methods and the evolution of the field, Introduction to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture, and Orientation keeps mathematics to a minimum in covering both traditional macrotexture analysis and more advanced electron-microscopy-based microtexture analysis.

This book provides an accessible introduction to radioactivity. The first in a two-volume set, this volume is presented in two parts, covering radiation physics and natural radiation exposure.

Arts, Ecologies, Transitions provides indepth insights into how aesthetic relations and current artistic practices are fundamentally ecological and intrinsically connected to the world. As art is created in a given historic temporality, it presents specific modalities of productive and sensory relations to the world.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the latest techniques, from multivariate investigations of biogeography and biostratigraphy to engineering analysis of dinosaur skulls, and from homeobox genes to cladistics. All the well-known fossil groups are included, including microfossils and invertebrates, but an important feature is the thorough...

A completely revised edition of a comprehensive and popular introduction to the fast moving area of forensic genetics. The text begins with key concepts needed to fully appreciate the subject and moves on to examine the latest developments in the field. Illustrated in full colour throughout, this accessible textbook includes numerous references to relevant casework. With information on the full process of DNA evidence from collection at the scene of a crime to presentation in a legal context ...

Developed in cooperation with the IB and created by experienced IB authors, examiners and teachers, this Course Book is fully aligned to the 2023 subject guide for DP Biology, providing comprehensive and engaging coverage of all topics.

Leven eendagsvliegen maar een dag? Waarom heb je altijd zoveel honger na het zwemmen? En voelen mannen zich echt zieker bij griep? Martijn Peters, huiswetenschapper van VTM Nieuws, Het Laatste Nieuws en - zeg maar - heel TikTok, beantwoordt in zijn nieuwe boek opnieuw 99 razend boeiende vragen. Bij sommige vragen had je vast nog nooit stilgestaan, andere spoken al jarenlang door je hoofd en enkele zijn volledig van de pot gerukt. Maar interessant zijn ze allemaal. Martijn onderzoekt de wetens...

Wetenschapsjournaliste Lynne McTaggart beschrijft het verhaal van een groep wetenschappers die per ongeluk het Zero Point Field (nulpuntveld) ontdekten, een oceaan van microscopische vibraties die alles met alles in het universum blijken te verbinden als een soort onzichtbaar netwerk. Het Veld gaat verder dan het werk van Fritjof Capra en stelt een plausibele wetenschappelijke theorie voor die alles verklaart, van de werking van DNA en communicatie tussen cellen tot homeopathie en ESP. Het Ve...