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Plutonium : A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
Jeremy Bernstein
Hardcover - $44.95
In his new history of this complex and dangerous element, noted physicist Bernstein describes the steps that were taken to transform plutonium from a laboratory novelty into the nuclear weapon that destroyed Nagasaki.
DNA : The Secret of Life
Andrew Berry
Paperback - $41.95
Fifty years ago, James D. Watson, then just twentyfour, helped launch the greatest ongoing scientific quest of our time. Now, with unique authority and sweeping vision, he gives us the first full account of the genetic revolution--from Mendel's garde ...
Infinite Tropics : An Alfred Russel Wallace Collection
Andrew Berry
Paperback - $32.95
Alfred Russel Wallace's letter to Charles Darwin about his independent discovery of natural selection panicked Darwin into rushing out On the Origin of Species, leaving Wallace to fall under his shadow. Andrew Berry's anthology rescues Wallace's lega ...
Thinking with Objects : The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century
Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Paperback - $65.95
Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects -- levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies -- Domenic ...
Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams : Knowledge Work in Teams Vol 2 (Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams)
Michael M. Beyerlein
Hardcover - $235.95
Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams : Vol 5
Michael M. Beyerlein
Hardcover - $262.95
Innovative breakthroughs, or even incremental improvements in products, are increasingly viewed as the key to business success. This work contains useful ideas for both practice and theory building from some of the world's leading thinkers on product ...
Galileo, Courtier : The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
Mario Biagioli
Paperback - $42.95
In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. In this fascinating cultural and social history of science, Biagioli ar ...
Large-Scale Optimization with Applications : Part I
Lorenz T. Biegler
Hardcover - $231.95
Inverse problems and optimal design have come of age as a consequence of the availability of better, more accurate, and more efficient simulation packages. Many of these simulators, which can run on small workstations, can capture the complicated beh ...
The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio : The Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy
Vannoccio Biringuccio
Hardcover - $128.95
The first comprehensive work on metallurgy, "The Pirotechnia" was published in 1540. Lavishly illustrated, it describes the equipment and processes of sixteenth-century mining, smelting, and metalworking. For centuries, this famous work has been a st ...