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February 2023Tobias Mayer
or measuring the earth, sea and sky
by Thomas Knubben
—300th birthday of Tobias Mayer in February 2023 — The rediscovery of a great scientist — A chapter in the fascinating history of science The story of Tobias Mayer's life (1723 to 1762) is that of a child prodigy and orphan who became a pioneer of the Enlightenment as a cartographer, mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Having never been to university, at the age of 28 he was appointed a professor in Göttingen by the Elector of Hanover and King of England. He revolutionised cartography with his zeal and skill, helping sailors to find the right path across the seas and providing people with the firstever clear view of the moon. 17th February 2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Tobias Mayer. High time to recall this prototype of a scientist.
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January 2021How Scientists Research Cells, Third Edition
by Kristi Lew
Since cells are the smallest of all living organisms, scientists have had to develop various methods and tools to examine and research them. In the 17th century, the microscope was invented, allowing researchers a glimpse at the cell. Today, supercomputers put cells and experiments to the test. In microbiology laboratories and cancer research centers, well-trained, dedicated scientists work to explore the science of cells, making biotechnology a continuously growing field. In How Scientists Research Cells, Third Edition, learn how the first discovery of cells led to the first cloned mammal and additional scientific advancements.
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September 2020Cartoon Nobel Scientist: Physics Prize
by Pang Le
The Nobel Prize is generally regarded as the most important award in all award fields worldwide. The Nobel Prize has led mankind to science and the future. The content of this book relates to how the Nobel Prize in Science was selected? How did the Nobel Prize and a group of brilliant geniuses affect the world? Are there competitions, contradictions and conflicts among scientists who have won the Nobel Prize? The author combined original two-dimensional cartoons and relaxed language to show the nature of the research work of world-class scientists such as Einstein and Fermi from the perspective of popular science. He has made significant contributions in changing our world. His and personal experience, the main problems encountered, and his exploration and critical spirit. This book combines legends, stories, theoretical analysis, scientific history, etc., and takes you to the most coveted and persuasive awards of this era-those little-known winners of Nobel Prizes and outstanding geniuses thing.
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Animal stories (Children's/YA)October 2019Panthera Tigris
by Sylvain Alzial, Hélène Rajcak
Once upon a time there was a scientist. The scientist knew everything: the history of the Earth and the sky, of men and women. One day, he realized that he knew nothing about Bengal tigers! The scientist will venture into the remote jungle of India in search of the fearsome Panthera Tigris, accompanied by a local guide. Along the way, life will give hime an important wisdom message.
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BiotechnologyJune 2002Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding
Integrating Knowledge and Practice
by David A Cleveland, Daniela Soleri
The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of and relationship between the knowledge of farmers and of scientists, and how these can be best integrated in plant breeding. In the past, farmers' knowledge of local biodiversity has often been underutilized, but currently there is an increased recognition of the importance of farmer participation or collaboration.
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October 2022Ernst Haeckel
Zoologist, artist, philosopher and freethinker
by Rainer Willmann
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) is one of the most famous and influential researchers of all times. This brilliant biography by Rainer Willmann recounts Haeckel's fascinating life for science and his fight for freedom of thought. Haeckel is a vehement advocate of Darwinian doctrine and develops it further, which is why he is fiercely attacked not only by the church but also by his fellow scientists. Among other things, we owe to Haeckel the freedom of research and teaching that we take so much for granted. That he was also a talented artist is proven by his drawings of marine organisms ... The gripping and highly interesting life story of an extraordinary freethinker and scientist.
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Dream under the Harvest: The Story of Yuan Longping
by Deng Xiangzi, Xie Changjiang
Dream under the Harvest: The Story of Yuan Longping is a picture book about Yuan Longping's life experiences from childhood to becoming a scientist. The picture book highlights Yuan's scientist spirit with a child-friendly story and realistic drawings, tells the story of Yuan's life for the cause of hybrid rice, and presents his vivid and colorful life, his persistent spirit of exploration and his bright and open mind.
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FictionJanuary 2016Hall of Mirrors
by Chen Qian
In this novel, a series of mirrors has been used by the author as a tool to reflect daily life of ethnic Chinese scientists in Silicon Valley. Behind the marvelous high-tech products and glory of scientific workers, there are deep anxiety and bewilderment.
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June 2014Personal China Dream
by Tianbin Zhang(Editor-in-chief)
A hundred representatives from various fields, scientists, celebrities and ordinary people, they are all working hard for their own dreams, which are closely linked to the development of the nation. It makes the “China Dream” concept have an abundant and specific meaning, and also have an attractive appeal.
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Children's & YAApril 2024Smart Pickings
2nd Edition
by Lynne Bianchi
Smart Pickings (2nd Edition) further engages young readers with the world of science. It promotes talk between children, their classmates, teachers, parents, family and friends. The book introduces a range of diverse and inspirational scientists who have or are making a difference through their innovations and research. A book to encouraging us all to wonder, ask questions and ask 'Who are they?', 'How might I be like them?'
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Biography & True StoriesJune 2014A Biography of Paul Watzlawick
The Discovery of the Present Moment
by Andrea Köhler-Ludescher
This book, the world's first biography of Paul Watzlawick, written by his great-niece, describes the life of this philosopher, therapist, and best-selling author. Paul Watzlawick had a talent for languages and he led an adventurous life, from his childhood in Villach to studying in Venice after the war, to analyst training under C. G. Jung in Zurich, an attempt at establishing himself in India and then in El Salvador as a therapist, and finally to the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in the United States, headed by Don D. Jackson, a venerable scientist. This marked the beginning of the second half of his life, his amazing career as a communication researcher, a pioneer of systemic therapy, a radical constructivist, and a great thinker regarding the divisions between East and West. With many letters, lectures, interviews, and statements from contemporary witnesses and family members, this book makes Paul Watzlawick accessible as a human being and as a spiritually inspired, leading 20th century thinker. It includes a variety of unpublished material from Watzlawick, and introduces a comprehensive and exciting picture of the scientist and cosmopolitan person, Paul Watzlawick. Target Group: For people interest in Paul Watzlawick, communication sciences, systemic therapy, and constructivism.
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Mind, Body, SpiritGODTALK
Experiences of Humanity’s Connections with a Higher Power
by Neale Donald Walsch
Begin Your Conversation with God Don’t look now, but God is talking with you. In fact, God is never not talking with you! Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations with God book series, invites you to be present to life and the experience of your talks with God. He shares how the Divine talks to you in a hundred ways across a thousand moments, using feelings, words, images, ideas, metaphors, and events that can change your life. Feel the wonder as Neale Donald Walsch, along with our sacred storytellers, share their talks with God, including those of:• a woman who was reassured her health condition would be healed• an exhausted single mom whose message reaffirmed her belief that God heard her prayers• a scientist whose conversation with the presence of God dramatically changed his life• a teacher who received a message to help her connect with her students Experience your own conversations, empowered by intention and discernment, as Neale shares the six-step process he uses in his own conversations with God. Discover profound, yet simple, insights into what you can do to deepen the dialogue once you become tuned into God talking to you. Be prepared to be surprised and delighted by your communications with the Divine!
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2017The Oral Autobiography of YUAN Longping
YUAN Longping
by 袁隆平
This book is the oral autobiography of YUAN Longping, a famous Chinese agricultural scientist widely known as the Father of Hybrid Rice. By the recall of little-known facts including YUAN’s family background, education experience, and scientific research experience, the book veritably reflects the development of Chinese society in the last hundred years, especially the hybrid rice.
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Biography & True StoriesOral Autobiography of Xuerong CHEN
by Xuerong CHEN, Hongye FAN
This book is Mr. CHEN's oral autobiography, which presents his extraordinary scientific life in a panoramic way. It truly and vividly demonstrates the noble character of the scientist who has been engaged in the meteorological cause for 80 years in perseverance. The contents presented in the book are of great significance to the study of Chinese meteorology as well as the history of Chinese meteorology.
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Children's & YADecember 2016Naughty Human Beings — The Book of Science History for Children
by Lao Duo
This book tells the stories of science masters’ efforts and ventures in finding the truth over the past thousands of years and the enlightenment brought about by their achievements to the later generations. For example, the first Greek scientist Thales told us not to believe in everything Roger Bacon said, Newton came up with the idea for the law of gravity by having an apple fall on his head, and in the 20th century, Einstein found that even light can bend. The book includes more than 140 exquisite hand-drawn illustrations, making it fun and interesting for young readers to go through the dialogue with those great scientists.
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Public health & preventive medicineSeptember 2013Geographic Health Data
Fundamental Techniques for Analysis
by Daniel W Goldberg, Kevin A Henry, Chetan Tiwari, Nathaniel Bell, Andrew J Curtis, Jin Chen, Tarek Rashed, Christopher Saarnak, Jarvis Chen. Edited by Francis P Boscoe.
Focussing on proven techniques for most real-world data sets, this book presents an overview of the analysis of health data involving a geographic component, in a way that is accessible to any health scientist or student comfortable with large data sets and basic statistics, but not necessarily with any specialized training in geographic information systems (GIS). Providing clear, straightforward explanations with worldwide examples and solutions, the book describes applications of GIS in disaster response.
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Children's & YATwo Planets
by Masoud Gharabaghi
People of two neighboring planets have been living together in peace until a scientist invents a device to look at the sky with. The trouble begins when the map of the sky is different for each planet, but whose map is the correct one? The book tries to help children towards thinking objectively despite their biases. It also aims to encourage critical thinking and seeing the differences while taking something into account.
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December 2024Livestock Handling and Transport
by Temple Grandin, John Abizaid, Faith Reyes, Adrian Barber, Donald M Broom, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo, Dana L. M. Campbell, John Church, Michael Cockram, Lorna Coppinger, Raymond Coppinger, Roger Ewbank, Luigi Faucitano, Robert B. Freeman, Wendy K Fulwider, Carmen Gallo, Arlene Garcia-Marquez, Peter J Goddard, Temple Grandin, Paul H Hemsworth, Katherine A. Houpt, Stella Maris Huertas Canén, Geoffrey D. Hutson, Anna Johnson, Meagan King, Bert Lambooij, Pol Llonch Obiols, Edmond A. Pajor, Mateus J.R. Paranhos da Costa, Genaro C. Miranda-de la Lama, Miriam Parker, Clive J C Phillips, Matthew J. Ritter, Emma Fabreger I Romans, Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein, Antonio Velarde, Kurt Vogel, Claire A Weeks, Carissa L. Wickens, S. Wilhelmsson, Trevor DeVries, Gabriel Dallago, Ashlyn Scott, Juliana Ribas, J. Gooding, S. Carr, C. Yoder, C. Jones, A. K. Johnson, A. Garcia, Jayson Galbraith
Edited by world-renowned animal scientist Dr Temple Grandin, this book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport systems, restraint methods and facilities for farms and slaughterhouses, this new edition expands on new developments in the field, as well as covering the integration of and potential welfare benefits and costs of technological advances such as virtual fencing. An important read for animal scientists, animal welfare researchers and practitioners, and veterinarians, this straightforward text is also a valuable resource for stock-people and farmers.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2024Manchester minds
A university history of ideas
by Stuart Jones
A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history. The year 2024 marks two centuries since the establishment of The University of Manchester in its earliest form. The first of England's civic universities, Manchester has been home and host to a huge number of influential thinkers and generated world-changing ideas. This book presents a rich account of the remarkable contribution that people associated with The University of Manchester have made to human knowledge. A who's who of Manchester greats, it presents fascinating snapshots of pioneering artists, scholars and scientists, from the poet and activist Eva Gore-Booth to the economist Arthur Lewis, the computer scientist Alan Turing and the physicist Brian Cox.
