By Grzimek

ISBN-10: 0787691836

ISBN-13: 9780787691837

By Jürgen Beyerer

ISBN-10: 3866441479

ISBN-13: 9783866441477

2d safeguard learn convention 2007, 12th-14th September Karlsruhe, Germany.

By HOLT MCDOUGAL

ISBN-10: 0547586639

ISBN-13: 9780547586632

ISBN: 9780547586632

By Robert Gardner, Tom LaBaff

ISBN-10: 0766059448

ISBN-13: 9780766059443

Award-winning writer Robert Gardner involves the rescue of busy scholars in all places. every one test in TUNDRA EXPERIMENTS: 14 EXPERIMENTS follows the clinical procedure, and is designed to be accomplished in less than an hour. realize why a tundra remains rainy whilst it gets little rain, discovering the power (heat) is required to soften one gram of ice, construct a version of the permafrost, and the technological know-how of sunlight warmth and leaf colour. There also are principles for extra technological know-how experiments in case you have overtime.

By Randi Mehling

ISBN-10: 0791090493

ISBN-13: 9780791090497

ISBN-10: 1438122985

ISBN-13: 9781438122984

Lines the increase and fall of prehistoric species, comprises dialogue in regards to the wide-spread and often-challenged theories in regards to the 5 largest extinctions, and increases questions on even if we're heading towards one other mass extinction.

By Alvin K. Benson

ISBN-10: 1587655225

ISBN-13: 9781587655227

This paintings good points in-depth serious essays on vital women and men inventors of all time, from all over the world. Plus, unfastened on-line entry to the entire content material of this striking reference set is offered. the published reference contains: 4 volumes, together with 2,048 pages; 409 essays and 409 sidebars; hundreds of thousands of photographs, illustrations and graphs; and, appendixes, indexes and source listings. positive aspects of the net subscription comprise: absolutely supported; complimentary on-line entry; limitless clients at your library; complete entry from domestic or dorm room; instant entry through on-line registration; an easy, intuitive interface; person profile components for college kids and consumers; refined seek services; whole content material, together with appendixes; and, absolutely illustrated. ""Great Lives from historical past: Inventors and Inventions"" good points 409 essays overlaying 413 person inventors (including 27 ladies) from all time, world wide. All essays have been written particularly for this new ebook. The editors have integrated during this set these inventors well-known for shaping sleek know-how and how we are living this present day - assurance that's crucial in any liberal arts curriculum. The editor's standards for together with those members during this e-book took into consideration their status as inventors, the importance in their innovations, the quantity of time they spent inventing, their illustration of global inventors, their relevance to type curricula, and their curiosity to highschool, undergraduate, and basic readers. For reasons of this book, the time period 'invention' was once outlined to incorporate not just mechanical and different actual units but in addition tactics (e.g., the Bessemer strategy for making steel), software program (such as Grace Hopper's invention of COBOL), and structures resembling these utilized to company administration. natural clinical theories (such as legislation of physics) have been excluded, even if infrequent exceptions have been made for such platforms and instruments that experience had an complete impact on our approach of interacting with the realm, resembling Aristotle's invention of the 1st approach of organic taxonomy, Newton's construction of the calculus, and Einstein's theories of relativity

By Lucy T. Eubanks

ISBN-10: 0073048763

ISBN-13: 9780073048765

Following within the culture of the 1st 5 variants, the aim of this industry prime textbook, "Chemistry in Context, 5th Edition", is to set up chemical rules on a need-to-know foundation inside of a contextual framework of important social, political, financial and moral concerns. The non conventional procedure of "Chemistry in Context" mirror modern technological concerns and the chemistry rules imbedded inside them. international warming, trade fuels, foodstuff, and genetic engineering are examples of concerns which are coated in "CIC".

By David M Thompson

ISBN-10: 0791089320

ISBN-13: 9780791089323

In the world, not anything continues to be. Mountains upward push and fall. Tides ebb and circulation. Even the continents themselves are at the flow. underneath the outside, a nuclear engine powers earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the transferring of continents. Above floor, the solar reasons the wind to howl, rain to pour, rivers to churn, and oceans to swell with waves. techniques That form the Earth surveys those forces and the methods they sculpt the planet. the fashionable idea of plate tectonics is brought, in addition to different pertinent issues in actual geology. a number of chapters upload appropriate old context, featuring readers with interesting discussions of Earth's starting place, its historical past over billions of years, and the new alterations that experience resulted from human job.

By Chris Roffey

ISBN-10: 1107623251

ISBN-13: 9781107623255

A different sequence that gives a framework for instructing coding abilities. Take your Python coding to the following point! booklet 2 keeps seamlessly on from Python fundamentals, supplying complete aid and innovative projects for college kids who've a few simple programming adventure and are able to circulation directly to a bit tougher fabric. you'll software and customize an easy calculator and, most significantly, examine crucial new programming rules that might make you a way more entire coder. The code is acceptable for Mac, home windows and Linux clients and for that reason appropriate with the Raspberry Pi.

By Rebecca Stefoff

ISBN-10: 0195089960

ISBN-13: 9780195089967

On the foundation of Species, released in 1858, remodeled our view of the realm and made Charles Darwin some of the most arguable figures in technology. This biography starts off a lot previous along with his lengthy look for a career, his five-year voyage worldwide at the Beagle, and the decades-long highbrow trip he made in his research and backyard. however it is for his idea concerning the starting place of guy and typical choice that he's remembered. His e-book threw the clinical neighborhood right into a heated debate that keeps this day, and has made evolutionary biology one of many liveliest components of technological know-how. This new biography seems on the individual at the back of the talk whose earth- shaking discoveries and concepts stay as intriguing and engaging as modern day headlines.
Oxford Profiles in technology is an on-going sequence of clinical biographies for teens. Written by means of best students and writers, each one biography examines the character of its topic in addition to the idea approach resulting in his or her discoveries. those illustrated biographies mix available technical details with compelling own tales to painting the scientists whose paintings has formed our knowing of the wildlife