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Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere (Scientific American Library)

2 reviews
Vaclav Smil

Scientific American Library, 1997

Fascinating
I found this book (2 ed. Scientific American 2001) to be easily readable, and while the general thrust of the work may be about the greenhouse effect that is not the main topic. Rather, the book focuses on exploring the flows of major substances in the environment e.g; carbon, nitrogen, water and phosphorous. I've loaned this book and and it was greatly appreciated there too. Alas, it seems it ...

Stars (A Scientific American Library Book)

5 reviews
James B. Kaler

Scientific American Library, 1992

An excellent manual of detail that's easy to understand.
In the Belmont Society, we think it's a shame that most of us don't understand how a star works. We glance up at them every night, and look at them through binoculars and telescopes, but for the most part we have no real knowledge of what makes them tick. James B. Kaler has created a significant work of importance in that regard. This book is a manual of detail that describes the workings of ...

Sleep (Scientific American Library)

3 reviews
J. Allan Hobson

Scientific American Library, 1989

Amazing
This book offers more information and factual data, then first assumed. You'll learn about sleep disorders, and all of the latest research. For example, did you know that the sleep attacks of narcolepsy occur at periodic intervals of 90 - 100 minutes, during waking, a frequency that collides with the onset of REM during sleep. Not only is this and other interesting facts presented in a clear ...

Mathematics: The Science of Patterns : The Search for Order in Life, Mind, and the Universe (Scientific ...

8 reviews
Keith Devlin

Scientific American Library, 1994

A pleasure to read
The book is fun to read ,very informative and very clear. It doesnt matter if you know some university mathematics or not ,anyhow you will find this book a pleasure to read ,and if you dont know nothing about mathematics it will change your perspective on the world. I suggest you will get a copy and read it.Excellent book!.

The Evolving Coast (Scientific American Library)

2 reviews
Richard A. Davis

Scientific American Library, 1993

Wow!
I just would like to say that if you are interested in Coastal Morphology but didn't think that you could ever understand the science behind the processes, think again. This book was extremely well writen and easily understood. This was a text I had to buy for a class and is the first text that I actually liked to read. It helped me to understand the concepts of Coastal morphology and how the ...

Aging: A Natural History (Scientific American Library)

2 reviews
Robert E. Ricklefs, Caleb Ellicott Finch

Scientific American Library, 1995

Great book; great for teachers as well
This is a readable, but thorough survey of the biology of aging. I teach in this field, and I'm sorry it took me a few years to run across this book. (Finally, courtesy the "related books" feature of Amazon.) In addition to being a very good book on aging (and there are several out there for the general reader), this book is chock full of great color photographs and clear, colorful graphs.

The Animal Mind (Scientific American Library)

2 reviews
James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould

Scientific American Library, 1994

an important contribution to current topic
The behaviorist school of psychology has so dominated research for almost 60 years. Finally, the tide is beginning to turn in the opposite direction. New research is showing without doubt that humans have underestimated animals to an extreme degree. This book examines the "Umwelt" of various animals and illustrates very complex behavior, even in animals as startling different than us as the ...

The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya (Scientific American Library, #30)

3 reviews
Jeremy A. Sabloff

Scientific American Library, 1989

Archaeology and T The New he Ancient Maya
There are many books written on the subject of the Maya civilization. What sets Jeremy Sabloff's book apart from the rest is how he approaches the subject. He refers to his book as a story, and provides his reader with a very concise overview of the Maya civilization. The clarity of his text enhances the usefulness of the book, which in turn broadens the audience from anthropology students ...

The Development of Children

6 reviews
Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole

Scientific American Library, 1995

By far one of my counseling textbook favorites.
Cole & Cole's work is by far one of my favorite textbooks. The reason? The authors methodically lay out child development from a biopsychosocial perspective, which is no small feat. They write with a thoroughness and efficiency that you will rarely find in a textbook. Their treatment of child development is evenhanded, not privilaging either the bio, psycho, or social perspectives.

A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime (Scientific American Library)

4 reviews
John Archibald Wheeler

W H Freeman & Co (Scientific American Library), 1990

A stunner of a book
This is truely an amazing book. Wheeler does for General Relativity what Hawking did for Cosmology in "A Brief History of Time", and in some sense they are similar books. However Wheeler has a unique, quirky style of writing that makes the book an entertaining adventure to read. Wheeler is able to pull off a major accomplishment: He explains Einstein's General Relativity in a clear, ...

From Quarks to the Cosmos: Tools of Discovery (Scientific American Library)

2 reviews
Leon M. Lederman, David N. Schramm

Scientific American Library, 1989

Extremely clear and easy to read, plus beautiful!
I have read lots of popular science books about particle physics and this is way out in front of the pack! It clarified many things that other authors just assumed the reader could understand. For example, the section on how to build synchrotrons and accelerators and why the devices are shaped the way they are was so clear. Plus the color photographs and drawings make it a lovely book to ...

Perception

2 reviews
Irvin Rock

Scientific American Library, 1985

Many insights into sight , interpretation and comprehension
This is a great work on something rarely considered - how do we perceive the physical world? When you think about it, the very act itself is incredible - almost magical. Cells that were sensitive to light developed, over eons, into the amazing organ we call the "eye". But how does the eye work, or perhaps more important, what are the mental and physical processes that allow us to view reality? ...

A Guided Tour of the Living Cell

1 review
Christian De Duve

Scientific American Library, 1984

No better book
A wonderful detailed, serious look inside the cell in two volumes, profusely illustrated. At the level (naturally) of a Scientific American article, but much longer. De Duve is a Nobel prize winner too.

Genes and the Biology of Cancer (Scientific American Library)

1 review
Harold Varmus, Robert A. Weinberg

Scientific American Library, 1992

Excelent, deserves to be updated and reprinted
An excelent short biology book on cancer, written by two of the worlds leading experts. There are very few up-to-date books on the biology of cancer. Even though a dacade old, this is the best place to start if you find a copy. Readers with a little knowledge of biology will appreciate it more. This book is not necessarily an "easy read". The authors introduction addresses "The motivated but ...

Discovering Enzymes (Scientific American Library)

1 review
David Dressler, Huntington Potter

Scientific American Library, 1991

Wonderful Book!
This book may be the best book i have ever read. Published in 1991, this book still presents knowledge that is relevant to all chemistry and biochemistry students, including the amateur scientist who is looking to understand the vocabulary of the biomedical field. The book also has an awesome historical introduction. I have bought >30 copies of this book and given them to students.

On Size and Life (Scientific American Library)

2 reviews
Thomas McMahon, John Tyler Bonner

Scientific American Library, 1985

A full of facts book that's a pleasure to read
This is a delightful book to read ! I found many answers to puzzling questions, and really there were many more riddles than I had previously thought of. The book is far more than informative. It made me think deeper on how life on earth is organized. I always wondered if animal shapes where subject to any pattern. Did evolution follow any rules or was it a haphazard process ? Was there any ...

Atmosphere, Climate, and Change (Scientific American Library)

1 review
T. E. Graedel, Paul J. Crutzen

Scientific American Library, 1995

Climate -> evolution
Changes in climate have been important determinants in evolution on Earth. As well as dealing with contemporary climate issues, this reference also describes how data from rocks, ice cores, ocean sediments, etc. is used to deduce the history of the planet's history of climate. This reference gives atmospheric O2 as a percent of present value at 1% at 2 billion years B.P., 10% at 700 million years ...

Life at Small Scale: The Behavior of Microbes (Scientific American Library)

2 reviews
David B. Dusenbery

Scientific American Library, 1996

two thumbs up!
An insightful, well organized, and superlatively illustrated basic text book in microbial life (Dusenbery includes some more complex forms, using size as a determinant). Written for the science literate layperson, it presents, among many other things, a view of the physical universe of microbial life that had, for me, more than a few "ah, ha's!" My son, a high school junior, also read and ...

Exploring Planetary Worlds (Scientific American Library)

1 review
David Morrison

Scientific American Library, 1993

Planets, including Earth
Review of properties of different planets. Also reviews the influence of comets and asteroids in forming Earth's history.

Extinction (Scientific American Library)

1 review
Steven M. Stanley

Scientific American Library, 1987

Extinctions examined without resort to comets or meteorites
"Extinction" was published in 1987, after the discovery of the iridium layer at the K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) Boundary but before the Chicxulub impact crater (first reported and ignored at the 1981 annual meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists) impressed itself upon the hearts and minds of paleontologists and geologists. Professor Stanley, who is a paleobiologist at Johns Hopkins ...

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