"Working With Numbers and Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists" will bolster math skills and improve math confidence for journalists at all skill levels. Authors Charles Livingston and Paul Voakes developed this resource book to improve journalist Zobraziť viac
Presents the prisoners' dilemma, its history and variants; highlights original Axelrod's work and its impact; discusses results of different competitions; and, showcases selected papers that reflect the researches in the area. Zobraziť viac
This book provides a systematic treatment of the Volterra integral equation by means of a modern integration theory which extends considerably the field of differential equations. It contains many new concepts and results in the framework of a unifying... Zobraziť viac
This book brings together eleven case studies of inductive risk-the chance that scientific inference is incorrect-that range over a wide variety of scientific contexts and fields. The chapters are designed to illustrate the pervasiveness of inductive... Zobraziť viac
Pure Human is a bold call to reclaim what makes us human before it's lost. As AI reshapes the world, award-winning scientist Gregg Braden discusses the innate abilities we’ve forgotten and challenges us to embrace our extraordinary potential before we... Zobraziť viac
Unravelling the Double Helixc overs the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the late 1860s to the landmark publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the advent of the Zobraziť viac
A fresh, up-to-date account of the life and work of Charles Darwin. Zobraziť viac
This volume explores counterfactual thought and language. We can typically evaluate counterfactual questions probabilistically, predicting what would be likely or unlikely to happen. Schulz describes these probabilistic ways of evaluating... Zobraziť viac
The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave rise to modern-day nation states. It defines our extraordinary ecological success as well as many... Zobraziť viac
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science... Zobraziť viac
'Wise, timely and eloquent... A joy to read.' GuardianWhat does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective - something of the mind? In this profound collection of clinical stories, eminent psychiatrist Dr... Zobraziť viac
From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ';prehistory', Bothwell shows us the Universe as we've never seen it before literally... Zobraziť viac
From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests—from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring ... Zobraziť viac
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present, and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our ... Zobraziť viac
In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, ';our greatest living chronicler of the natural world' (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology ... Zobraziť viac
The fun, easy way to get up to speed on biophysics concepts, principles, and practices One of the most diverse of modern scientific disciplines, biophysics applies methods and technologies from physics to the study of biological ... Zobraziť viac
