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SCIENCE FOUR ELEMENTS Water, Air, Fire, Earth
JANE’S SPACE RECOGNITION GUIDE
Rebecca Rupp The modern Periodic Table lists a total of 118 elements, but for over two millennia we understood the whole of matter to be made from just four. From Greek philosopher Thales’ first speculations on the elements in the sixth century BCE, through a series of episodes in world history, this entertaining book shows how water, air, earth and fire have been (and continue to be) fundamental to our understanding of the world around us. Profile 2005 £16.99 HB 373pp
Peter Bond Technically detailed and illustrated with over 400 colour photographs, this guide was published to mark 50 years of space flight. It begins with a survey of the world’s space agencies before charting all the major missions, historic current and future launchers, launch sites and civilian, military and scientific shuttles and satellites. The final sections look at deep space exploration, human space flight and future prospects. HarperCollins 2008 £20.00 PB 384pp Illus
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GRANITE LANDSCAPES OF THE WORLD Piotr Migon Using examples of granite regions around the world, Piotr Migon shows how the specific characteristics of the rock itself influence natural landscapes and why natural processes shaping the Earth’s surface act so distinctively on granite. The book examines typical granite landforms, such as boulders, tors and inselbergs, and certain specific environments such as deeply weathered tropical terrains, coasts and cold-climate uplands. Finally, Migon reviews some of the most characteristic human transformations of granite landscapes. Oxford UP 2006 £122.00 HB 416pp Illus
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THE WATCH ON THE HEATH Science and Religion before Darwin Keith Thomson ‘The watch must have had a maker’: picturing nature as the creation of a supreme designer, William Paley’s famous watch analogy epitomizes the age of ‘natural theology’, when scientists of conventional piety argued that the rational study of nature could confirm religious belief. The dilemmas of British intellectuals such as David Hume and Erasmus Darwin, and their attempts to win acceptance for their ideas, are the subject of Thomson’s fascinating study of the period between 1665 and 1800.
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM Exploring the Planets and Their Moons from Mercury to Pluto and Beyond Ed. Giles Sparrow The planets, moons, asteroids and comets are explored in this lavishly illustrated, highly accessible guide to the solar system. Beginning with the Sun, successive chapters travel to each of the planets in turn, finally reaching Pluto and Charon some three billion miles away. Along with the factual information, graphics and spectacular photographs, the book covers theories on topics such as Martian canals, meteor mysteries and the ice asteroids of the Kuiper Belt. Thunder Bay 2006 HB 256pp Illus 214x287mm
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The European Space Agency XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror) observatory, launched into Earth orbit in 1999
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FRED HOYLE’S UNIVERSE Jane Gregory The English astronomer Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) was one of the most widely acclaimed scientists of the 20th century, a downto-earth Yorkshireman who combined a brilliant scientific mind with a relish for communication
and controversy. Through the life of Hoyle, this book chronicles the triumphs, jealousies and feuds of a rapidly developing scientific field, with a cast of colourful astronomers keeping secrets, losing their tempers, and building their careers here on Earth while contemplating the nature of the stars. Oxford UP 2005 £20.00 HB 408pp Illus
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THE STORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM Mark A Garlick From the genesis of the Sun around 4,660 million years ago and the emergence of the planets, moons, asteroids and comets a few million years later, to the Solar System’s inevitable end billions of years hence, this is the story of the Universe’s vast ‘recycling mechanisms’ in action around us. Garlick’s accessible guide to our present state of knowledge also includes discussion of the unique features of each of the planets and their satellites. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. Cambridge UP 2002 £32.00 HB 154pp Illus 275x235mm
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HarperCollins 2005 £20.00 HB 314pp Illus
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ANALYSIS An Introduction Richard Beals This self-contained text, suitable for advanced undergraduates, provides an extensive introduction to mathematical analysis, from the fundamentals to more advanced material. It begins with the properties of the real numbers and continues with rigorous treatments of sequences, series, metric spaces and calculus in one variable. Further subjects include Lebesgue measure and integration on the line, Fourier
analysis and differential equations. The book provides a large number of examples and nearly 500 exercises. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge. Cambridge UP 2004 £26.99 PB 261pp
NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS An Introduction to Dynamical Systems Third edition
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DW Jordan; P Smith The third edition of this very successful textbook in the qualitative theory of nonlinear differential equations has been completely revised to bring it into line with current interest and research, including an expansion of the material on bifurcation and chaos. The book is directed towards practical applications of the theory, with several hundred examples and problems covering a wide variety of mechanical, biological and electrical applications. Oxford Applied and Engineering Mathematics.
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NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION An Introduction to Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation Grégoire Allaire; Trans. Alan Craig The object of this course, based on Allaire’s teaching at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, is to introduce mathematical modelling and numerical simulation, two disciplines which have gained in importance in all areas of science over recent decades. Mathematical modelling is the art (or science) of representing a physical reality as abstract models which are accessible to analysis and calculation. Numerical analysis allows us to calculate the solutions of these models on a computer. Oxford UP 2007 £32.00 PB 454pp
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THE PROBLEMS OF PHYSICS
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AJ Leggett Reissued in the Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, this book aims to give the nonspecialist reader a general overview of what physicists think they do and do not know in some representative frontier areas of physics. After sketching the historical background, Leggett discusses problems in cosmology, high-energy physics and condensed-matter physics, focusing on the fundamental problems at the heart of the subject. First published in 1987. Oxford UP 2006 £23.00 PB 192pp
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Oxford UP 2006 £30.00 PB 550pp
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INTRODUCTORY ALGEBRAIC NUMBER THEORY Saban Alaca; Kenneth S Williams Algebraic number theory is a subject that came into being through the attempts of mathematicians to try to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem and that now has a wealth of applications – to Diophantine equations, cryptography, factoring, primality testing and public-key cryptosystems. This introduction is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduates in mathematics. The material is presented in a straightforward manner, with numerous examples to illustrate the theory, biographies of mathematicians who have contributed to the field and over 320 exercises. Felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge. Cambridge UP 2004 £26.99 PB 428pp
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