Copernicus Books

A sympathetic book suggesting a new approach to urinary tract disorders is long overdue. Half of all women will experience some form of urinary tract disease or discomfort during their lifetime. For...

Over the past 25 years, a stream of fossil and artifact discoveries in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia has produced the longest single record of human ancestors in the world. Many of the fossils...

Asperger's Syndrome is a growing phenomenon or at least a growing fashion in psychology. Annual diagnoses of the condition have increased 300 percent over the last 10 years. This books seeks to find...

At 8:15 A.M., August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay released her load. For forty- three seconds, the world's first atomic bomb plunged through six miles of clear air to its preset detonation altitude. There...

Atomic Evidence: Seeing the Molecular Basis of LifeAuthor: David S. GoodsellPublisher: Copernicus BooksPublication Date: Aug 17, 2016Number of Pages: 182 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Why do you lean in a bend? Why does a sprinter slow down before the finish line? Why do golf balls have dimples? Why do you swim better slightly underwater? Why, on a bike, the faster you go, the...

This book aims to familiarize readers in a very simple and easy manner the rules and proper procedures of rational debate. It will help reduce the frustration that many experience when engaging in...

Schneier, the highly regarded author of APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY and SECRETS AND LIES, turns his iconoclastic mind on the broader issues of security, including the vast infrastructure we already have in...

Employing accessible language throughout, this book covers the history of psychiatric research, the current state-of-the art in psychiatric practice, the physiological systems affected by psychiatric...

What makes the 21st century different from the 20th century? This century is the century of extremes -- political, economic, social, and global black-swan events happening with increasing frequency...

In the 1960s, it became increasingly clear that more and more information was going to be stored on computers, not on pieces of paper. With these changes in technology and the ways it was used came a...

Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Rise and Fall of Financial AssetsAuthor: Donald RappPublisher: Copernicus BooksPublication Date: Nov 15, 2014Number of Pages: 351 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

After she accidentally adopted a calico cat that turned out to be a male, Laura Gould was seized by curiosity. For there to be no male calicos at all would be understandable - it was their extreme...

The plan to send an unmanned craft on a 40-year journey to Alpha Centauri is, some think, the essence of bold science reaching out to the unknown. Gilster shows why scientists who will barely live to...

Partially funded by the Ploughshares Fund, this primer reviews the history of CBW, describes defenses against currently known biological and chemical agents, considers the incentives and...

When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code...

Aerospace writer Philip Chien, who has over 20 years' experience covering the US space program, provides a unique insight into the crew members who lost their lives in the Columbia disaster. He...

Overview xiii COMETS IN PERSON 1 A Comet Passes 3 COMETS IN GENERAL 2 Anatomy of a Ghost 27 3 Dirty Snowballs and the Nurseries of Leviathans 51 4 The Spectacular Deaths of Comets 61 5 Swords of...

This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying those...

This book follows the evolutionary trail all the way from the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago to conscious life today. It is an accessible introductory book written for the interested layperson -...

It is predicted that robots will surpass human intelligence within the next fifty years.The ever increasing speed of advances in technology and neuroscience, coupled with the creation of super...

Digital Darwinism is a key challenge for all companies and brands. Not all companies and managers are aware of the challenges lying ahead. This book helps to identify the need for change and adaption...

Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars is about the costs of health care and their impact on health. The book provides a timely criticism of the health care industry and the costs of health care. Within the...

Recent discoveries of planet-like objects circling other sun-like stars have stirred enormous interest in what other planets may exist in the universe, and whether they support intelligent life, or...

Imagine algebra class meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... Meet JJ, an unusual character with a unique vantage position from which he can measure and monitor humanity's progress. Armed with...

After a long and tortuous journey through time the black hole has come to be universally accepted. Once it was looked upon with abhorrence and there was widespread skepticism regarding its possible...

Figuring It Out: Entertaining Encounters with Everyday MathAuthor: Nuno CratoPublisher: Copernicus BooksPublication Date: Aug 23, 2016Number of Pages: 227 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The main differentiating quality of this book is that it portrays the complex interaction of different experts and opposing interests in investigating and solving the mystery of this single crash,...

Food Bites is an easy-to-read, often humorous book on the scientific basis of the foods we eat, and answers those pesky, niggling questions such as: Is the quality of beer really affected by the type...

Over the past few decades we have learned a great deal about the behavior of such materials as liquid crystals, emulsions and colloids, polymers, and complex molecules. These materials, called "soft...