Drawing from nearly 600 years of technology history, Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order, and stability as one of today's biggest policy...
Math and science
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Author:Juma, CalestousSummary: - Author:Johnston, DavidSummary:
This young readers edition of Ingenious focuses on 50 kid-friendly Canadian innovations that changed the world, from canoes to whoopie cushions, chocolate bars to Pablum. Co-written by Canada's Governor General and accompanied by...
- Author:Jenkins, Tom, Johnston, David L.Summary:
Successful innovation is always inspired by at least one of three forces -- insight, necessity and simple luck. 'Innovation Nation' moves through history to explore what circumstances, incidents, coincidences and collaborations...
- Author:Boothroyd, JenniferSummary:
Many insects drink nectar and collect pollen from flowers, and in the process they help plants reproduce. Readers will investigate how bees, butterflies, ants, and other insects assist in pollination. Simple text and supportive photos...
- Author:Schutten, Jan PaulSummary:
A perfect book for STEM learning: Kids ages 8-12 will love these creepy X-Rays of bugs, reptiles, mammals, and more! A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year. Using incredible X-ray techniques, Inside In displays...
- Author:Horowitz, AlexandraSummary:
The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’...
- Author:Richtel, MattSummary:
Creativity is perhaps the defining human trait. Yet, for thousands of years, we did know where creative inspiration came from, until now. This book is about the science of creativity.
- Author:Dubé, Monique, Eum, Hyung, Wang, George, Farjad, Babak, Gupta, AnilSummary:
Responding to an increase in the intensity of natural and anthropogenic stressors, this book reviews the various approaches to the integrated modeling of climate and hydrology and provides practitioners with a useful framework for...
- Author:Anthony-Smith, MaryAnne, Marecek, LynnSummary:
Intermediate Algebra - 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a one-semester intermediate algebra course. The book's organization makes it easy to adapt to a variety of course syllabi. The text expands on the...
- Author:Kuczynska, AnnaSummary:
This textbook is intended for adult learners who wish to review and improve their algebra skills. The content covers all the ABE outcomes for the Algebraic Math - Advanced Level. The concepts are explained concisely, but with enough...
- Author:Miller, ChristineSummary:
This course package is designed as an introduction to General and Applied Science. It satisfies the learning outcomes for British Columbia ABE Intermediate General and Applied Science, which is considered an equivalent to BC Science 10...
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This collection crosses several between genders, among countries, and between science and technology and the humanities. Over 50 essays deal with topics including biology, natural history, chemistry, computers, women’s issues,...
- Author:Webb, PaulSummary:
Introduction to Oceanography is a textbook appropriate to an introductory-level university course in oceanography. The book covers the fundamental geological, chemical, physical and biological processes in the ocean, with an emphasis on...
- Author:Mazur, IzabelaSummary:
This textbook is aligned with the British Columbia Adult Basic Education learning outcomes for Mathematics: Intermediate Level Algebra. The textbook introduces the fundamental concepts of algebra, geometry, and trigonometry while...
- Author:Ball, David W.Summary:
The goal of this textbook is not to make you an expert. True expertise in any field is a years-long endeavor. Here I [i.e. David W. Ball] will survey some of the basic topics of chemistry. This survey should give you enough knowledge to...
- Author:Key, Jessie A., Ball, David W.Summary:
The goal of this textbook is not to make you an expert. True expertise in any field is a years-long endeavor. Here I will survey some of the basic topics of chemistry. This survey should give you enough knowledge to appreciate the...
- Author:Zhang, Zhiyi, Shafer, Douglas S.Summary:
This book is meant to be a textbook for a standard one-semester introductory statistics course for general education students.Over time the core content of this course has developed into a well-defined body of material that is...
- Author:Illowsky, BarbaraSummary:
Introductory Statistics follows the scope and sequence of a one-semester, introduction to statistics course and is geared toward students majoring in fields other than math or engineering. This text assumes students have been exposed to...
- Author:Suzuki, David T.Summary:
From Naked Ape to Super Species takes an unflinching look at where we are at this unprecedented moment in history. Suzuki and Dressel reveal that a clear and present environmental danger is staring us in the face, a danger that is...
- Author:Fiddler, Teri Redsky, Hay, TravisSummary:
Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty...
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