Neuroscience - Canadian 1st Edition is a comprehensive source that examines the nervous system, neurodegeneration, techniques in studying neuroscience and emerging topics in the field.
Math and science
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Author:Ju, WilliamSummary: - Author:Harari, Yuval NoahSummary:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite...
- Author:Damer, Eric, Astell, CarolineSummary:
The extraordinary story of Michael Smith, a man who rose from humble beginnings in Blackpool, England, to become a revolutionary gene researcher, philanthropist and Nobel Prize winner. A professor at the University of British Columbia,...
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This book is the handbook for the emerging youth climate movement, providing concise explanations of the features and causes of climate change as well as pieces urging an intersectional approach to environmental justice.
- Author:Gerardi, KellieSummary:
Humanity is on an astronomical trajectory and according to aerospace professional and popular science communicator Kellie Gerardi, that future doesn't rest solely on the shoulders of rocket scientists. Gerardi's non-traditional path in...
- Author:Morton, AlexandraSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a...
- Author:Ritchie, HannahSummary:
This "truly essential" audiobook will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood) - and explains how we can solve them. It's become common to tell kids that they're going to die from...
- Author:Lebl, JiříSummary:
A first course on differential equations, aimed at engineering students. The prerequisite for the course is the basic calculus sequence. This OER is usable as a standalone textbook or as a companion to a course using another book, such...
- Author:Bardoe, CherylSummary:
The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and tidal waves, fires, mine cave-ins, bridge collapses, ship sinkings, airplane crashes, explosions, and plagues — natural and human-engineered calamity and catastrophe have many forms and...
- Author:Lennox, DougSummary:
"When it rains, it pours," especially when it comes to best-selling author Doug Lennox’s Now You Know Extreme Weather. Global warming, killer hurricanes, murderous tornadoes, melting permafrost – weather concerns us all, and...
- Author:Hickam, Homer H.Summary:
The author traces the boyhood enthusiasm for rockets that eventually led to a career at NASA, describing how he built model rockets in the family garage in West Virginia, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite "Sputnik."
- Author:Haigh, JerrySummary:
A search for the moose, the whole moose, and nothing but the moose
Whether you’re a wildlife specialist, an avid hunter, or an armchair veterinarian, Of Moose and Men provides a wealth of information about moose...
- Author:Yorath, Chris, Gadd, BenSummary:
A resource for understanding the regions geology and seeing the evidence of important processes typical of the unique geological system in Jasper National Park.
- Author:McGee, HaroldSummary:
On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of where our foods come from, what exactly they're made of, and how cooking transforms them into something new and...
- Author:Phelps, Kenneth WayneSummary:
Today, when killing the enemy can seem tantamount to playing a video game, what constitutes warfare? Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, addresses these questions and others.
- Author:Roberts, JillianSummary:
Introduces children to the important topic of the environment. Crafted around a conversation between a grade-school-aged child and an adult, this inquiry-focused book using age-appropriate language and tone will help children shape...
- Author:Waltner-Toews, DavidSummary:
Authored by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans-called zoonoses-including what attracts them to humans, why they have become more common in recent history, and...
- Author:Martin, ClaudeSummary:
In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world’s rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators...
- Author:Darwin, CharlesSummary:
In 1831 British naturalist Charles Darwin joined a five-year expedition on the ship HMS Beagle. As the crew explored the southern hemisphere, Darwin took extensive notes on the organisms he encountered and how they differed from the...
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