This book, Basics of Fluid Mechanics, describes the fundamentals of fluid mechanics phenomena for engineers and others. This book is designed to replace all introductory textbook(s) or instructor's notes for the fluid mechanics in...
Math and science
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Author:Bar-Meir, GenickSummary: - Author:Kochanoff, PeggySummary:
Why is that tree lumpy? How do insects stay alive in the winter? What are tides, anyway? In Be a Wilderness Detective, biologist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these and many more questions. With simple language and beautifully...
- Author:MacDonald, FrankieSummary:
Canada's favourite weather reporter offers his one-of-a-kind perspective on all things weather! Ever wonder where clouds come from? Or how meteorologists predict the weather? This brand new book, starring Nova Scotia's favourite weather...
- Author:Warner, William W.Summary:
Warner presents his study of the pugnacious Atlantic blue crab and of its Chesapeake Bay territory.
- Author:Morgan, R. GraceSummary:
As one of North America's most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and horses have been the subject of...
- Author:Abram, DavidSummary:
As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild...
- Author:Camlot, HeatherSummary:
Who hasn't wished for a superpower? Maybe it's to be able to regenerate like Wolverine, or fly like Shazam? How about the ability to turn invisible like Violet Parr, or have superstrength like the Hulk? What about being able to control...
- Author:Winston, Mark L.Summary:
Bee Time presents Winston's reflections on three decades spent studying these creatures, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world. Like us, honeybees represent a...
- Author:Kricher, John C.Summary:
In this course, Wheaton College professor John Kricher provides a history of the discovery of dinosaurs, and he discusses the timeline and variations of dinosaurs, including their ultimate demise.
- Author:Horowitz, AlexandraSummary:
Alexandra Horowitz, the author of the lively, highly informative New York Times bestselling blockbuster Inside of a Dog, explains how dogs perceive the world through their most spectacular organ-the nose-and how we humans can put our...
- Author:Rosenstock, BarbSummary:
Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish - fins and all! This fascinating and lively account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he...
- Author:Krull, KathleenSummary:
Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. Kathleen Krull reveals Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher...
- Author:Kinch, Michael S.Summary:
If you have a child in school, you may have heard stories of long-dormant diseases suddenly reappearing - cases of measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough cropping up everywhere from elementary schools to Ivy League universities...
- Author:Ball, PhilipSummary:
"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. "Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things...
- Author:Rustad, HarleySummary:
Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition. On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. His job was to survey the land and...
- Author:Explorers, SuperSummary:
Monster trucks, fire trucks, garbage trucks, concrete pumping trucks and so many of the world's biggest trucks. They lift, haul, dig, pour, drag doing so much to work for us everyday. Here are so many of these trucks with photos of what...
- Author:Leiren-Young, Mark, Nakatsuka, KellySummary:
InBig Whales, Small Worldyou will meet whales from around the world. This rhyming photographic board book visits the oceans of places like New Zealand, Russia and South America. Writer, filmmaker and orca activist Mark Leiren-Young...
- Author:Langley, Richard H., Moore, John T.Summary:
Are you baffled by biochemistry? If so here's the good news—you don't have to stay that way! Biochemistry For Dummies shows you how to get a handle on biochemistry, apply the science, raise your grades, and prepare yourself to ace any...
- Author:Toland, Sarah, Willeumier, KristenSummary:
Neuroscientist Dr. Kristen Willeumier reveals how you can change your brain by making simple and easy modifications to your lifestyle. Combining clinical experience with revolutionary science, she details how biohacking your brain can...
- Author:Lipton, BruceSummary:
Cette édition spécial 10ème anniversaire est une version qui a été mise à jour afin d'intégrer les découvertes scientifiques les plus récentes, très nombreuses depuis une dizaine d'années. « Biologie des croyances...
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