Product Description: Bringing the biggest life stories to the smallest readers!Benjamin Franklin was curious about the world around him. He had wide and varied interests that led him to become a printer, a writer, an inventor, a statesman, and eventually one of the fathers of our nation...read more

A self instructive text for thermodynamics. This is the second edition of the title which can be supplemented by a solutions manual, OHT's and an IBM disk.

Product Description: In full color with striking and informative illustrations and photographs, this is a beautiful and eye-catching book that will stand out on the shelf. Includes familiar names like Galileo Galielei and Albert Einstein, as well as lesser-known scientists such as Dmitri Mendeleyev and Linus Pauling...read more

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Product Description: A new cultural icon strode the world stage at the turn of the twenty-first century: the celebrity scientist, as comfortable in Vanity Fair and Vogue as Smithsonian. Declan Fahy profiles eight of these eloquent, controversial, and compelling sellers of science to investigate how they achieved celebrity in the United States and internationally—and explores how their ideas influence our understanding of the world...read more

In-depth critical essays on important men and women scientists of all time, from around the world. Salem's Great Lives from History: Scientists and Science includes coverage of over 350 of the greatest scientists in history from a wide range of fields, many of which have never been covered in any Great Lives set before. Each of these extended biographies offers concise and informative top matter that includes an introductory summary of the person's scientific significance; birth and death dates and places; and specialty fields of science. Biographies represent a strong, global, cross-gender focus, and each biography offers a sidebar focusing on a significant breakthrough or endeavour.

A self instructive text for thermodynamics. This is the second edition of the title which can be supplemented by a solutions manual, OHT's and an IBM disk.

Product Description: This rich compendium examines revolutionary advances in mathematics, physics, science, chemistry, biology and medicine by revealing the lives of the people responsible for them. Just as each generation of new scientific pioneers stands upon the shoulders of the giants who came before them, these biographies build upon each other and tell a collective tale of the development of breakthroughs like the X-ray, radio waves, the Big Bang Theory, and evolution...read more

Product Description: Wisdom of the Martians of Science refers to five scientists whose brilliance contributed to shaping the modern world. John von Neumann was a pioneer of the modern computer; Theodore von Kármán was the scientist behind the US Air Force; Leo Szilard initiated the development of nuclear weapons; the Nobel laureate Eugene P Wigner was the world's first nuclear engineer; and Edward Teller was the father of the hydrogen bomb...read more