General Science Books

New and Published Books

1. Magic, Science, and Empire in Postcolonial Literature

   The Alchemical Literary Imagination

   By Kathleen Renk

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book examines the ways in which contemporary British and British postcolonial writers in the after-empire era draw connections between magic (defined here as Renaissance Hermetic philosophy) and science. Writers such as Tom Stoppard, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood critique both imperial...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
2. Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

   By Bryan Walpert

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of...

   Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Culture of Science

   How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe

   Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its...

   Published September 22nd 2011 by Routledge
4. Artificial Intelligence: The Basics

   By Kevin Warwick

   Series: The Basics

   'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.' - Nick Smith, Engineering and Technology Magazine November 2011 Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a concise and cutting-edge...

   Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
5. Evolution: The Basics

   By Sherrie Lyons

   Series: The Basics

   Evolution: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the history, development and science of the theory of evolution. Beginning pre-Darwin and concluding with the latest research and controversies, readers are introduced to the origins of the idea of evolution, the ways in which it has developed...

   Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge
6. Religion and Science

   Edited by Sara Fletcher Harding, Nancy Morvillo

   Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

   Integral to human nature is the need to seek understanding of the world in which we live, to discover how it works and why. We find our answers to these fundamental questions through different methods; empirical science justifies our observations of the natural world, but religion offers...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
7. Mathematics for Biological Scientists

   By Mike Aitken, Bill Broadhurst, Stephen Hladky

   Mathematics for Biological Scientists is a new undergraduate textbook which covers the mathematics necessary for biology students to understand, interpret and discuss biological questions.The book's twelve chapters are organized into four themes. The first theme covers the basic concepts of...

   Published December 21st 2009 by Garland Science
8. Insect Taste

   Vol 63

   Edited by Philip Newland, Matthew Cobb, Frederic Marion-Poll

   Series: Society for Experimental Biology

   Insect Taste offers an accessible overview to some of the many advances in insect taste research. The book covers how insects solve the basic problem of taste gustatory processing, from detection and transduction, through coding to the generation of behavior and the evolutionary biology...

   Published October 2nd 2008 by Taylor & Francis
9. Biology of Fishes

   3rd Edition

   By Quentin Bone, Richard Moore

   The Third Edition of Biology of Fishes is chiefly about fish as remarkably efficient machines for coping with the many problems that life in water entails, and looks at many such special cases. Fishes form the largest group of vertebrates, with around 20,000 known species, and they display a...

   Published March 18th 2008 by Taylor & Francis
10. BIOS Instant Notes in Motor Control, Learning and Development

    By Andrea Utley, Sarah Astill

    Series: Instant Notes

    Instant Notes in Motor Control, Learning and Development provides an overview of how the brain and nervous system control movement, and how new movements are learned and improved. The early chapters set the scene by defining the field and discussing the measurement of movement. This leads...

    Published February 6th 2008 by Taylor & Francis