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Winner of a 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Award. Molecular symmetry (MS) is an easily applied tool for understanding and predicting many of the properties of molecules. Traditionally, students are taught MS using point groups derived from ...
Fundamentals of Molecular Symmetry (Series in Chemical Physics)
Grab your backpack and prepare to travel 65 million years into the past where an incredible variety of terrifying dinosaurs herd, lurk, or chomp their way through the vegetation. Startlingly powerful illustrations, informative captions, and a live...
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located beneath the desolate flatlands near Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico, is the first facility of its kind in the world -- the most elaborate and expensive landfill opened to date that permanently ho...
Nuclear Reactions: The Politics of Opening a Radioactive Waste Disposal Site
AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC...
Volume 11 of this series presents five timely reviews on current research on alkaloids. Chapter 1 by Paul L. Schiff, Jr. is a monumental survey of research that has been carried out over the past decade on the Thalictrum alkaloids. Forty-six new a...
Alkaloids: Chemical and Biological Perspectives, Volume 11, Volume 11
Who says that all possible social and political systems have already been invented? Or that work-or marriage, or environmentalism, or anything else-must be just what they are now? This book is a conceptual toolbox for imagining and initiating radi...
How to Re-imagine the World: A Pocket Guide for Practical Visionaries
"Like having a scientist at your side to answer your questions in plain, non-technical language. "-Science News. Why is red meat red? How do they decaffeinate coffee? Do you wish you understood the science of food but don't want to plow through dr...
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel uni...
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
In Visions, physicist and author Michio Kaku examines the great scientific revolutions that have dramatically reshaped the twentieth century -- the quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence -- and shows how they will change and a...
Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Science for grades 3-5 offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. This book provides four different types of menus that students can use to select ex...
Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Science (Grades 3-5)