Popular science (243)

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Animation, Sport and Culture is a wide-ranging study of both sport and animated films. From Goofy to Goalkeepers, Wallace and Gromit to Tiger Woods, Mickey Mouse to Messi, and Nike to Nationhood, this Olympic-sized analysis looks at the history, poli...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:In 2016, scientist Rosaly Lopes and artist Michael Carroll teamed up as fellows of the National Science Foundation to travel to Mount Erebus, the world’s southernmost active volcano in Antarctica. The logistics of getting there and complex operations...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This groundbreaking work of both theoretical and experiential thought by two leading ecological philosophers and animal liberation scientists ventures into a new frontier of applied ethical anthrozoological studies. Through lean and elegant text, rea...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:This book vigorously challenges the dominant academic view of ASBOs as erroneous tools of social control, and offers an alternative perspective on anti-social behaviour management which argues that ASBOs are capable of enabling a positive process of ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America’s space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level whi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book offers a clear, yet comprehensive guide to how to structure a design project, focusing in particular on the key questions designers, architects, policy makers and health professionals should consider when working towards inclusion through d...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:The creation and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) is a milestone in space exploration. But without the Space Shuttle, it would have remained an impossible dream. Assembling and Supplying the ISS is the story of how, between 1998 a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Für das vorliegende Sachbuch ist der „Diesel-Skandal“ der Auslöser zu informieren, über die Automobile von heute und morgen, über ihre Antriebe, die Elektromobilität, das Autonome Fahren, die Schadstoffe und den Klimaschutz. Die Aufregung vieler Mens...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book will help beekeepers understand the fundamentals of beekeeping science. Written in plain and accessible language by actual researchers, it should be part of every beekeeper’s library. The respective chapters not only present raw data; they ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:'Wozu braucht man Mathematik?' Dieses Buch stellt unter Beweis, dass moderne Mathematik in fast sämtlichen Lebensbereichen eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Aktuelle Forschung wird durch unterhaltsame Aufgaben und ihre Lösungen anschaulich. Das Buch forder...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Il libro ha origine dall'attività svolta durante il progetto 'BetOnMath', un'esperienza di Matematica Civile finalizzata alla prevenzione dell'abuso di gioco d'azzardo tra gli studenti della scuola secondaria di secondo grado attraverso un insegnamen...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Wussten Sie dass durch Honig schon mal eine Schlacht entschieden wurde? dass sich das Reinheitsgebot für Bier ursprünglich gegen eine einheimische Rauschgiftpflanze gerichtet hat? dass der Wunderbaum Palma Christi ein Eiweiß produzi...