The War of the Soups and the Sparks The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate

Like the cracking of the genetic code and the creation of the atomic bomb, the discovery of how the brain's neurons work is one of the fundamental scientific developments of the twentieth century. The discovery of neurotransmitters revolutionized the way ...

 Magnetoelectronics

The arrival of the 'information age' took most people by surprise ? including scientists and technologists. Today, research on better, smaller, and faster ways to store and transfer information continues to grow, and growing fast within this scope is the ...

 Exploding Disk Cannons, Slimemobiles, and 32 Other Projects for Saturday Science

These curious and offbeat science experiments provide Saturday scientists of all ages with new ways to mess up the basement and gross out mom-all in the name of education! Accomplished physicist and science writer Neil A. Downie presents a wide variety...

 Probability Distributions Involving Gaussian Random Variables A Handbook for Engineers, Scientists and Mathematicians

This handbook, now available in paperback, brings together a comprehensive collection of mathematical material in one location. It also offers a variety of new results interpreted in a form that is particularly useful to engineers, scientists, and applied...

 Cambridge Dictionnary of Scientists

The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists is an invaluable one-stop reference book for anyone wanting a brief and accurate account of the life and work of those who created science from its beginnings to the present day. This alphabetically organized, illust...

 Scientific Method in Practice

As the gateway to scientific thinking, an understanding of the scientific method is essential for success and productivity in science. This book is the first synthesis of the practice and the philosophy of the scientific method. It will enable scientists...

 Evolutionary Computation A Unified Approach

Evolutionary computation, the use of evolutionary systems as computational processes for solving complex problems, is a tool used by computer scientists and engineers who want to harness the power of evolution to build useful new artifacts, by biologists ...

 Excel for Scientists and Engineers

LEARN EXCEL FROM A SCIENTIST "Excel for scientists and engineers quickly guides the reader through topics such as sampling, estimating, distributions, testing, graphing, and data analysis. Being a scientist, Dr. Verschuuren hits upon the important to...

 Monte carlo strategies in scientific computing

A large number of scientists and engineers employ Monte Carlo simulation and related global optimization techniques (such as simulated annealing) as an essential tool in their work. For such scientists, there is a need to keep up to date with several ...