New Science & Math Books

Argues that the Chinese Nationalist government's retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new scientific and technical relationships with the United States led to fundamental changes in how the Nationalists engaged with science and technology as tools to promote development.

This book is intended to reach a multidisciplinary audience of students and professionals working in the data sciences, the library sciences, and all of the STEM sciences. The chapters introduce and describe general concepts that can be understood by any intelligent reader. With each new concept, there follow practical examples selected from various scientific disciplines. In these cases, technical points and specialized vocabulary are linked to glossary items, where the item is clarified and expanded.

Although the authors are in fields ranging from philosophy to computer science and were in locations ranging from rural Malaysia to Beijing, they uniformly responded to the COVID with a deep sense of loss and disappointment for the interruption of the years they had planned for so long.

This book's primary aim is to expand conventional notions of what the nature of the record (or more broadly that of the data structure) constitutes. We want to broaden the focus on the record and examine its place across cultures and societies."

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming human society in fundamental and profound ways. Not since the Age of Reason have we changed how we approach security, economics, order, and even knowledge itself. In the Age of AI, three deep and accomplished thinkers come together to consider what AI will mean for us all

This book explores what the experience of being outside under a natural starry sky-how important it is to human life, and how so many people don't know this experience. It combines the lyrical writing of Paul Bogard with the night-sky photography of Beau Rogers.

As science increasingly became part of public culture and debate, its spokespersons recognized the need to harness the presumed power of public speech to recommend the moral relevance of scientific ideas and attitudes. With this wider context in mind, The Voice of Science explores the efforts of five celebrity British Scientists--John Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley, Richard Proctor, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Henry Drummond--to articulate and embody a moral vision of the scientific life on American lecture platforms.

Describes the natural history and evolution of the SF Bay Area over the last 50 million years through the present and into the future

Every five years, countries update their NDCs to demonstrate increased ambition. But while essential, ambition alone is not enough. This book shows that to be able to realize their climate ambition, countries also need to enhance the effectiveness of their plans and policies.

Ed Yong writes in his introduction. "They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced with wonder, but always deeply aware that science does not exist in a social vacuum. They are beautiful, whether in their clarity of ideas, the elegance of their prose, or often both." The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing brought clarity to the complexity and bewilderment of 2020 and delivered us necessary information during a global pandemic.