New Science & Math Books

A personal, practical, and inspirational guide to written and oral STEM communications for scientists and technical professionals.

This book clearly exposes the most frequent calumnies made against science, and shows how dogmatic religion, the financial interests of certain industries, and opportunistic politicians sometime work in cohort to undermine the public's trust in science.

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that explains the interconnectedness of all things. Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole and what our place, as conscious beings, is within it.

With attention to both on- and offline organizing in the Global South and the Global South of the North, Phaedra C. Pezzullo engages advocacy campaigns, public controversies, and policies through cogent analysis and interviews with headline-making advocates in Bangladesh, Kenya, the US, and Vietnam.

Thirteen essays are included that explore the evocative scents of trees, from the smell of a book just printed as you first open its pages, to the calming scent of Linden blossom, to the ingredients of a particularly good gin & tonic: In your hand: a highball glass, beaded with cool moisture.

In Blight, Emily Monosson documents how trade, travel, and a changing climate are making us all more vulnerable to invasion.

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science, and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global dilemma.

In a Flight of Starlings, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds.

This book is a behind-the-scenes look at one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation.

Falconer examines the impact of systemic bias on disciplinary discourse acquisition and identity development by asking "How do the norms and expectations of higher education and STEM, specifically, impact the development of scientific identity and discursive skill?" and "What role do societal markers like race and gender play in the negotiation of identity in STEM learning environments?".

An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that explains the interconnectedness of all things.

How to Love Animals is a lively and important portrait of our evolving relationship with animals, and how we can share our planet fairly. In an age of extinction and pandemics, our relationship with animals has become unsustainable. Mance seeks answers from chefs, farmers, activists, philosophers, politicians and tech visionaries who are redefining how we think about animals.

Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena or revealed any hidden laws of nature. How then can he rank as he does alongside Newton?

For centuries, women have been involved in science, medicine, biology, research and discoveries, yet few have received the acknowledgement and recognition that they deserve. Some have worked with a spouse, some have worked in a university or research centre, and some have chanced upon a number of insights which have revolutionised science and biology as well as microbiology.

Science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul, Harun Küçük argues, was without leisure, a phenomenon spurred by the hyperinflation a century earlier when scientific texts all but disappeared from the college curriculum and inflation reduced the wages of professors to one-tenth of what they were in the sixteenth century. It was during this tumultuous period that philosophy and theory, the more leisurely aspects of naturalism--and the pursuit of "knowledge for knowledge's sake"--vanished altogether from the city.

"A radical retelling... Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider history of science... The book brims with clarity."--Financial Times The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught.

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.

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.