Sciences et mathématiques

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A Feast of Science

Par (auteur) Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Catégories: Chimie

A Feast of Science demystifies the chemistry of everyday life, serving up practical knowledge to both inform and entertain. Guaranteed to satiate your hunger for palatable and relevant scientific information, ...

Kwaday Dan Tsinchi

Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found is a comprehensive and collaborative account that interweaves scientific analysis and cultural knowledge to describe a life that ended almost ...

Euclid's Orchard and Other Essays

Par (auteur) Theresa Kishkan
Catégories: Écologie

In her new collection of luminous essays, Kishkan unravels an intricately patterned algorithm. A madrigal of horticulture and love. Amid bees and coyotes, her touchstones of natural history and family ...

The Science of Orphan Black

An official guide to the science in the hit TV show Orphan Black by science writers Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth, featuring exclusive insights from co-creator Graeme Manson and science consultant Cosima ...

Eat the Beetles!

Eat the Beetles! is an evolutionary, ecological, and cultural exploration of our conflicted relationship with having insects on the dinner plate. Epidemiologist, veterinarian, and The Origin of Feces ...

Dans la tête des animaux

What do we REALLY know about animal intelligence? What does a cat think while he stares at birds? Or what about an elephant, walking in the wild, or a monkey facing a mirror? If animals cannot talk to ...

Let Them Eat Dirt

“A must-read for parents, teachers and any healthcare provider for children, Let Them Eat Dirt takes you inside the inside tract of a child’s gut, and shows you how to give kids the best immune start ...

Articulating Dinosaurs

Par (auteur) Brian Noble
Catégories: Histoire des sciences

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how specimens and humans create dinosaurs together. He examines the resurrection of two of the most iconic and gendered dinosaurs: ...

Separate Beds

Par (auteur) Maureen K. Lux
Catégories: Histoire des sciences

“Canada has a painful history of racially segregated hospitals that were intended to isolate and institutionalize Aboriginal people seen as a menace and danger to the nation. Separate Beds is a sophisticated, ...

Mathematical Modelling of Zombies

Édité par Robert Smith? & Stacey Smith?
Présentation par Andrew Cartmel
Catégories: Inférence bayésienne

You’re outnumbered, in fear for your life, surrounded by flesh-eating zombies. What can save you now? Mathematics, of course. Mathematical Modelling of Zombies engages the imagination to illustrate ...