The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present
Transnational perspectives on the relationship between nuclear energy and society. With the aim of overcoming the disciplinary and national fragmentation that characterizes much research on nuclear energy, Engaging the Atom brings together specialists from a variety of fields to analyze comparative case studies across Europe and the United ......
A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement. Based mostly on his own experiences, Theophile Maher's local color novel Cannel Coal Oil Days challenges many popular ideas about antebellum Appalachia, bringing it more ......
A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement. Based mostly on his own experiences, Theophile Maher's local color novel Cannel Coal Oil Days challenges many popular ideas about antebellum Appalachia, bringing it more ......
From neutron star mergers to the survival skills of tardigrades, this fascinating book is an ideal primer for students or anyone curious about life and the Universe.
Essential terminology for Physics study pulled together in one guide to maximize success in College and High School courses. Succinct definitions by our resident Harvard Ph.D., Chemistry author and professor ensure the usefulness of this handy guide from high school to college.
Get the answers you need at your fingertips faster than any other source. Success in Physics is critical when entering the growing fields of technology, computer science and engineering that will support our future progress and innovation with breakthroughs and advances. To help retain the facts, equations and concepts essential to success in ......
Even in his lifetime, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley,who died at Gallipoli in 1915, was widely regarded as the most promising British physicist of his generation.Had he survived, he could well have won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1916. His death provoked in Britain a reassessment of the role that scientists might play in war. This book of essays ......
Great Thinkers, Great Minds comprises 10 selected papers from Sunway University's own academics, highlighting original research-based findings in their respective areas of expertise. Based on Sunway University's Professorial Lecture Series presentations held between 2014 and 2016, this book encompasses an array of fascinating research prospects ......
Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information seemingly travels faster than light. The author, a ......
