Collection: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Science Genre – Books in the science nonfiction genre are about the systematic organizing of knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. The books in this genre study the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experimentation (i.e. science experiments). They are books about how things work and react together and against each other in chemical and physical ways.
Technology Genre –Books in the technology nonfiction genre are about scientific knowledge and practical purposes used to control and adapt to one’s natural environment. The books in this genre refer to and explain the tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods used to solve (or improve) a problem, achieve a goal or perform a specific function. They are about the things we can create that help to make our lives easier and more efficient in some way.
Engineering Genre-Books in the Engineering genre are means by which we take our scientific knowledge of the world and use it to invent, design, and build technologies to solve problems in our lives. Engineering includes civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and chemical engineering.
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Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $98.00 USDRegular price -
Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitve Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $38.00 USDRegular price -
Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks After the Roman Empire
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $54.00 USDRegular price -
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NASA and the Space Industry
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $33.00 USDRegular price -
Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $45.00 USDRegular price -
Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $19.95 USDRegular price -
A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $40.00 USDRegular price -
Wayfinding Behavior: Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $110.00 USDRegular price -
Reflections on a Theory of Organisms: Holism in Biology
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $21.95 USDRegular price -
An Introduction to Satellite Image Interpretation
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $52.00 USDRegular price -
Discovering Birds: The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760-1850
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $33.00 USDRegular price -
Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $44.00 USDRegular price -
Control Through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $35.00 USDRegular price -
Likelihood
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $36.00 USDRegular price -
The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $35.00 USDRegular price -
ASA Gray: American Botanist, Friend of Darwin
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $40.00 USDRegular price -
From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
Vendor:Johns Hopkins University PressRegular price $37.00 USDRegular price -
Earth: A Tenant's Manual
Vendor:Cornell University PressRegular price $31.95 USDRegular price -
Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings
Vendor:Cornell University PressRegular price $34.95 USDRegular price
