Brainology: The Curious Science of Our Minds is a fast‑moving popular science collection that takes you inside the most mysterious place you'll ever live: your own brain.Why can pain feel unbearable even when tests show "nothing wrong"? How can a simple mirror calm phantom limb pain? What does neuroscience reveal about the interpreter's brain when thoughts become speech in real time? Why do dark winters affect mood and sleep for some people but not others? Are smartphones ...

Bodyology: The Curious Science of the Human BodyEver wondered what it's really like to be struck by lightning — what happens to your skin, nerves, heart rhythm, and brain in a split second? What it means to lose your sense of smell (anosmia), why it can vanish after illness or injury, and what recovery can look like? Whether we'll ever find a genuine cure for baldness and hair loss? Or how a single bee sting can save a woman's life?Welcome to Bodyology: a page-turn...

In this book, István Hargittai, an internationally renowned physical chemist, narrates his life by introducing over forty personalities that played noteworthy roles in his career. The time span ranges from the Holocaust, which the author survived, through the periods of hard and softer dictatorships of Soviet-type socialism, and the current revival of an autocratic regime in Hungary. He overcame barriers to get a high school, then a university education. He received excellent training in M...

This book is an introduction to the philosophy of science, covering the main concepts — as well as a number of seminal authors — in dictionary form.The prologue and introduction place particular emphasis on the value and usefulness of science, and the obstacles it has had to overcome — and sometimes still has to — in order to exist.Thereafter, each entry explains the notion in question, with practical implications and advice for researchers from the management sciences, the...

These original monologues describe the lives of nine notable women who broke barriers in scientific fields. Rachel Carson, ecologist, Eugenie Clark, ichthyologist, Elizabeth Blackwell, physician, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize scientist, Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, both primatologists, Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist, Elma González, cellular biologist and Julia Morgan, architect. These scripts have been created by the AAUW Thousand Oaks, California Branch, Inc to enable parents, teache...

This work proposes strategies and solutions to tackle the problem of building photo-mosaics of very large underwater optical surveys, presenting contributions to the image preprocessing, enhancing and blending steps, and resulting in an improved visual quality of the final photo-mosaic. The text opens with a comprehensive review of mosaicing and blending techniques, before proposing an approach for large scale underwater image mosaicing and blending. In the image preprocessing step, a dept...

Small-scale fisheries are a major source of food and employment around the world. Yet, many small-scale fishers work in conditions that are neither safe nor secure. Millions of them are poor, and often they are socially and politically marginalized. Macro-economic and institutional mechanisms are essential to address these poverty and vulnerability problems; however, interventions at the local community level are also necessary. This requires deep understanding of what poverty means to the...