Science: Applied Science (9)

• Science
• Science: Applied Science

Beyond Popular Science

• David H. Silver

Beyond Popular Science is not a popular science book. It is not a textbook. It is not an academic monograph. Instead, it occupies a rare and deliberately unconventional space: a work for readers who enjoy scientific storytelling but are no longer satisfied with simplifications that smooth away the real substance of modern science.

• Science
• Science: Applied Science
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Bacterial Genomes: Trees and Networks

• Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee

In Bacterial Genomes, the evolutionary and regulatory processes that shape bacterial life are brought to life. This textbook offers a conceptual exploration of how bacterial genomes are organized, how they evolve, and how their genetic information is interpreted through intricate molecular networks. Drawing on both cutting-edge research and the historical milestones that shaped microbiology, it illuminates how bacteria navigate the intersection of genetic adaptation and ecological resilience.

• Anthropology
• Environmental Studies
• Politics and Sociology
• Science: Applied Science

The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research

• Rebecca Lave
• Stuart Lane

Despite ongoing debates about its origins, the Anthropocene—a new epoch characterized by significant human impact on the Earth's geology and ecosystems—is widely acknowledged. Our environment is increasingly a product of interacting biophysical and social forces, shaped by climate change, colonial legacies, gender norms, hydrological processes, and more. Understanding these intricate interactions requires a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative and quantitative, biophysical and social research.

• Politics and Sociology
• Science: Applied Science

Human Evolutionary Demography

• Oskar Burger
• Ronald Lee
• Rebecca Sear

Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines.

• Science
• Science: Applied Science
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Introduction to Systems Biology: Workbook for Flipped-classroom Teaching

• Thomas Sauter
• Marco Albrecht

This book is an introduction to the language of systems biology, which is spoken among many disciplines, from biology to engineering. Authors Thomas Sauter and Marco Albrecht draw on a multidisciplinary background and evidence-based learning to facilitate the understanding of biochemical networks, metabolic modeling and system dynamics.

• Business and Management
• Mathematics
• Science: Applied Science
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Inventory Analytics

• Roberto Rossi

Inventory Analytics is the first book of its kind to adopt a practicable, Python-driven approach to illustrating theories and concepts via computational examples, with each model covered in the book accompanied by its Python code.

• Philosophy
• Science
• Science: Applied Science

Human and Machine Consciousness

• David Gamez

Human and Machine Consciousness presents a new foundation for the scientific study of consciousness. It sets out a bold interpretation of consciousness that neutralizes the philosophical problems and explains how we can make scientific predictions about the consciousness of animals, brain-damaged patients and machines.

• Anthropology
• Science
• Science: Applied Science

Behaviour, Development and Evolution

• Patrick Bateson

The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible book, eminent biologist Professor Sir Patrick Bateson suggests that the nature/nurture dichotomy we often use to think about questions of development in both humans and animals is misleading. Instead, he argues that we should pay attention to whole systems, rather than to simple causes, when trying to understand the complexity of development.

• Environmental Studies
• Science: Applied Science
• Textbooks and Learning Guides

Hydrology for Sustainability

• Stephanie Kampf

FORTHCOMING

Hydrology for Sustainability is an accessible textbook introducing the movement of water through Earth’s interconnected systems. Written for undergraduate students and readers with little prior technical background, it explains the key processes of the hydrologic cycle, from clouds, rainfall, snow and ice to soils, groundwater, rivers, floods and droughts. Rather than presenting hydrology solely through equations or engineering tools, the book places water science within the wider context of environmental sustainability and human society. It shows how hydrologic knowledge can help us understand urgent challenges, including water scarcity, flooding, climate change, urbanization, groundwater depletion and the ecological impacts of water infrastructure. Clear explanations are paired with practical examples, technical boxes and global case studies. Topics include fog harvesting, rainwater collection, snowpack monitoring, soil-water processes, groundwater flow, watershed management, flood risk and hydrological modelling. The book also highlights Indigenous and local water knowledge alongside modern scientific methods. Engaging interdisciplinary and solutions-oriented, this textbook is ideal for courses in hydrology, environmental science, sustainability, geography and water resource management.