A practical guide for anyone interested in setting up a science-based company. The book encapsulates Cambridge Enterprise’s collective skills of starting strong businesses with University researchers, and reflects the expertise of external contributors.
A collection of 20 lectures ranging across active areas of astronomical research. In the series, scientists, mostly British and American, and including three Nobel Laureates, present their work and perspectives on developments and trends in astrophysics during the last two decades.
How do you paint a picture of infinity? How do you dance about death? How do you draw a diagram explaining entropy? Images and Understanding explores the human problem of moving facts and ideas from one mind to another ‐ the problems of how we see and communicate using images expressed in pictures, diagrams, words, music and dance.
Sir Peter Scott’s diaries reveal above all his overriding concern with conservation. Human behaviour, history, culture and ideas also come under the scrutiny of his candid and discerning eye. The last volume records his travels in Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Mongolia, the Phillippines, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
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Sir Peter Scott’s observations of natural history will interest not only scientists but also all those who have a fascination with places and their wildlife. This volume records his journeys, drawings and paintings in Hawaii, California, Alaska, Florida, The Bahamas, Iceland, Norway, Spitzbergen Greenland, Israel, Romania and Siberia.
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Sir Peter Scott travelled all over the world. Wherever he went he kept a journal in words and pictures. This volume traverses Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Africa, the Galapgos Islands, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands.
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Here are accounts by some of the world’s most eminent medical scientists outlining currently unsolved problems that lie beyond the edge of our knowledge, including scientific opinions on topics ranging from genetics to cancer and from contraception to coronary heart disease.
The world’s most eminent scientists, among them several Nobel Laureates, explore the infinite region beyond the edge of present knowledge. In simple language, authorities in fields as diverse as space, mathematics, physics and biology address those questions most vital to the human future.
