The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth CenturyScience is inextricably linked with mathematics. Statistician David Salsburg examines the development of ever-more-powerful statistical methods for determining scientific truth in The Lady Tasting Tea, a series of historical and biographical sketches that illuminate without alienating the mathematically timid. Salsburg, who has worked in academia and industry and has met many of the major players he writes about, shares his subjects' enthusiasm for problem solving and deep thinking.
Susan Youssef - Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK Pres evidence-based information, tips and guidance on how to conduct successful Medicines Use Reviews (MURs). The ten main chapters identify and discuss specific medical conditions seen in community pharmacy while further sub chapters include advice on treatment options and relevant practical tips.
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About Life: Concepts in Modern Biology
This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question: "What distinguishes living organisms from the non-living world?" In the first few chapters, the authors draw on recent advances in cell and molecular biology to develop an account of the "living state" that applies to all organisms, but only to organisms. Subsequent chapters use this account to explore questions about evolution, the origin of life and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England
The coronation was, and still is, one of the most important ceremonies of an English monarch's reign. Alice Hunt's study assesses the impact of the Reformation on the period's coronation ceremonies, and examines how they were perceived and described by contemporary observers such as courtiers and playwrights.
Physics is a complex, even daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying even thrilling. And liberated from its mathematical underpinnings, physics suddenly becomes accessible to anyone with the curiosity and imagination to explore its beauty. Science without math? It's not that unusual. For example, we can understand the concept of gravity without solving a single equation.
"Absolutely Small" presents (and demystifies) the world of quantum science like no book before.
