Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (3-Volume Set with Online Version)
by Jay A. Siegel Geoffrey C. Knupfer Pekka J. Saukko

At long last, a single comprehensive reference work to address over 200 of the most common areas and applications of forensic science."
 "...essential for professionals, attorneys, and students who need accurate, detailed accounts of forensic topics."
Richard Saferstein, Widener University, for CHOICE
"...it is apparent that the focus of this work is on explanation, application, and implication...a useful addition to any public, academic, or legal collection."
"...this encyclopedia should adorn the shelves of every person connected with forensic science. Highly recommended reading."
"...an excellent and valuable contribution...likely to set the standard for future forensic reference books."
"This work should become one of the regularly-consulted reference works of the new generation of forensic-criminal scientists."

McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
Hundreds of engineers and scientists contributed to the alphabetically arranged 7,800 short articles including 19 Noble Prize Winners
This definitive reference offers you concise, authoritative, and up-to-date coverage of every major field of science and technology. In articles authored by scientists and engineers at the forefront of their fields (including 19 Nobel Prize winners), and written to be accessible to the general reader as well as the scientific user, this newly revised volume covers 75 major fields of science and engineering, including current and critical advances in fast-developing fields such as virology, genetics, computer science, and oceanography. Richly illustrated, it also features biographical sketches of the world's top scientists, a superb index, cross references, and bibliographies. No other reference offers scientists, researchers, students, and the interested public such definitive and inclusive coverage of science and technology in a single volume.

Scientific American's Extreme Physics
Exclusive Online Issue
SYNOPSIS:
Time travel, teleportation, parallel universes--in certain sectors of the physics community, notions once relegated to the realm of science fiction are now considered quite plausible. Indeed, by some accounts, the truth may be stranger than fiction. Consider the possibility that the universe is a huge hologram or that matter is composed of tiny, vibrating strings. Perhaps space and time are not continuous but instead come in discrete pieces. These are the wonderfully weird ways in which theorists are beginning to conceive of the world (or worlds!) around us.

In this exclusive online issue, leading authorities share their expertise on these cutting-edge ideas. Brian Greene untangles string theory; Max Tegmark reveals how astronomical observations support the existence of parallel universes; other scholars tackle quantum teleportation, negative energy, the holographic principle and loop quantum gravity; and Gordon Kane ushers in the dawn of physics beyond the Standard Model. --The Editors

Scientific American, August 19, 2007
Scientific American Digital
In this issue:
NNOVATIONS
Data Center in a Box
By M. Mitchell Waldrop
A shipping container stuffed with servers could usher in the era of cloud computing
PUBLIC POLICY
Race in a Bottle
By Jonathan Kahn
Drugmakers are eager to develop medicines targeted at ethnic groups, but so far they have made poor choices based on unsound science
NEUROSCIENCE
Windows on the Mind
By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
Once scorned as nervous tics, certain tiny, unconscious flicks of the eyes now turn out to underpin much of our ability to see. These movements may even reveal subliminal thoughts
MODELING
Predicting Wildfires
By Mark Finney and Mark Fischetti and Patricia Andrews
Fires are burning more acres than ever. Where will the next blazes ignite? Can we prevent them? Should we?

Обстоятельная хроника-справочник становления и развития науки и техники, начиная с каменного века и до наших дней. Серьезная книга, которую легко и увлекательно читать. Пригодится ESP студентам и преподавателям, а также всем, кто задается вопросами: что, где, когда и как.
In this age of genetic engineering and global warming, it is more important than ever to understand the history and current trends of science and technology. With so much information out there, though, it' s hard to know where to start. That' s where The History of Science and Technology -- the most comprehensive and up-to-date chronology of its kind -- comes in.