It can be immensely helpful when one wishes to delve into the meaning of obscure words, particularly of the scientific or bio-medical sort. This dictionary is comprised mainly of an alphabetical listing of Greek and Latin roots, though commonly used roots and combining forms from other languages are included as well. There are also useful chapters on the formulation of scientific names, the transliteration of Greek words, and on common combining forms. This last chapter (the one on common combining forms) is particularly useful if your goal is to create new descriptive words as it is conveniently subdivided into descriptive categories (color, size, shape, animal structures, etc.).
"English for scientific purposes" is a new type of reference book aimed at providing multifaceted support to non-English-speaking scientists in writing their papers in English. Compiled from extensive original sources, the book systematically presents a wide range of expressions, word combinations, phrases, speech patterns and examples characteristic of the English academic style, allowing users to express their ideas clearly and in a simple straightforward way so as to form a unified whole - an abstract, report, article, review, or any other publication.
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays By Stephen Hawking
By Stephen Hawking
Read By Simon Prebble
By Stephen Hawking
Read By Simon Prebble
By Stephen Hawking
Read By Simon Prebble
By Stephen Hawking
Read By Simon Prebble
Hawking is quite probably the most admired and recognizable figure in science today. His A Brief History of Time ( LJ 4/15/88) was a surprise best seller that stimulated a public fascination with this man who, although stricken with a debilitating neurological disease, is widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein.
These essays range from the autobiographical to the purely scientific. Building on his earlier work, Stephen Hawking discusses imaginary time, how black holes can give birth to baby universes, and scientists’ efforts to find a complete, unified theory that would predict everything in the universe, a concept he believes will come to seem as natural to the next generation as our current idea that the world is round.
Unfolding the great mysteries of the universe as a backdrop, Stephen Hawking also reflects on free will, the value of life, and his perceptions of death. He looks at how scientific theory converges with - and diverges from - science fiction, as well as how scientific fact interfaces with our own lives.
тем, для кого наука - не пустой звук.
Scientific American — научно-популярный американский журнал, выпускающийся с 28 августа 1845 года, что делает его старейшим журналом США из выпускающихся по сей день. Статьи журнала рассказывают о новых и новационных исследованиях доступно как для посвящённых, так и для дилетантов.
