Title: African American women chemists
Author: Brown, Jeannette E. (Jeannette Elizabeth), 1934-
Call #: QD21 .B69 2012
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African American woman to receive a PhD in chemistry in the United States. In this book, Jeannette Brown, an African American woman chemist herself, will prese …
Title: Far from the tree : parents, children and the search for identity
Author: Solomon, Andrew, 1963-
Call #: HV888.5 .S65 2012
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon’s startling …
Title: The physics of invisibility : a story of light and deception
Author: Beech, Martin, 1959-
Call #: QC406 .B4 2012
The ability is see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film …
Title: Why noise matters : a worldwide perspective on the problems, policies and solutions
Author: Stewart, John, 1949-
Call #: TD892 .S75 2011
Why noise matters — Noise: widespread and worldwide — Hear me now! noise can harm your health! — Noise: the neglected green issue of our age? — Noise in the workplace — Transport noise — Neighbour/neighbourhood noise — Piped music: the music you cannot turn off — Noise and the law — Making change happen.
Title: The science of navigation : from dead reckoning to GPS
Author: Denny, Mark, 1953-
Call #: VK559 .D44 2012
Writing in non-technical terms with a sense of humor, Denny, a physicist who has written other popular science works, charts the history of navigation and explains its role in the history of civilization. The first part of the book outlines key ideas of geodesy and cartography and explains the physical, engineering, and mathematical principles …