Sensational Scientists

Author : Barry Shell
Publisher : Raincoast Books
ISBN 13 : 9781551927275
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Scientists written by Barry Shell and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drives scientists to pursue the challenging career paths they have chosen? Is it fame? Fortune? Prestige? No. It's curiosity and the love of discovery. Meet the 24 fascinating researchers profiled in Sensational Scientists, understand how they achieved their career success, and discover how each is inspired by the most simple question: Why? The scientists featured here, including a number of Nobel prize winners, work in a wide range of areas from chemistry, biophysics and genetics to meteorology, anthropology and psychology. Rich with photographs, diagrams, educational experiments kids age 12 and up can do themselves and inspiring discussions on how to embark on a career in science, Sensational Scientists is perfect for young scientists who are thrilled to discover something new, and for everyone who has ever wondered how? and why?A revised version of Great Canadian Scientists, this book includes five new profiles, while the rest have been thoroughly updated and expanded. Of the 24 scientists included, 22 are Canadian or work in Canada.Ages 12 and up

Author : Thalma Lobel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451699204
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensation written by Thalma Lobel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the revolutionary bestsellers Predictably Irrational and Emotional Intelligence, Sensation is an exciting, completely new view of human behavior—a new psychology of physical intelligence (or embodied cognition)—that explains how the body unconsciously affects our everyday decisions and choices, written by one of the world’s leading psychologists. From colors and temperatures to heavy objects and tall people, a whole symphony of external stimuli exerts a constant influence on the way your mind works. Yet these effects have been hidden from you—until now. Drawing on her own work as well as from research across the globe, Dr. Thalma Lobel reveals how shockingly susceptible we are to sensory input from the world around us. An aggressive negotiator can be completely disarmed by holding a warm cup of tea or sitting in a soft chair. Clean smells promote moral behavior, but people are more likely to cheat on a test right after having taken a shower. Red-colored type causes us to fail exams, but red dresses make women sexier and teams wearing red jerseys win more games. We take questionnaires attached to heavy clipboards more seriously and believe people who like sweets to be nicer. Ultimately, the book’s message is startling: Though we claim ownership of our decisions, judgments, and values, they derive as much from our outside environment as from inside our minds. Now, Sensation empowers you to evaluate those outside forces in order to make better decisions in every facet of your personal and professional lives.

Author : Robert Gardner
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780766025851
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Science Projects with Simple Machines written by Robert Gardner and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instructions on how to do simple science experiments using simple machines, and gives explanations for why they work.

Author : Stephanie Clarkson
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781438012513
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Science written by Stephanie Clarkson and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your adventures begin as you connect the stars to reveal constellations, spot the differences in two space station images, follow bees through a maze to pollinate flowers, unscramble the letters to find renewable energy sources, and more incredible science adventures."--

Author : Ann Benbow
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780766031494
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Human Body Science Projects written by Ann Benbow and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presents several easy-to-do science experiments about senses and the human body"--Provided by publisher.

Author : L. Garrison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230297587
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels written by L. Garrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.

Author : Gregory Berns
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805081313
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satisfaction written by Gregory Berns and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on such fields as neuoscience, economics, and evolutionary psychology to address the question of how to find a more satisfying way to live, arguing that the key to satisfaction lies in the complexity and challenge in one's life.

Author : Carolyn Purnell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249360
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses written by Carolyn Purnell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think about their place in history. But perception is not dependent on the body alone. Carolyn Purnell persuasively shows that, while our bodies may not change dramatically, the way we think about the senses and put them to use has been rather different over the ages. Journeying through the past three hundred years, Purnell explores how people used their senses in ways that might shock us now. And perhaps more surprisingly, she shows how many of our own ways of life are a legacy of this earlier time. The Sensational Past focuses on the ways in which small, peculiar, and seemingly unimportant facts open up new ways of thinking about the past. You will explore the sensory worlds of the Enlightenment, learning how people in the past used their senses, understood their bodies, and experienced the rapidly shifting world around them. In this smart and witty work, Purnell reminds us of the value of daily life and the power of the smallest aspects of existence using culinary history, fashion, medicine, music, and many other aspects of Enlightenment life.

Author : Jane Bull
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN 13 : 024138530X
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafty Science written by Jane Bull and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hands-on crafty science book introduces inquisitive children to the wonders of science through craft projects with everyday objects. Award-winning author Jane Bull combines art, craft, and cooking activities with gentle scientific learning, showing children that science, technology, engineering, art, and maths are all around us - and in everything we make and do! Crafty Science contains over 20 fun-filled projects, each accompanied by a 'What's the science?' section explaining how it works. Children can learn how to make a toy raft and discover what makes their boat float, design and colour a paper butterfly and watch it balance on the tip of a pencil, or create an ice sculpture and learn about the changing states of solids and liquids. With Crafty Science, difficult concepts like buoyancy, gravity, and aerodynamics become meaningful and accessible to young children through play. They'll discover the world around them like they have never seen it before!

Author : Gordon Penrose
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780671725525
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Science Activities with Dr. Zed written by Gordon Penrose and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-one projects which can be safely done at home using readily available materials, demonstrating basic scientific concepts, from physics to chemistry to biology.