Research and Course Guides: New Books!: Chemistry and Life Science

Chemistry

New Titles in Chemistry and Life Sciences

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QD, QH-QR

Experimental Physical Chemistry by Arthur Halpern; George McBane
Call Number: QD457 .H27 2006

ISBN: 9780716717355

Publication Date: 2006-06-30

The modernized new edition of Halpern and McBane physical chemistry lab manual offers an exceptional variety of tested and proven experiments, as well as detailed theoretical background material and clearly stated procedural objectives to help students understand the context and purpose of each procedure.
Growing Young by Marta Zaraska
Call Number: QH 529 .Z373 2020

ISBN: 9781472144508

Publication Date: 2020
Physical Chemistry by S. K. Sinha
Call Number: QD 453.3 .S568 2014

ISBN: 9781842658628

Publication Date: 2014-01-30

Physical Chemistry: A Laboratory Manual has been designed to meet the needs of graduate and postgraduate students. The language is simple and the students can perform the experiments themselves without much help from the teacher.
Reading the Skull by Natalie Murry
Call Number: GN 74.M87 2024

ISBN: 9781032259109

Publication Date: 2023-09-22

Reading the Skull: Advanced 2D Reconstruction fills this need by providing instruction on how to identify basic features, as well as indicators and anomalies in bone structures, to help in illustrating more specific and unique details in facial structure and features. Since artists are most frequently visual learners, the book presents comparative photos of skulls with life photos to help better identify and decipher distinguishing facial characteristics.
The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Call Number: QH577 .M83 2022

ISBN: 9781982117351

Publication Date: 2022-10-25

The Song of the Cell is both panoramic and intimate--a masterpiece on what it means to be human.
The United States of Cryptids by J. W. Ocker
Call Number: QL 89 .O25 2022

ISBN: 9781683693222

Publication Date: 2022-10-11

Meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to Mothman and beyond! Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker uncovers the bizarre stories of these creatures and investigates the ways in which communities embrace and celebrate their local cryptids.
What Would You Do? by Charles L. Bosk
Call Number: QH 332 .B67 2008

ISBN: 9780226066776

Publication Date: 2008-12-01

How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve? Renowned sociologist Charles L. Bosk has been observing medical care for thirty-five years. In What Would You Do? he brings his extensive experience to bear on these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that his own ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked.
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
Call Number: QK711.2 .S34 2024

ISBN: 9780063073852

Publication Date: 2024-05-07

It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents. .
American Women Conservationists by Madelyn Holmes
Call Number: QH26 .H66 2004

ISBN: 9780786417834

Publication Date: 2004-04-20

This collection of biographies describes twelve women conservationists who helped change the ways Americans interact with the natural environment.

General Sciences

New Titles General Science

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Pathologies of Motion by Kevis Goodman
Call Number: Q175.32.A47 G66 2023

ISBN: 9780300243963

Publication Date: 2023-01-17

An account of the overlapping development of medicine and aesthetics during the Enlightenment and Romantic eras that develops a critical method attentive to aesthetics and poetics as sites for historical thinking This book studies later eighteenth-century medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as overlapping forms of knowledge increasingly concerned about the relationship between the geographical movements of persons displaced from home and the physiological or nervous "motions" within their bodies and minds.
Machine Learning, Revised and Updated Edition by Ethem Alpaydin
Call Number: Q325.5 .A47 2021

ISBN: 9780262542524

Publication Date: 2021-08-17

A concise overview of machine learning--computer programs that learn from data--the basis of such applications as voice recognition and driverless cars. Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition--as well as some we don't yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis for a new approach to artificial intelligence that aims to program computers to use example data or past experience to solve a given problem. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise and accessible overview of "the new AI."
Reference Shelf: New Developments in Artificial Intelligence by HW Wilson
Call Number: Q 335 .N487 2024

ISBN: 9781637008959

Publication Date: 2024-05-31
The Exceptions by Kate Zernike
Call Number: Q 130 .Z425 2024

ISBN: 9781982131845

Publication Date: 2024-02-27

In 1963, a female student was attending a lecture given by Nobel Prize winner James Watson, then tenured at Harvard. At nineteen, she was struggling to define her future. She had given herself just ten years to fulfill her professional ambitions before starting the family she was expected to have. For women at that time, a future on the usual path of academic science was unimaginable--but during that lecture, young Nancy Hopkins fell in love with the promise of genetics.
Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini
Call Number: Q 334.7 .B86 2023

ISBN: 9780593241837

Publication Date: 2023-10-31

It is the remarkable story of how Buolamwini uncovered what she calls "the coded gaze"--the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products--and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both the tech industry and the research sector, she shows how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity "excoded" and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them.

Astronomy and Physics

New Titles in Physics and Astronomy

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QB-QC

An Introduction to Error Analysis by John R. Taylor
Call Number: QC 39 .T4 2022

ISBN: 9781940380087

Publication Date: 2022-03-15

These programs provide a convenient way to record and process data and to calculate quantities like standard deviations, correlation coefficients, and normal distributions; they also have the wonderful ability - if students construct their own spreadsheets and avoid the temptation to use built-in functions - to teach the meaning of these concepts.
The Manhattan Project by Cynthia C. Kelly (Editor)
Call Number: QC 773.3 .U5 M27 2020

ISBN: 9780762471270

Publication Date: 2020-07-07

A first-person historical record of the Manhattan Project, and the events leading to the birth of the Atomic bomb, as told by the researchers, scientists, and developers intimately involved in its creation.

Math

New Titles in Math

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Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava
Call Number: QA 76.9 .A43 B43 2024

ISBN: 9781633438538

Publication Date: 2024-03-26

A friendly, fully illustrated introduction to the most important computer programming algorithms. This book will prepare you for those pesky algorithms questions in every programming job interview and help you apply them in your day-to-day work. And if you want to understand them without slogging through dense multipage proofs, this is the book for you.

Agriculture and the Environment

New Titles in Agriculture and the Environmental Sciences

Library of Congress Call Number Range

S, GE

The Rise of the American Conservation Movement by Dorceta E. Taylor
Call Number: S930 .T39 2016

ISBN: 9780822361985

Publication Date: 2016-08-26

In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
How to Love a Forest by Ethan Tapper
Call Number: SD129 .T356 A3 2024

ISBN: 9798889830559

Publication Date: 2024-09-10

In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth.

Human Anatomy

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Woelfel's Dental Anatomy, Enhanced Edition with Navigate 2 Advantage Access by Rickne C. Scheid; Gabriela Weiss
Call Number: QM 311 .W64 2017b

ISBN: 9781284218244

Publication Date: 2020-05-07

The book's detailed coverage of dental anatomy and terminology prepares students for success on national board exams, while up-to-date information on the application of tooth morphology to dental practice prepares them for success in their future careers.

Physiology and Neuroscience

New Titles in Neuroscience

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Two Heads by Uta Frith; Chris Frith; Daniel Locke (Illustrator); Alex Frith
Call Number: QP360.5 .F754 2022

ISBN: 9781501194078

Publication Date: 2022-04-26

This "charming and addictively accessible introduction to neuroscience" (Steven Pinker) takes us on a highly entertaining tour through the wonders and mysteries of the human brain--from a renowned husband-and-wife team of cognitive neuroscientists. Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in this "pleasing mix of wonder, genial humor, and humility" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), they tell the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research, and new frontiers of social cognition including diversity, prejudice, confidence, collaboration, and empathy.