BEER: Tap Into the Art and Science of Brewing
Charles Bamforth, who has been described as one of the two or three
brewing scientists of his generation, here gives us a revised and
updated version of his definitive guide to brewing. Convenient, useful
information on brewing all in one well-priced volume Updated edition
includes industry information on global brewing processes, to help
breweries and microbreweries keep pace in today's competitive market
Ideal for the professional and novice alike, Beer: Tap into the Art and
Science of Brewing is the ideal one-volume handbook on brewing beer.
The Scientific Revolution and the Foundations of Modern Science explains how the pursuit of natural philosophy-- as science was then called--from about 1500 to 1700 created the foundation upon which modern science has been built. The profound changes in the study of the natural world in this period was made possible by social and cultural changes occurring Western Europe, and the achievements of men like Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Frances Bacon, Rene Descartes, William Harvey, and Isaac Newton.
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics
The lines between 'science' and 'science fiction' have become increasingly blurred. Now, quantum mechanics promises that some of humanity's wildest dreams may be realized. Serious scientists, working from Einstein's theories, have been investigating the phenomenon known as 'entanglement' one of the strangest aspects of our strange universe.
Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science
A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics
Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason,
internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers
this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and
scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the centuries,
from ancient mathematical conundrums such as "squaring the circle,"
first attempted by the Pythagoreans, to Godel's vexing theorem, from
perpetual motion to the upredictable behavior of chaotic systems such
as the weather.