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The incredible story of Joep Lange s life and his unrelenting quest to end the HIV epidemic When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro Russian rebels in July 2014 the world wondered if a cure for HIV had fallen from the sky and disappeared among the burning debris Seated in the plane s business class cabin was Joseph Lange better known as Joep a shrewd Dutch doctor who had revolutionized the world of HIV and AIDS and was working on a cure Dr Lange graduated from medical school in 1981 right as a new plague swept across the globe His story became intertwined with the story of HIV At once a physician scientist AIDS activist and medical diplomat Lange studied ways to battle HIV and prevent its spread from mother to child Fighting the injustices of poverty Lange advocated for better access to health care for the poor and the vulnerable He championed the drug cocktail that finally helped rein in the disease and was a vocal proponent of prophylactic treatment for those most at risk of contracting HIV The Impatient Dr Lange is the story of one man s struggle against a global pandemic and the tragic attack that may have slowed down the search for a cure Seema Yasmin charts the course of the HIV epidemic and Dr Lange s career as a young doctor

From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas or the cooling of a hot metal to the unfolding of a thought in our minds and even the course of life itself everything is governed by the four Laws of Thermodynamics These laws specify the nature of energy and temperature and are soon revealed to reach out and define the arrow of time itself why things change and why death must come In this Very Short Introduction Peter Atkins explains the basis and deeper implications of each law highlighting their relevance in everyday examples Using the minimum of mathematics he introduces concepts such as entropy free energy and to the brink and beyond of the absolute zero temperature These are not merely abstract ideas they govern our lives In this concise and compelling introduction Atkins paints a lucid picture of the four elegant laws that between them drive the Universe ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable

All you need to explore science is a kitchen this book and a dash of curiosity The Kitchen Science Cookbook is a beautifully crafted book with a unique twist each recipe is a science experiment that you can do at home using the everyday ingredients you ll find in your kitchen No need to be a science expert these easy to follow recipes make mind blowing science experiments fun for everyone From sticky ice and raising raisins to balloon science and scrumptious slime nanotechnologist and educator Michelle Dickinson shows that we can all be scientists no matter how young or old With recipes tested by hundreds of enthusiastic families around the world The Kitchen Science Cookbook is the perfect gift for all ages

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature s soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations many beyond human hearing range Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life At once meditative and scientific The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish At the frontiers of innovation we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees Technology often distracts us from nature but what if it could reconnect us instead The Sounds of Life offers hope for environmental conservation and affirms humanity s relationship with nature in the digital age After learning about the unsuspected wonders of nature s sounds we will never see walks

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology

From racing wind up cars to making music with a homemade guitar Science Lab will excite and inspire curious young minds Science Lab is packed with 25 exciting STEM activities perfect for firing up kids imaginations Explore and discover beautifully illustrated science activities with an easy to follow guide that will explain how science technology engineering and maths shape the world around us A perfect balance between education and fun Science Lab teaches young readers through each experiment describing the science behind it and providing engaging STEM facts The richly illustrated activities promote further thinking by suggested Test and Tweak notes Encourage young readers to take their projects to the next level while furthering their understanding of the science behind it Each activity has its own How It Works section covering STEM principles to help young minds understand answers to their science curiosity exercising cognitive thinking and problem solving skills Learn The Science Behind 25 Amazing Projects Science activities for kids that can be done at home Leap into the exciting world of STEM where Science Technology Engineering and Maths combine in 25 fun and easy to do projects Science Lab teaches young readers how to make impressive i

This sumptuously illustrated celebration of Hawking s life captures perfectly its depth and breadth Marcus Chown A behind the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world s most prominent scientific thinkers In 2021 the Science Museum made a once in a lifetime acquisition of the contents of Stephen Hawking s office This book delves into that remarkable collection using the seminal papers items and curiosities in his office to explain his theories and reveal more about one of the greatest minds in modern science It s an unprecedented glimpse into the life of the best known scientist of modern times In this unique book Roger Highfield s clear expositions of Stephen Hawking s ideas are supplemented by fascinating illustrations that convey how he lived and worked It s a beautifully presented celebration of Stephen s amazing life how his insights and discoveries were achieved against heavy odds Martin Rees Baron Rees of Ludlow and Astronomer Royal

A comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality virtual reality and mixed reality and how they could affect every part of our lives

Lucinda Douglas Menzies Photo Researchers

An accessible practical and ultimately inspiring book that not only serves as a much needed call to arms to end the plastic pandemic but gives useful tools on how to make meaningful change in our everyday lives and advice on how to demand long lasting action

Our systems are failing Old models for education healthcare and government food production energy supply are creaking under the weight of modern challenges As the world s population heads towards 10 billion it s clear we need new approaches Futurologist Mark Stevenson sets out to find them across four continents From Brazilian favelas to high tech Boston from rural India to a shed inventor in England s home counties We Do Things Differently travels the world to find the advance guard re imagining our future At each stop he meets innovators who have already succeeded in challenging the status quo pioneering new ways to make our world more sustainable equitable and humane Populated by extraordinary characters We Do Things Differently paints an enthralling picture of what can be done to address the world s most pressing dilemmas offering a much needed dose of down to earth optimism It is a window on and a roadmap to a different and better future

How can we live well when our time and data is being stolen our relationships damaged and our sense of self warped all by technology For every stage of our lives a leading psychologist and tech

Dava Sobel acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science and the untold story of the young women who trained in her laboratory For decades Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings and despite constant illness she travelled far and wide to share the secrets of radioactivity a term she coined She is still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields Her ingenuity extended far beyond the laboratory walls grieving the death of her husband Pierre she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne devotedly raised two daughters drove a van she outfitted with x ray equipment to the front lines of World War I befriended Albert Einstein and inspired generations of young women to pursue science as a way of life Approaching Marie Curie from a unique angle Sobel navigates her remarkable discoveries and fame alongside the women who became her legacy from Norway s Ellen Gleditsch and France s Marguerite Perry who discovered the element francium to her own daughter Irene a Nobel Prize winner in her own right The Elements of Marie Curie deftly illuminates the trailblazing life and enduring influence of one of the most co

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises in Photonics and Quantum Technology with career and investment opportunities Notions of photons have evolved from the energy packet crowds of Planck and Einstein the later field modes of Dirac the seeming conflict of wave and particle photons to the ubiquitous laser photons of today Readers who take interest in contemporary technology will benefit from learning what photons are now considered to be and how our views of photons have changed in learning about the various operational definitions that have been used for photons and their association with a variety of quantum state manipulations that include Quantum Information astronomical sources and crowds of photons the boxed fields of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and single photons on demand the photons of Feynman and Glauber and the photon constituents of the Standard Model of Particle Physics The narrative points to contemporary photons as causers of change to atoms as carriers of messages and as subject to controllable creation and alteration a considerable diversity of photons not just one kind Our Changing Views of Photons A Tutorial Memoir pres

A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right

Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability To answer that question this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems It makes a socio technical analysis of transport systems exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers local and national governments citizens car drivers transport planners and civil society Two guiding questions are Will we see a greening of cars based on technological innovations that sustain the existing car based system Or is something more radical desirable and likely such as the development of travel regimes in which car use is less dominant

A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations Serving as both a guide and companion publication to the conceptual art project of the same name The Lichen Museum explores how the physiological characteristics of lichens provide a valuable template for reimagining human relations in an age of ecological and social precarity Channeling between the personal the scientific the philosophical and the poetic A Laurie Palmer employs a cross disciplinary framework that artfully mirrors the collective relations of lichens imploring us to envision alternative ways of living based on interdependence rather than individualism and competition Lichens are composite organisms made up of a fungus and an alga or cyanobacteria thriving in a mutually beneficial relationship The Lichen Museum looks to these complex organisms remarkable for their symbiosis diversity longevity and adaptability as models for relations rooted in collaboration and nonhierarchical structures In their resistance to fast paced growth and commodification lichens also offer possibilities for humans to reconfigure their relationship to time and attention outside of the accelerated pace of capitalist accumulation Drawing together a diverse set of voices

fascinating Brian CoxThis is the story of citizen science Where once astronomers sat at the controls of giant telescopes in remote locations praying for clear skies now they have no need to budge from their desks as data arrives in their inbox And what they receive is overwhelming projects now being built provide more data in a few nights than in the whole of humanity s history of observing the Universe It s not just astronomy either dealing with this deluge of data is the major challenge for scientists at CERN and for biologists who use automated cameras to spy on animals in their natural habitats Artificial intelligence is one part of the solution but will it spell the end of human involvement in scientific discovery No argues Chris Lintott We humans still have unique capabilities to bring to bear our curiosity our capacity for wonder and most importantly our capacity for surprise It seems that humans and computers working together do better than computers can on their own But with so much scientific data you need a lot of scientists a crowd in fact Lintott found such a crowd in the Zooniverse the web based project that allows hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic volunteers to contribute to science In this book Lintott describes the exci

Harrison Decoded Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings together the output of a forty year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison s extraordinary pendulum clock system Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one hundred times the stability of those made by his contemporaries However his final publication which promised to describe the system was a chaotic jumble of information much of which had nothing to do with clockwork One contemporary reviewer of Harrison s book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison s superannuated dotage The focus of this book centres on the making adjusting and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory Greenwich The modern history of Clock B is accompanied by scientific analysis of the clock system Clock B s performance the methods of data gathering alongside historical perspectives on Harrison s clockmaking that of his contemporaries and some evaluation of the possible influence of early 18th century scientific thought