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Authors: Barbara H. Berrie, Caroline Fowler, Karin Leonhard, & Ittai Weinryb
Over the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments.
“Pigments” brings together leading art historians and conservators to trace the history of the materials used to create color and their invention across diverse cultures and time periods.
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes.
But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered.
“Class Dismissed” exposes how woefully unprepared colleges were to support these students and shares their stories of how they were left to weather the storm alone and unprotected.
Author: Kenneth Catania
Like any creative endeavor, science can be a messy and chaotic affair.
“On the Art and Craft of Doing Science” shares the creative process of an innovative and accomplished scientist, taking readers behind the scenes of some of his most pioneering investigations and explaining why the practice of science, far from being an orderly exercise in pure logic, is a form of creative expression like any other art.
By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a household word.
He remains the only seismologist whose name anyone outside of narrow scientific circles would likely recognize.
Yet few understand the Richter scale itself, and even fewer have ever understood the man.
Tensors are widely used in physics and engineering to describe physical properties that have multiple dimensions and magnitudes.
“A Geometrical Introduction to Tensor Calculus” gives graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and researchers a powerful and mathematically elegant tool for comprehending the behavior and applications of tensors across an array of fields.
Authors: Christina Grozinger and Harland Patch
“The Lives of Bees” provides a one-of-a-kind look at the life and natural history of bees.
Blending stunning photographs and illustrations with illuminating profiles of selected species, this incisive guide takes readers inside the world of these marvelous insects, exploring their physiology, behavior, ecology, evolution, and much more.
