For centuries, scientists have dreamt of discovering an underlying unity to nature. Science now offers powerful explanations for both the dazzling diversity and striking similarities seen in the living world. Life is complicated. It is truly the â€œentangled bankâ€ that Charles Darwin described. But scientists are now discovering that energy is the unifying force that joins all life on Earth. Visionary biologists have advanced a new theory that explains how the natural worldâ€"from the tiniest amoeba to the greatest rain forestâ€"is constructed, providing a fresh perspective on the essential interconnectivity of living systems. This revolutionary theory explains a variety of phenomenaâ€"helping us understand why a shrew eats its bodyweight in food each day, why a mammalâ€™s heart beats about 1 billion times in its lifetime, why there are no trees as tall as the Eiffel Tower, and why more species live at the Earthâ€™s equator than at its poles. By looking at how living things use energy, we can answer these and myriad other intriguing questions. In the Beat of a Heart combines biography, history, science and nature writing to capture the exciting advancesâ€" and the people who are making themâ€"that are triggering a revolution as potentially important to biology as Newtonâ€™s insights were to physics. Table of Contents <ul>
<li>Front Matter</li>
<li>1 Prologue:"I Have Taken to Mathematics"</li>
<li>2 The Slow Fire</li>
<li>3 Moving the Line</li>
<li>4 Searching for Similarity</li>
<li>5 Networking</li>
<li>6 The Pace of Life</li>
<li>7 Seeing the Forest for the Trees</li>
<li>8 The Cult of Santa Rosalia</li>
<li>9 Humboldt's Gifts</li>
<li>10 A Newton of the Grass Blade?</li>
<li>11 Epilogue:"The Great Desideratum"</li>
<li>Acknowledgements</li>
<li>References</li>
<li>Index</li>
</ul>

In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature

Science & Math

Whitfield, John

Biological Sciences

Joseph Henry Press

How to get a good reputation—deserved or not!—and why we care what other people thinkWhy does a fish only bite another fish if no one else is watching? Why do people overshare online? Why do some people meet trivial insults with extreme violence? Why do so many gods have multiple eyes? In People Will Talk, science writer John Whitfield shows how reputation helps answer all of these questions, and more. What is the secret to getting get a good reputation? Unfortunately, there's more to reputation than being a good person or being good at what you do. Your reputation belongs to other people, and it's created by what they say about you behind your back. You have a good reputation only if you have a strong social network—a large and close-knit network of friends, family, and allies—to spread good news about you and shout down ugly rumors. If you’ve ever wondered why we care about the lives of celebrities, why young men publicly upload to the Internet pictures of themselves engaged in drunken or dangerous antics, how to make the “honor system” a little more widely honored, how to keep politicians honest, or what keeps gossip going, reputation will give you a clue.
<ul>
<li>Almost from the moment we are born, we are trying to work out whom we can trust and trying to make others think the best of us. </li>
<li>We carry on doing so throughout life, even when we don't realize it, every time we meet another person in business, friendship, or romance; every time we read celebrity gossip; and every time we tweak our Facebook profiles. </li>
<li>Whether you’re buying a car or selling one, looking for a job or hiring, asking someone out on a date or deciding whether to accept the invitation, reputation matters. </li>
</ul>
Read People Will Talk and discover how to polish your own reputation, understand what you hear about others, and make the most of both.

People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation

Parenting & Relationships

Trade Paper Press

People Will Talk

What do psychopaths and expenses-fiddling MPs have in common? How can ebay save the economy? Why does a stranger influence your private life? The answer is reputation. 'This book is about how we work out how to trust people. And its flipside: how can I get other people to trust me? And if I can't, why not?' But there's plenty more to the essence of reputation. People Will Talk surveys experiments and theories of animal behaviour, economics, philosophy, sociology and literature in a deft explanation of our social behaviour - which holds some important lessons for everyday life. John Whitfield uncovers the central role reputation has always played, without us really noticing. He reveals exactly how much it influences human development and behaviour, including your reading of this book, and even explains some of the surreal social dynamics behind today's risk-taking bankers and obnoxiously-behaved celebrities.

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

The two volumes of Whitfield's Electrical craft principles have been substantially revised and updated for the mid 1990s, reflecting changes in practice and legislation (e.g. BS 7671/IEE Wiring Regulations) as well as in the City &amp; Guilds courses they support. Volume 2 in particular has new material to accompany course changes. The volumes are presented in a new format, are highly illustrated and contain full problems and solutions. Inspection copies of the new edition are available to lecturers.
Also available:
 Electrical Craft Principles, Volume 2, 4th Edition - ISBN 9780852968338 A Handbook for EMC Testing and Measurement - ISBN 9780863417566
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET publishes more than 100 new titles every year; a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 350 books in 18 different subject areas including: 
 -Power &amp; Energy -Renewable Energy -Radar, Sonar &amp; Navigation -Electromagnetics -Electrical Measurement -History of Technology -Technology Management

Electrical Craft Principles

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Inst of Engineering & Technology

The two volumes of Whitfield's Electrical craft principles have been substantially revised and updated for the mid 1990s, reflecting changes in practice and legislation (e.g. BS 7671/IEE Wiring Regulations) as well as in the City &amp; Guilds courses they support. Volume 2 in particular has new material to accompany course changes. The volumes are presented in a new format, are highly illustrated and contain full problems and solutions. Inspection copies of the new edition are available to lecturers.
Also available:
AC-DC Power System Analysis - ISBN 9780852969342 A Handbook for EMC Testing and Measurement - ISBN 9780863417566
The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET publishes more than 100 new titles every year; a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 350 books in 18 different subject areas including: 
 -Power &amp; Energy -Renewable Energy -Radar, Sonar &amp; Navigation -Electromagnetics -Electrical Measurement -History of Technology -Technology Management

Electrical Craft Principles, Vol. 2, 4th Edition

This is the first of a two-volume work covering the electrical principles syllabuses of all of the major examining bodies including the City &amp; Guilds of London Institute's electrical craft courses. It is also suitable for a wide range of other courses, including the first three years of the BTEC electrical series. Great care has been taken to ensure that the text fully covers the content of the syllabuses concerned, both as published and as interpreted by the examiners in the past. The book is well illustrated with almost 200 line diagrams and photographs. Theories are explained with the help of almost 100 worked examples, an important aid to understanding the practical applications, and there are more than 300 graded exercises for which numerical answers are provided as well as nearly 250 multiple choice questions with solutions. These features make the book ideal as a class text as well as being particularly suitable for private study. A complete list of symbols, abbreviations and units is included, along with eight tables of relevant data and introduction to SI units, this system being used throughout. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the formulas introduced in it. The book will also be useful to practicing technicians wishing to extend their grasp of electrical principles to meet the rapidly expanding requirements of the industry.

Electrical Craft Principles (Materials, Circuits and Devices)

Physics

The Institution of Engineering and Technology

This is the second of a two-volume work covering the electrical principles syllabuses of all of the major examining bodies including the City &amp; Guilds of London Institute's electrical craft courses. It is also suitable for a wide range of other courses, including the first three years of the BTEC electrical series. Great care has been taken to ensure that the text fully covers the content of the syllabuses concerned, both as published and as interpreted by the examiners in the past. The book is well illustrated with almost 200 line diagrams and photographs. Theories are explained with the help of almost 100 worked examples, an important aid to understanding the practical applications, and there are more than 300 graded exercises for which numerical answers are provided as well as nearly 250 multiple choice questions with solutions. These features make the book ideal as a class text as well as being particularly suitable for private study. A complete list of symbols, abbreviations and units is included, along with eight tables of relevant data and introduction to SI units, this system being used throughout. Each chapter concludes with a summary of the formulas introduced in it. The book will also be useful to practicing technicians wishing to extend their grasp of electrical principles to meet the rapidly expanding requirements of the industry.

A third revision of the sixteenth edition of a handbook on the IEE's wiring regulations which includes extra detail in the chapter on cable selection and in the cross-reference index.

The Electrician's Guide to the 16th Edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations

EPA PRESS

The Electrician's Guide to the 16th Edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations by John Whitfield has been a bestseller for nearly 20 years. The book takes you step by step through the complexities of the Wiring Regulations and translates these into words and diagrams which are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. The new 8th Edition, released in March 2005, follows the successful style and format of previous editions. It covers Part P of the Building Regs which stipulates that electrical installation work in dwellings in England and Wales is now subject to Building Regulations. It also covers alarm and emergency lighting systems.

The Electrician's Guide to the 16th Edition of the Iee Wiring Regulations, Bs7671 and Part P of the Building Regulations

Meet the incredible animals that have disappeared due to competition, mass extinctions, hunting, and human activity. Lost Animals brings back to life some of the most charismatic creatures to inhabit the planet. It captures the imagination with more than 200 incredible photographs, artworks of fossils, and scientific drawings of charming creatures like dodos, paraceratherium (the largest land mammal), spinosaurus (the biggest carnivorous dinosaur), placeoderm fishes (the sharks of their day), and more! Lost Animals is a captivating documentation of evolution and extinction. Each chapter focuses on a specific time in Earth's history, from the Cambrian explosion (the most intense surge of evolution the world has ever experienced) to present times, with profiles of the key species that lived then. From long extinct animals to Lazarus species--animals that were thought to be extinct before being rediscovered--this book takes readers on a journey through Earth's natural history, highlighting the world's biggest animal losses and its moments of conservational hope.

Lost Animals: Extinct, Endangered, and Rediscovered Species

Smithsonian Books

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In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature

People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation

People Will Talk

Electrical Craft Principles

Electrical Craft Principles, Vol. 2, 4th Edition

Electrical Craft Principles (Materials, Circuits and Devices)

Electrical Craft Principles (Materials, Circuits and Devices)

The Electrician's Guide to the 16th Edition of the IEE Wiring Regulations

The Electrician's Guide to the 16th Edition of the Iee Wiring Regulations, Bs7671 and Part P of the Building Regulations

Lost Animals: Extinct, Endangered, and Rediscovered Species