Love, Sex, and Mushrooms is a memoir of my life in science, my quest, from an early age, to be a scientist when females were thought to be unsuited for such professions. The journey spans the last three quarters of the 20th century. It encompasses a lack of encouragement for becoming a scientist all through college until graduate school when I met the love of my life, a young University of Chicago professor, who taught me to love the fungi and how to investigate the myriad ways in which they accomplish sexual union. We married, had children, and collaborated in fungal research until his premature death. The struggle to carry on alone involved a whole new way of life leading to the realm of molecular genetics and the revelation that mushrooms with thousands of sexes seek their mates using molecules similar to those used for development and sensing in insects, rats, and humans.

A textbook for advanced student in physics. Topics include crystal binding and structure; lattice vibrations and thermal properties; electrons in periodic potentials; the interaction of electrons and lattice vibrations; metals, alloys, and the Fermi surface; semiconductors, magnetism, magnons, and magnetic resonance; superconductivity; dielectrics and ferroelectrics; optical properties of solids; defects in solids; and current topics in solid condensed matter physics.

This is a reprint of unique 1835 price book (sole original in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), detailing and pricing each step of piano construction.

It is significant for its appearance during a formative period of American labor organization, representing an early effort toward unionization, and is also important for information on pre-industrial woodworking technology and furniture design as well as musical taste.

Ongoing research in nanotechnology promises both innovations and risks, potentially and profoundly changing the world. This book helps to promote a balanced understanding of this important emerging technology, offering an informed and impartial look at the technology, its science, and its social impact and ethics.

Nanotechnology is crucial for the next generation of industries, financial markets, research labs, and our everyday lives; this book provides an informed and balanced look at nanotechnology and its social impact. It offers a comprehensive background discussion on nanotechnology itself, including its history, its science, and its tools, creating a clear understanding of the technology needed to evaluate ethics and social issues. The book was authored by a nanoscientist and philosophers, offers an accurate and accessible look at the science while providing an ideal text for ethics and philosophy courses and explores the most immediate and urgent areas of social impact of nanotechnology.

Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual-property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement in legal regulation. The authors argue that in property law, there is a tension between the competing demands of stability and dynamism, but its tendency is to become static and fall out of step with the needs of society.

The authors employ wide-ranging examples of the behaviors of "property outlaws"--the trespasser, squatter, pirate, or file-sharer--to show how specific behaviors have induced legal innovation. They also delineate the similarities between the actions of property outlaws in the spheres of tangible and intellectual property. An important conclusion of the book is that a dynamic between the activities of "property outlaws" and legal innovation should be cultivated in order to maintain this avenue of legal reform.

Art + Science Now provides a visual survey of artists working at the frontiers of science and technology, focusing on work since 2000. It covers artistic experimentation in fields such as biology, ecology, medical research, physics, geology, robotics, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, information visualization, and body-sensing computer interfaces. It explains how this artistic exploration of science and technology can be viewed as a next step in the expansion of the boundaries of art and considers the variety of critical stances artists take toward the research world--stretching from postmodern skepticism about science's truth claims and institutional power to celebration of the human quest to innovate and create new knowledge. It investigates the challenges facing art in a scientific era and trajectories art may pursue in the future.

Informal science is a burgeoning field that operates across a broad range of venues and envisages learning outcomes for individuals, schools, families, and society. The evidence base that describes informal science, its promise, and effects is informed by a range of disciplines and perspectives, including field-based research, visitor studies, and psychological and anthropological studies of learning.

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal environments across a life span. Contributors include recognized experts in a range of disciplines--research and evaluation, exhibit designers, program developers, and educators. They also have experience in a range of settings--museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, aquariums, zoos, state parks, and botanical gardens.

This book is an invaluable guide for program and exhibit designers, evaluators, staff of science-rich informal learning institutions and community-based organizations, scientists interested in educational outreach, federal science agency education staff, and K-12 science educators.

Population Genetics, a textbook designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, aims to make population genetics approachable, logical, and easily understood. The book's design emphasizes introductions to key principles and predictions in the field augmented with case studies as illustrations.

The book includes novel pedagogical features such as "interact" boxes that guide readers step-by-step through computer simulations using public domain software, "math" boxes that fully explain mathematical derivations, and "problem" boxes integrated into the text to reinforce concepts as they are encountered. The text also offers a highly accessible introduction to coalescent theory, the major conceptual advance in population genetics of the past two decades.

Trust is used in a variety of ways in computing literature, and social trust is emerging as an important computational problem. In open, distributed systems such as the Web, people and organizations can be anonymous, and trust and reputation become important. Researchers from many subfields of computer science have produced results in this space, with applications such as security, recommender systems, and knowledge management. However, this wide interest also means that research is published in diverse venues, and thus results published in one area can go unnoticed by researchers in a different area. For scientists beginning to work in the area, discovering the relevant literature and developing a comprehensive understanding of the state of the art is difficult for similar reasons.

The goal of Computing with Social Trust is to bring together a collection of important work in computing social trust from computer science and related disciplines and to give readers a full view of the subject. It will be divided into three major sections. The first will address theory, behavior, and trust management. This covers social analyses of how people develop trust, the dynamics of trust relationships, and systems for trust management. The second section describes algorithms and methods for computing trust in social contexts. Social networks, profile similarity, and participation in online communities are all potential sources from which trust can be computed. The final section contains applications that use trust, such as recommender systems, Web site access control, and e-mail filtering.

Divine Action and Natural Selection: Science, Faith and Evolution features 45 chapters with dialogue between the authors and others from 17 countries. It provides the first international pro-con discussion on creationism. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all well represented with a broad range of perspectives. Fresh ideas are provided by authors who work in artificial life and industrial use of evolutionary algorithms. Many of the articles are by scientists, religious and not. The basic rule set by the editors was that everyone had to be civil. One creationist and one anti-creationist refused, both of whom were excluded.