Springer, 2025. — 254 p. — (Серия: Statistics and Computing). — ISBN 978-3-031-84711-0. This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to designing rigorous and effective network science tools using the statistical software platforms Stata, R, and Python. Network science offers a means to understand and analyze complex systems that involve various types of relationships....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. — 384 p. The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. — 352 p. The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. — 368 p. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields. Content “The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities” by Natalie...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. — 352 p. This anthology of essays and articles explores topics ranging from untouched wilderness to scientific ethics—and the nature of curiosity itself. Scientists and writers are both driven by a dogged curiosity, immersing themselves in detailed observations that, over time, uncover larger stories. As Rebecca Skloot says in her introduction,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. — 322 p. This anthology collects some of the year’s best science and nature writing—from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more. As guest editor Amy Stewart says in her introduction, “science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten…But at the end of...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 354 p. “Undeniably exquisite... Reveal[s] not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” —Maria Popova “An excellent introduction to the key issues in science today.” —P. D. Smith, Guardian “[A] stellar compendium... Delightful to read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A renowned scientist and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — 370 p. “This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times-bestselling author Sam Kean proclaims in his introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2018. “Things aren’t perfect by any means. But there are more scientists making more discoveries in more places about more things than ever before.”...
Mariner Books, 2019. — 386 p. Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year’s volume of the finest science and nature writing. “Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential,” observes New York Times best-selling...
Mariner Books, 2021. — 416 p. New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best science and nature writing published in 2020. “The stories I have chosen reflect where I feel the field of science and nature writing has landed, and where it could go,” Ed Yong writes in his introduction. “They are often full of tragedy, sometimes laced...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2010. — 416 p. Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits the 2010 volume of the finest science and nature writing. Contents “The Alpha Accipiter” by Gustave Axelson. First published in Minnesota Conservation Volunteer, March/April 2009. Copyright 2009 by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Reprinted by...
Mariner Books, 2023. — 423 p. New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Carl Zimmer compiles the best science and nature writing published in 2023. Contents 1. An Invisible Epidemic by Elizabeth Svoboda 2. The Myopia Generation by Sarah Zhang 3. A Deepening Crisis Forces Physicists to Rethink Structure of Nature’s Laws by Natalie Wolchover 4. The Coming...
Humana Press, 2023. — 1058 p. — (Neuromethods 197). — ISBN 978-1-0716-3195-9. This volume provides readers with an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to both methodological and applicative aspects of machine learning (ML) for brain disorders. The chapters in this book are organized into five parts. Part One presents the fundamentals of ML. Part Two looks at the main types of...
Oneworld Book, 2023. — 591 р. — ISBN 978-0-86154-527-8 Life innovates constantly, producing perfectly adapted species – but there’s a catch. Many animals and plants eke out seemingly unremarkable lives. Passive, constrained, modest, threatened. Then, in a blink of evolutionary time, they flourish spectacularly. Once we start to look, these ‘sleeping beauties’ crop up...
Seven Stories Press, 2021 — 256 p. — ISBN 9781644210611, 1644210614. How do we create a universe of truthful and verifiable information, available to everyone? In « The new enlightenment », MIT Open Learning’s Peter B. Kaufman describes the powerful forces that have purposely crippled our efforts to share knowledge widely and freely. Popes and their inquisitors, emperors and...
IOP Publishing Ltd, 2022. — 177 p. — ISBN 978-0-7503-1047-5. The essence of network science is the realization that the behavior of many complex systems in nature and technology cannot be understood only by analyzing their components. Rather, the interactions between the components, considered as a network usually, play a critical role in the functioning of the system. Network...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. — 516 p. Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civilization. This classic account of how our...
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