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  • The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, 3rd Edition

    How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career

    by Stephen B. Heard ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    A fully updated and expanded third edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist’s Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. Now in its third edition, this incisive primer offers practical advice on a host of topics, from maintaining writing momentum to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • The Scientist’s Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition

    How to Write More Easily and Effectively throughout Your Scientific Career

    by Stephen B. Heard ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist’s Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. Now fully updated and expanded, this incisive primer offers practical advice on such topics as generating and maintaining writing momentum, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider

    How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels

    by Stephen B. Heard ...
    An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significanceEver since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    by Bethann Garramon Merkle, Stephen B. Heard ...
    Blending deep experience, humor, and evidence-based advice, this is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in developing good scientific writers.Every scientist eventually teaches scientific writing or mentors junior scientists as they develop their writing skills—only to discover that the task is both challenging and remarkably time-consuming. If you are in this position, Teaching and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider

    How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels

    by Stephen B. Heard, PhD ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 17 min

    An engaging history of the surprising, poignant, and occasionally scandalous stories behind scientific names and their cultural significance.Ever since Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of scientific names was adopted in the eighteenth century, scientists have been eponymously naming organisms in ways that both honor and vilify their namesakes. This charming, informative, and accessible history ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Organized Mind

    Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

    by Daniel J. Levitin ...
    New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Writing to Be Understood

    by Anne Janzer ...
    Have you ever wondered what makes your favorite nonfiction books so compelling, understandable, or enjoyable to read? Those works connect with you, as a reader.When you recognize what's happening, you can apply those same methods to your own writing.Writing To Be Understood is the thinking writer's guide to effective nonfiction writing techniques, such as:Using analogies to illustrate unseen ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Half-Life of Facts

    Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

    by Samuel Arbesman ...
    New insights from the science of scienceFacts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this ... Read more

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  • Everything Is Miscellaneous

    The Power of the New Digital Disorder

    by David Weinberger ...
    A provocative exploration of how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But the ongoing shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place—the physical world demanded it—but now ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Build a Mathematical Mind - Even If You Think You Can't Have One

    Become a Pattern Detective. Boost Your Critical and Logical Thinking Skills.

    by Albert Rutherford ...
    Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers?There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.Did you always hate math because you couldn’t understand complex formulas?Don’t let a few equations or a bad teacher deter you from building a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science

    by Scott L. Montgomery ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "Enhanced with approximately 100 additional pages, this second edition is a testament to the success of the first one." — ChoiceFor more than a decade, The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science has been the go-to reference for anyone who needs to write or speak about their research. Whether it's a student writing a thesis, a faculty member composing a grant proposal, or a public information ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English for Writing Research Papers

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of over 1000 manuscripts and reviewers' reports revealing why papers written by non-native researchers are often rejected due to problems with English usage and poor structure and content.With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and examples taken from published and unpublished papers ... Read more

    $31.49 USD