Extreme Scientists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Extreme Scientists write by Donna M. Jackson. This book was released on 2009. Extreme Scientists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Profiles three extreme scientists who risk their lives to conduct research in some of the world's most intense environments, describing the experiences of scientists studying hurricanes, cave microbes, and forest canopies.
Science in an Extreme Environment
Science in an Extreme Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science in an Extreme Environment write by Philip Clements. This book was released on 2018-04-25. Science in an Extreme Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On February 20, 1963, a team of nineteen Americans embarked on the first expedition that would combine high-altitude climbing with scientific research. The primary objective of the six scientists on the team—who procured funding by appealing to the military and political applications of their work—was to study how severe stress at high altitudes affected human behavior. The expedition would land the first American on the summit of Mount Everest nearly three years after a successful (though widely disputed) Chinese ascent. At the height of the Cold War, this struggle for the Himalaya turned Everest into both a contested political space and a remote, unpredictable laboratory. The US expedition promised to resurrect American heroism, embodied in a show of physical strength and skill that, when combined with scientific expertise, would dominate international rivals on the frontiers of territorial exploration. It propelled mountaineers, scientists, and their test subjects 29,029 feet above sea level, the highest point of Chinese-occupied Tibet. There they faced hostile conditions that challenged and ultimately compromised standard research protocols, yielding results that were too exceptional to be generalized to other environments. With this book, Philip W. Clements offers a nuanced exploration of the impact of extremity on the production of scientific knowledge and the role of masculinity and nationalism in scientific inquiry.
Science at the Extreme
Science at the Extreme - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science at the Extreme write by Peter Lane Taylor. This book was released on 2001. Science at the Extreme available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the adventures of the men and women who are not only scientists but explorers devoted to unraveling the mysteries of the natural world.
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction write by Mike Ashley. This book was released on 2010-07-31. The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."
Higher and Colder
Higher and Colder - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Higher and Colder write by Vanessa Heggie. This book was released on 2019-08-02. Higher and Colder available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the long twentieth century, explorers went in unprecedented numbers to the hottest, coldest, and highest points on the globe. Taking us from the Himalaya to Antarctica and beyond, Higher and Colder presents the first history of extreme physiology, the study of the human body at its physical limits. Each chapter explores a seminal question in the history of science, while also showing how the apparently exotic locations and experiments contributed to broader political and social shifts in twentieth-century scientific thinking. Unlike most books on modern biomedicine, Higher and Colder focuses on fieldwork, expeditions, and exploration, and in doing so provides a welcome alternative to laboratory-dominated accounts of the history of modern life sciences. Though centered on male-dominated practices—science and exploration—it recovers the stories of women’s contributions that were sometimes accidentally, and sometimes deliberately, erased. Engaging and provocative, this book is a history of the scientists and physiologists who face challenges that are physically demanding, frequently dangerous, and sometimes fatal, in the interest of advancing modern science and pushing the boundaries of human ability.
