Science Books

Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft, Hall, Rex D. ISBN: 9781852336578

The Soyuz spacecraft has had a long and distinguished career. When it was proposed in 1963 it formed part of the Soviet Union's plans to send cosmonauts around the Moon. By the late 1960's the Soviets were losing the race to the moon and the following three decades saw Soyuz become a space station ferry craft. At present, almost 40 years after is was first designed, Soyuz continues its role as a crew transport craft and serves as the first Crew Rescue Vehicle for the International Space Station. The authors describe a typical Soyuz mission, from the pre-flight body sterilization and traditional ceremony to the final dust-down when, after surviving the trauma of re-entry, the spacecraft finally lands back on Earth at 3 metres per second.

General System Theory - All the laws that can be applied in every scientific field

General System Theory by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy is a manual you need to know everything about laws that can be applied virtually to almost every scientific field.

Blue Mountain Buckskin - Garments, mocassins and pouches

Blue Mountain Buckskin by Jim Riggs is a book that inspired a generation of tanners. The book is your buckskin tanning guide and teaches how to prepare garments, mocassins and pouches out of deer skin.

Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are, de Waal, Frans ISBN: 9781400151929

We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we? From a scientist and writer E. O. Wilson has called "the world authority on primate social behavior" comes a fascinating look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our two closest cousins in the ape family. For nearly twenty years, Frans de Waal has worked with both the famously aggressive chimpanzee and the lesser-known egalitarian, erotic, matriarchal bonobo, two species whose DNA is nearly identical to that of humans. De Waal shows the range of human behavior through his study of chimpanzees and bonobos, drawing from their personalities, relationships, power struggles, and high jinks important insights about our human behavior. The result is an engrossing and surprising narrative that reveals what their behavior can teach us about our own nature. "An informative and engaging work." --"Library Journal" "De Waal offers vivid, often delightful stories of politics, sex, violence and kindness in the ape communities he has studied to illustrate such questions as why we are irreverent toward the powerful and whether men or women are better at conflict resolution."--"Publishers Weekly" "Never has he de Waal] written better on his great theme than in this absorbing overview of power, sex, violence, and kindness among apes--and humans."--"Booklist" "Sklar adds just a touch of a smile to his sonorous voice, conveying friendliness, warmth, and humor."--"AudioFile Magazine"