Can technology and innovation transform world health?Connecting undergraduate students with global problems, RebeccaRichards-Kortum examines the interplay between biomedicaltechnology design and the medical, regulatory, economic, social andethical issues surrounding global health. Driven by case studies,including cancer screening, imaging technologies, implantabledevices and vaccines, students learn how the complexities andvariation across the globe affect the design of devices andtherapies. A wealth of learning features, including classroomactivities, project assignments, homework problems and weblinkswithin the book and online, provide a full teaching package. Forvisionary general science and biomedical engineering courses, thisbook will inspire students to engage in solving global issues thatface us all.
Quantum gravity is one of the major open problems in theoreticalphysics. The loop and spinfoam approach, presented in this book, isa leading research program in the field. Emphasis is given toconceptual and foundational issues raised by quantum gravity,especially on the nature of space and time. This text is intendedfor researchers working in quantum gravity and, in particular,graduate students entering the field. It will also appeal tophilosophers and scientists interested in the general issue of thenature of space and time.
Mary Somerville (1780–1872) would have been a remarkable womanin any age, but as an acknowledged leading mathematician andastronomer at a time when the education of most women was extremelyrestricted, her achievement was extraordinary. Laplace famouslytold her that 'there have been only three women who have understoodme. These are yourself, Mrs Somerville, Caroline Herschel and a MrsGreig of whom I know nothing.' Mary Somerville was in fact MrsGreig. After (as she herself said) translating Laplace's work 'fromalgebra into common language', she wrote On the Connexion of thePhysical Sciences (1834), also reissued in this series. Her nextbook, the two-volume Physical Geography (1848), was a synthesis ofgeography, geology, botany, astronomy and zoology, drawing on themost recent discoveries in all these fields to present an overviewof current understanding of the natural world and the Earth's placein the universe.
