Access to scientific literature and resources
An overview of selected new books in Szilárd Library, with a word from their authors, reviewers and publishers
By Gregory Radick
A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics. Bringing together extensive archival research with searching analyses of the nature of science and history, Disputed Inheritance challenges the way we think about genetics and its possibilities, past, present, and future.
By Hamid D. Ismail
This book digs deep into analysis, providing both concept and practice to satisfy the exact need of researchers seeking to understand and use NGS data reprocessing, genome assembly, variant discovery, gene profiling, epigenetics, and metagenomics.
By Jerry Apps and Natasha Kassulke
Beginning with an overview of the environmental movement, the authors then explore both critical and creative thinking and systematically apply these methods to a wide variety of critical environmental problems, such as climate change, agriculture, forests, water, energy, air quality, natural resources, land use, endangered species, and biodiversity.
Edited by Noureddine Melikechi
This is one of the few books that addresses cancer detection and diagnosis using laser spectroscopic tools with an eye on providing the reader the scientific tools to better understand the novelty that laser spectroscopy and imaging can provide.
By Rupert Riedl
In this book, the author Rupert Riedl investigates the structural and functional correlations of issues considered as “complex”, the definition of complexity, the occurrence of complexity, the meaning of complexity, and the way complexity is dealt with professionally. This calls for once again focusing on complexity and the holistic aspects, on interdisciplinary and synoptic approaches.
By George Fu Gao and Alexander Huan Liu
2018 was the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the ‘1918 Flu’ that swept the world. The flu, a century ago, claimed nearly one-twentieth of human life on the planet. It became the most deadly flu in human history. This book introduces the past and present life of the influenza virus in a light-hearted way, leading the reader to review the past from the history of the flu, the development of the flu, human immunity and health, impacts on society and the country.
By Mae-Wan Ho
This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schroedinger’s question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life.
By Chang-Hui Shen
Second Edition describes the fundamentals of molecular biology in a clear, concise manner with each technique explained within its conceptual framework and current applications of clinical laboratory techniques comprehensively covered. This book expands the discussion on NGS application and its role in future precision medicine.