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 José Antonio Fornés
Among the topics treated in the book are: Dynamics of protons in DNA, Photosynthesis and the quantum mechanochemical model, Entanglement, coherence and decoherence, Excitons in the Fenna-Mathews-Olson complex, and Energy exchange between cells. Also includes a brief and clear explanation of the Quantum theory and also includes code to build useful software to use in research environments.
By Carl Öhman
“The online presence of the dead may seem like a somewhat marginal, if creepy, quirk of life in the internet era. But as Öhman shows in this clear-eyed and wide-ranging book, the digital dead sit at the intersection of fundamental historical, economic, and cultural forces.” – Patrick Stokes.
By Jeffrey McKinnon
In Our Ancient Lakes, Jeffrey McKinnon introduces the remarkable living diversity of the ancient aquatic bodies, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, to the general reader and explains the surprising, often controversial, findings that the study of their faunas is yielding about the formation and persistence of species.
By Richard Dawkins
In this new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book – an archive of the worlds of its ancestors.
By Daniel Susskind
In a sweeping analysis full of historical insight, Susskind explores what really drives economic growth, offering original ideas for combatting our economic slowdown. He argues that we cannot abandon growth but shows instead how we can redirect it, making it better reflect what we truly value.
Edited by Edik Rafailov and Tatjana Gric
This book provides researchers and professionals in the area of biomedical photonics with a toolbox of novel methodologies for biomedical applications, including health diagnostics, cancer detection, and treatment.
By Sönke Ahrens
The Take Smart Notes principle is based on established psychological insight and draws from a tried and tested note-taking technique: the Zettelkasten. This is the first comprehensive guide and description of this system in English.
Edited by Peter A. Corning et al.
Essays in this collection grapple with topics from the two-way “read-write” genome to cognition and decision-making in plants to the niche-construction activities of many organisms to the self-making evolution of humankind.
The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work, from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list.
Edited by Pratap Singh et al.
This book presents various drug-delivery techniques that utilize nanotechnology for the biomedical domain, highlighting both therapeutic and diagnostic applications, providing detailed studies on different promising nanocarriers like liposomes, exosomes and virus-based nanocarriers.