FT Press / Education

Curious Folks Ask 1 & 2 (Bundle)

von Sherry Seethaler

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Why do lizards do pushups? What if the Earth’s magnetic field reverses? How do stars die?  What causes goose bumps, earwax, dandruff, headaches? Whether it’s...

Amazing Animal Insights

von Sherry Seethaler

This Element is an excerpt from Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in print and digital formats. Animal mysteries...

How Infectious Diseases Spread

von David P. Clark

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics...

How Do Mircoorganisms Become Dangerous Pathogens?

von David P. Clark

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics...

Powering the Future: A Scientist's Guide to Energy Independence

von Daniel B. Botkin

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

The future of civilization depends upon the continuous availability...

Genes, Chromosomes, and Disease: From Simple Traits, to Complex Traits, to Personalized Medicine

von Nicholas Wright Gillham

This is the eBook version of the printed book.This readable overview covers the rise of medical genetics through the past century, and the eugenic impulses it has inspired. Nicholas Gillham reviews the linkages...

The Rules of Parenting: A Personal Code for Raising Happy, Confident Children, Expanded Edition

von Richard Templar

There are lots of wrong ways to bring up your kids, but there are lots of right ones, too. There's no list of instructions you have to follow to the letter if you don't want your child to end up a loser. Richard...

Growing Resistance with Antibiotics

von Karl S. Drlica & David S. Perlin

This Element is an excerpt from Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis (9780131387737) by Karl Drlica and David S. Perlin. Available in print and digital formats.

The truth...

Antibiotics: An Overview

von Karl S. Drlica & David S. Perlin

This Element is an excerpt from Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis (9780131387737) by Karl Drlica and David S. Perlin. Available in print and digital formats.

What everyone...

Wacky Insect Factoids

von Sherry Seethaler

This Element is an excerpt from Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in print and digital formats. Why crickets...

Weird Wild Animal Facts

von Sherry Seethaler

This Element is an excerpt from Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in print and digital formats. Now revealed:...

Creepy Crawler Insect Insights

von Sherry Seethaler

This Element is an excerpt from Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in print and digital formats. Spiders, flies,...

Insights on Environmental Effects

von Sherry Seethaler

This Element is an excerpt from Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in print and digital formats. Inside hurricanes,...

Inside Scoops on the Environment

von Sherry Seethaler

This Element is an excerpt from Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in print and digital formats. Gluttonous TVs,...

Can We See the Invisible Mind of God?

von The Chicago Social Brain Network

This Element is an excerpt from Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds (9780137075454) by the Chicago Social Brain Network. Available in print and digital formats. How do people understand...

A New Approach for Meeting the Challenges of AIDS

von The aids2031 Consortium

This Element is an excerpt from AIDS: Taking a Long-Term View (9780132172592) by the aids2031 Consortium. Available in print and digital formats. Reconceiving the world's response to AIDS: toward more positive,...

AIDS: Taking a Long-Term View

von The aids2031 Consortium

In this highly readable book, the Aids2031 Commission’s experts report on AIDS’ first 50 years: the 30 years since first diagnosis, emerging trends, and how to create better outcomes between now and 2031....

Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis

von Karl Drlica & David S. Perlin

Once hailed as “magic bullets,” antibiotics are now used so widely that their success is threatening their effectiveness. The natural mutability of microbes is enabling pathogens to develop bulletproof shields...

Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds

von The Chicago Social Brain Network

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

Can Science and Religion Work Together, After All?

It’s time for...

Can Your Beliefs Impact Your Health and Well-Being?

von The Chicago Social Brain Network

This Element is an excerpt from Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds (9780137075454) by the Chicago Social Brain Network. Available in print and digital formats.

The new science of...