Sciences

Leanpub revenue supports OpenIntro. OpenIntro is a US-based nonprofit that provides textbook services to help increase adoption of OER textbooks and save students money. These textbook services are fully financed by Leanpub contributions on supported books. APEX Calculus website: apexcalculus.comOpenIntro website: openintro.org

If you are able to contribute, it will go to support OpenIntro (not the author), a US-based nonprofit working to spread open materials, e.g. by providing desk copies to instructors considering this text. This listing is in collaboration with the textbook's author, Jim Hefferon. Linear Algebra's official websitePaperbacks are $22openintro.org

Data analysis is now part of practically every research project in the life sciences. In this book we use data and computer code to teach the necessary statistical concepts and programming skills to become a data analyst. Instead of showing theory first and then applying it to toy examples, we start with actual applications and describe the theory as it becomes necessary to solve specific challenges. The book includes links to computer code that readers can use to follow along as they program.

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is the most widely used technique for investigating the living, functioning human brain as people perform tasks and experience mental states. This book covers the design, acquisition, and analysis of fMRI data.

New to research? This is the one book you should read. It's got everything. It'll take you from choosing your project and starting out in a lab, through designing experiments, acquiring data and performing the appropriate analysis, and all the way on to writing up your work for publication, and presenting your work at conferences.

Toxicokinetic-toxicodynamic (TKTD) modelling is an exciting field of ecotoxicology that aims to understand and predict toxic effects, rather than just describing them. A lot of work has been done in this field, especially over the last two decades. However, many open (and in some cases fundamental) questions still remain to be solved.

A complete foundation for Statistics, also serving as a foundation for Data Science, that introduces inference using randomization and simulation while covering traditional methods. Leanpub revenue supports OpenIntro, so we can provide free desk copies to teachers interested in using our books in the classroom. More resources: openintro.org.

A book about how to be a scientist the modern, open-source way.

Greenhouse gas emissions have caused considerable changes in climate, including increased surface air temperatures and rising sea levels. This e-textbook presents a series of laboratory exercises in R that teach the Earth science and statistical concepts needed for assessing climate-related risks. These exercises are intended for upper-level undergraduates, beginning graduate students, and professionals in other areas who wish to gain insight into academic climate risk analysis.

Quantum computing is real, but is frankly surrounded by a thick fog of hype. Do you want to see it clearly, understand its realities, and even consider joining it as a professional software engineer?

Ein Buch darüber, wie man auf moderne, Open-Source-Weise Wissenschaftler wird.

Would you like to use TK or TKTD modelling to answer (applied) scientific questions, but lack the background in modelling and/or statistics? Then this is the book for you. This book provides a small selection of the tools from math and stats, along with some elements from philosophy of science, to get you up to speed.

Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a powerful framework for ecotoxicology and stress ecology. This book provides a gentle introduction into the concepts behind DEB theory, and how to apply them in practice to understand stressor effects. The book is completely "math free".

From our earliest genetic responses to the rising age of artificial intelligence, what does it truly mean to be well? The Blueprint of Life bridges complex science and the human experience, revealing that health is fundamentally about identity, dignity, and hope.

Quanto è grande davvero il sistema energetico che sostiene la nostra vita quotidiana? Dal petrolio alle rinnovabili, dalle reti all’accumulo, dall’idrogeno alla fusione, Grandi Numeri, Grandi Impatti – Volume 2: Energia usa i numeri per raccontare la scala, i vincoli e le trasformazioni del sistema energetico. Perché prima di discutere quale sistema energetico vogliamo costruire, occorre capire quello che abbiamo.