Sentence examples for volume of science from inspiring English sources

The nonfiction books for this year include two histories, a memoir, a biography and a volume of science, while the fiction list has on it four novels and the translation of an epic.

These three books remind us of the time when the moon was a place people actually visited, a time of science fact that eclipses every volume of science fiction ever written.

Continuing exponential growth in the volume of science as measured by number of scientists or by publications has made it virtually impossible for individual researchers to keep track of the totality of knowledge and major progress areas in a research field using the traditional modes of scholarly research.

In Joseph Needham's third volume of Science and Civilization in China, the drawing for Fig. 159 displays a drawing of Su Song's armillary sphere (as depicted in his 11th century treatise), complete with three 'nests' or layers of mechanically-rotated rings.

The 68-year-old Mrs. Lessing, who is perhaps still best known for her 1962 work "The Golden Notebook," has in the last decade written many volumes of science fiction.

The center's collection also includes the personal mystery library of Frederic Dannay (who with his cousin Manfred B. Lee wrote the Ellery Queen books), 23 corrected typescripts by Dashiell Hammett and some 35,000 rare volumes of science fiction, fantasy and comic books.

Like John McPhee's books on American geology, it's an extraordinarily comprehensive volume of natural science, written in a confident, dare we say, fluid style.

The fauna was published in a volume of the Science Series of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in 2004, which included a paper by Francisco Goin and colleagues that described and discussed LACM 149371.

He was visual editor of the General Dynamics company history, a huge book titled "Dynamic America". Other major projects were a 12-volume history of science and technology that sold more than two million copies in many languages, and a five-volume history of the 20th century, produced by his company, Erik Nitsche International.

An impressive volume of social-science studies suggests that leaders are more willing to break the rules than followers.

Among its prize acquisitions was a Quran from the ninth century, although the library also housed thousands of twenty-first-century volumes on science, philosophy, law, world history, literature, and the arts.