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What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
Ian Stewart · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering when we'd ever need to know how to find the roots of a polynomial or graph imaginary numbers. And in one sense, we were right: if we needed to, we'd use a computer. But as Ian Stewart argues in What's the Use?, math isn't... |
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Rocks & Minerals
Chris Pellant · DK; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to identify more than 500 rocks and minerals of the world through stunning photographs, detailed characteristics, and quick, accessible text.Inside the pages of this comprehensive book about rocks and minerals, you'll discover: * A clear visual key distinguishing different... |
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Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World
Daniel Sherrell · Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future--and a family--under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships... |
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The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
Arthur Turrell · Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The most important energy-making process in the universe takes place inside stars. The ability to duplicate that process in a lab, once thought out of reach, may now be closer than we think. Today, all across the world teams of scientists are being assembled by the world's boldest entrepreneurs,... |
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The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening
Jesse Frost · Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Principles and farm-tested practices for no-till market gardening--for healthier, more productive soil! From the host of the popular The No-Till Market Garden Podcast -- heard around the world with over 850k downloads! Discovering how to meet the soil's needs is the key task for every... |
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Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection
Charles Halvorson · Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics. In a few short years, the environmental movement pushed Republican and Democratic elected officials to articulate a right to clean... |
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Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection
Sam Apple · Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat -- and what it means for how we should.The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg -- a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs -- was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth... |
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