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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
Matt Strassler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all
In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human... |
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The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Kallman and Ferorelli provide a compelling and compassionate framework for working through seemingly insoluble dilemmas, beginning with the decision to have a child, but not ending there. The book ends with a commonsense guide on how to make change happen. -- Amitav Ghosh, author of The Nutmeg's... |
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Charan Ranganath - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling... |
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Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time
Robert Downey Jr - Blackstone Publishing Inc
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLERA Publishers Weekly Pick #1 New Release Barnes & Noble PickIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints--one... |
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The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
John O'Connor - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Bigfoot... |
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Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, delivers an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all timeWhen Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth... |
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Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
Robin George Andrews - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An exhilarating, time-traveling journey to the solar system's strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes.Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean... |
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