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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni · Simon & Schuster Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon - the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath,... |
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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio · Simon & Schuster Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics - curiosity - as he explores our innate desire to know why.Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation - where they can know only one side... |
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Woolly: The True Story of the De-Extinction of One of History's Most Iconic Creatures
BEN MEZRICH · ATRIA Books Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species - the woolly mammoth - by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel."With his knack for turning narrative nonfiction into stories worthy... |
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Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep
Michael McGirr · Pegasus Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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A profound exploration of the precious resource of sleep -- and of the causes and consequences of getting too little of it. Michael McGirr always had trouble sleeping. The arrival of baby twins, however, made him realize that he'd never before known true exhaustion. And while he celebrated... |
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Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Sarah Scoles · Pegasus Books Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, "Are we alone?" A brilliant examination of the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan's Contact. Jill Tarter... |
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