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The Stars: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Cosmos
Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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The definitive visual guide to exploring all the marvels of the stars, the Milky Way, and the universe beyond. Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from... |
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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
JAMES KAKALIOS · Crown
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital "clouds" to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles.
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Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
John Dvorak · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad... |
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Daniel Lieberman · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing... |
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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter · Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have... |
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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
Geoffrey Parker · Yale University Press; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Book
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Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America,... |
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
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The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical... |
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My European Family: The First 54,000 Years
KARIN BOJS · Featherstone Education
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family.... |
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
NIKI KAPSAMBELIS · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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This gripping story of the doctors at the forefront of Alzheimer's research and the courageous North Dakota family whose rare genetic code is helping to understand our most feared diseases is "excellent, accessible...A science text that reads like a mystery and treats its subjects... |
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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Mark Hertsgaard · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation wholl inherit the problem For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for outlets including the?New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation.... |
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