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The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder
Linda Stratmann · Yale University Press
Pages: 344
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Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control... |
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Fractal 3D Magic
Clifford A. Pickover · Sterling
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This groundbreaking 3D showcase offers a rare glimpse into the dazzling world of computer-generated fractal art. Prolific polymath Clifford Pickover introduces the collection, which provides background on everything from the classic Mandelbrot set, to the infinitely porous Menger Sponge,... |
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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
John Bradshaw · Basic Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover |
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while... |
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers
Kim Kavin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's... |
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An Einstein Encyclopedia
Alice Calaprice · Princeton University Press
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover |
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This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, this... |
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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino · Crown
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on the earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble... |
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Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
Rob Manning · Smithsonian Books
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The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob ManningIn the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we havent found answers... |
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Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
K Eric Drexler · BBS PublicAffairs
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover |
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K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology - the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically... |
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Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems
Ian Stewart · Basic Books
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It is one of the wonders of mathematics that for every problem mathematicians solve another awaits to perplex and galvanize them Some of these problems are new while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the fields unlimited... |
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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Princeton University Press
Pages: 470
Format: Print book |
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton,... |
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A Palette of Particles
Jeremy Bernstein · Belknap Press
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From molecules to stars much of the cosmic canvas can be painted in brushstrokes of primary color the protons neutrons and electrons we know so well But for meticulous detail we have to dip into exotic huesxleptons mesons hadrons quarks Bringing particle physics to life as few authors can Jeremy... |
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I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science
Marjorie Senechal · Oxford University Press
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In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch. Drawing on her own personal and professional relationship with... |
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How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets
Paul Abel · Pegasus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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A fresh and essential guide to understanding and interpreting the wonders of our solar system, from two intrepid young astronomers who are the hosts of the popular BBC television series, "The Sky at Night."What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school... |
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