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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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Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics
David Reimer · Princeton University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might think, it wasnt a primitive forerunner of modern mathematics. In fact, it cant be understood using our current computational methods. Count Like an Egyptian provides a fun, hands-on... |
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Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs
David Grimm · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover
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Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property. Now, they... |
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Calculus: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies
Patrick Jones · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Practice makes perfect-and helps deepen your understanding of calculus 1001 Calculus Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction and guidance offered in Calculus For Dummies, giving you 1001 opportunities to practice solving problems from the major topics in your calculus... |
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
MARIANO SIGMAN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international... |
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Rare Birds of North America
Steve N. G. Howell · Princeton University Press
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover
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Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions--the Old World, the New World... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
H Alan Day · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 243
Format: Print book
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He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity... |
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McGraw-Hill Education: Top 50 ACT Math Skills for a Top Score, 2nd Edition
Brian Leaf · Mcgraw-Hill Education, 2016.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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This go-to study guide provides the concepts, study strategies, and practice you need to dramatically raise your ACT scores in English, Reading, and Science areas of the exam. McGraw-Hill Education: Top 50 ACT Math Skills for a Top Score, 2 edition presents the heart of each of the 50 most... |
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Europe: A Natural History
Tim Flannery · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it. In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery... |
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American Energy, Imperiled Coast: Oil and Gas Development in Louisiana's Wetlands
Jason P. Theriot · Louisiana State University Press
Format: Book
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In the post World War II era, Louisiana's coastal wetlands underwent an industrial transformation that placed the region at the center of America's energy-producing corridor. By the twenty-first century the Louisiana Gulf Coast supplied nearly one-third of America's oil and gas,... |
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We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer's
D. F. Swaab · Random House Inc
Pages: 417
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid account of what makes us human. Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential,... |
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