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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
Frances Ashcroft · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies. What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical... |
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more... |
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Galileo
John Heilbron · Oxford University Press; First Edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a "hurried little masterpiece" in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope--the craters of the moon, the satellites of Jupiter--Galileo... |
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The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
Kenneth R Lang · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 475
Format: Hardcover
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Richly illustrated with full-color images, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the planets, their moons, and recent exoplanet discoveries. This second edition of a now classic reference is brought up to date with fascinating new discoveries from 12 recent Solar System... |
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Reptiles, Amphibians, and Invertebrates: An Identification and Care Guide
Patricia P. Bartlett · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
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Hobbyists will appreciate this pictorial identification guide and basic husbandry manual covering more than 250 species, subspecies, and color morphs of reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. All animals shown in this volume can be purchased at pet stores and other outlets. The authors... |
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Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond
James Trefil · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Filled with lavish illustrations, this book is a grand tour of the universe. Three ever widening domains are presented--the planets, the stars, and the large scale universe itself--each including the ones before it and extending outward.The tour starts close to home within the first domain,... |
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The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves
CHRISTOPHER POTTER · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon, when men first saw for themselves the Earth as a sphere falling through space -- they saw a world without borders and these images continue to give hope and inspire.Only twenty-four people have seen the whole... |
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Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
Steven Gimbel · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of this provocative phrase... |
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit
Deepak Chopra · Harmony
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The Healing Self offers... |
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Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra, Second Edition
Ray Steege · McGraw-Hill; 2 edition
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject.... |
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