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At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds
Dan Hooper · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang -- and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there... |
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Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Chapman, Kit · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth look at how elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. The science of element discovery is a truly fascinating field, and is constantly rewriting the laws of chemistry and physics as we know them. Superheavy is the first book to take an in-depth look... |
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
Lydia Denworth · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory investigation of friendship, with profound implications for our understanding of what humans and animals alike need to thrive across a lifetime.The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds... |
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Busted in New York and Other Essays
Darryl Pinckney · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal and wonders how we arrived at our current... |
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
Amy Shira Teitel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Spaceflight historian and creator of YouTube's "Vintage Space" Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.A book that will appeal to readers of Fly Girls and The Astronaut Wives' Club, Fighting... |
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Great Storms of the Jersey Shore
Larry Savadove · Down The Shore Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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This new and greatly expanded 2nd edition of a ''history of wild weather on the Jersey Shore...with harrowing eyewitness accounts'' (BOOKLIST review of the first edition) now includes Superstorm Sandy and even more weather. Illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, engravings... |
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A New Way to Age: The Most Cutting-Edge Advances in Antiaging
Suzanne Somers · Gallery Books
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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At seventy-three years young, #1 New York Times bestselling author and health guru Suzanne Somers has established herself as a leading voice on antiaging. With A New Way to Age, she takes things a step further to present a revolutionary philosophy for a longer and better-quality life - in the form... |
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