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New Titles - Science
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#DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life
Jedediah Bila · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever looked at your email, then texts, then Facebook, then Twitter, then email, then Instagram, then Candy Crush, then texts, then Snapchat, then texts again, and now you've wasted the time you had set aside for more important things? Jedediah Bila has solved her own Obsessive... |
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
PW Singer · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists... |
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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Eric R Kandel · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal about human nature. This challenging study will not only help transform medical care but also encourage a new humanism based in part on the biological confirmation of individuality.Eric... |
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Rose George · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough scienceBlood carries life, yet the sight of it makes people faint. It is a waste product and a commodity pricier than oil. It can save lives and transmit... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences... |
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18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather
Christopher Dewdney · ECW Press
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Acquainted with the Night comes a brilliant and witty look at our favourite topic -- weather We live at the bottom of an ocean of air -- 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth's atmosphere is smeared onto its surface... |
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