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Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe
Harry Cliff - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Experimental physicist at CERN and acclaimed science presenter Harry Cliff offers an eye-opening account of the inexplicable phenomena that science has only recently glimpsed, and that could transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of reality.
Something strange is going on in the cosmos.... |
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
Matt Strassler - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, showing how the universe creates everything from what seems like nothing at all
In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human... |
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The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Kallman and Ferorelli provide a compelling and compassionate framework for working through seemingly insoluble dilemmas, beginning with the decision to have a child, but not ending there. The book ends with a commonsense guide on how to make change happen. -- Amitav Ghosh, author of The Nutmeg's... |
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The Battle Beyond: Fighting and Winning the Coming War in Space
Paul Szymanski - Amplify Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Fundamentally, Paul Szymanski and Jerry Drew remind us that - more than just simply a clash of weapons - all warfare manifests as a competition between human minds. The same holds true in the battle beyond in outer space. The contests of space warfare will test the knowledge, experience,... |
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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
Charan Ranganath - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world's top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling... |
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Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World
Miriam Darlington - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Beguiling. The gentle and persistent search by Darlington sparkles." - The GuardianA plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that's what it took, wading through marshes, hiding between mossy... |
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Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, delivers an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all timeWhen Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth... |
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The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
Ludovic Slimak - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species' unique form of intelligence.. What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other... |
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In the Name of Sharks
François Sarano - Polity
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experienced a profound sense of affinity with her as they swam side by side, shoulder to shoulder,... |
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