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Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence
Joseph Mazur · Basic Books
Pages: 273
Format: Print book
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What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically,... |
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 290
Format: Print book
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A New York Times 2016 Notable BookNational Best SellerNamed one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People"An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016A TIME and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 So Far An illuminating debut memoir of a woman... |
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Mathematics: A Complete Introduction
Trevor Johnson · McGraw-Hill Companies
Pages: 390
Format: Paperback
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Maths does not have to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to being a confident mathematician. This book includes simple step-by-step explanations, to help you grasp new topics or those that... |
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A Walk through the Heavens: A Guide to Stars and Constellations and their Legends
MILTON D HEIFETZ · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 106
Format: Paperback
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What is that star called? Where is the Great Bear? A Walk through the Heavens is a beautiful guide to the pathways in the night sky, and which answers these questions and more. Written for complete beginners, this book introduces the reader to the patterns of the northern hemisphere's... |
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Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30
Ben Stewart · The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost-the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013... |
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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks · Knopf
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks,... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions
Paul J Nahin · Princeton University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple Physics, popular math and science writer Paul Nahin presents a plethora of situations that explore... |
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have
Bonnie Rochman · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery slope toward eugenics? Should doctors tell you that your infant daughter is genetically predisposed... |
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
James Hamblin · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies... |
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Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System
Natalie Starkey · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious--comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial objects... |
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Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Randi Hutter Epstein · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A guided tour through the strange science of hormones and the age-old quest to control them.Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity,... |
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything
MARCUS CHOWN · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least... |
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel · Basic Books
Format: Book
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Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,... |
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