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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe. How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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Rare Birds of North America
Steve N. G. Howell · Princeton University Press Pages: 428 Format: Hardcover
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Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions--the Old World, the New World... |
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Kathryn Harkup · Bloomsbury SIGMA Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often... |
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Michael Benson · Simon & Schuster Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover
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Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created this... |
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How to Live in Space: Everything You Need to Know for the Not-So-Distant Future
Colin Stuart · Smithsonian Books Pages: 192 Format: Paperback
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An amusing and informative illustrated guide to life beyond our own planet that covers everything from training for and living in space to the future of space travel and tourismNow that suborbital space tourism is predicted to become a billion-dollar industry in the next ten years and NASA... |
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Amir D. Aczel · Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery.... |
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Daniel Lieberman · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pages: 460 Format: Hardcover
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing... |
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CERN : How We Found the Higgs Boson
Michael Krause · World Scientific Publishing Company Format: eBook
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This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Profound and well-structured, the contents combine present day interviews with the scientists... |
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The Case For Pandora.
Steve McCarter · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Pages: 294 Format: Paperback
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The Case For Pandora provides a visionary explanation of near term prospects for human interstellar spaceflight. Included herein are details for a conceptual design of a highly plausible space-ark style starship that can bridge the distances between stars in hundreds of years or less.... |
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