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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
Steve Olson · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 300
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Survival narrative meets scientific, natural, and social history in the riveting story of a volcanic disaster.For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled... |
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books, 2016.
Pages: 96
Format: Print book |
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Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages.In seven brief lessons, Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli guides readers with admirable clarity through the most transformative physics breakthroughs of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.... |
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The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
Michael P Lynch · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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With far-reaching implications, this urgent treatise promise to revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human in the digital age.We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips,... |
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Fred Kaplan · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 338
Format: Print book |
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"A consistently eye-opening history...not just a page-turner but consistently surprising." - The New York Times "A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related." - John le Carré As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers... |
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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
Roberto Canessa · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team - and many of their friends and family members - crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death... |
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
Stephen Coss · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover |
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More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776.In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters... |
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson · Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Pages: 272
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Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature.In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most... |
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