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Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World
Judith D. Schwartz · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: eBook
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Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide... |
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Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
Mary Ellen Hannibal · The Experiment
Pages: 432
Format: Print book
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In the vein of H Is for Hawk and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert - a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental... |
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Forensics For Dummies
Douglas P. Lyle · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Understand the real-life science behind crime scene investigation Forensics For Dummies takes you inside the world of crime scene investigation to give you the low down on this exciting field. Written by a doctor and former Law & Order consultant, this guide will have you solving crimes... |
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The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight
VALTER LONGO · Avery
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life. Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than... |
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The Inventors Manual
Sean Michael Ragan · Weldon Owen
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Contrary to popular wisdom, you don t have to be an ace electrician, a coding prodigy, or a mechanical master to come up with a game-changing invention You just need curiosity, a strong desire to fix a problem that you see in the world, and the determination to see your ideas become reality... |
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DNA Technology: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
David E Newton · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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This accessibly written book introduces readers to DNA -- one of the most important technologies for the manipulation of all forms of life, from simple bacteria to plants and animals. It also addresses the most important social, ethical, political, economic, and other issues raised by this... |
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Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future
Caitlin Shetterly · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 341
Format: Print book
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A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary... |
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
Jean Casella · New Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has denounced the use of solitary confinement beyond fifteen days as a form of cruel and degrading treatment that often rises to the level of torture. Yet the United States holds more than eighty thousand people in isolation on any given day. Now sixteen... |
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Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil
William Middleton · Knopf
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
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The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with... |
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The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
Christian Davenport · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes... |
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Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew
Michael Leinbach · Arcade Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Mike Leinbach was the launch director of the space shuttle program when Columbia disintegrated on reentry before a nation's eyes on February 1, 2003. And it would be Mike Leinbach who would be a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service,... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A Doudna · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned the world about its use.... |
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