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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 275
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A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos... |
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Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records
Adam Tanner · Beacon Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book |
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How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomesHidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies,... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life... |
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Amitav Ghosh · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 176
Format: Print book |
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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability - at the level... |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 302
Format: Print book |
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Groundbreaking book by the Nobel Prize Winner who discovered telomeres, telomerase, and their role in the aging process, and the psychologist who researched specific lifestyle habits to protect them and slow down disease and lengthen life. Have you wondered why some 60-year olds look and feel... |
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Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness
Suzanne O'Sullivan · Other Press
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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A neurologist's insightful and compassionate look into the misunderstood world of psychosomatic disorders, told through individual case histories It's happened to all of us: our cheeks flush red when we say the wrong thing, or our hearts skip a beat when a certain someone walks by. But few of us realize... |
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