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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Douglas Rushkoff · Current; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. This is the moment weve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we dont seem to have any time in which to live it. Instead we remain... |
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Dire Predictions, Second Edition: Understanding Climate Change
Michael E. Mann · DK
Format: Print book
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Explore global warming with graphics, illustrations, and charts that separate climate change fact from fiction, presenting the truth about global warming in a way that's both accurate and easy to understand. Respected climate scientists Michael E. Mann and Lee R. Kump address important... |
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Astronomy For Dummies
Stephen P. Maran · For Dummies; 3rd edition
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
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The fun and easy way to explore the night sky Do you know the difference between a red giant and a white dwarf From asteroids to black holes this easy-to-understand guide takes you on a grand tour of the universe Featuring updated star maps charts and an insert with gorgeous full-color... |
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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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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
Format: Paperback
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions... |
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming
Paul Hawken · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the worldIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer... |
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Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
Anthony J. Martin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 460
Format: Hardcover
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CSI meets Jurassic Park in a fascinating, revelatory look at dinosaurs and their world through the million-year-old clues they left behind What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history... |
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Chicken and Egg: Raising Chickens to Get the Eggs You Want
Andy Cawthray · i5 Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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The age-old question of which comes first is finally answered in Chicken and Egg! For the purposes of egg-centric chicken keepers, its the egg! A new approach to chicken keeping, Chicken and Egg is specifically geared toward hobby farmers and casual chicken keepers who wish to produce eggs... |
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Idiot's Guides: Algebra I
Carolyn Wheater · Alpha
Format: Print book
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Starting with the very basics and reinforcing concepts with practice and tips along the way, Idiot's Guides: Algebra I makes a complex subject easier to grasp and helps students and adult learners clear the hurdle that can stand between them and their academic goals. Special sidebars... |
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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites... |
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Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
Ajit Varki · Twelve
Format: Book
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The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about... |
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