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Dire Predictions, Second Edition: Understanding Climate Change
Michael E. Mann , · DK |
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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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The Big Book of Maker Skills
Chris Hackett · Weldon Owen |
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Makers, get ready. This is your ultimate, must-have, tip-packed guide for taking your DIY projects to the next level—from basic wood- and metalworking skills to plugged-in fun with power tools, from cutting-edge electronics play to 3-D printing wizardry. Join Chris Hackett, Popular Science... |
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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
Susan Wise Bauer · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover |
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A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public... |
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Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala · Vintage |
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One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the Year, a Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book, a Newsday Top 10 Books pick, a People magazine Top 10 pick, a Good Reads Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction BookA National Book Critics Circle Award finalistIn... |
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Bird Homes and Habitats
Bill Thompson III · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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Two of the best-known names in birding - Peterson and Bird Watcher's Digest - team up to provide reliable, expert advice on how to attract the birds you want into your yard. Which birds use nest boxes? What's required to maintain a birdhouse? What kind of habitat will attract... |
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor Cox · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition |
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“A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox’s] zestful curiosity.”—New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned... |
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Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
Ajit Varki , · Twelve |
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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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Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology
Mara Prentiss · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Energy can be neither created nor destroyedxbut it can be wasted The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy including percent of the energy used in transportation So the nation has a tremendous opportunity to develop a sensible energy policy based on benefits and costs But to do that... |
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