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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe. How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core... |
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Napa at Last Light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity
JAMES CONAWAY · Simon & Schuster Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling author reveals how the beautiful, isolated Napa Valley wine region of California exploded into an extraordinary outsized version of the American dream and whose vineyards sparked an unbelievable power struggle between old family stewardship and multinational... |
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Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
Lisa Mosconi · Avery Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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How to eat for maximum brain power and health from an expert in both neuroscience and nutrition.Like our bodies, our brains have very specific food requirements. And in this eye-opening book from an author who is both a neuroscientist and a certified integrative nutritionist, we learn what... |
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Inconvenient Facts: The science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know
GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE · Silver Crown Productions, LLC Pages: 158 Format: Paperback
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You have been inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks and ''experts'' saying that our climate is changing for the worse and it is our fault. Increases in droughts, heat waves, tornadoes and poison ivy - to name a few - are all blamed on our ''sins... |
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A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
DEREK K WILSON · Pegasus Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A rich and multi-faceted history of heroes and villains interwoven with the profound changes in human knowledge that took place between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals... |
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The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves
CHRISTOPHER POTTER · Pegasus Books Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon, when men first saw for themselves the Earth as a sphere falling through space -- they saw a world without borders and these images continue to give hope and inspire.Only twenty-four people have seen the whole... |
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Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
SANG-HEE LEE · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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In this captivating bestseller, Korea's first paleoanthropologist offers fresh insights into humanity's dawn and evolution.What can fossilized teeth tell us about the life expectancy of our ancient ancestors? How did farming play a problematic role in the history of human evolution?... |
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