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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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Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
Marilyn Roossinck · Princeton Univ Press
Pages: 272
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This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses. Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus offers... |
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Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age
Thomas Leitch · Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print encyclopedias and college professors, who are skeptical about whether a crowd-sourced encyclopedia -- in which... |
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The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter
Katherine Freese · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe--from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars--constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic... |
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Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes
William Gurstelle · Chicago Review Press
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Your home is your castle, but could it withstand an attack by Attila and the Huns, Ragnar and the Vikings, Alexander and the Greeks, Genghis Khan and the Mongols, or Tamerlane and the Tartars? Engineer William Gurstelle, author of the bestselling Backyard Ballistics, poses this fascinating... |
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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Jim Bell · Dutton
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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission - told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries - 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.Voyager... |
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How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants
Joseph E. Armstrong · University Of Chicago Press
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On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence... |
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