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Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics

Paul Halpern · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled...
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Idiot's Guides: Speed Math

Gaurav Tekriwal · Alphabooks
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Do math more quickly and with more confidence - with less reliance on paper, apps, and calculators. For people who automatically run to the nearest calculator, Idiot's Guides: Speed Math teaches tips, tricks, and straightforward methods to doing math at a fast - and accurate - rate....
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Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy

Govert Schilling · Belknap Press
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous...
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Pages: 421
Format: Paperback

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...
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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin

Keith Stewart Thomson · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis - our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears,...
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Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What It Means to Be Human

Andy Edward Walker · Que
Pages: 384
Format: Book

Hack yourself! Discover how tomorrow's incredible technologies will soon make your body, your brain, and your kids fantastically superhuman. Grow replacement organs. Implant chips in your brain. Edit your DNA. Double your lifespan! You can live longer, better, smarter. The technology...
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Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts

Jill S. Tietjen · Springer
Pages: 85
Format: Hardcover

Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens previously shadowy corners of our increasingly engineered world's recent past. In addition to a detailed description of the diverse arenas encompassed by the word 'engineering'...
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How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

Lorenzo Fioramonti · Zed Books
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback

Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal...
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

Alex Bellos · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical...
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The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids--and the Kids We Have

Bonnie Rochman · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A sharp-eyed exploration of the promise and peril of having children in an age of genetic tests and interventionsIs screening for disease in an embryo a humane form of family planning or a slippery slope toward eugenics? Should doctors tell you that your infant daughter is genetically predisposed...
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What Future: The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future

Torie Bosch · The Unnamed Press
Format: Paperback

The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining...
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Basic Illustrated Medicinal Plants

Jim Meuninck · Falcon Guides; First edition
Format: Book

An information-packed tool for the novice or handy reference for the veteran. Distills years of knowledge into an affordable and portable book. With this  guide, youll discover how to identify medicinal plants in the contiguous United States.,
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Beginning Beekeeping

Tanya Phillips · Alpha Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Beginning Beekeeping is a simple, straightforward approach that gives you the basics to get started with beekeeping, while following a balanced, objective approach that weighs the pros and cons of conventional and organic methodologies. Featuring more than 120 beautiful color photos, this...
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The Biology Book From the Origin of Life to Epigenics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology.

Michael C Gerald · Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 526
Format: Print book

From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, The Biology Book presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colorfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major subdiscipline, including cell theory, genetics,...
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Number Sense Interventions

Nancy Jordan Ed.D. · Brookes Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 248
Format: Spiral-bound

Help kindergartners at risk for math difficulties with these explicit, evidence-based interventions. Used on their own or as a follow-up to the Number Sense Screenerâ„¢ (NSSâ„¢) , the interventions in this user-friendly guide are a fun, simple, and highly effective way to boost key math...
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