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New Titles - Science
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Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe
Amanda Konkle
Format: Hardcover
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Although she remains one of the all-time most recognizable Hollywood icons, Marilyn Monroe has seldom been ranked among the greatest actors of her generation. Critics have typically viewed her film roles as mere extensions of her sexpot star persona. Yet this ignores both the subtle variations... |
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Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men's Prison, A Memoir
Tobola, Deborah · She Writes Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
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At the age of forty-five, Deborah Tobola returns to her birthplace, San Luis Obispo, to work in the very prison her father worked in when he was a student at Cal Poly. But she's not wearing a uniform as he did; she's there to teach creative writing and manage the prison's arts... |
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How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines
Gray, Theodore · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich... |
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Mitchell, Melanie · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals its turbulent history and the recent surge of apparent... |
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Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists
C.G. Lambe · Dover Publications
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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This concise applications-oriented text is intended for undergraduate students in engineering, mathematics, and other areas of science. The first chapters focus on solutions of first order equations, linear equations with constant coefficients, and simultaneous equations and reducible equations.... |
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The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Volume 3: The Magic of Mathematics
Jennifer Beineke · Princeton University Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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The history of mathematics is replete with examples of major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. The modern theory of probability arose out of problems of concern to gamblers, for example, and modern combinatorics grew out of various games and puzzles. Despite... |
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
Cairo, Alberto · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A leading data visualization expert explores the negative -- and positive -- influences that charts have on our perception of truth.We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts,... |
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Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
Chapman, Kit · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth look at how elements are discovered, why they matter and where they will take us. The science of element discovery is a truly fascinating field, and is constantly rewriting the laws of chemistry and physics as we know them. Superheavy is the first book to take an in-depth look... |
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The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Posnanski, Joe · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans in an immersive, entertaining, and magical work on the illusionist's impact on American culture - and why his legacy endures to this day.Harry... |
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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
James Lovelock · MIT Press
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
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The originator of the Gaia theory offers the vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence together will help the Earth survive.James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory... |
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