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Lurking: How a Person Became a User
Joanne McNeil · MCD
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from -- for the first time -- the point of view of the userIn a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we communicate but who we are and who we can be. It has created... |
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Stephen Hawking: His Science in a Nutshell
Florian Freistetter · Prometheus Books
Pages: 150
Format: Hardcover
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A science writer explains the significance of Stephen Hawking's work--in terms all of us can understand.Stephen Hawking was one of the most important astrophysicists of the last fifty years. After the publication of A Brief History of Time, he became an international celebrity. Though... |
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
Amy Shira Teitel · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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Spaceflight historian and creator of YouTube's "Vintage Space" Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.A book that will appeal to readers of Fly Girls and The Astronaut Wives' Club, Fighting... |
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The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison
Jason Hardy · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague... |
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Endangered Species: A Reference Handbook
Randall, Jan A. · ABC-CLIO
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover
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A detailed exploration of the variety of threats that endangered species are facing around the world, whether they are due to human impact or so-called natural causes.* Includes a Perspectives chapter that allows for voices to be heard from many individuals who are concerned with endangered... |
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Temples of the Grail: The Search for the World's Greatest Relic
Matthews, John · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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Two of the foremost Grail scholars of our time offer a new translation (the first into English) of two forgotten Grail texts: the 13th-century Sone de Nansay and The Later Titurel of Scharfenburg. These texts offer tantalizing clues... |
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The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being
Lily Bernheimer · Trinity University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The spaces we inhabit- from homes and workspaces to city streets -- mediate community, creativity, and our very identity. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us shows how the built and natural worlds subtly influence our behavior, health,... |
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ATLAS: A 25-Year Insider Story of the LHC Experiment
Peter Jenni · WSPC
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover
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This book is written by the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) , to document and reflect on its more than 25 years of history. It covers all aspects of this global science project at the forefront of particle physics. The historical part recalls first the early... |
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Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance
Sandra Muse Isaacs · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
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"Throughout our Cherokee history," writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, "our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are." These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts of Gadugi, working together for the good... |
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An Introduction to Composite Materials
T. W. Clyne · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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This fully expanded and updated edition provides both scientists and engineers with all the information they need to understand composite materials, covering their underlying science and technological usage. It includes four completely new chapters on surface coatings, highly porous materials,... |
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