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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
Alan Weisman - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful investigation into the chances for humanitys future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanitys constant pressures.... |
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming
Paul Hawken - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the worldIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer... |
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What's It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There
Ariel Waldman - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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Everyone wonders what it's really like in space, but very few of us have ever had the chance to experience it firsthand. This captivating illustrated collection brings together stories from dozens of international astronauts - men and women who've actually been there - who have returned... |
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The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Thomas Suddendorf - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals. Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the Earth, whereas even our closest animal relatives sit unobtrusively in their dwindling habitats. Yet despite longstanding... |
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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John Bloom - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's... |
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Nuclear Physics
Frank Close - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Print book
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Nuclear physics began long before the identification of fundamental particles, with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron at the end of the 19th century, which implied the existence of a positive charge in the atom to make it neutral. |
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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Barber - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Engaging, funny and delicious... I would call this The Omnivores Dilemma 2.0. --Chicago TribuneAt the heart of todays optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food.... |
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Stargazing with binoculars
Robin Scagell; David Frydman - Firefly Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
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Praise for the first edition: A serious contender for the title of best all-around introduction to binocular astronomy. -- Sky and Telescope Updated with the latest in binocular technology Stargazing with Binoculars is the ideal guide for newcomers to astronomy.... |
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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
Hugh Aldersey-Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and sweeping exploration into the science and history behind the most mysterious, primal, and powerful force on earth: the tide.Half of the worlds population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery... |
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College Algebra DeMYSTiFieD, 2nd Edition
Rhonda Huettenmueller - McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Don't let quadratic equations make you irrational If you are absolutely confused by absolute value equations, or you think parabolas are short moral stories, College Algebra DeMYSTiFied, Second Edition is your solution to mastering the topic's concepts and theories at your own pace.... |
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Astrophysics : a very short introduction
James Binney - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Astrophysics is the physics of the stars, and more widely the physics of the Universe. It enables us to understand the structure and evolution of planetary systems, stars, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the cosmos as a whole. In this Very Short Introduction, the leading astrophysicist... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
Catherine Steiner-Adair EdD. - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Pick; Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearClinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childhood and family dynamics, and offers solutions parents can use to successfully... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong - Ecco
Format: Book
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Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ed Yong, whose humor is as evident as his erudition, prompts us to look at ourselves and our animal companions in a new light - less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent... |
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Claiming Ground
Laura Bell - Vintage; 1 edition
Format: Book
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In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man's world, she is perhaps... |
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Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs
Steve Parker - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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"Magnificent in its breadth and illustration." -- BOOKLIST Dinosaurus was published in 2003 and went on to sell 15,000 in hardcover and more in paperback. Now 13 years have passed during which there have been dozens of discoveries. At the same price and fully revised, this edition... |
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How the Body Works
Dorling Kindersley Inc. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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A bold, accessible, illustrated guide that delivers real scientific information on how the body works with a healthy side of fun facts and trivia.If you've ever searched the Internet for information on that odd rash on your arm, advice to help you get the best night's sleep, or tips for staying... |
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Calculus i.
Alpha. - Alpha Books
Format: Print book : English
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Let's face it, most students don't take calculus because they find it intellectually stimulating. It's not . . . at least for those who come up on the wrong side of the bell curve! There they are, minding their own business, working toward some non-science related degree, when . . . BLAM!... |
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Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep
Michael McGirr - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A profound exploration of the precious resource of sleep -- and of the causes and consequences of getting too little of it. Michael McGirr always had trouble sleeping. The arrival of baby twins, however, made him realize that he'd never before known true exhaustion. And while he celebrated... |
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Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
Bill Streever - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really... |
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Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide
Gene Helfman - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Answering every conceivable question about sharks, authors Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess describe the fascinating biology, behavior, diversity (there are more than 1,000 species worldwide) , and cultural importance of sharks, their close relationship to skates and rays, and their... |
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McGraw-Hill's 500 Statistics Questions
Sandra K McCune - McGraw-Hill, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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500 Ways to Achieve Your Best Grades We want you to succeed on your statistics midterm and final exams. That's why we've selected these 500 questions to help you study more effectively, use your preparation time wisely, and get your best grades. These questions and answers are similar... |
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better... |
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My Brief History
Stephen Hawking - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine... |
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Daniel Lieberman - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing... |
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Geometry For Dummies
Mark Ryan - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Hit the geometry wall? Get up and running with this no-nonsense guide! Does the thought of geometry make you jittery? You're not alone. Fortunately, this down-to-earth guide helps you approach it from a new angle, making it easier than ever to conquer your fears and score your highest... |
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Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
PAUL EHRLICH - Stanford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral... |
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Complexity: The Evolution of Earth's Biodiversity and the Future of Humanity
William C Burger - Prometheus
Format: Print book
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This very readable overview of natural history explores the dynamics that have made our planet so rich in biodiversity over time and supported the rise and dominance of our own species. Tracing the arc of evolutionary history, biologist William C. Burger shows that cooperation and symbiosis... |
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Darwin's House of Cards: A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
Tom Bethell - Discovery Institute
Format: Paperback
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In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin's theory as a nineteenth-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught... |
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Beyond the God Particle
Leon M. Lederman - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled.On July 4, 2012, the long-sought Higgs Boson--aka the God Particle--was discovered at the worlds largest particle accelerator, the LHC,... |
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Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity
John Gribbin - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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One of the world's most celebrated science writers reveals the origins of Einstein's General Theory -- and provides a greater understanding of who Einstein was at the time of this pivotal achievement.In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his masterwork to the Prussian Academy of Sciences -- a theory... |
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The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death
Michael Blastland - Basic Books
Format: Paperback
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Is it safer to fly or take the train? How dangerous is skydiving? And is eating that extra sausage going to kill you? Weve all heard the statistics for risky activities, but what do they mean in the real world? In The Norm Chronicles, journalist Michael Blastland and risk expert David Spiegelhalter... |
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Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea
Katherine Harmon Courage - Current Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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No one understands the octopus. With eight arms, three hearts, camouflaging skin, and a disarmingly sentient look behind its highly evolved eyes, how could it appear anything but utterly alien? Octopuses have been captivating humans for as long as we have been catching them.... |
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Geophysics: A Very Short Introduction
William Lowrie - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth's magnetic field (present and past, as captured in rocks) , all of which give clues to both the structure... |
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The Little Book of Black Holes
Steven S. Gubser - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dive into a mind-bending exploration of the physics of black holesBlack holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that... |
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Fisherman's Bible: The World's Most Comprehensive Angling Reference
Jay Cassell - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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This is the must-have reference book for anglers and fishing fanatics of all ages. In the tradition of the bestselling Shooters Bible, Skyhorse Publishing presents the Fishermans Bible, the most complete reference guide for new fishing equipment and their specifications. Now, anglers will... |
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Adam Becker - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universeEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed... |
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Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Charles Coulston Gillispie - Charles Scribner's Sons
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In addition to details on the lives and careers of leading scientists through history, the text provides listings of pertinent works --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. |
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Gravity: A Very Short Introduction
Timothy Clifton - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature. It also has the distinction of being the oldest, weakest, and most difficult force to quantize. Understanding gravity is not only essential for understanding the motion of objects on Earth, but also the motion of all celestial... |
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Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization
Adrian Bejan - Doubleday; 1st edition
Format: Book
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In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs... |
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
Nicholas Wade - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different... |
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Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World
Stephen Post (Foreword by) - New Harbinger Publications
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It's time for a kindness revolution. In The Kindness Cure, psychologist Tara Cousineau draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to show how simple practices of kindness--for ourselves, for others, and for our world--can dissolve our feelings of fear and indifference,... |
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Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Theodore Gray - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover
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The Elements has become an international sensation, with over one million copies in-print worldwide. An eye-opening, original collection of gorgeous, never-before-seen photographic representations of the 118 elements in the periodic table. The elements are what we, and everything... |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's... |
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos
Brian Cox - Da Capo
Format: Book
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In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal... |
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
James Hamblin - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called... |
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor J Cox - W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Format: Print book
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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 expert who engineers... |
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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains the developmental journey our brains take during adolescence and how the experience of these years determines the adults we become. Risk taking, intense relationships, going to bed and getting up late--what is going on in teenagers'... |
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
SAM KEAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic... |
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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
Jeffrey Bennett - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, Bennett begins an entertaining... |
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Go See The Eclipse: And Take a Kid with You
Chap Percival - Bee Ridge Press
Format: Print book
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Total solar eclipses are rare occurrences at any given location. The last one visible from anywhere in the continental United States was in 1979, in the Pacific Northwest. That's why the August 21, 2017, eclipse is a very big deal. It will offer an estimated sixty-five million people... |
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The Geysers of Yellowstone, Fifth Edition
T Scott Bryan - University Press of Colorado
Format: Paperback
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This new edition of The Geysers of Yellowstone is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference to the geysers of Yellowstone National Park, describing in detail each of the more than five hundred geysers in the park. The entire text has been revised and geyser descriptions have been... |
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson... |
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyThe gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine foreverIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed... |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
Werner Loewenstein - Basic Books
Format: Book
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No one can escape a sense of awe when reflecting on the workings of the mind: we see, we hear, we feel, we are aware of the world around us. But what is the mind? What do we mean when we say we are “aware” of something? What is this peculiar state in our heads, at once utterly... |
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Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World
B Brett Finlay - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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"A must-read . . . Takes you inside a child's gut and shows you how to give kids the best immune start early in life." - William Sears, MD, coauthor of The Baby BookLike the culture-changing Last Child in the Woods, here is the first parenting book to apply the latest... |
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson - W.W. Norton & Co.
Format: Print book
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Origins explores cosmic science's stunning new insights into the formation and evolution of our universe--of the cosmos, of galaxies and galaxy clusters, of stars within galaxies, of planets that orbit those stars, and of different forms of life that take us back to the first three... |
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GPS for Everyone: You are Here
Pratap Misra - Ganga-Jamuna Press
Format: Paperback
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GPS seems to have come out of nowhere. There was no progression like eight-track tape to cassette to CD to MP3 player. One day we were driving around clueless of where we were, struggling with roadmaps bought at gas stations that couldn't be folded back neatly once opened, and - suddenly... |
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Edward Frenkel - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Science BestsellerWhat if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren’t even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes... |
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The Ascent of Mind
William H Calvin - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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Investigates the rapid evolution of the ape brain into the hominid brain, and explains why understanding our evolutionary past can help us survive an uncertain future |
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Shelley Emling - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor... |
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All Fishermen Are Liars
John Gierach - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Book
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"I have to go fishing; it's my job." John Gierach can say that and mean it. But fishing is only part of his job. The other part is writing about his fishing adventures. And that's the part we readers get to enjoy. In All Fishermen Are Liars, Gierach travels across North... |
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Carl Zimmer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically.She Has Her Mother's... |
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Everyday Life of the Etruscans
Ellen MacNamara - Hippocrene Books; New edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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With so little of their own literature surviving, it is a difficult task to draw an intimate portrait of this colourful people called the Etruscans. Often, as Dr. Macanamara has done in this book, it is best to turn to the many fine Etruscan works of art and to the archaeological evidence.... |
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The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language
Tania Munz - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators - and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food... |
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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings
RICHARD DAWKINS - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades,... |
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Michael Lemonick - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking... |
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Time Travel
James Gleick - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century,... |
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Jorge Cham - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Prepare to learn everything we still dont know about our strange and mysterious Universe.Humanitys understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore - there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator... |
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Fun Science: A Guide To Life, The Universe And Why Science Is So Awesome
Charlie Mcdonnell - Quadrille Pub
Format: Print book
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Welcome, fellow humans (and others) , to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike.In my book, I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins of life... |
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Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century... |
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Just-in-Time Algebra and Trigonometry for Calculus
Guntram Mueller - Pearson
Format: Paperback
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Are you ready to ace calculus at the college level? With this book, you will be! Professors often say "Students don't fail the calculus, they fail the algebra." In other words, even if you understand calculus, your algebra and trigonometry skills can hold you back. Here's... |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
Marc Morano - Regnery Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Less freedom. More regulation. Higher costs. Make no mistake: those are the surefire consequences of the modern global warming campaign waged by political and cultural elites, who have long ago abandoned fact-based science for dramatic fearmongering in order to push increased central planning.... |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?
Lawrence M Krauss - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision... |
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Now: The Physics of Time
R Muller - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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"Now" is a simple yet elusive concept.You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine... |
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Trigonometry For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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A plain-English guide to the basics of trig Trigonometry deals with the relationship between the sides and angles of triangles...mostly right triangles. In practical use, trigonometry is a friend to astronomers who use triangulation to measure the distance between stars. Trig also has applications... |
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The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human
Vint Virga D.V.M. - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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As profiled in the New York Times MagazineBased on the authors twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the innerlives of animals from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats and explores the relationships... |
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Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
Lee Billings - Current Hardcover; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate history of Earth and the quest for life beyond the solar system For 4.6 billion years our living planet has been alone in a vast and silent universe. But soon, Earth's isolation could come to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of planets... |
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark - Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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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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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Frans de Waal - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution. For many... |
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Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us
Donald K Yeomans - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insiders look at the science of near-Earth comets and asteroidsOf all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar... |
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousnessAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods,... |
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The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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The Stars: The Definitive Visual Guide to the Cosmos
Dk. - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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The definitive visual guide to exploring all the marvels of the stars, the Milky Way, and the universe beyond.Chart the wonders of the cosmos in our own solar system and beyond with The Stars. Packed with 3-D artworks of each constellation and incredible new imagery from the Hubble... |
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The Math Behind...: Discover the Mathematics of Everyday Events
COLIN BEVERIDGE - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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An entertaining illustrated reference to the role of mathematics in everyday life. The Math Behind... is a fascinating compilation of everyday events analyzed for their probability of occurring and how those odds are determined using mathematical equations and science. The book examines... |
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Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
CATHERINE CARVER - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers--some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive... |
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A Guide to the Elements
Albert Stwertka - Oxford University Press; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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Newly updated throughout, and now covering 118 elements, this crystal-clear guide to the periodic table illuminates the basic concepts of chemistry as it traces the history and development of our knowledge of the material world.In this fascinating volume, Albert Stwertka makes complex ideas... |
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began,... |
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Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science
Marjorie C. Malley - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery.Mysterious from the start, radioactivity attracted researchers who struggled... |
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Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Timothy J Jorgensen - Princeton University Pres, 2016.
Format: Book
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More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports.
We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety... |
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Your Guide to the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Michael E Bakich - Springer
Format: Paperback
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In this book Astronomy Magazine editor Michael Bakich presents all the information you'll need to be ready for the total solar eclipse that will cross the United States on August 21, 2017. In this one resource you'll find out where the eclipse will occur, how to observe it safely,... |
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Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon
FRANK CLOSE - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon.... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive... |
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Fossils : a photographic field guide
Chris Pellant; Helen Pellant - New Holland
Format: Book : Picture : English : [New edition]
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Covers all classifications of fossils, with more than 190 fossils from around the world featured. This title is suitable for those interested in uncovering the many mysteries of the fossils. |
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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
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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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Nathan H. Lents - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - two hundred... |
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Lawrence M. Krauss - Atria Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING AND FINALLY WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING Lawrence Krausss provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million... |
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