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The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla · Fall River; Facsimile edition Format: Book
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During the early twentieth century, the eccentric and brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development followed for many years to come. This fascinating illustrated record of Tesla's pioneering work gathers many of his most famous findings and theories, allowing... |
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Mark Bowen · St. Martin's Press Pages: 432 Format: Hardcover
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The IceCube Observatory has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott... |
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Bee : a natural history
Noah Wilson-Rich · The Ivy Press Pages: 224 Format: eBook
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Eyes with more than 6, 000 separate lenses; bodies so hairy that they attract pollen by static; the ability to communicate by dancing... bee stats are endlessly engrossing. And the bee is as important to the production of human food as any machine; without the bees to pollinate them, most... |
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
KATHRYN LOUGHEED · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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With more than a million victims every year--more than any other disease, including malaria--and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving itself to be one of the smartest killers that humanity has ever faced. But it's hardly surprising... |
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society
Kathleen Mcauliffe · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: 268 Format: Print book
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A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures including humans think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host s behavior. Far more... |
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Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
Kat Arney · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make our eyes blue, our hair curly, and they control our risks of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism, and Alzheimer's. One thousand dollars will buy you your own genome readout, neatly stored on a USB stick. And advances... |
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
ELLEN ULLMAN · MCD Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably... |
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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Alan Lightman · Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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"Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences - old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong · Ecco Pages: 357 Format: Print book
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New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Notable Book of 2016NPR Great Read of 2016Economist Best Books of 2016Brain Pickings Best Science Books of 2016Smithsonian Best Books about Science of 2016Science Friday Best Science Book of 2016A Mother Jones Notable Read of 2016MPR Best Books of 2016Chicago... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin · Dutton Pages: 292 Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season. It's raining... |
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