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Finite Math For Dummies

Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Use mathematical analysis in the real world Finite math takes everything you've learned in your previous math courses and brings them together into one course with a focus on organizing and analyzing information, creating mathematical models for approaching business decisions, using...
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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Sean Carroll - Dutton
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone else. Really.Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major...
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It's Elemental: The Hidden Chemistry in Everything

Kate Biberdorf

In this fresh and engaging guide to chemistry, Dr. Kate Biberdorf, aka "Kate the Chemist," reveals the fascinating science we experience every day Have you ever wondered what makes dough rise? Or how your morning coffee gives you that energy boost? Or why your shampoo is making...
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum

Lee Smolin - Penguin Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A daring new vision of quantum theory from one of the leading minds of contemporary physicsQuantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behavior of materials....
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The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science

Michael Strevens - Liveright
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A paradigm-shifting work that revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.Captivatingly written, interwoven with tantalizing illustrations and historical vignettes ranging from Newton's alchemy to quantum mechanics to the storm surge of Hurricane Sandy,...
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Science of Yoga: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice

Ann Swanson - DK
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control.Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your blood pressure, decrease inflammation and prevent age-related brain changes?Recent scientific research now backs...
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We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Mariame Kaba
Format: Paperback

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order...
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The Hidden World of the Fox

Adele Brand - William Morrow
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of H is for Hawk, an intimate portrait of foxes, by a British mammal ecologist who has studied the beloved yet mysterious creatures across four continents."Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn't stop reading." - Jeff VanderMeer, bestselling author of Annihilation...
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The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species

Marianne Taylor - The MIT Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor's The Story of Life in 10 and a Half Species. Each life forms explains a key aspect about life on Earth. From the sponge...
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,...
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