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Weather For Dummies
John D. Cox - For Dummies; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition
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What's going on up there when the rain falls, when the wind blows, when the clouds roll in and the lightning flashes? How do hurricanes arise and where to tornadoes come from? Why do seasonal conditions sometimes vary so much from one year to the next? Our ways of life, our very existences... |
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Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science
David Knight - Yale University Press
Format: Book
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In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed—Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new,... |
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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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The Universe Explained: A Cosmic Q and A
HEATHER COUPER - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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Answers to the most popular astronomy questions of today. Over the course of their illustrious work in astronomy, Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest collected hundreds of the most popular astronomy questions that they've been asked. In this book they explain the scientific answers to these... |
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Out of the Shadow of a Giant: Hooke, Halley, and the Birth of Science
John Gribbin - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What if Newton had never lived? A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant's shoes - and deserve credit for the birth of modern science. Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant... |
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The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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The first major work in nearly a decade by one of the worlds great thinkersa marvelously concise book with new answers to the ultimate questions of lifeWhen and how did the universe begin Why are we here Why is there something rather than nothing What is the nature of reality Why are the laws... |
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The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
Arthur Turrell - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The most important energy-making process in the universe takes place inside stars. The ability to duplicate that process in a lab, once thought out of reach, may now be closer than we think. Today, all across the world teams of scientists are being assembled by the world's boldest entrepreneurs,... |
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