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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Barbara Oakley - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The companion book to COURSERAs wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools... |
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Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
Marilyn Roossinck - Princeton Univ Press
Format: Print book
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This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses. Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus... |
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Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North
Mark C Serreze - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world.... |
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Roger Penrose - Bodley Head; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of our most distinguished scientists offers a radical new theory of the origin, and ultimate end, of the Universe.Professor Sir Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality provided a complete guide to the laws that govern our universe. In Cycles of Time, Penrose... |
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
John Kelly - Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A magisterial account of the worst disasters to strike humankind—the Great Irish Potato Famine—conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great MortalityDeeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling... |
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On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature
Melanie Challenger - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award-winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic... |
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Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists
Lawrence Weschler - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably... |
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The Cradle of Humanity: How the Changing Landscape of Africa Made Us So Smart
Mark Maslin - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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One of the fundamental questions of our existence is why we are so smart. There are lots of drawbacks to having a large brain, including the huge food intake needed to keep the organ running, the frequency with which it goes wrong, and our very high infant and mother mortality rates compared... |
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The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind
Barbara Strauch - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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A leading science writer examines how our brains improve in middle age. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Barbara Strauch explores the latest findings that demonstrate how the middle-aged brain is more flexible and capable than previously thought. In fact, new research from neuroscientists... |
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An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases
Moises Velasquez-Manoff - Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, cutting-edge exploration of the dramatic rise of allergic and autoimmune diseases and the controversial, potentially groundbreaking therapies that scientists are developing to correct these disorders Whether it is asthma, food or pollen allergies, type-1 diabetes, lupus, multiple... |
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason... |
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The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
Arthur Benjamin - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Format: Print book
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The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples - from ice cream scoops and poker hands to measuring mountains and making magic squares - this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and truly magical properties behind those... |
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Visions of Infinity: The Great Mathematical Problems
Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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It is one of the wonders of mathematics that for every problem mathematicians solve another awaits to perplex and galvanize them Some of these problems are new while others have puzzled and bewitched thinkers across the ages Such challenges offer a tantalizing glimpse of the fields unlimited... |
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Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age
Thomas Leitch - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has been a lightning rod for debates about knowledge and traditional authority. It has come under particular scrutiny from publishers of print encyclopedias and college professors, who are skeptical about whether a crowd-sourced encyclopedia -- in which... |
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Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
Jonathan Weiner - Ecco; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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“[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.”—Timothy FerrisJonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one of the most distinguished... |
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Waking Up is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books, Waking Up... |
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On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far." It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move... |
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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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Chemistry II For Dummies
John T. Moore - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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The tools you need to ace your Chemisty II course College success for virtually all science computing engineering and premedical majors depends in part on passing chemistry The skills learned in chemistry courses are applicable to a number of fields and chemistry courses are essential... |
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The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
Hannah Holmes - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The well-dressed ape, aka Homo sapiens, is a strange mammal. It mates remarkably often, and with unprecedented affection. With similar enthusiasm, it will eat to the point of undermining its own health–behavior unthinkable in wild animals. The human marks its territory with doors,... |
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The Smart Guide to Chemistry (Smart Guides)
Brian Nordstrom - Smart Guide Publications, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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This is the best guide to Chemistry you will find. It tells you everything you need to know about Chemistry and more. |
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How It Began: A Time-Traveler's Guide to the Universe
Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A majestic account of the most fascinating phenomena in our universe -- and the science behind them. In this vibrant, eye-opening tour of milestones in the history of our universe, Chris Impey guides us through space and time, leading us from the familiar sights of the night sky to the dazzlingly... |
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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .
Philip C Plait - Viking Penguin
Format: Print book
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A lively astronomy primer that uses cataclysmic scenarios to explain the universe?s most fascinating events.According to astronomer Philip Plait, the universe is an apocalypse waiting to happen But how much do we really need to fear from things like black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae?... |
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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Johnjoe McFadden - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerLife is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark - Alfred A. Knopf
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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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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Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep
David K. Randall - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing examination of the science behind the little-known world of sleep. Like many of us, journalist David K. Randall never gave sleep much thought. That is, until he began sleepwalking. One midnight crash into a hallway wall sent him on an investigation into the strange... |
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Animal Life: Secrets of the Animal World Revealed
Charlotte Uhlenbroek - DK
Format: Print book
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If you think that watching all the nature programs on television qualifies you as an expert on the subject, think again! Do you really know what makes animals tick? Here are the answers, portrayed in stunning, awe-inspiring action sequences and explained in fascinating, in-depth prose.... |
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Physics Demystified, 2nd Edition
Stan Gibilisco - McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Understanding PHYSICS just got a whole lot EASIER! Stumped trying to make sense of physics? Here's your solution. Physics Demystified, Second Edition helps you grasp the essential concepts with ease. Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide begins by covering classical... |
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Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science
Ronald L Numbers - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of gravity -- or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But the more intriguing question is why such stories endure as explanations of how science happens. Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away... |
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T Costa - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where... |
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
Nancy Forbes - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth centuryTwo of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867)... |
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Technical Career Survival Handbook: 100 Things You Need To Know
Peter Y Burke - Elsevier
Format: Print book
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Technical Career Survival Handbook: 100 Things You Need To Know provides the information needed to survive a technical career, enabling prospective technical career candidates and those currently in technical careers to explore all technical education possibilities, industries, disciplines,... |
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The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
David Rieff - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Hailed as "invaluable ... a substantial work of political thought," (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised.Can... |
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Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul
Giulio Tononi - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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This title is printed in full color throughoutFrom one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any othermdashas told by Galileo who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective... |
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Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
Bill Nye - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Just as World War II called an earlier generation to greatness, so the climate crisis is calling today's rising youth to action: to create a better future.In UNSTOPPABLE, Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination... |
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Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming
Joshua P. Howe - University of Washington Press
Format: Hardcover
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In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change. Despite more than fifty years of research,... |
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Beyond Geometry: A New Mathematics of Space and Form (The History of Mathematics)
John Ph.D. Tabak - Facts on File; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beyond Geometry describes how set-theoretic topology developed and why it now occupies a central place in mathematics. Describing axiomatic method as well as providing a definition of what a geometric property is, this new resource examines how early analysts incorporated geometric thinking... |
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The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
Nicholas Wade - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Just 28,000 years ago, the blink of an eye in geological time, the last of Neanderthals died out in their last outpost, in caves near Gibraltar. Thanks to cartoons and folk accounts we have a distorted view of these other humans - for that is what they were. We think of them as crude and clumsy... |
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Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Carol Kaesuk Yoon - W.W. Norton
Format: Hardcover
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Finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology: the surprising, untold story about the poetic and deeply human (cognitive) capacity to name the natural world.Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire... |
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Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition
Daniel Duzdevich - Indiana University Press
Format: Book
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Charles Darwin’s most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste and under intense pressure. For an era in which... |
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic... |
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The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
Christopher Cokinos - Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin
Format: Print book
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In this acclaimed volume, prizewinning poet and nature writer Christopher Cokinos takes us on an epic journey from Antarctica to outer space, weaving together natural history, memoir, and in-depth profiles of amateur researchers, rogue scientists, and stargazing dreamers to tell the riveting... |
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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime
Adrian Raine - Pantheon; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With a 4-page full-color insert, and black-and-white illustrations throughoutWhy do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence and establishing... |
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
Donald C Johanson - Harmony Books
Format: Book
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"Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged."-From Lucy's LegacyIn... |
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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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How Science Works
JUDITH HANN - Reader's Digest; 8th edition
Format: Hardcover
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Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life beyond Our Solar System
Robert P. Kirshner - Princeton University Press; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Soon astronomers expect to find alien Earths by the dozens in orbit around distant suns. Before the decade is out, telltale signs that they harbor life may be found. If they are, the ramifications for all areas of human thought and endeavor--from religion and philosophy to art and biology--will... |
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The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture
Mary Pipher - Riverhead Trade; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Mary Pipher takes on our planets greatest problems with the skills of a truly gifted therapist. She knows why we avoid and deny the truth and she knows how we can heal ourselves and our communities even as we try to heal the earth. This book is a deep and true gift.Bill McKibben, author... |
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The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK
Format: Hardcover
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An essential guide to milestone developments in astronomy, telling the story of our ideas about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos - from ancient times to the present day.From planets and stars to black holes and the Big Bang, take a journey through the wonders of the universe.... |
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a Daily Beast "Top 11 Book of 2012" A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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Owls of the World: A Photographic Guide
Heimo Mikkola - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A complete guide to identifying the world's owls. Photographers spend hours waiting to capture them and birders seek them out with determination, but owls have been tough to identify--until now. Owls of the World is the ultimate resource dedicated to the identification of these... |
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari - Harper
Format: Paperback
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations... |
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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter - Overlook Books
Format: Hardcover
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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have... |
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The Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
Helen Scales - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Print book
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Seashells are the sculpted homes of a remarkable group of animals: the molluscs. These are some of the most ancient and successful animals on the planet. But watch out. Some molluscs can kill you if you eat them. Some will kill you if you stand too close. That hasn't stopped people... |
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Earth
Robert Dinwiddie - DK; Upd Rev edition
Format: Hardcover
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Earth The Definitive Visual Guide is an extraordinary survey of our planet produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. This stunning reference includes detailed, illustrated information about everything that makes up our planet, from Mount Kilimanjaro to the Antarctic ice sheet,... |
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Geek Physics: Surprising Answers to the Planet's Most Interesting Questions
Rhett Allain - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered whether a human could really fly with wings like a bird's? What about how many zombies you could actually drive through? Or whether airplanes could save fuel by using iPads instead of paper safety manuals? How about whether Superman could really punch someone... |
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Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Ahmed Rashid - Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years. What are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is the Taliban... |
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Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars
Scott Kelly - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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From Here to Infinity: A Vision for the Future of Science
Martin Rees - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of our greatest scientific minds reflect on the role of science in the twenty-first century. Science is often portrayed as an obscure, difficult discipline, governed by elite researchers and inaccessible to the general public. In this riveting, inspiring new book, preeminent astrophysicist... |
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Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies
Mark Zegarelli - For Dummies
Format: Hardcover
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Tips for simplifying tricky basic math and pre-algebra operations Whether you're a student preparing to take algebra or a parent who wants or needs to brush up on basic math, this fun, friendly guide has the tools you need to get in gear. From positive, negative, and whole numbers to fractions,... |
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What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World
Cat Warren - Touchstone; Reprint edition
Format: Print book
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A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of "working dogs" - pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead - as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which... |
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Single Digits: In Praise of Small Numbers
Marc Chamberland - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The numbers one through nine have remarkable mathematical properties and characteristics. For instance, why do eight perfect card shuffles leave a standard deck of cards unchanged? Are there really "six degrees of separation" between all pairs of people? And how can any map need... |
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Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics
Alfred S. Posamentier - Prometheus Books
Format: Print book
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Two veteran math educators demonstrate how some "magnificent mistakes" had profound consequences for our understanding of mathematics' key concepts. In the nineteenth century, English mathematician William Shanks spent fifteen years calculating the value of pi, setting a record... |
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
Barbara K Lipska - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains... |
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In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
James Schwartz - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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The mystery of inheritance has captivated thinkers since antiquity, and the unlocking of this mystery - the development of classical genetics - is one of humanity's greatest achievements. This great scientific and human drama is the story told fully and for the first time in this book.... |
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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
Rebecca Stott - Spiegel & Grau; 2nd ptg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK“[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time and space and people.”—The... |
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
Stephen Hawking - Phoenix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Based on a series of lectures given at Cambridge University, Professor Hawking's work introduced "the history of ideas about the universe" as well as today's most important scientific theories about time, space, and the cosmos in a clear, easy-to-understand way. "The Theory... |
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See What I'm Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses
Lawrence D. Rosenblum - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An in-depth look at the science that explains the hidden powers of the five senses and how to harness their potential. In this revealing romp through the mysteries of human perception, University of California psychologist and researcher Lawrence Rosenblum explores the astonishing... |
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
Alex Bellos - Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics... |
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Math Word Problems Demystified 2/E
Allan Bluman - McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Your solution to MATH word PROBLEMS! Find yourself stuck on the tracks when two trains are traveling at different speeds? Help has arrived! Math Word Problems Demystified, Second Edition is your ticket to problem-solving success. Based on mathematician George Polyas proven four-step process,... |
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
Richard Dawkins - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely... |
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Here be dragons : science, technology and the future of humanity
Olle HaÌggstroÌm - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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There is a widely held conception that progress in science and technology is our salvation, and the more of it, the better. This, however, is an oversimplified and even dangerous attitude. While the future will certainly offer huge changes due to such progress, it is far from certain that... |
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The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
Dave Goldberg - Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover
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A physicist speeds across space, time, and everything in between showing that our elegant universe from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come.... |
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Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe
Martin Bojowald - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In 2000, Martin Bojowald, then a twenty-seven-year-old post-doc at Pennsylvania State University, used a relatively new theory called loop quantum gravity—a cunning combination of Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics—to create a simple model of the universe.... |
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Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
Julia Fischer - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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Monkey see, monkey do - or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates - their sociality, their intelligence, their communication - really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the human bias inherent in this... |
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Physics for Rock Stars: Making the Laws of the Universe Work for You
Christine McKinley - Perigee
Format: Paperback
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From the host of the History channel's Brad Meltzer's Decoded: the laws of the universe like you've never experienced them before. This approachable book explains the world of physics with clarity, humor, and a dash of adventure. Physics for Rock Stars is not a weighty treatise... |
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The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
William J Broad - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A lead science writer for The New York Times—and lifelong yoga practitioner—examines centuries of history and research to scrutinize the claims made about yoga for health, fitness, emotional wellbeing, sex, weight loss, healing, and creativity. He reveals what is real and what... |
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The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
Steven Strogatz - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Times hosts a delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, revealing how it connects to literature, philosophy, law, medicine, art, business, even pop culture in ways we never imaginedDid O.J. do it? How should you flip... |
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
William Rosen - Viking
Format: Print book
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The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less... |
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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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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Douglas Hofstadter - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prizewinning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years.... |
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Cordelia Fine - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliantly researched and wickedly funny rebuttal of the pseudo-scientific claim that men are from Mars and women are from Venus.It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children—boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks—we failed.... |
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Gravity: How the Weakest Force in the Universe Shaped Our Lives
Brian Clegg - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A history of gravity, and a study of its importance and relevance to our lives, as well as its influence on other areas of science. Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is also the most mysterious. Newton managed... |
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
Jill Lepore - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens... |
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Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
Peter M. Hoffmann - Basic Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this view is correct, where do the seemingly purposeful motions of cells and organisms originate? In Life’s Ratchet, physicist Peter M. Hoffmann locates... |
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Why Does E=mc2?
Brian Cox - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein’s famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light—while exploding commonly held misconceptions—they... |
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The Science Book
DK Publishing - DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover
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With over 225,000 copies in print, DKs Big Ideas series has struck a chord with readers fascinated-but also intimidated-by complex subjects like philosophy, psychology, politics, and religion. The newest title in this successful and acclaimed series is The Science Book, an inventive visual... |
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On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas
Jonnie Hughes - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout history we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas but perhaps this pride is misplaced Perhaps ideas have us In this book science writer and documentary filmmaker Jonnie Hughes investigates the evolution of ideas taking a look at how they seem to have lives... |
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
Frances Ashcroft - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies. What happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie in the electrical... |
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Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe
Evalyn Gates - W.W. Norton & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Cutting-edge astrophysics that builds on Einstein's theories to find the unseen matter that fills the Universe. Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances don't just sound mysterious: their unexpected appearance in the cosmic census is upending long-held notions... |
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CliffsNotes Algebra I Quick Review, 2nd Edition (Cliffs Quick Review)
Jerry Bobrow - Cliffs Notes; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Inside the Book: Preliminaries and Basic Operations Signed Numbers, Frac-tions, and Percents Terminology, Sets, and Expressions Equations, Ratios, and Proportions Equations with Two Vari-ables Monomials, Polynomials, and Factoring Algebraic Fractions Inequalities, Graphing,... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions... |
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The Wisdom of the Radish: And Other Lessons Learned on a Small Farm
Lynda Browning - Sasquatch Books
Format: Print book
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Early in The Wisdom of the Radish, Lynda Hopkins admits that she's not a farmer. She's not even a farmer's wife. She's an aspiring farmer's suburban girlfriend. With this tentative start, she and her boyfriend, Emmett, become the country's newest sodbusters. Their... |
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Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
Mark Pagel - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history.A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth -- namely, the culture... |
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
F B M de Waal - Harmony Books
Format: Print book
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"An important and timely message about the biological roots of human kindness." - Desmond Morris, author of The Naked ApeAre we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival and interests?... |
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The Infinite Monkey Cage How to Build a Universe
Brian Cox - William Collins
Format: Hardcover
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The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms.Professor... |
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Quantifying Matter (States of Matter)
Joseph A. Jr. Angelo - Facts on File; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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'Quantifying Matter' explains how scientists learned to measure matter and quantify some of its most fascinating and useful properties. |
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Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them *Scientists, finance wizards, doctors, relationship gurus, celebrity CEOs, ... consultants, health officials and more
David H. Freedman - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our investments are devastated, obesity is epidemic, test scores are in decline, blue-chip companies circle the drain, and popular medications turn out to be ineffective and even dangerous. What happened? Didn't we listen to the scientists, economists and other experts who promised... |
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Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World
Michael D. Fayer - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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Physics is a complex, even daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying even thrilling. And liberated from its mathematical underpinnings, physics suddenly becomes accessible to anyone with the curiosity and imagination to explore its beauty. Science without math? It's not that... |
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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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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political... |
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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Leonard Susskind - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013 A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forces to teach Physics 101the DIY way The Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in collegeor who simply wants to know how to think like a physicist.... |
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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 Nature of Space and Time
Stephen Hawking - Princeton University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united into a single... |
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Solid Matter (States of Matter)
Joseph A. Angelo Jr. - Facts on File
Format: Hardcover
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Supported by a generous quantity of full-color illustrations and interesting sidebars, Solid Matter introduces the basic characteristics and properties of solid matter. It briefly describes the cosmic connection of the elements, leading readers through several key events in human pre-history... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
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.... |
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Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
Anton Zeilinger - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Einstein's steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as "spooky action at a distance" the notion that two elementary particles far removed from each other could... |
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The Oxford Companion to Cosmology
Andrew Liddle - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lavishly illustrated with almost two hundred halftones and diagrams, The Oxford Companion to Cosmology offers readers an engaging, state-of-the-art reference work on modern cosmology, the only such resource presently available. In more than 350 in-depth entries, Andrew Liddle and Jon Loveday--two... |
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Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography
David Bodanis - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the best-selling author of E=mc2, a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern physics Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory... |
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Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs of life within a billion years of being created. In a compelling narrative, Flannery describes the formation... |
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