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How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets
Paul Abel - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and essential guide to understanding and interpreting the wonders of our solar system, from two intrepid young astronomers who are the hosts of the popular BBC television series, "The Sky at Night."What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school... |
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Feral Cities: Adventures with Animals in the Urban Jungle
Tristan Donovan - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wildlife that we share our streets and homes with. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating... |
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The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell - ?Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling journalist shares an explosive new understanding of heat in this searing examination of the impact that rising temperatures will have on our lives and on our planet. "When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair... |
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Apollo Mission Control: The Making of a National Historic Landmark
MANFRED VON EHRENFRIED - Springer
Format: Paperback
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This book describes the history of this now iconic room which represents America's space program during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and early Space Shuttle eras. It is now a National Historic Landmark and is being restored to a level which represents the day the flight... |
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
Christopher Caldwell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, instead left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled - and ready to put an adventurer in the White House.Christopher Caldwell has spent... |
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Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
Steven Quartz - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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If you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi's jeans their iconic allure, look no further-in Cool, Steven Quartz and Anette Asp finally explain the fascinating science behind unexpected trends and enduring... |
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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Sabine Hossenfelder
Format: Hardcover
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A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human conditionNot only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes... |
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MCAT Organic Chemistry Review: Online Book
Kaplan Test Prep - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Kaplan has been the world leader in the MCAT prep industry for 40 years. Our decades of test expertise and experience are available with MCAT Organic Chemistry Review. This book features thorough subject review, more questions than any competitor, star ratings to focus your study on the most... |
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