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Quantum physics : what everyone needs to know
Michael G Raymer - Oxford University Press
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"In question & answer format, discusses the history, science, applications, and relevant current issues of quantum physics in an accessible way for the non-scientist"-- |
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Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything
Patrick J Michaels - Cato Institute
Format: Print book
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When it comes to global warming, most people think there are two camps: "alarmist" or "denier" being their respective pejoratives. Either you acknowledge the existence of manmade climate change and consider it a dire global threat, or you deny it exists at all. But there's... |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?
Lawrence M Krauss - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision... |
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown - AK Press
Format: Paperback
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Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating,... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Roger Penrose - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology's essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? Penrose shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding... |
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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
JAMES KAKALIOS - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital "clouds" to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles. Most of us are clueless... |
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Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
DANIEL J LEVITIN - DUTTON
Format: Print book
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We're surrounded by fringe theories, fake news, and pseudo-facts. These lies are getting repeated. New York Times bestselling author Daniel Levitin shows how to disarm these socially devastating inventions and get the American mind back on track. Here are the fundamental lessons... |
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Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys
Candace Savage - Greystone Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Based on more than a decade of research, Crows offers an accurate, humorous, and wide-ranging introduction to these fascinating birds. Who would have guessed that there are more than 40 species of ravens and crows, all variations on a theme, cawing and croaking their way through the woodlands... |
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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us
SAM KEAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating science and history of the air we breatheIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic... |
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The Secret Lives of Birds
Pierre Gingras - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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In The Secret Lives of Birds, the author has toured the world tracking the secret characteristics of birds on five continents. By the time you finish this book, you will never again be able to look at birds in the same manner. |
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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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Elk Tactics
Don Laubach - Falcon Pr Pub Co
Format: Paperback
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Advanced strategies for hunting and calling elk. |
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The Shark Almanac: A Complete Look at a Magnificent and Misunderstood Creature
Thomas B. Allen - The Lyons Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sharks have a reputation of being the most feared creatures of the sea, and in this fantastic new book, we learn the myths and facts of these exciting animals--and that they aren't as deadly as they seem. Of the more than 850 shark species, 80 percent would not hurt people, or would... |
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Volcanoes (A Firefly Guide)
Marco Stoppato - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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Volcanoes describes in stunning detail 100 active volcanoes around the planet. Every entry describes the principal characteristics of the volcano, such as the geodynamic environment leading to its formation, its structure, special features, morphology, its method of eruption, and the materials... |
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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis
KATHRYN LOUGHEED - Bloomsbury Sigma
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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Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
Bill Streever - Little
Format: Book
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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture. A scientist and bestselling nature writer who will go to any extreme to satisfy his curiosity, Bill Streever sets off to find out what heat really means. Let him be your guide and you'll... |
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Dragonflies of the World
Jill Silsby - Smithsonian
Format: Hardcover
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Presents a guide to dragonflies and their small relatives, damselflies, covering their life cycle, behavior, habitat, and structure. |
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Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
Charlotte Gill - Greystone Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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• Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction• Winner of the 2012 Foreword Magazine Editor's Choice Prize Nonfiction• Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize• Shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Non-Fiction Award"Charlotte Gill writes with a dexterity... |
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
R Beau Lotto - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world - and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much... |
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T Osterholm - Little
Format: Print book
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A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility... |
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The Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
Don E. Wilson - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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This book covers every species within ten North American mammalian orders, including those that inhabit offshore waters. Written by more than two hundred experts, each with extensive experience in the field, descriptions include distribution maps, identification guidelines, scientific... |
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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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Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park
Lauren Danner - Washington State University Press
Format: Paperback
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North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by the National Park Service's... |
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The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science
Julie Des Jardins - The Feminist Press at CUNY
Format: Paperback
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Why are the fields of science and technology still considered to be predominantly male professions? The Madame Curie Complex moves beyond the most common explanations - limited access to professional training, lack of resources, exclusion from social networks of men - to give historical... |
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Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide, Seventh Edition
Dinah L. Moche - Wiley; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Discover the wonders of the night sky with this bestselling Astronomy GuideFor a generation, Astronomy A Self-Teaching Guide has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide to the night sky. Now this classic beginners guide has been completely revised to bring it up to date with... |
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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.... |
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The Power of Plagues
Irwin W Sherman - ASM Press
Format: Paperback
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How pathogenic microorganisms have shaped human civilization |
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Beautiful Jim Key: The Lost History of the World's Smartest Horse
Mim E. Rivas - William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Beautiful Jim Key -- the one-time ugly duckling of a scrub colt who became one of the most beloved heroes of the turn of the century -- was adored not for his beauty and speed but rather for his remarkable abilities to read, write, spell, do mathematics, even debate politics. Trained with... |
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming
Paul Hawken - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the worldIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer... |
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The World of the Polar Bear
Norbert Rosing - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful predator, revealed here by an acclaimed nature photographer. The polar bear is the largest terrestrial carnivore, uniquely adapted to thrive in the harsh environment of the Far North. In The World of the Polar Bear, renowned nature photographer Norbert Rosing follows the polar... |
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Now: The Physics of Time
R Muller - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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"Now" is a simple yet elusive concept.You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from Augustine... |
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Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon
FRANK CLOSE - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon.... |
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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
Jeremy R Lent - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese... |
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Statistics For Dummies
Deborah J. Rumsey - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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The fun and easy way to get down to business with statistics Stymied by statistics? No fear ? this friendly guide offers clear, practical explanations of statistical ideas, techniques, formulas, and calculations, with lots of examples that show you how these concepts apply to your everyday... |
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GENIUS WITHIN : unlocking our brains' potential
DAVID ADAM - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how this revolution in neuroscience will help us access the untapped potential locked within us all. What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What... |
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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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Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
David Rains Wallace - University of California Press
Format: Book
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Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two - in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining book, eminent naturalist David Rains Wallace brings the saga of ancient mammals to a general... |
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The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How Our Brain Became Remarkable
Suzana Herculano-Houzel - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great... |
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Wolf Land
Carter Niemeyer - BottleFly Press
Format: Print book
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Carter Niemeyer has followed wolves - and captured many - since he helped reintroduce them in the Northern Rockies in the mid-1990s. In his second memoir, Wolf Land, he takes us across the rugged West as he tracks wolves, shares in their lives, and seeks middle ground for these iconic animals,... |
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The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
Lily Koppel - Grand Central
Format: Print book
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Read the bestselling book that inspired the ABC television series.As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the brave smiles of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American... |
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The End of Average: Unlocking Our Potential by Embracing What Makes Us Different
T ROSE - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it.The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average... |
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousnessAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded to be the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods,... |
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Shadows in the Sea: The Sharks, Skates and Rays
Thomas B. Allen - The Lyons Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Nothing puts quite the same tingling fear in swimmers, surfers, and divers--especially in the quarter century since Peter Benchley's novel Jaws conquered the bestseller charts--as the thought that a shark might be plying its course somewhere in the murky deep below. Thomas Allen... |
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The Brain: The Story of You
David Eagleman - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are "you"? How do you make... |
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How Everything Works: Making Physics Out of the Ordinary
Louis Bloomfield - Wiley
Format: Print book
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A user's manual for our everyday world! "Whether a curious layperson, a trained physicist, or a beginning physics student, most everyone will find this book an interesting and enlightening read and will go away comforted in that the world is not so strange and inexplicable after... |
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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man
Michael Tennesen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps... |
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4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars
Nicky Jenner - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Mars is ingrained in our culture, from H. G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds to Looney Tunes's hapless Marvin the Martian to David Bowie's extraterrestrial spiders. Ancient mythologies defined the planet as a violent harbinger of war, stargazers puzzled over its peculiar... |
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Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
Rob DeSalle - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lively and unconventional exploration of our senses, how they work, what is revealed when they dont, and how they connect us to the world. Over the past decade neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new information about our senses and how they serve as our gateway to the world. This... |
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E-Z Algebra
Douglas Downing - Barron's Educational Series; 5.0 edition
Format: Paperback
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Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra include general rules for dealing with numbers, equations, negative numbers and integers, fractions and rational numbers, exponents, roots and real numbers, algebraic expressions, functions, graphs, systems of two equations, quadratic equations,... |
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Bats in Question: The Smithsonian Answer Book
Don E Wilson - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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Long the subject of myth and superstition, bats have been among the most misunderstood of mammals due to their nocturnal habits, capacity for flight, and strange appearance. Seeking to dispel the myths associated with these remarkable creatures and arguing for their key role in a balanced... |
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The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth
Elizabeth Tasker - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years ago, the search for planets--and life--outside the solar system was a job restricted to science fiction writers. It is now one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy, with thousands of these "exoplanets" discovered so far. The detection of these worlds... |
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
Kyle Harper - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role... |
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
Adam Becker - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universeEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed... |
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Tree: A Life Story
David T Suzuki - Greystone Books
Format: Print book
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A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions. The story of a single tree.In this clear, concise, and captivating book, renowned scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki and award-winning writer Wayne Grady tell the life story of a tree, beginning when heat from a devastating... |
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Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses
John Dvorak - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex." They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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Painless Algebra
Lynette Long Ph.D. - Barron's Educational Series; 3 edition
Format: Book
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Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects as they are taught on middle school and high school levels. These books are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing--or in many cases, just plain boring. Barron's Painless... |
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Owls of North America
Frances Backhouse - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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Mysterious, silent and ferocious birds of prey. Owls are almost everywhere. These distinctive birds populate every continent except Antarctica and survive in everything from arid desert, to arctic tundra, to dense rain forest. From ancient mythology to Harry Potter, owls hold an enduring... |
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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"It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." - David P. Barash, The Wall Street JournalFrom the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad,... |
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Algebra I For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Factor fearlessly, conquer the quadratic formula, and solve linear equations There's no doubt that algebra can be easy to some while extremely challenging to others. If you're vexed by variables, Algebra I For Dummies, 2nd Edition provides the plain-English, easy-to-follow guidance... |
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Weather: A Visual Guide (Visual Guides)
Bruce Buckley - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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An introductory guide to understanding weather and its effect on our lives. It is human nature to try to understand, predict and control the weather that affects crops, wildlife...even one's mood. The world's favorite topic of conversation is also the subject of increasing scientific... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
MITCH PRINSTEIN - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A leading psychologist examines how our popularity affects our success, our relationships, and our happiness - and why we don't always want to be the most popularNo matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word "popular" immediately transports you back to your teenage... |
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Time Travel
James Gleick - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century,... |
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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit
Deepak Chopra - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The... |
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Balance: A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense
Carol Svec - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Some low-frequency sounds - such as noise from storms or truck engines - can make you feel dizzy and nauseated. An index finger's light touch can stop people from losing balance. You are more prone to trip when you think someone is watching you. A breakthrough in improving balance as we age might... |
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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
Jon Palfreman - Scientific American
Format: Hardcover
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A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - Publishers WeeklyA star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In Brain... |
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Jorge Cham - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Prepare to learn everything we still dont know about our strange and mysterious Universe.Humanitys understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore - there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator... |
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
ANGELA SAINI - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less... |
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
Michael S Walker - Prometheus Books
Format: Print book
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Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information... |
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Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
Joseph Romm - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Print book
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Climate change will have a bigger impact on humanity than the Internet has had. The last decade's spate of superstorms, wildfires, heat waves, and droughts has accelerated the public discourse on this topic and lent credence to climatologist Lonnie Thomson's 2010 statement that climate... |
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos... |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
Format: Paperback
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions... |
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Viruses: Agents of Evolutionary Invention
Michael G Cordingley - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, and arguably the most successful. They are not technically alive, but -- as infectious vehicles of genetic information -- they have a remarkable capacity to invade, replicate, and evolve within living cells. Synthesizing a large... |
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Science Hacks
Colin Barras - Cassell
Format: Paperback
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With Science Hacks, you no longer need a PhD to understand the fascinating ideas behind science's greatest theories and discoveries. This latest addition to the ingenious new Hacks series will show you a technique for understanding and, crucially, remembering 100 of the most important... |
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Guide to Weather (Firefly Pocket series)
Ross Reynolds - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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A practical guide to observing, measuring and understanding weather. Meteorology is a science that gets widespread exposure on television, radio and newspapers as well as being one of the most frequent topics of conversation. Best of all, it is a science that anyone can dabble in on a daily... |
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E-Z Arithmetic
Edward Williams - Barron's Educational Series; 5th Revised edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Barron's growing list of E-Z Series titles are new, updated, and improved versions of Barron's longtime popular Easy Way books. New cover designs reflect the all-new interior layouts, which feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material... |
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The Undertaker's Daughter
Kate Mayfield - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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What if the place you called "home" happened to be a funeral home? Kate Mayfield explores what it meant to be the daughter of a small-town undertaker in this fascinating memoir evocative of Six Feet Under and The Help, with a hint of Mary Roach's Stiff.The first time I touched... |
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The Human Body Book
Steve Parker - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Combining up-to-the-minute descriptions and illustrations of the body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems, The Human Body Book is the ultimate all-in-one guide perfect for families and students alike. With updated content and illustrations throughout - including... |
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Stonehenge Complete (Fourth Edition)
Christopher Chippindale - Thames & Hudson; Fourth Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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“All you ever wanted to know about Stonehenge is catalogued in this humorously written,beautifully illustrated book.” —The EconomistFor the fourth edition of this classic account, Christopher Chippindale has revised and expanded the story to include the most up-to-date... |
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Wildlife of the World
DK Publishing - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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Wildlife of the World takes you on a journey through some of the most scenic and rich animal habitats - from the Amazon rain forests to the Himalayas, the Sahara to the South Pole - meeting the most important animals in each ecosystem along the way.In Wildlife of the World truly spectacular... |
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The Aye-Aye and I
Gerald Durrell - Arcade Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the riveting tale of Gerald Durrell's adventures and misadventures in the enchanted forests of Madagascar, in search of the elusive Aye-aye. Once thought to be extinct, the Aye-aye, the beast with the magic finger, still lurks, though in fast dwindling numbers, in the forests... |
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Despicable Species (Hc)
Janet Lembke - Lyons Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In fourteen revealing essays, Lembke ponders some of the most loathsome creatures with which we share the planet. But for every creature's nasty reputation, there is a silver lining, which Lembke, with dazzlingly researched bits of history, science, and culture, deftly brings to our attention.... |
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