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Galileo: And the Science Deniers

Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter...
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Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole

Sarah Dry - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate...
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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

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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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard - Harper & Row
Format: Print book

The Pulitzer Prize-winning work by the author whom The Boston Globe called "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today."
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

Roger Penrose - Bodley Head; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

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 Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O. Wilson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most...
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Microbiology: A Very Short Introduction

Nicholas P. Money - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Book

In recent decades we have come to realize that the microbial world is hugely diverse, and can be found in the most extreme environments. Fungi, single-celled protists, bacteria, archaea, and the vast array of viruses and sub-viral particles far outnumber plants and animals. Microbes, we now know,...
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1,001 Math Problems

LearningExpress - Learning Express
Format:  Book : English : 4th edView all editions and formats

The best way to master math is to practice, practice, practiceand 1,001 Math Problems offers mathophobes and others who just need a little math tutoring the practice they need to succeed. Whether students need help calculating a tip or facing a standardized math test that could determine...
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The Practical Astronomer, 2nd Edition: Explore the Wonders of the Night Sky

Anton Vamplew - DK
Format: Paperback

A complete introduction to observing and understanding the night sky, explaining and demystifying stargazing to recognize objects and explain how they move through the sky over the night and the year.Explore the wonders of the night sky in The Practical Astronomer. Informative and easy-to-use...
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The Collins Guide to the Rare Mammals of the World

John A. Burton - Stephen Greene Pr
Format: Hardcover

Book by Burton, John A.
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The River of Consciousness

Oliver Sacks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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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Physics Essentials For Dummies

Steven Holzner - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Physics Essentials For Dummies (9781119590286) was previously published as Physics Essentials For Dummies (9780470618417) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product....
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

Gaia Vince - Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover

We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself...
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Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality

Anil Ananthaswamy - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later.Many of the greatest scientific minds have grappled...
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Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond

James Trefil - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Filled with lavish illustrations, this book is a grand tour of the universe. Three ever widening domains are presented--the planets, the stars, and the large scale universe itself--each including the ones before it and extending outward.The tour starts close to home within the first domain,...
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love

Michael Lemonick - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking...
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What...
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The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse

Sam Sheridan - Penguin Press HC, The
Format: Hardcover

Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter; he has worked as an EMT, a wilderness firefighter, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction under brutal conditions at the South Pole. If he isn't ready for the Apocalypse...
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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

Edward O. Wilson - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, one shorn of "religious and political dogma," Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and synthesis.Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary...
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Environmental Science For Dummies

Alecia M. Spooner - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The easy way to score high in Environmental Science Environmental science is a fascinating subject, but some students have a hard time grasping the interrelationships of the natural world and the role that humans play within the environment. Presented in a straightforward format, Environmental...
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The Stress Gene : The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity and How to Break the Cycle

Daniel P Keating - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Why are we the way we are? Why do some of us find it impossible to calm a hair-trigger temper or to shake chronic anxiety? The debate has always been divided between nature and nurture, but as psychology professor Daniel Keating demonstrates in Born Anxious, new science points to a third...
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death

Jill Lepore - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

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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Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It

Paul R. Epstein - University of California Press; First Edition first Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice—it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings...
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Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery

John Browne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The fascinating story of how seven elements - iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon - have changed modern life, for good and ill.With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant....
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Trigonometry For Dummies

Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

A plain-English guide to the basics of trigFrom sines and cosines to logarithms, conic sections, and polynomials, this friendly guide takes the torture out of trigonometry, explaining basic concepts in plain English, offering lots of easy-to-grasp example problems, and adding a dash of humor...
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Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies

Sara Lewis - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies remain shrouded in mystery: How do fireflies make their light? What are they saying with their flashing? And what do fireflies look for in a mate? In Silent Sparks, noted biologist and firefly...
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Vitamin N: The Essential Guide to a Nature-Rich Life

Richard Louv - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book

"From the author of the New York Times bestseller that defined nature-deficit disorder and launched the international children-and-nature movement, Vitamin N (for "nature") is a complete prescription for connecting with the power and joy of the natural world right now,"--Amazon.com.Nature-deficit...
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The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home

Stephen Russell - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Book

With clear instructions and step-by-step photographs, this comprehensive guide shows you how to cultivate mushrooms in your own home, producing shiitakes, oysters, lions manes, maitakes, and portabellas for your kitchen or for a small business. Beginners will learn the best way to use a mushroom...
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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter

Jeffrey Bennett - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, Bennett begins an entertaining...
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Chandras Cosmos: Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASAs Premier X-Ray Observatory

Wallace H. Tucker - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light. In Chandras Cosmos,...
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Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

Sam Maggs - Quirk Books
Format: Print book

A fun and feminist look at forgotten women in science, technology, and beyond, from the bestselling author of THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY You may think you know women's history pretty well. But have you ever heard of. . . Alice Ball, the chemist who developed an effective treatment...
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Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

Sebastian Seung - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade; None edition
Format: Hardcover

We know that each of us is unique, but science has struggled to pinpoint where, precisely, our uniqueness resides. Is it in our genes? The structure of our brains? Our genome may determine our eye color and even aspects of our personality. But our friendships, failures, and passions also...
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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

Mark Hertsgaard - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation wholl inherit the problem For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for outlets including the?New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation....
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion

Jon Katz - Ballantine
Format: Hardcover

In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would...
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Algebra 2: The Easy Way

Meg Clemens - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback

This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for an algebra class. Algebra 2: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn algebra the easy way.Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra...
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The Brain: The Story of You

David Eagleman - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

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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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth

Hugh Aldersey-Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A rich and sweeping exploration into the science and history behind the most mysterious, primal, and powerful force on earth: the tide.Half of the worlds population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery...
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The Next Great Migration

Shah, Sonia - BLOOMSBURY

The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as unprecedented,...
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Kaplan MCAT General Chemistry Review Notes

Kaplan - Kaplan Publishing; Revised edition
Format: Paperback

If you are taking the MCAT by January 23, 2015, and need general chemistry prep, this is your book. This full-color guide features complete test-targeted general chemistry review for the MCAT and includes over 400 practice questions (hundreds more than the competition) and three full-length...
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The Complete Guide to Small Scale Farming: Everything You Need to Know About Raising Beef Cattle, Rabbits, Ducks, and Other Small Animals

Melissa Nelson - Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
Format: Book

Starting a small scale farm is the dream of Americans young and old, from those who watched the majesty of the great western farm in films during their youth to those who spent their childhood actually working on a farm. However, for many of these individuals it is a matter of logistics...
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

Simon Garfield - Canongate Books
Format: Hardcover

SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing...
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Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematiciansIn Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five...
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The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

Christopher Caldwell - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

Neil Degrasse Tyson - National Geographic
Format: Print book

This beautifully illustrated companion to celebrated scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel TV show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about the complexities of our universe. For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted...
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E-Z Algebra

Douglas Downing - Barron's Educational Series; 5.0 edition
Format: Paperback

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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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice

Jorge Daniel Taillant - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover

Though not traditionally thought of as strategic natural resources, glaciers are a crucial part of our global ecosystem playing a fundamental role in the sustaining of life around the world. Comprising three quarters of the world's freshwater, they freeze in the winter and melt in the summer,...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?

Lawrence M Krauss - Atria Books
Format: Print book

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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Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

Jason Padgett - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal...
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MCAT General Chemistry Review 2019-2020: Online Book

Alexander Stone Macnow - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback

Kaplan's MCAT General Chemistry Review 2019-2020 offers an expert study plan, detailed subject review, and hundreds of online and in-book practice questions - all authored by the experts behind the MCAT prep course that has helped more people get into medical school than all other major...
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Applied Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

Alain Goriely - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

Mathematics is playing an increasingly important role in society and the sciences, enhancing our ability to use models and handle data. While pure mathematics is mostly interested in abstract structures, applied mathematics sits at the interface between this abstract world and the world...
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Welcome Home Mama and Boris: How a Sister's Love Saved a Fallen Soldier's Beloved Dogs

Carey Neesley - Readers Digest; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Growing up in the well-heeled Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Carey Neesley always thought she and her younger brother, Peter, would never be separated. The children of divorced parents and outcasts in their neighborhood, Carey and Peter supported, loved, and encouraged each...
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

Brian Greene - Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to datea book that takes on the grandest question Is ours the only universeThere was a time when universe meant all there is Everything Yet in recent years discoveries...
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Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction

Mark Maslin - Oxford University Press; 3 edition
Format: Book

Climate change is still, arguably, the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. Previously published as Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction, the new edition has been renamed Climate Change: A Very Short introduction, to reflect the important...
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming

Paul Hawken - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

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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Biology Essentials For Dummies

Rene Fester Kratz - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781119589587) was previously published as Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781118072677) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product....
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Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes

Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing science of black holes, and their role in understanding the history and future of our universe.Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbors a black hole at its center. In Einstein's Monsters, distinguished astronomer Chris Impey builds...
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The Enviornment: A Revolution in Attitudes (Information Plus Reference: Environment)

Gale - Information Plus
Format: Paperback

The Information Series on Current Topics.
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Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick

Marie-Monique Robin - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

Over the last thirty years, we have seen an increase in rates of cancer, neurodegenerative disease, reproductive disorders, and diabetes, particularly in developed countries. At the same time, since the end of World War II approximately 100,000 synthetic chemical molecules have invaded...
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Natural History Museum Book of Animal Records

Mark Carwardine - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

Here are the achievers and the unique from the animal world mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates. These are not only familiar records like highest, fastest, largest, these are the unusual, such as slowest growth the deep sea clam, most pecks in a day black woodpecker,...
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The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy

Paige Williams - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the riveting and perilous world of fossil collectors in this "tremendous" (David Grann) true tale of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a "beautifully written story steeped...
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The Secret Life of the Periodic Table: Unlocking the Mysteries of All 118 Elements

Ben Still Dr - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

The Secret Life of the Periodic Table uncovers the fascinating stories behind the formulation of the table. It describes how and who discovered the 118 elements, and the competition and cooperation behind scientific advances. The character of the elements is brought to life in a bright...
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

MARYANNE WOLF - Harper
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne...
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The Elements: The New Guide to the Building Blocks of Our Universe

Jack Challoner - Andre Deutsch
Format: Hardcover

As Carl Sagan memorably put it, "We're made of star stuff." The Elements: The New Guide to the Building Blocks of Our Universe takes you on a gorgeously illustrated tour of the Periodic Table. Filled with fascinating information about the elements, their main compounds, and their...
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins

Ian Tattersall - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

50,000 years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival...
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Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal

Ava Chin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance...and so much more.Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods, and it's all about eating better, healthier, and more sustainably, no matter where you live. Time...
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils

Aaron O'Dea - Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover

A History of Life in 100 Fossils showcases 100 key fossils that together illustrate the evolution of life on earth. Iconic specimens have been selected from the renowned collections of the two premier natural history museums in the world, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and the Natural...
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Now: The Physics of Time

R Muller - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

"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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The House of Kennedy

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them? The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. The family commitment to public service is legendary and enduring. But all their wild charisma has been dashed by disgrace...
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine...
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The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality

Paul Halpern - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though...
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Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work

Kat Arney - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book

The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make our eyes blue, our hair curly, and they control our risks of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism, and Alzheimer's. One thousand dollars will buy you your own genome readout, neatly stored on a USB stick. And advances in genetic...
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The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way

Lindley, David - DOUBLEDAY & CO

A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific roots. In the early 17th century Galileo broke free from the hold of ancient Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy. He drastically changed...
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The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across Our Largest Organ

- ATLANTIC MONTHLY PR


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Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

Ron Cowen - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved...
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MCAT Biology Review: Online Book

Alexander Stone Macnow - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Print book

More people get into medical school with a Kaplan MCAT course than all major courses combined. Now the same results are available with MCAT Biology Review. This book features thorough subject review, more questions than any competitor, and the highest-yield questions available. The commentary...
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN - Picador
Format: Hardcover

From evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen comes a book that will make you see yourself and the world around you in an entirely new way.For a long time, biologists thought evolution was a necessarily slow process, too incremental to be observed in a lifetime. In Darwin Comes to Town,...
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Geometry For Dummies

Mark Ryan - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Hit the geometry wall? Get up and running with this no-nonsense guide! Does the thought of geometry make you jittery? You're not alone. Fortunately, this down-to-earth guide helps you approach it from a new angle, making it easier than ever to conquer your fears and score your highest...
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The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds....
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The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life

Rodney R Dietert - Dutton
Format: Print book

The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher on the microbiome, professor Rodney Dietert presents a new paradigm in human biology that has emerged in the midst of the ongoing...
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Black hole blues : and other songs from outer space

Janna Levin - Anchor
Format: Paperback

The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves - by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign...
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Soul of a Dog: Reflections on the Spirits of the Animals of Bedlam Farm

Jon Katz - Villard
Format: Hardcover

Do animals have souls? Some of our greatest thinkers€”Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas€”and countless animal lovers have been obsessed with this question for thousands of years. Now New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz looks for an answer. With his signature wisdom, humor, and clarity,...
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Algebra II For Dummies

Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Algebra II For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119543145) was previously published as Algebra II For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119090625) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated...
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Chemistry Essentials For Dummies

John T. Moore - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Chemistry Essentials For Dummies (9781119591146) was previously published as Chemistry Essentials For Dummies (9780470618363) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product....
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Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

Timothy J Jorgensen - Princeton University Pres, 2016.
Format: Book

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety...
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Marcelo Gleiser - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of whats out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search...
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Zika: The Emerging Epidemic

Donald G. McNeil Jr. - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.Until recently, Zika -- once considered a mild disease -- was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice...
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On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature

Melanie Challenger - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

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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River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones that Didn’t Get Away

Jeremy Wade - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Irsquom Jeremy Wade biologist and fishing detective For twenty-five years Irsquove explored our planetrsquos remotest rivers and lakes hunting for monster-sized fish Itrsquos become something of an obsession for me Called ldquothe greatest angling explorer of his generationrdquo Independent...
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How to Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records: A Genealogist's Guide: With Specific Resources for Major Christian Denominations before 1900

Harold A. Henderson - Genealogical Publishing Company
Format: Paperback


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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

- Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist, cofounder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang to the end of time...
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Biology: An Illustrated History of Life Science

Tom Jackson - Shelter Harbor Press
Format: Hardcover

Here is the essential guide to biology, an authoritative reference book and fold out timeline that examines how we have uncovered the secrets of lifethe most complex process in the Universe.From the workings of molecules to the way entire oceans or continents of lifeforms interact, biology...
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Hannibal

Thomas Harris - Dell
Format: Print book

You remember Hannibal Lecter gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years hes been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entered Dr. Lecters world, piercing his new identity,...
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Cognitive Psychology For Dummies (For Dummies)

Hills.
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

Cognitive psychology made easy An accessible and entertaining introduction to the field, Cognitive Psychology For Dummies tracks to a typical college course, making it the perfect supplement for students in need of a clear-and most importantly, enjoyable-overview of this fascinating topic....
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Genetics and Genetic Engineering

Gale Cengage Learning - Information Plus
Format: Paperback

The Information Plus Reference Series provides statistical data on 32 of todays most controversial and most studied social issues. Each Information Plus title is a compilation of current and historical statistics -- with analysis -- on aspects of one contemporary social issue, such as abortion,...
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A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants

Ruth Kassinger - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book

In the tradition of The Botany of Desire and Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of the first botanists interwoven with stories of today's extraordinary plants found in the garden and the lab.In Paradise Under Glass, Ruth Kassinger recounted with grace and humor her journey from...
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Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy

Govert Schilling - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

It has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century: the detection of gravitational waves. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime nearly a hundred years ago, but they were never perceived directly until now. Decades in the making, this momentous...
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Zika: The Emerging Epidemic

Donald G McNeil Jr. - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A gripping narrative about the origins and spread of the Zika virus by New York Times science reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.Until recently, Zika -- once considered a mild disease -- was hardly a cause for global panic. But as early as August 2015, doctors in northeast Brazil began to notice...
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Geometry Essentials For Dummies

Mark Ryan - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Geometry Essentials For Dummies (9781119590446) was previously published as Geometry Essentials For Dummies (9781118068755) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product....
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Bill McKibben - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long...
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna

Mira Ptacin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond.They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna -- an otherworldly community in the woods...
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A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream

Yuval Levin - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutionsAmericans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life....
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Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters

Jason A. Ramos - William Morrow & Company
Format: Hardcover

A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes.Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier...
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville...
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Fun Science: A Guide To Life, The Universe And Why Science Is So Awesome

Charlie Mcdonnell - Quadrille Pub
Format: Print book

Welcome, fellow humans (and others) , to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike.In my book, I'll be taking you on an awesome journey through the cosmos, beginning with the Big Bang through to the Solar System and the origins of life...
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos

Brian Cox - Da Capo
Format: Book

In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal...
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Matter: A Very Short Introduction

Geoff Cottrell - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback

What is matter? Matter is the stuff from which we and all the things in the world are made. Everything around us -- from desks, to books, to our own bodies -- are made of atoms, which are small enough that a million of them can fit across the breadth of a human hair. Inside every atom is a tiny...
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Help Your Kids with Math: A visual problem solver for kids and parents

Barry Lewis - DK Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Studying math is often a source of great anxiety for children and also proves troublesome for parents helping with their homework. Using uniquely accessible illustrated stress-free approach, Help Your Kids with Math looks at every aspect of math, from simple sums to simultaneous equations,...
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The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites...
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Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth

Curt Stager - Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager vividly describes how the decisions we make about the environment in the st century will affect the next years of life on this planet and how todays environmental debate is missing the long-term evidence By considering the Earths history over millions of years...
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Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

R Beau Lotto - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

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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