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The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way
Lindley, David - DOUBLEDAY & CO
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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 Joy of Hobby Farming: Grow Food, Raise Animals, and Enjoy a Sustainable Life
Audrey Levatino - Skyhorse Publishing; Second Edition edition
Format: Print book
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When the farm is a lifestyle, but not quite a way to earn a living, its considered hobby farming. Most of us want to live a sustainable and healthy life in which we protect the environment and keep it safe from development and overproduction. But we can take this a step further by learning... |
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The Bug Girl: A True Story
Spencer, Sophia - SCHWARTZ & WADE BOOKS
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Real-life 7-year-old Sophia Spencer was bullied for loving bugs until hundreds of women scientists rallied around her. Now Sophie tells her inspiring story in this picture book that celebrates women in science, bugs of all kinds, and the importance of staying true to yourself. Sophia Spencer... |
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The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder
Linda Stratmann - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control... |
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The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
Robert Colvile - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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In this revelatory study of modern living, Robert Colvile inspects the various ways in which the pace of life in our society is increasing and examines the evolutionary science behind our rapidly accelerating need for change, as well as why it's unlikely we'll be able to slow down . . . or even... |
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Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
Michael Shermer - Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific AmericanFor fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience.... |
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Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition
Daniel Duzdevich - Indiana University Press
Format: Book
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Charles Darwin’s most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste and under intense pressure. For an era in which... |
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The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
INC DORLING KINDERSLEY - DK
Format: Hardcover
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An essential guide to milestone developments in astronomy, telling the story of our ideas about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos - from ancient times to the present day.From planets and stars to black holes and the Big Bang, take a journey through the wonders of the universe.... |
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The Unknown Universe A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology.
Clark Stuart.
Format: Print book : English
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A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know -- and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8... |
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The Cosmic Tourist: The 100 Most Awe-Inspiring Places in the Universe
Brian May - Carlton Books Ltd
Format: Print book
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Take your seats for an out-of-this-word tour through the Cosmos! Brian May, Patrick Moore, and Chris Lintott - authors of Bang! - fly us from Earth to the farthest-out galaxies. Along the way, we stop and gaze at 100 amazing sights, from asteroids to zodiacal dust. And each of our three... |
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Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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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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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Roger Penrose - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose... |
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Research Methods in Psychology For Dummies
Martin Dempster - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Your hands-on introduction to research methods in psychology Looking for an easily accessible overview of research methods in psychology? This is the book for you! Whether you need to get ahead in class, you're pressed for time, or you just want a take on a topic that's not covered... |
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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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Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist
Anne Innis Dagg - McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: Print book
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When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian... |
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions
Frans de Waal - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which... |
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Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration
Giles Whittell - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Brimming with interesting facts and surprising anecdotes, this scientific and cultural history opens our eyes to the wonders of one of nature's most delicate, delightful, and deadly phenomena: SNOW! Perfect for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees and Rain.Go on an extraordinary... |
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Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell
John Casey - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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Climate change has been a perplexing problem for years. In Dark Winter, scientist John L. Casey, a former White House national space policy advisor, NASA headquarters consultant, and space shuttle engineer tells the truth about ominous changes taking place in the climate and the Sun. In Dark... |
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History Lessons: A Memoir of Madness, Memory, and the Brain
Clifton Crais - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Born in Louisiana to a soon-to-be absent father and an alcoholic motherwho tried to drown him in a bathtub when he was threeClifton Crais spent his childhood perched beside his mother on a too-tall bar stool, living with relatives too old or infirmed to care for him, or rambling on his own through... |
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: the New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters show us the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff."We all know that without water we couldn't... |
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson... |
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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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Numbers: Their Tales, Types, and Treasures
Alfred S. Posamentier - Prometheus Books
Format: eBook
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Did you grow up thinking math is boring Its time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbersand more.How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history Would numbers exist if we Homo sapiens werent around to discover them... |
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Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science
Richard Dawkins - Ecco Press
Format: Hardcover
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In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely... |
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Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp
Dan Bongino - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of SPYGATE "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!" - President Donald J. TrumpAn explosive, whistle-blowing expos, Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of Donald Trump by the Swamp... |
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
MENNO SCHILTHUIZEN - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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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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Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know
Robin Dunbar - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who we are and how we got to be here, our psychology, our cultures-and greatly impacts modern... |
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The Stargazer's Handbook
Giles Sparrow - Quercus Books
Format: Paperback
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From the craters of the Moon to the far reaches of Orion, "The Stargazer's Handbook" will enable you to explore space without leaving the comforts of Earth. All you need are a pair of binoculars and a clear night sky to experience the wonders of the universe. This book will... |
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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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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
Dave Levitan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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An eye-opening tour of the political tricks that subvert scientific progress.The Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of the ways our elected... |
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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 Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
MARIANO SIGMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international... |
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The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self
Anil Ananthaswamy - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, a tour of the latest neuroscience of schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's disease, ecstatic epilepsy, Cotard's syndrome, out-of-body experiences, and other disorders - revealing the awesome power of the human sense of self from a master of science... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History
Libby Hill - Southern Illinois University Press
Format: Paperback
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In this social and ecological account of the Chicago River, Libby Hill tells the story of how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to the creation of Chicago as a major metropolis and transportation hub. This widely acclaimed volume weaves the perspectives of science,... |
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Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us
Lee Goldman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Print book
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Dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes,... |
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Statistics For Dummies
Deborah J Rumsey - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293521) was previously published as Statistics For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9780470911082) . 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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The History of the American Space Shuttle
Dennis R. Jenkins - Schiffer
Format: Hardcover
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The flight campaign for the American space shuttle began on April 12, 1981, with the launch of STS-1 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and ended on July 21, 2011, with wheels stop of STS-135. During the 30 years and 135 missions in between, the program experienced triumphs and tragedies,... |
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Basic Math and Pre-Algebra For Dummies
Mark Zegarelli - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293637) was previously published as Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118791981) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should... |
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Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition
Daniel Duzdevich - Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
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Charles Darwin’s most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste and under intense pressure. For an era in which... |
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
Ian Stewart - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began,... |
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Nathan H. Lents - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections that make us human We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - two hundred... |
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
MARYANNE WOLF - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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 Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor Cox - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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“A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox’s] zestful curiosity.”—New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned... |
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan - Yale Univ Press
Format: Print book
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This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled... |
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Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: A Tour of His Botanical Legacy
Ken Thompson - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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For many people, the story of Charles Darwin goes like this: he ventured to the Galapagos Islands on the Beagle, was inspired by the biodiversity of the birds he saw there, and immediately returned home to write his theory of evolution. But this simplified narrative is inaccurate and lacking:... |
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Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
John Hands - Overlook Duckworth
Format: Print book
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The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands's... |
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with... |
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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change
Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia,... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive... |
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Year of the Dunk: A Modest Defiance of Gravity
Asher Price - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The showmanship of the dunk mesmerized Price as a child, but even with his height (six foot plus) and impressive wingspan, he never pushed himself to try it. Now, approaching middle age, Asher decides to spend a year remaking his body and testing his mind as he wonders, like most adults,... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical... |
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Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True?
Charles Seife - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital worldDigital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to controleven when that information is actually... |
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The Atlas of Life on Earth: The Earth, Its Landscape and Life Forms
Windmill Books - Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Atlas of Life on Earth offers a comprehensive, chronological survey of the Earth, its landscape and its life forms, from the beginning of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago to the present.The atlas is accessibly organized in six major parts, with 18 chapters devoted to each of the major... |
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Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies
Mark Zegarelli - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Master the fundamentals first for a smoother ride through math Basic Math & Pre-Algebra Workbook For Dummies is your ticket to finally getting a handle on math! Designed to help you strengthen your weak spots and pinpoint problem areas, this book provides hundreds of practice problems... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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"A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics ... Great reading for the intellectually curious," (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Here's Looking at Euclid - a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining read.From... |
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Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Timothy J Jorgensen - Princeton University Pres, 2016.
Format: Book
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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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U Can: Algebra I For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Conquer Algebra I with these key lessons, practice problems, and easy-to-follow examples. Algebra can be challenging. But you no longer need to be vexed by variables. With U Can, studying the key concepts from your class just got easier than ever before. Simply open this book to find help... |
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson - Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature.In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most... |
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Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
Jules Howard - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth--sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided,... |
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My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
Lindsay McCrae - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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A "remarkable memoir" (Nature) of life with an emperor penguin colony, gorgeously illustrated with 32 pages of exclusive photography For 337 days, award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica.... |
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Schaum's Outline of Trigonometry, Sixth Edition
Robert E Moyer - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Textbook too pricey?Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 600 fully-solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 20 detailed... |
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Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery
Matthew Reidsma
Format: Paperback
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The rise of Google and its integration into nearly every aspect of our lives has pushed libraries to adopt similar "Google-like" search tools, called discovery systems. Because these tools are provided by libraries and search scholarly materials rather than the open web, we often... |
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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin R Banaji - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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I know my own mind.I am able to assess others in a fair and accurate way.These self-perceptions are challenged by leading psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald as they explore the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about... |
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Jamie Metzl - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules...From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives -- sex, war, love, and death.... |
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year"... |
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Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed
Douglas Axe - Harper One
Format: Print book
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Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now, he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book. Axe argues that the key to understanding... |
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The Bare Bones: An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton
Matthew F. Bonnan - Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million... |
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Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science
Peter Watson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A brilliant history of science over the past 150 years that offers a powerful new argument - that the many disparate scientific branches are converging on the same truths.Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines,... |
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Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy: Defending Reason in a Free Society
Michael J. Thompson - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Defending the role that science must play in democratic society--science defined not just in terms of technology but as a way of approaching problems and viewing the world.In this collection of original essays, experts in political science, the hard sciences, philosophy, history, and other... |
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Imagination: The Science of Your Mind's Greatest Power
Jim Davies - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The first-ever book on the science of imagination, which sheds light on both the complex inner-workings of our mind and the ways in which we can channel imagination for a better life. We don't think of imagination the way that we should. The word is often only associated with children,... |
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The Great Naturalists
Robert Huxley - Thames & Hudson
Format: Paperback
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The story of natural history as seen through the lives, observations, and discoveries of the world's greatest naturalists."How the sciences of geology, biology, ecology and paleontology developed over three centuries is wonderfully illuminated in this volume." -- Publishers... |
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Calculus for dummies
Mark Ryan - John Wiley & Sons
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Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293491) was previously published as Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118791295) . 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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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
Dan Barber - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Engaging, funny and delicious... I would call this The Omnivores Dilemma 2.0. --Chicago TribuneAt the heart of todays optimistic farm-to-table food culture is a dark secret the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future of food.... |
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Cosmic Menagerie: A Visual Journey Through the Universe
Mark A Garlick - Sterling, 2014. 2013
Format: Print book
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Prepare for a unique, up-close look at our endlessly fascinating universe, led by astrophysicist and popular science author Dr. Mark Garlick. From tiny stellar corpses to red supergiants, he explains, categorizes, and illustrates every major type of star, planet, galaxy, and nebula. But what... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions... |
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Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage
Jeff Dondero - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It's befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet... |
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
DANIEL GOLEMAN - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your... |
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Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
Samuel Arbesman - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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The acclaimed author of The Half-Life of Facts explains the challenges of overly complex technology. On July 8th, 2015, something weird happened. The NYSE computers went down and trading was suspended for several hours. The culprit wasn't hackers or a rogue algorithm. It was just...... |
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Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
Lydia Pyne - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Is the distinction between "real" and "fake" as clear-cut as we think?Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Should we be outraged that some of those famous scenes in Blue Planet were filmed in a lab? Who are the scientists putting... |
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Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
Linda Geddes - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at how humans' relationship with the sun continues to shape our bodies, attitudes, and societies.Our biology is set up to work in partnership with the sun. Little wonder then that humans have long worshipped and revered our nearest star: life itself arose on earth because... |
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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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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason... |
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Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration
Tao Orion - Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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Invasive species are everywhere, from forests and prairies to mountaintops and river mouths. Their rampant nature and sheer numbers appear to overtake fragile native species and forever change the ecosystems that they depend on. Concerns that invasive species represent significant threats... |
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Quantum Theory: A Complete Introduction
Alexandre Zagoskin - Teach Yourself
Format: Paperback
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Written by Dr. Alexandre Zagoskin, who is a Reader at the University of Loughborough, Quantum Theory: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics... |
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The Germ Files: The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life
Jason Tetro - Doubleday Canada
Format: Print book
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SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn't let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent. The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very... |
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Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind
David J. Linden - Viking; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author examines how our sense of touch and emotion are interconnectedJohns Hopkins neuroscientist and bestselling author of The Compass of PleasureDavid J. Linden presents an engaging and fascinating examination of how the interface between our sense of touch... |
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Staying Sharp: 9 Keys for a Youthful Brain through Modern Science and Ageless Wisdom
Henry Emmons - Touchstone, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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The book Dr. Christiane Northrup promised "will change your mind and your brain in the best possible way," Staying Sharp is the practical guidebook for building and maintaining a sharp, healthy, and vibrant mind.A strong memory and a healthy brain aren't as difficult to maintain... |
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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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Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Carin Bondar Ph. D. - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author's popular webseries "Wild Sex," which has received over 14 million views Birds do it, bees do it -- every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue... |
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Americas Top-Rated Cities 2015: A Statistical Handbook
David Garoogian - Grey House Pub
Format: Paperback
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Americas Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 100 cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the United States. |
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Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life
Brian Wansink - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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In Slim by Design, leading behavioral economist, food psychologist, and bestselling author Brian Wansink introduces groundbreaking solutions for designing our most common spaces--schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and home kitchens, among others--in order to make positive changes... |
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DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution
James D Watson - Knopf
Format: Paperback
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The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from... |
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Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
Ron Cowen - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Country Grit: A Farmoir of Finding Purpose and Love
Scottie Jones - Skyhorse
Format: Paperback
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A Memoir about Leaving the City Behind for Life on a Farm, For Fans of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and James Rebanks's The Shepherd's Life In a world increasingly filled with questions of where our food comes from and dissatisfactions about our modern lives,... |
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Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
Joe Herbert - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: it changes the body and brain to make a male. It is involved not only in sexuality but in driving... |
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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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Physics I For Dummies
Steven Holzner - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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The fun and easy way to get up to speed on the basic concepts of physics For high school and undergraduate students alike, physics classes are recommended or required courses for a wide variety of majors, and continue to be a challenging and often confusing course. Physics I For Dummies... |
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Michael Lemonick - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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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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Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence
Joseph Mazur - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically,... |
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The Medicine Wheel: Environmental Decision-Making Process of Indigenous Peoples
Michael E. Marchand - Michigan State University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Medicine Wheel built by Indigenous people acknowledges that ecosystems experience unpredictable recurring cycles and that people and the environment are interconnected. The Western science knowledge framework is incomplete unless localized intergenerational knowledge is respected and becomes... |
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