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The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future

Marcelo Gleiser · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity - the foundations of science - to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis...
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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey · Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular,...
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Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator

Keith Houston · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The hidden history of the pocket calculator - a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon - and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life.Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always...
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Astonishing New Science of the Senses

Maureen Seaberg · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

In 2016, scientists proved that humans could see light at the level of a single photon. We are living in historic times when humans may look at the very fabric of the universe in a laboratory setting. Around the world, other recent discoveries about the senses are just as astounding. It turns...
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The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage

Tom Ireland · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How a mysterious, super-powerful -- yet long-neglected -- microbe rules our world and can rescue our health in the age of antibiotic resistance.At every moment, within our bodies and all around us, trillions of microscopic combatants are waging a war that shapes our health and life on Earth....
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The Secret Lives of Molecules

Kathryn Harkup · Mobius
Format: Hardcover

Everything that surrounds - and we ourselves - are made of molecules, combinations of atoms bonded together in very particular ways. They are constructed from a limited set of elements that can combine in an almost limitless variety of arrangements. And when they do, they take on properties...
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths

Eugenia Cheng · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math - focusing on questions, not answers Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human curiosity - most...
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The Hidden History of Code-Breaking: The Secret World of Cyphers, Uncrackable Codes, and Elusive Encryptions

Sinclair McKay · Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations.. There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament, too. Almost as soon as writing was invented,...
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