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The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
Marcelo Gleiser · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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