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The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
Jillian Peterson Ph.D - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence. Frustrated by reactionary policy... |
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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
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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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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught... |
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Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon
FRANK CLOSE - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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On August 21st, over one hundred million people will gather across the USA to witness the most-watched total solar eclipse in history. Eclipse: Journeys to the Dark Side of the Moon, by popular science author Frank Close, describes the spellbinding allure of this beautiful natural phenomenon.... |
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier... |
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Everyday Calculus: Discovering the Hidden Math All Around Us
Oscar E Fernandez - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Uses everyday experiences to reveal the hidden calculus behind a typical day's events, showing how math naturally emerges from simple observations such as how hot coffee cools down, and demonstrating that calculus can be both useful and fascinating. |
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The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir
Sara Seager - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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An MIT astrophysicist searches for meaning in the wake of her husband's death, even as she scours the universe for an Earth-like exoplanet, in this powerful memoir of cutting edge science, unexpected discoveries, and new beginnings.Sara Seager has made it her life's work to peer... |
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The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
Julian Rubinstein - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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On the last Friday evening of the summer of 2013, five shots rang out in the parking lot of a new Boys & Girls Club in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the Holly had become an "invisible... |
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The Handy Science Answer Book
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Visible Ink Press
Format: Paperback
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Science is everywhere, and it affects everything! DNA and CRISPR. Artificial sweeteners. Sea level changes caused by melting glaciers. Gravitational waves. Bees in a colony. The human body. Microplastics. The largest active volcano. Designer dog breeds. Molecules. The length of the Grand... |
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