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Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
Bob Berman · Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition |
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From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood... |
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They Killed Our President: 63 Reasons to Believe There Was a Conspiracy to As
Jesse Ventura · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Pages: 368 |
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From Barnes & NobleBy the time, Lee Harvey Oswald had finished climbing down the steps of the Texas Book Depository for the final time on November 22nd, 1963, speculation was already rife about who was behind the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
Deborah Blum (Editor), · Mariner Books |
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“Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings “A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus... |
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The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
George Johnson · Knopf |
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From Barnes & NobleGeorge Johnson is a New York Times science journalist and author (The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments; In The Palaces of Memory) but his research into the cancer was not begun as a magazine assignment or a book project. It was much more personal:... |
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Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East
Stephen G. Fritz · The University Press of Kentucky; First Edition edition |
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On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources... |
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss · Graywolf Press |
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Why do we fear vaccines? A provocative examination by Eula Biss, the author of Notes from No Man’s Land, winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardUpon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment,... |
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Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
David Kirby · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 480 |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory—a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America’s most beloved marine mammal park Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar... |
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