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CERN : How We Found the Higgs Boson
Michael Krause - World Scientific Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Profound and well-structured, the contents combine present day interviews with the scientists... |
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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Robin DiAngelo - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to people... |
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould - W. W. Norton Co.
Format: Hardcover
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"[An] extraordinary book. . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer. . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence." -- James Gleick, New York Times Book Review High in the Canadian... |
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The Sceptical Optimist: Why Technology Isn't the Answer to Everything
Nicholas Agar - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating... |
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The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time
Christopher J. Olson - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Reaching back to the beginnings of television, The Greatest Cult Television Shows offers readers a fun and accessible look at the 100 most significant cult television series of all time, compiled in a single resource that includes valuable information on the shows and their creators.While... |
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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
Keith Veronese - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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How will your life change when the supply of tantalum dries up You may have never heard of this unusual metal, but without it smartphones would be instantly less omniscient, video game systems would falter, and laptops fail. Tantalum is not alone. Rhodium. Osmium. Niobium. Such refugees... |
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Beyond Biofatalism: Human Nature for an Evolving World
Gillian Barker - Columbia University Press,
Format: eBook
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Beyond Biofatalism is a lively and penetrating response to the idea that evolutionary psychology reveals human beings to be incapable of building a more inclusive, cooperative, and egalitarian society. Considering the pressures of climate change, unsustainable population growth, increasing... |
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