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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
MARYANNE WOLF - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne... |
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Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
Richard Dawkins - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain... |
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The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World
Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips - Little A
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with ourselves.There's no doubt that technology has made it easier to communicate. It's also easier to shut someone out when we are confronted... |
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Mathematics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
HUGH JOHNSON TREVOR NEILL - Teach Yourself
Format: Paperback
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Math does not need to be difficult. This book, complete with exercises and answers, forms a course which will take you from beginner or intermediate level to being a confident mathematician. This book includes: simple step-by-step explanations, to help you grasp new topics or those that... |
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
Lydia Denworth - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory investigation of friendship, with profound implications for our understanding of what humans and animals alike need to thrive across a lifetime.The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds... |
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Calculus: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
HUGH NEILL - Teach Yourself
Format: Paperback
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Calculus: A Complete Introduction is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to using calculus. Written by a leading expert, this book will help you if you are studying for an important exam or essay, or if you simply want to improve your knowledge. The book covers all areas... |
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways... |
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Why We Snap: Understanding the Rage Circuit in Your Brain
R Douglas Fields - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The startling new science behind sudden acts of violence and the nine triggers this groundbreaking researcher has uncoveredWe all have a rage circuit we can't fully control once it is engaged as R. Douglas Fields, PhD, reveals in this essential book for our time. The daily headlines are filled... |
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Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp
Dan Bongino - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of SPYGATE "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!" - President Donald J. TrumpAn explosive, whistle-blowing expos, Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of Donald Trump by the Swamp... |
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Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World
Stephen Post (Foreword by) - New Harbinger Publications
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It's time for a kindness revolution. In The Kindness Cure, psychologist Tara Cousineau draws on cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience to show how simple practices of kindness--for ourselves, for others, and for our world--can dissolve our feelings of fear and indifference,... |
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The Cases That Haunt Us
John E. Douglas - Pocket Books
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Violent. Provocative. Shocking. Call them what you will...but don't call them open and shut. Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America's foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year... |
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Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
Gabe Brown - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Gabe Brown didn't set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes... |
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McGraw-Hill Education Science Workbook for the GED Test
McGraw-Hill Education Editors - McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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All new for the new GED test! Drills and exercises to help you ace the Science section The GED test includes a Science section covering life science, physical science, and earth and space science. This workbook provides the focused practice you need to earn a passing score on this... |
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Scott Kelly - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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NATIONAL BEST SELLERA stunning, personal memoir from the astronaut and modern-day hero who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - a message of hope for the future that will inspire for generations to come.The veteran of four spaceflights and the American record... |
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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight
Vanessa Potter - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,... |
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The Practical Astronomer, 2nd Edition: Explore the Wonders of the Night Sky
Anton Vamplew - DK
Format: Paperback
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A complete introduction to observing and understanding the night sky, explaining and demystifying stargazing to recognize objects and explain how they move through the sky over the night and the year.Explore the wonders of the night sky in The Practical Astronomer. Informative and easy-to-use... |
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A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
Bill Mesler - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life's biggest mystery: How did it begin?How did life begin?It is perhaps the most important question science has ever asked. Over the centuries, the search for an answer has been entwined with some of science's... |
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Earth in Human Hands: The Rise of Terra Sapiens and Hope for Our Planet
David Grinspoon - Grand Central Pub
Format: Print book
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For the first time in Earth's history, one species--humans--is knowingly altering our planet's evolution, exerting increasing influence and attempting stewardship. How we handle this juncture may very well determine the fate not just of our species, but of life, and the planet. Without... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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ASAP Biology: A Quick-Review Study Guide for the AP Exam
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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LIKE CLASS NOTES - ONLY BETTER. The Princeton Review's ASAP Biology is designed to help you zero in on just the information you need to know to successfully grapple with the AP test. Advanced Placement exams require students to have a firm grasp of content - you can't bluff or even... |
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The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs
MARK O'CONNELL - Dey Street Books
Format: Paperback
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The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the concept of "Close Encounters" with alien life, inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster classic science fiction epic film, and made a nation want to believe in UFOs.In June 1947,... |
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The Unknown Universe A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology.
Clark Stuart.
Format: Print book : English
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A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know -- and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8... |
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Dean Burnett - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know... |
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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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The Healing Self: A Revolutionary Plan for Wholeness in Mind, Body, and Spirit
Deepak Chopra - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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After collaborating on two major books featured as PBS specials, Super Brain and Super Genes, Chopra and Tanzi now tackle the issue of lifelong health and heightened immunity.In the face of environmental toxins, potential epidemics, super bugs, and the aging process The... |
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Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet
John Bemelmans Marciano - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the world... |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions... |
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Adam Frank - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance... |
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos... |
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Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
Michael Wall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall... |
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Trigonometry: A Complete Introduction
HUGH NEILL - Teach Yourself
Format: Paperback
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Trigonometry: A Complete Introduction is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to Trigonometry. Written by a leading expert, this book will help you if you are studying for an important exam or essay, or if you simply want to improve your knowledge.The book covers all areas... |
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