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The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History
Richard J. King - New Hampshire; 1ST edition Format: Book
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Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff... |
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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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Math Smart, 3rd Edition: The Savvy Student's Guide to Mastering Basic Math
PRINCETON REVIEW. - Princeton Review Format: Paperback
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NEVER GET CRUNCHED BY NUMBERS AGAIN. Even in a world where every cell phone is also a calculator, basic math competency is a must! In this book, you'll learn how to efficiently solve common problems and effortlessly perform foundational math operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication,... |
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Amir D. Aczel - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery.... |
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
William Rosen - Viking Adult Format: Book
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How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics... |
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
Luke Rendell - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples... |
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White Beech: The Rainforest Years
Germaine Greer - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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One bright day in December sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm one of many in southeast Queensland Australia which after a century of logging clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned... |
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Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything
New Scientist - Nicholas Brealey Format: Paperback
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WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING? As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons. Following the recent... |
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On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject
A Zee - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments... |
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 2015-2016
William M Haynes - CRC Press Format: Print book
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Proudly serving the scientific community for over a century, this 97th edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is an update of a classic reference, mirroring the growth and direction of science. This venerable work continues to be the most accessed and respected scientific... |
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Cracking the AP Physics 1 Exam, 2018 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review Format: Paperback
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based Exam with this comprehensive study guide - including 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations, thorough content reviews, targeted exam strategies, and access to our online AP Connect... |
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Priyamvada Natarajan - Yale Univ Press Format: Print book
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This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled... |
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Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah
Nigel Cawthorne - Chartwell Books Format: Bargain - Hardcover
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Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his one-time assistant and lifelong arch nemesis,... |
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Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gdel
John Stillwell - Princeton University Press Format: Print book
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Elements of Mathematics takes readers on a fascinating tour that begins in elementary mathematics--but, as John Stillwell shows, this subject is not as elementary or straightforward as one might think. Not all topics that are part of today's elementary mathematics were always considered... |
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The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
Armand Marie Leroi - Viking; Tra edition Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they... |
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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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Math Word Problems Demystified 2/E
Allan Bluman - McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition Format: Paperback
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Your solution to MATH word PROBLEMS! Find yourself stuck on the tracks when two trains are traveling at different speeds? Help has arrived! Math Word Problems Demystified, Second Edition is your ticket to problem-solving success. Based on mathematician George Polyas proven four-step process,... |
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Astronomy For Dummies
STEPHEN P MARAN - For Dummies Format: Paperback
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Your updated guide to exploring the night sky Do you know the difference between a red giant and a white dwarf? From asteroids to black holes, this easy-to-understand guide takes you on a grand tour of the universe. Featuring updated star maps, charts, and an insert with gorgeous full-color... |
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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.... |
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Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree
JILLIAN SCUDDER - Icon Books Format: Hardcover
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How did the Earth get to be the way it is? Just like all of us, it's a product of its ancestors./p In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling... |
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A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction
Michael J. Ryan - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant... |
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Minerals of the World
Ole Johnsen - Princeton University Press Format: Paperback
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Minerals of the World is an attractive and up-to-date guide to more than 500 minerals from around the world. The succinct text--covering crystallography, properties, names and varieties, structure, diagnostic features, and occurrence--and the discussion of less common minerals not found... |
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The Age of Genomes: Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
Steven Monroe Lipkin - Beacon Press Format: Print book
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A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in historyAlmost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once... |
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The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey
Riccardo Levi-Setti - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet’s prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian erasand they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have been unearthed on every continent,... |
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Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Vera Tobin - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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Why do some surprises delight -- the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip's benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains... |
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4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars
Nicky Jenner - Bloomsbury Sigma Format: Hardcover
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Mars is ingrained in our culture, from H. G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds to Looney Tunes's hapless Marvin the Martian to David Bowie's extraterrestrial spiders. Ancient mythologies defined the planet as a violent harbinger of war, stargazers puzzled over its peculiar... |
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The Nature of Nature: The Discovery of SuperWaves and How It Changes Everything
Irving Dardik - Rodale Books Format: Hardcover
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Generations of researchers have failed to answer our most basic questions about nature -- What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature, visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery... |
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Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
Roland C. Anderson - Timber Press; First American Edition edition Format: Book
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The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends - from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula... |
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The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson - Liveright; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most... |
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Time Travel
James Gleick - Pantheon Books Format: Print book
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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century,... |
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
Andreas Wagner - Current Format: Hardcover
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"Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many innovations - some uncannily perfect - call for natural principles that accelerate life's ability to innovate."Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations... |
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The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
Karen Olsson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirationKaren Olsson always had an aptitude for math but wasn't exactly a prodigy. And yet when she entered Harvard as an undergraduate she was drawn to it, forcing herself into a discipline... |
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How to be Human: Consciousness, Language and 48 More Things that Make You You
New Scientist - Nicholas Brealey Format: Hardcover
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New from New Scientist: an eye-opening, full-color exploration of the true nature of human nature.What is it that makes us human? Is it language, imagination, morality, or is it that we cook and wear shoes? Or perhaps we are less human than we think (Neanderthal and Denisovan genes can be found... |
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Oaks in the Urban Landscape: Selection, Care and Preservation
Costello, Laurence - University of California Format: Print book
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This publication offers a comprehensive look at the management of oaks in urban areas. As development moves into oak woodland areas, more and more oaks are becoming urban oaks. Oaks are highly valued in urban areas for their aesthetic, environmental, economic and cultural benefits. However,... |
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Brain Bytes: Quick Answers to Quirky Questions About the Brain
Eric H Chudler - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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Neuroscience in small bits for the brain-curious.From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and center. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears.In Brain Bytes,... |
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body
James Hamblin - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called... |
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QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics
Hans Christian Von Baeyer - Harvard University Press Format: Print book
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Measured by the accuracy of its predictions and the scope of its technological applications, quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science -- as well as one of the most misunderstood. The deeper meaning of quantum mechanics remains controversial almost a century after... |
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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains the developmental journey our brains take during adolescence and how the experience of these years determines the adults we become. Risk taking, intense relationships, going to bed and getting up late--what is going on in teenagers'... |
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Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of
Robert M. Hazen - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant -- and most necessary -- chemical element on Earth.Carbon is everywhere: in the paper of this book and the blood of our bodies. It's with us from beginning to end, present in our baby clothes and coffin alike. We live on a carbon planet, and we are carbon... |
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Digest of Education Statistics 2015
DEPARTMENT EDUCATION - BERNAN PRESS Format: Print book
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The Digest's purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school. |
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
Michael S Walker - Prometheus Books Format: Print book
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Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information... |
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Rust: The Longest War
Jonathan Waldman - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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Rust has been called "the great destroyer," the "pervasive menace," and "the evil." "This look at corrosion - its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it - is wide-ranging and consistently engrossing" (The New York... |
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Roadside Geology of Utah
Felicie Williams - Mountain Press Publishing Company; Second edition Format: Paperback
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Arches National Park. Bryce Canyon. Zion. When one thinks of Utah, it s rocks and iconic landforms preserved in a nearly endless list of national parks and monuments come immediately to mind. Perhaps more so than any other state, Utah is built for geologic exploration, and geologists/authors... |
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Pandas
Jill Caravan - New Line Books Format: Book
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| 72 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm. |
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
M. Scott Carpenter - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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• Published for the fiftieth anniversary of the Mercury program: Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASA’s manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo. In We Seven, first published in 1962, the astronauts take... |
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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK Format: Hardcover
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Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe.How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience
David J. Linden - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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A spirited collection of essays by cutting-edge neuroscientists that irreverently explores the quirky and counterintuitive aspects of brain function Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function... |
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The Math of Money: Making Mathematical Sense of Your Personal Finances
Morton D. Davis - Copernicus; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001 edition Format: Print book
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This lively and practical introduction to the mathematics of money invites us to take a fresh look at the numbers that underpin our financial decisions. Morton D. Davis talks about strategies to use when we are required to bet against the odds (purchasing auto insurance) or choose to bet against... |
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Benedict Carey - Random House Trade Paperbacks Format: Paperback
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In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today - and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness,... |
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Cracking the AP Calculus BC Exam, 2018 Edition: Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5
David S Kahn - Princeton Review Format: Paperback
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP Calculus BC Exam with this comprehensive study guide - including 3 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, access to our AP Connect online portal, and targeted strategies for every question type.Written by the experts at The Princeton... |
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Euclid's Elements
AU Euclid - Green Lion Press Format: Paperback
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The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary. |
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The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds.... |
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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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Europe: A Natural History
Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it. In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist... |
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Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
NORMAN MACLEAN - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours... |
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Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide
Gene S Helfman; George H Burgess - Johns Hopkins University Press Format: Paperback
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Answering every conceivable question about sharks, authors Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess describe the fascinating biology, behavior, diversity (there are more than 1,000 species worldwide) , and cultural importance of sharks, their close relationship to skates and rays, and their... |
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Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
Bob Berman - Little Brown & Co Format: Hardcover
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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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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
SABINE HOSSENFELDER - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories... |
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides
MARIANO SIGMAN - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international... |
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The Quotable Darwin
Charles Darwin - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words -- the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds... |
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Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life
Niles Eldredge - Firefly Books Ltd. Format: Book
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"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly... |
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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality
Ben Orlin - Black Dog & Leventhal Format: Hardcover
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A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange... |
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Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land
Pieter van Dokkum - Yale University Press Format: Print book
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Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing the stages of this striking insect's... |
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At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
Michael Brooks - The Overlook Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Free Radicals takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial areas of modern science The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science -- and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises... |
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The Germ Files: The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life
Jason Tetro - Doubleday Canada Format: Print book
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SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn't let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent. The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very... |
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel - Basic Books Format: Book
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Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,... |
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Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
CATHERINE CARVER - Bloomsbury Sigma Format: Hardcover
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The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers--some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive... |
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Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico
Beth C. Caldwell - Duke University Press Books Format: Hardcover
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When Gina was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, in 2011, she left behind her parents, siblings, and children, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Despite having once had a green card, Gina was removed from the only country she had ever known. In Deported Americans legal scholar and former public... |
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The Society of Genes
Itai Yanai - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to survival machines whose sole purpose was to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mystery. Standing... |
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
H Alan Day - University of Nebraska Press Format: Print book
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He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity... |
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Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
Mike Power - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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The very first thing ever bought or sold on the Internet was marijuana, when Stanford and MIT students used ARPANET to cut a deal in the early ’70s. Today, you can order any conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. In Drugs Unlimited, Mike Power tells the tale of drugs... |
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."--Siddhartha Mukherjee,... |
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A Rough Ride to the Future
James Lovelock - The Overlook Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author of The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelockthe great scientific visionary of our agepresents a radical vision of humanitys future Now in his 95th year, James Lovelock has been hailed as the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles... |
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Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis
Greta Thunberg - Penguin Books Format: Paperback
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"An extraordinary account of how one family rose, with unshakable moral clarity, to the tremendous responsibility of being alive at the moment when our immediate collective decisions will determine the fate of life on Earth. They share their story of courage not because they want our accolades,... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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Arithmetic
Paul Lockhart - Belknap Press Format: Hardcover
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Because evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight... |
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Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World
John Gribbin - The MIT Press Format: Hardcover
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A concise and engaging investigation of six interpretations of quantum physics.Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described... |
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna
Mira Ptacin - Liveright Format: Hardcover
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A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond.They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna -- an otherworldly community in the woods... |
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No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Daniel J Kennefick - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became... |
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Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine
James R Valcourt - Bloomsbury Format: Print book
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SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks... |
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The Strange Order of Things: The Making of the Cultural Mind
ANTONIO DAMASIO - PANTHEON Format: Print book
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From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection on the origins of life, feelings, mind, and culture that spans chemistry, biology, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, offering a new way of understanding who we are and how we behave.We descend biologically, psychologically,... |
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine... |
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The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
John Kounios - Random House Format: Print book
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In a book perfect for readers of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, David Eagleman's Incognito, and Leonard Mlodinow's Subliminal, the cognitive neuroscientists who discovered how the brain has aha moments - sudden creative insights - explain how they happen, when... |
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The Book of Calendars
Frank Parise - Gorgias Pr Llc Format: Print book
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The book provides easy-to-use tables that translate the calendars of over sixty civilizations into the Julian and Gregorian calendars. An indispensable tool for scholars. |
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Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
Nicolette Hahn Niman - Chelsea Green Publishing Format: Book
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For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef.... |
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Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
Simon Barnes - Marble Arch Press Format: Print book
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This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures - weird, wonderful, and everything in between - are inextricably linked.Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together:... |
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Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal
Tim Hayes - St. Martin's Press Format: Print book
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Riding Home:The Power of Horses to Heal is the first and only book to scientifically and experientially explain why horses have the extraordinary ability to emotionally transform the lives of thousands of men, women and children, whether they are horse lovers, or suffering from deep psychological... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
Deborah Blum - Mariner Books Format: Print book
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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 Reviews Pulitzer... |
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Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe
Robin Kerrod - Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
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The latest photos from Hubbles recent discoveries, with fascinating new and updated information. After 17 years, 25,000 astronomical targets and more than 700,000 images, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) continues to return images and data that amaze astronomers. Within the past few months... |
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Graham Farmelo - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteries One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between... |
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
Bryan Sykes - Liveright; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA. The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded... |
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Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
Julia Fischer - The University of Chicago Press Format: Print book
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Monkey see, monkey do - or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates - their sociality, their intelligence, their communication - really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the human bias inherent in this... |
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The Origins of Creativity
EDWARD O WILSON - Liveright Format: Hardcover
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Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. "Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding," begins Edward... |
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Idiot's Guides: The Cosmos
Christopher De Pree - ALPHA Format: Book
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Idiots Guides The Cosmos is a fascinating and easy-to-understand exploration of the universe. Dozens of stunning, full-color photos highlight the latest discoveries and beauty of space, including the solar system, the Sun, the asteroid belt, the Milky Way, various star types, black holes,... |
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Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Stephen C. Meyer - HarperOne; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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“Signature in the Cell is a defining work in the discussion of life’s origins and the question of whether life is a product of unthinking matter or of an intelligent mind. For those who disagree with ID, the powerful case Meyer presents cannot be ignored in any honest debate.... |
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Americas Top-Rated Cities 2015: A Statistical Handbook
David Garoogian - Grey House Pub Format: Paperback
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Americas Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 100 cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the United States. |
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How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets
Paul Abel - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and essential guide to understanding and interpreting the wonders of our solar system, from two intrepid young astronomers who are the hosts of the popular BBC television series, "The Sky at Night."What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school... |
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Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
Philip Ball - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical... |
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Human Medical Experimentation: From Smallpox Vaccines to Secret Government Programs
Frances R. Frankenburg MD - Greenwood Format: Hardcover
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Intended for students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia covers the history of human medical experimentation, for better and worse, from the time of Hippocrates to the present.* Offers readers a broad understanding of human experimentation* Reviews experimentation from the point... |
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Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology
David Shier - McGraw-Hill Education
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Designed for the one-semester anatomy and physiology course, Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology assumes no prior science knowledge and supports core topics with clinical applications, making difficult concepts relevant to students pursuing careers in the allied health... |
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Robert Hodgson - St. Martins Press Format: Hardcover
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Alan Lightman: "A masterpiece of storytelling, bringing to life in rich detail not only the world of science but also the men and women who inhabit that world."George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance: "If you want to know how science really works, this is your... |
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Snakes & reptiles : a portrait of the animal world
Andrew Cleave - New Line Books Format: book_printbook : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An informative series that provides, in a concise format, better understanding of animals and their habitats. Fascinating in its diversity, the natural world comes to life on the pages of these spec tacularly illustrated volumes. |
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Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
Chad Orzel - BenBella Books Format: Paperback
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Your alarm goes off, and you head to the kitchen to make yourself some toast and a cup of coffee. Little do you know, as you savor the aroma of the steam rising from your cup, that your ordinary morning routine depends on some of the weirdest phenomena ever discovered. The world of quantum... |
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time
Simon Garfield - Canongate Books Format: Hardcover
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SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing... |
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Deep Space: Beyond the Solar System to the End of the Universe and the Beginning of Time
Govert Schilling - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Format: Hardcover
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Govert Schilling explores the mysteries of space that lie beyond our solar system on this mind-bending trip to nebulae, galaxies, black holes, and the edge of the observable universe.Join Govert Schilling on a journey across the universe that will ignite the imagination. The trip begins... |
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Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
Linda Geddes - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at how humans' relationship with the sun continues to shape our bodies, attitudes, and societies.Our biology is set up to work in partnership with the sun. Little wonder then that humans have long worshipped and revered our nearest star: life itself arose on earth because... |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Alex Bellos - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical... |
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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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How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11
Janet Napolitano - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future.Created in the wake of the greatest tragedy to occur on U.S. soil, the Department of Homeland Security was handed a sweeping... |
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Nations of the World 2015: A Political, Economic, and Business Handbook
World of Information - Grey House Pub; 14 edition Format: Print book
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This comprehensive handbook profiles 231 nations and self-governing territories around the world in an easy-to-access, single-volume format. More than 2,000 pages present political, economic and business information not found in any other reference work of its kind. |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art
Victoria Finlay - J Paul Getty Museum Format: Hardcover
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The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically... |
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
Patricia Wiltshire - G.P. Putnam's Sons Format: Hardcover
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A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist.From mud tracks on a quiet... |
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
Robert P. Crease - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact Why have scientific facts become easy to deny And what can we do about it In The Workshop and the World, philosopher... |
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Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River
Robert Twigger - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind’s tales. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Red Nile navigates a meandering course through... |
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Beginning algebra
K Elayn Martin-Gay - Pearson/Prentice Hall Format: Hardcover
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Elayn Martin-Gay's developmental math textbooks and video resources are motivated by her firm belief that every student can succeed. Martin-Gay's focus on the student shapes her clear, accessible writing, inspires her constant pedagogical innovations, and contributes to the popularity and effectiveness... |
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Wolves
Leonard Lee III Rue - New Line Books Format: Hardcover
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An informative series that provides, in a concise format, better understanding of animals and their habitats. Fascinating in its diversity, the natural world comes to life on the pages of these spec tacularly illustrated volumes. |
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The Mini Farming Bible: The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
Brett L. Markham - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Book
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When Brett Markham published a small black and white handbook about how to run a successful mini farmhe never dreamed how popular the book would soon become. In 2010 Skyhorse Publishing Inc. published Bretts book in full color with over a hundred of the authors own photographsand Mini... |
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Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality
Jules Howard - Bloomsbury Sigma Format: Print book
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As you read these words, Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business: eating, reproducing, thriving . . . Yet, the life of almost every single organism draws nearer to certain death. On the other hand, "suicide" inside the mitochondria... |
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The Human Body Book
Steve Parker - DK Format: Hardcover
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Combining up-to-the-minute descriptions and illustrations of the body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems, The Human Body Book is the ultimate all-in-one guide perfect for families and students alike. With updated content and illustrations throughout - including... |
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The Mystery of Sleep: Why a Good Night's Rest Is Vital to a Better, Healthier Life
MEIR KRYGER - Yale University Press Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative and accessible guide to what happens when we shut our eyes at night We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect nearly... |
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
Beth Shapiro - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.... |
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The Atom: A Visual Tour
Jack Challoner - The MIT Press Format: Hardcover
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An accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chemical elements of the periodic table. In this book, Jack Challoner places the atom at center... |
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100 most important science ideas : key concepts in genetics, physics and mathematics
Mark Henderson; A J Crilly; Joanne Baker - Firefly Books Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Highly recommended for high school, college, or university libraries. And since readers with no scientific background would also find the information fascinating, the book would be a great addition to the circulating collections in public libraries." -- Library Journal 100 Most... |
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