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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
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Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have... (read more)

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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
by Frank Wilczek
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Physicist understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter is... (read more)

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Biographies and Classics
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Radio Tesla: The Secret of Tesla's Radio and Wireless Power
Radio Tesla: The Secret of Tesla's Radio and Wireless Power
by George Trinkaus
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In clear English, with 66 illustrations and a minimum of math, this booklet details the peculiar radio technology of Nikola Tesla. Early elemental radio devices like Tesla's are fascinating and worthy of study because they remind us that powerful radio... (read more)

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Astronomy
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Photoshop Astronomy
Photoshop Astronomy
by R. Scott Ireland
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I remember my first one-day class on how to use Photoshop in 1997. During the long drive home I was excited by the possibilities of what I had seen a Photoshop Master accomplish. However, as I began work on my own images I had great difficulty... (read more)

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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
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Using Simpsons and X-Files examples, Brian Greene explains our current understanding of the universe. Whereas The Elegant Universe was primarily about the obscure, largely theoretical world of susperstring theory, Fabric of the Cosmos holds to more solid... (read more)

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Meteorology
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Unstoppable Global Warming : Every 1,500 Years,updated and Expanded Edition (08 Edition)
Unstoppable Global Warming : Every 1,500 Years,updated and Expanded Edition (08 Edition)
by S. Fred Singer
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In this New York Times bestseller, authors Singer and Avery present the compelling concept that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. Using historic data from two millennia of recorded history combined with... (read more)

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The World without Us
The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
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"Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd... (read more)

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Einstein's Telescope Signed Edition
Einstein's Telescope Signed Edition
by Evalyn Gates
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Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances don't just sound mysterious: their unexpected appearance in the cosmic census is upending long-held notions about the nature of the Universe. Astronomers have long known that the Universe... (read more)

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Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
by Michio Kaku
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"Beyond Einstein takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today -- superstring theory. What is superstring theory and why is it important? This revolutionary... (read more)

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A Briefer History of Time
A Briefer History of Time
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
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From One of the Most Brilliant Minds of Our Time Comes a Book that Clarifies His Most Important Ideas Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, remains one of the landmark volumes in scientific writing of our time. But for years... (read more)

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