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The World in Six Songs
by Daniel Levitin  
Powells.com Staff Pick A truly fascinating book with enormous scope, The World in Six Songs provides music lovers, and others, with an education in music as it influenced human and cultural evolution. Levitin presents his information in a scientific yet approachable manner and...
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
by William Stolzenburg
Powells.com Staff Pick What would our world look like without without wolves, giant cats, and other preying animals? William Stolzenburg examines the absence of once-prominent predators and how that affects our global ecosystem. There are a lot of alarmist books coming out...
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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
by John T. Cacioppo Publisher Comments A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it. John T. Cacioppo's groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By...
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Leonard Susskind Publisher Comments What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe...
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Icarus at the Edge of Time
by Brian Greene Publisher Comments From one of America’s leading physicists—a moving and visually stunning futuristic reimagining of the Icarus fable. The starship Proxima is on a twenty-five-trillion mile journey. Icarus was born on the ship as was his father and his father...
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46 Science Fair Projects for the Evil Genius (Evil Genius)
by Bob Bonnet Publisher Comments SHAKE UP YOUR SCIENCE FAIRWITH THESE CUTTING-EDGE,ATTENTION-GRABBING PROJECTS! Want to win first place in the next science fair? 46 Science Fair Projects for the Evil Genius has everything you need to create amazing, sophisticated projects that will wow...
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GIS Tutorial for Homeland Security (Tutorial)
by Susan Lindell Radke Synopsis In the wake of catastrophic events such as the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina, much attention has been focused on learning from our mistakes. Weaknesses can be identified early by utilizing a geographic information system (...
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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
by Frank Wilczek Publisher Comments 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...
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Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan ... and the World
by Courtney Humphries Publisher Comments Why do we see pigeons as lowly urban pests and how did they become such common city dwellers? Courtney Humphries traces the natural history of the pigeon, recounting how these shy birds that once made their homes on the sparse cliffs of sea coasts came...
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Do You Matter?: How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company
by Robert Brunner Synopsis More and more companies are coming to understand the competitive advantage offered by outstanding design. With this, companies can create products, services, and experiences that truly matter to their customers' lives. The secret: building a truly design-...
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Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature
by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments In his most personal book yet, Tim Flannery, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers, draws on three decades of travel, research, and field work to craft a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique and beloved...
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Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space
by Michael Belfiore Publisher Comments On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age. Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson's VirginGalactic will begin...
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The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
by John Lloyd Publisher Comments Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-filled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here...
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Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology
by Massimiano (edt) Bucchi Book News Annotation Seventeen papers presented by Bucchi (sociology of science, U. of Trento, Italy) and Trench (communications, Dublin City U., Ireland) provide a survey of the current state of the field of science and technology communication. The papers discuss...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and...
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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments Richard Fortey—one of the world’s most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earth—describes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a...
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Occupational Safety and Health Simplified for the Food Manufacturing Industry
by Frank R. Spellman Synopsis The success of any food manufacturer's safety program depends on how accurately a facility interprets the laws and how it handles the hazards that workers face on a daily basis. This new go to resource provides industry managers, safety directors, and...
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Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick Synopsis The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleickas groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By...
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I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter Publisher Comments Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange...
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The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology (P.S.)
by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Although Gerd Heinrich, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd Heinrich tried to distance himself from his "old-fashioned" father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a naturalist's sensibilities. In this extraordinary...
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