Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World
by Nick Lane


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Three hundred million years ago, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans nearly a yard across. Researchers claim they could have flown only if the air had contained more oxygen than today-probably as much as 35 per cent. But oxygen is a toxic... (read more)

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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
by Timothy Ferris


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From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole. Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly... (read more)

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Galileos Commandment an Anthology of Gre
by Edmund Blair Bolles


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This anthology of science writing includes Marie Curie's reminiscences on her own and her husband's efforts to isolate radium; Herodotus observing the Nile Valley; Carl Sagan arguing that aliens regularly visit Earth; and other contributions from writers... (read more)

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The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space
by Joseph Mazur


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The epic tale of an ancient, unsolved puzzle and how it relates to all scientific attempts to explain the basic structure of the universe At the dawn of science the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno formulated his paradox of motion, and amazingly, it is... (read more)

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Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio
by Danny Gregory




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Author Danny Gregory went to a flea market and found a ring binder containing 369 colorful and cryptic-looking postcards. Intrigued, he bought the collection and did some investigating. These cards were ham radio QSL cards, which are postcards that... (read more)

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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski




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Fear not! Despite the sound of the title, Success through Failure is blissfully free of the latest corporate management philosophies. Instead of business jargon, engineering and design author Henry Petroski focuses on the fascinating cycle of mistakes... (read more)

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Dinosaurs (Collins Gem)
by Adam Yates


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A colorful, authoritative pocket guide to the lost world of dinosaurs Profiles of nearly seventy dinosaurs, from the Diplodocus to the Parasaurolophus Descriptions of their most significant features and habits Explanations of what the dinosaur names mean... (read more)

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Thomas Huxley (Cambridge Science Biographies)
by Paul White


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Dubbed 'Darwin's Bulldog' for his combative role in the Victorian controversies over evolutionary theory, Thomas Huxley has been widely regarded as the epitome of the professional scientist who emerged in the nineteenth century from the restrictions of... (read more)

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A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw
by David Wolman


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Traveling from the halls of history to the halls of science, Wolman explores a Scottish castle designed for left-handed swordfights, visits a Paris museum to inspect nineteenth-century brains that hold clues to this biological puzzle, and observes chimps... (read more)

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The Best American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing)
by Atul Gawande


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Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today's most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that "good... (read more)

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The Way Science Works
by Robin Kerrod


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Eye-opening experiments bring science to life for young readers in this title that explains everyday occurrences and the theories behind the technology in today's fast-moving world. Includes more than 100 hands-on projects. Full color.... (read more)

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Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
by Jeffrey Kluger


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Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's? How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the world's disease? Why do bad teams win so many games? Complexity,... (read more)

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A Sideways Look at Time
by Jay Griffiths


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Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths takes readers... (read more)

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising Feats
by Andrew Robinson


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A portrait of scientist Thomas Young relates the life of the remarkable man who made major contributions in such fields as physics, languages, and music, describing how he proposed the light-wave theory and the three-color theory of vision, and was... (read more)

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Noise
by Bart Kosko


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From the well-known science commentator and bestselling author of Fuzzy Thinking comes a revelatory look at the phenomenon of noise. A celebrated maverick in the world of science, Bart Kosko introduced (and continues to popularize in print and... (read more)

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Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
by Neil Gershenfeld


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What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scientist and inventor, the next big thing is personal fabrication--the ability to design and produce your own... (read more)

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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
by Doug Macdougall


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Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting, writes Doug Macdougall. It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper. In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious... (read more)

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The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
by Harold J Morowitz


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When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ? indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different ? we call that phenomenon emergence. When the chemicals diffusing in the primordial waters... (read more)

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