What Are the Odds?: The Chances of Extraordinary Events in Everyday Life
by Jefferson H Weaver


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How often have you wondered about the probability of winning the lottery? We're barraged with statistics every day about health risks, life expectancy, and the chances of success, but to most of us all these numbers and percentages mean very little. If... (read more)

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Sex, Drugs and DNA: Science's Taboos Confronted
by Michael Stebbins


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In a frank, edgy, and entertaining style, this book reveals the truth about modern biology and debunks the most common myths surrounding some of the most controversial topics. Having worked at the heart of government science, at the most prestigious... (read more)

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Science and Ethics: Can Science Help Us Make Wise Moral Judgments?
by Paul Kurtz


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This volume presents a unique collection of authors who generally maintain that science can help us make wise choices and that an increase in scientific knowledge can help modify our ethical values and bring new ethical principles into social awareness.... (read more)

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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (Digital Communication)
by Peter Ludlow


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In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its... (read more)

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Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance
by Mike Moore


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Considering the historical background of space militarization and providing an overview of the United States' efforts to militarily dominate space since the dawn of the space age, this book argues that America must either ensure that space-related... (read more)

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Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World
by Sidney Perkowitz


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Whether depicting humans battling aliens or a brave geologist saving lives as a volcano erupts, science-fiction films are an exciting visual and sensuous introduction to the workings of science and technology. These films explore a range of complex... (read more)

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Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs
by Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre


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Concepts once purely fiction (robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences) are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy goods... (read more)

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American Inventions: A History of Curious, Extraordinary, and Just Plain Useful Patents
by Stephen Van Dulken


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"This well-illustrated, in-depth study will not only reward and amuse readers but will leave them with much insight into the economic and society-shaping outcomes of the American genius for invention." —Foreword Magazine "Makes an excellent readable... (read more)

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The Illustrated Timeline of Science: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures
by Sidney Strickland


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Early hominids in east Africa fashion the earliest stone tools. The world gets its first glimpse of a functional internal combustion engine that uses coal gas as fuel. And the atomic era begins with a frightening flash, changing life as we know it... (read more)

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The Ig Nobel Prizes 2: An All-New Collection of the World's Unlikeliest Research
by Marc Abrahams


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The hilarious second installment of the popular humor series honoring the world's most improbable actual research. The first volume of The Ig Nobel Prizes was celebrated as a "brainy bacchanalian" (USA Today) and "so funny you couldn't make it up... (read more)

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Aurora: The Northern Lights in Mythology, History and Science
by Harald Falck Ytter


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The colorful light of the aurora borealis appears in the sparsely populated polar regions of the North, during the long winter nights. Little is known about this ethereal occurrence, which gives dazzling displays of ghostly light and movement.<P>... (read more)

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Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science (Wiley Science Editions)
by Royston M Roberts


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Many important scientific discoveries have been made completely by accident, such as the discovery of penicillin, nylon, the Dead Sea scrolls, Neanderthal Man and gravity. This volume contains stories of how these and other scientific milestones came to... (read more)

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Christophe Carlisle


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"An objective overview of the biggest controversy in American education." Intelligent Design is one of the hottest issues facing parents and educators to day, but it can be hard to separate the facts from the heated rhetoric. This expert and objective... (read more)

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The Artful Universe Expanded
by John D. Barrow


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Our love of art, writes John Barrow, is the end product of millions of years of evolution. How we react to a beautiful painting or symphony draws upon instincts laid down long before humans existed. Now, in this enhanced edition of the highly popular... (read more)

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The Illustrated Timeline of the Universe: A Crash Course in Words & Pictures
by Richard Sanderson


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It all begins with the "Big Bang" and continues through to the recent landing on Mars. Filled with magnificent images and illustrated renditions of the universe's most significant highlights, this natural history timeline soars through galaxies, nebulae,... (read more)

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The Information Bomb
by Paul Virilio


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Civilization or the militarization of science?" With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives ... and deaths.... (read more)

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Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power
by Ron Eglash


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From the vernacular engineering of Latino car design to environmental analysis among rural women to the production of indigenous herbal cures-groups outside the centers of scientific power persistently defy the notion that they are merely passive... (read more)

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The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things
by Hannah Holmes


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