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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Statistical Mechanics
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The Origin of Species
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Introduction to Conservation Genetics
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Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids
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Atomic Structure and Lifetimes
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Masks of the Universe
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A History Of Science Part 3
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Ecohydrology of Water-controlled Ecosystems
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Fingerprints: Murder and the Race to Uncover the Science of Identity
by Colin Beavan Publisher Comments In 1905 an elderly couple were found murdered in their shop in Deptford, London. The only evidence at the scene of the crime was a sweaty fingerprint on a cashbox. Was it possible that a single fingerprint could be enough to lead to a conviction? Could...
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Analyse de la formule arithm
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River Variability and Complexity
by Stanley A. Schumm Publisher Comments Rivers differ among themselves and through time. An individual river can vary significantly downstream, changing its dimensions and pattern dramatically over a short distance. If hydrology and hydraulics were the primary controls on the morphology and...
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A Sense of the Mysterious
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Time
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Climate Change and Africa
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Advanced Astrophysics
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Basics of Holography
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Paul Oskar Kristeller and the History of Renaissance Science
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Hands-On Electronics
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A History Of Science Part 4
by Henry Smith Williams Publisher Comments It was a dream, however, which was not confined to Goethe and Darwin. Even earlier the idea had come more or less vaguely to another great dreamer--and worker--of Germany, Immanuel Kant, and to several great Frenchmen, including De Maillet, Maupertuis...
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