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Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know about Everything: Duct Tape, Airport Security, Your Body, Sex in Space...and More!
by Discover Magazine and Dean Christopher  Publisher Comments How much do you know about . . .ObesitySleepMeteorsAliensBeesSperm banks Sex in spaceDuct tapeGermsAirport securityDeathAncient weaponsRatsThe InternetBirthWeatherMilkMosquitoesYour bodySpace disasters DISCOVER'S 20 Things You Didn't Know About...
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Evolution VS. Creationism : an Introduction (04 Edition)
by Eugenie C. Scott Publisher Comments Almost 80 years after the Scopes trial, the debate over the teaching of evolution continues. There is no easy resolution--it is a complex topic with profound scientific, religious, educational, and legal implications. How can a student or parent...
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Stochastic Processes and Filtering Theory
by Andrew Jazwinski Publisher Comments This unified treatment of linear and nonlinear filtering theory presents material previously available only in journals, and in terms accessible to engineering students. Its sole prerequisites are advanced calculus, theory of ordinary differential...
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Annals of the Former World
by John McPhee 
From Powells.com In 1978, New Yorker science writer John McPhee set out on a series of road trips with prominent geologists. In each case, they remained close to Interstate 80, which spans the country at about the 40th parallel. McPhee's purpose was to write an...
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Weights & Measures Quick Study Compact F
by Barcharts Publisher Comments This laminated guide measuring 3 5/8 x 8 1/2 is useful for anyone looking for a quick reference for weights & measurement conversions. Includes information on temperatures, weight, measurements, weather and much more....
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True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradis
by Terence Mckenna Publisher Comments This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic...
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Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry
by Ian Stewart Publisher Comments Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one idea: symmetry. Symmetry has been a key concept for artists, architects, and musicians for centuries, but as a mathematical principle it...
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Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
by Clark Blaise Publisher Comments The remarkable story of the man who created and then convinced all the nations of the world to adopt a unified standard for telling time. Standard Time was one of the crowning achievements of Victorian progressiveness and one of the few Victorian...
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul Publisher Comments Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the Mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed...
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny
by Ivar Ekeland Publisher Comments Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds, and pessimists fear that might really be the case. There was a time, during the 17th and 18th centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the answer. This book is their...
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Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation
by Daniel Holtom Publisher Comments Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation! is a complete guide to good dissertation and thesis writing. It is written in an accessible style with cartoons and real-life anecdotes to liven up the text. It outlines the rules and conventions of...
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Histological Technique - A Guide for Use in a Laboratory Course in Histology
by B. F. Kingsbury Publisher Comments Text extracted from opening pages of book: HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE A GUIDE FOR USE IN A LABORATORY COURSE IN HISTOLOGY BY B. F. KINGSBURY, PH. D., M. D. AND 0. A. JOHANNSEN, PH. D. COKNELL UNIVEltSITY, IXiUCAy N. Y. FIRST EDITION...
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments Carl Sagan, writer and scientist, returns from the frontier to tell us about how the world works. In his delightfully down-to-earth style, he explores and explains a mind-boggling future of intelligent robots, extraterrestrial life and its consquences...
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Amber: Golden Gem of the Ages: Fourth Edition
by Patty C. Rice Publisher Comments Amber: Golden Gem of the Ages, Fourth Edition is unique -- because it describes the Baltic amber industry which has utilized amber as a gem stone throughout the ages. It also describes a variety of fossil resins, their characteristic and locations. It...
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The Alchemist's Kitchen: Extraordinary Potions and Curious Notions
by Guy Ogilvy Publisher Comments Packed with everything from ancient recipes for glues, varnishes, and paints to spiritual preparations of herbal tinctures and oils, including magical formulae and practices of alchemy, The Alchemist's Kitchen will appeal to anyone fascinated by the past...
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Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration
by Seth Shulman Publisher Comments Shulman asserts that the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific...
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Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner
by Flo Conway Publisher Comments Child prodigy and brilliant MIT mathematician, Norbert Wiener founded the revolutionary science of cybernetics and ignited the information-age explosion of computers, automation, and global telecommunications. His best-selling book, Cybernetics...
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Galileo's Daughter
by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of...
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Probability Theory: A Primer (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
by Tamas Rudas Synopsis Aimed at demystifying probability theory, this text provides a brief and non-technical introduction to the subject. Employing few formulas, Rudas uses intuitive but precise descriptions and examples to explain procedures in probability as a springboard...
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The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
by Anne Harrington Publisher Comments From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect, this vibrant history describes the commitments to mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories that have allowed people to make sense of their suffering, express discontent with existing care, and...
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