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Light Years: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light
by Brian Clegg  Publisher Comments This is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? Light Years is an engaging survey of everything we know of the universe's most enigmatic phenomenon and the remarkable people who have been captivated by it. Light Years looks over...
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Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
by R. Buckminster Fuller Review "Synergetics is Fuller's most important and most readable book...Fuller is writing for the general public and he gets down to earth...I predict that it will become one of the classics of science along with Darwin's The Origin of the Species." Samuel...
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Quantum Self
by Danah Zohar Publisher Comments In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modem physics can illuminate our understanding of everyday life -- our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world at large. Guiding us through the strange and fascinating workings...
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The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless
by John Barrow Publisher Comments For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our...
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Science Class You Wish You Had
by David Eliot Brody Publisher Comments A thorough and authoritative introduction to the discoveries of scientific history -- from the sub-atomic level to the boundaries of the universe....
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The Information Bomb
by Paul Virilio Publisher Comments 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....
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Blue Planet : an Introduction To Earth System Science (2ND 99 Edition)
by Brian J. Skinner Publisher Comments Ein innovativer Ansatz zur Vermittlung der Grundlagen der Geowissenschaften! Die Autoren legen besonderen Wert darauf, Zusammenhänge zwischen Lithosphäre, Hydrosphäre, Atmosphäre und Biosphäre zu verdeutlichen und einzelne...
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Through a Window
by Jane Goodall Publisher Comments Through a Window is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the...
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Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings--Both Serious and Whimsical
by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments For over fifty years Martin Gardner has been delighting readers with elegant, witty, and highly intelligent writing on an amazing array of topics. Best known for his works on popular science and mathematics, and as an incisive skeptical commentator on...
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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
by Mark Buchanan Publisher Comments We are witnessing, Mark Buchanan argues in Ubiquity, the advent of an extraordinarily powerful new field of science that will help us comprehend the bewildering rhythms that dominate our lives. The law of universality -- the remarkable new fundamental...
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First Three Minutes ((2ND)93 Edition)
by steven Weinberg Publisher Comments This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general readers what happened when the universe began, and how we know.....
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Revolutionizing the Sciences : European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (01 Edition)
by Peter Dear Publisher Comments "It is a pleasure to have someone with Peter Dear's knowledge and ability take on the problem of the textbook. Dear includes both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in his survey and gives the reader a clear and informative account of some of the...
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The New York Times Second Book of Science Questions and Answers: 225 New, Unusual, Intriguing, and Just Plain Bizarre Inquiriesinto Everyday Scientifi
by C. Claiborne Ray Publisher Comments What would kill you if you fell into a black hole? Once people finally get to Mars, how will they get back? What makes the holes in Swiss cheese? Are there any carnivorous plants that are harmful to humans? Are there really caterpillars that scream to...
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Why Science?
by James Trefil Publisher Comments With conviction and clarity, prize-winning scientist and bestselling author James Trefil explains why every U.S. citizen needs to be “scientifically literate” and, therefore, why our schools must teach the fundamental principles of scientific...
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Test Your Logic
by George Summers Publisher Comments 50 more truly new puzzles with new turns of thought, new subtleties of inference....
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The Moral Authority of Nature
by Lorraine Daston Publisher Comments For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human...
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The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel 
Publisher Comments A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain...
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Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry
by Harry L. Fisher Publisher Comments LABORATORY MANUAL of ORGANIC CHEMISTRY BY HARRY L. FlgHER, Ph. D. Instructor in Organic Chemistry, Columbia University FIRST EDITION NEW YORK JOHN WILEY SONS, INC. LONDON CHAPMAN HALL, LIMITED 1920 1RAUNWOHTH CO, BOOK MANUPAOTURIM CLYN. I. V. PREFACE...
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Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification
by Brandon Broll Publisher Comments A journey into everyday life through spectacular microscopic images. This substantial volume brings together extraordinary images produced through the latest technologies in microphotography. Most of the 205 stunning, full-color photographs have...
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Vital Harmonies: Molecular Biology and Our Shared Humanity
by Erwin Fleissner Publisher Comments An eminent cancer researcher and teacher offers a personal and professional reflection on the most significant developments in molecular genetics and cell biology over the past fifty years....
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