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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
by Michael Brooks  Publisher Comments When we look to the anomalies that science can't explain, we often discover where science is about to go. Here are a few of the anomalies that Michael Brooks investigates in 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: Homeopathic remedies seem to have biological...
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High Pressure Shock Compression of Solids
by James R. Asay Publisher Comments The chapters in this volume cover all aspects of shock-compression science. Each is by a leading researcher in the field and provides a fundamental review as well as an introduction to current research. An extensive chronological bibliography and an...
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Man and Weather
by Alexander Mcadie Publisher Comments MAN AND WEATHER BY ALEXANDER McADIE Abbott Lawrence T otch professor of JHCeteoroIogy, Harvard University and Director of the Blue Hill Observatory formerly Professor of Meteorology, U. S. Weather Bureau Senior Xerographic Officer U. S. N. R. F. Overseas,...
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Rivals Conflict As the Fuel of Science
by Michael White Synopsis Rivalry is a key feature of scientific endeavour. This is an examination of eight instances in the history of science and technology that changed the world. They all illustrate various forms of rivalry - between individuals, institutions, even nations...
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Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us
by Jack Mingo and Erin Barrett and Lucy Autrey Wilson Publisher Comments FACE IT. WE CAN GO ANYTIME. BUT IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS! Death becomes you, and it's just another fact of life explored in Cause of Death, a revealing abundance of startling data, false perceptions, bizarre fallacies, and some totally unexpected...
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Morphology Methods
by Ricardo V. Lloyd Publisher Comments Ricardo Lloyd, md, phd, provides critical and tutorial surveys of the cutting-edge molecular and cell biologic techniques used today in the analysis of cells and tissues in situ. These molecular-based histologic and morphologic techniques are described...
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Paradigms Regained: A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science
by John L Casti Publisher Comments John L. Casti's Paradigms Lostframed each Big Question as a mock jury trial with prosecution, defense, and verdict rendered. Now Paradigms Regainedreexamines each of these questions as an appellate brief and decides whether or not the previous verdict...
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Minerals, and How to Study Them - A Book for Beginners in Mineralogy
by Edward Salisbury Dana Publisher Comments MINERALS AND HOW TO STUDY THEM - 1909 - A BOOK FOR BEGINNER8 IN Mineralogy - PREFACE. - THE author has occupied some hours, which could not be devoted to more serious labor, in preparing this little book, in the hope that it might serve to encourage...
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The Prospect of Immortality
by Robert C. W. Ettinger Publisher Comments In the 1960s Robert Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY. (And in the 1970s Ettinger would help initiate the transhumanist revolution with his MAN INTO SUPERMAN.) Ettinger sees...
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Dark Energy -- Laboratory Simulations Lead to Predictions of: Star Acceleration; Formation of Spiral Galaxies; Creation of Voids, Walls, and Clusters
by August A. Cenkner Jr Publisher Comments Small scale laboratory simulations, in a plasma tunnel, were used to guide the formulation of a new dark energy theory. The simulations were used to demonstrate how and why dark energy produces the acceleration of main sequence stars. This led to the...
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The EU and Neighbors: A Geography of Europe in the Modern World
by Brian Blouet Synopsis Presenting an entry level, introductory, systemic and regional survey, this book will quickly get readers up to speed on the European landscape. It uses the European Union as an organizing focus while discussing modern events in two sections. The...
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Chemical Discovery and Invention - In the Twentieth Century
by Sir William A. Tilden Publisher Comments Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHEMICAL DISCOVERY AND INVENTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY BY SIR WILLIAM A. TIJLDEN, F. R. S. D. Sc., LL. D., Sc. DT Professor Emeritus of Chemistry in the Imperial College of Science and Technology *' For wee...
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Chaos Theory Tamed
by Garnett P. Williams Synopsis Presented as an introduction to chaos theory for the scientist who is not a mathematician, this text provides understandable derivations or explanations of many key concepts, such as Kolmogrov-Sinai entropy, dimensions, Fourier analysis, and Lyapunov...
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Constructed Wetlands for Pollution Control (Scientific and Technical Reports)
by R. (edt) Kadlec Publisher Comments Constructed Wetlands for Pollution Control presents a comprehensive up-to-date survey of wetland design techniques and operational experience from treatment wetlands. This book is the first and only global synthesis of information related to constructed...
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The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity
by Stefan Klein Publisher Comments Have you ever fantasized about having more time-now, this minute, to accomplish everything you need and want to get done today? Or wondered why time flies when you are thoroughly engrossed in something? Or why minutes pass so slowly when you’re...
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Fidgeting Fat, Exploding Meat & Gobbling Whirly Birds and Other Delicious Science Moments
by Karl Kruszelnicki Publisher Comments Do you wonder about these and other earth-shaking scientific questions? Do our ears get bigger as we grow older? Can you really lose weight just by fidgeting? Why do cats survive 32-story falls better than 8-story ones? Now you can find the fascinating...
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Physics of Solitons
by Thierry Dauxois Publisher Comments Textbook giving an instructive view of solitons and their applications for advanced students of physics....
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Neuroscience and the Law
by Brent (edt) Garland Publisher Comments How can discoveries in neuroscience influence America's criminal justice system? "Neuroscience and the Law" examines the growing involvement of neuroscience in legal proceedings and considers how scientific advances challenge our existing concepts of...
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The Ig Nobel Prizes 2: An All-New Collection of the World's Unlikeliest Research
by Marc Abrahams Publisher Comments 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...
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Knowledge and Language: Selected Essays of L. Jonathan Cohen (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
by L. Jonathan Cohen Publisher Comments This collection of twenty papers deals with a wide range of issues in philosophy of language, epistemology, history of philosophy, philosophy of psychology, jurisprudence and philosophy of science. It should be of interest to, and prove a stimulus for...
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