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Hans Rosling
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most important books I ve ever read ”an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the worl... (Description from external book data)
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Yuval Noah Harari
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclai... (Description from external book data)
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Brian Greene
'Compulsively readable...Green threatens to do for string theory what Stephen Hawking did for holes' New York Times In this international be... (Description from external book data)
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Ray Kurzweil
A controversial scientific vision predicts a time in which humans and machines will merge and create a new form of non-biological intelligen... (Description from external book data)
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Sabine Hossenfelder
In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonder... (Description from external book data)
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Steven Pinker
"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." ”New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselle... (Description from external book data)
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Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present, and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that a... (Description from external book data)
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Steven H. Strogatz
The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant min... (Description from external book data)
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Steven H. Strogatz
At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fire... (Description from external book data)
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Carlo Rovelli
One of the our most celebrated thinkers and the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions o... (Description from external book data)
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Wallace Stegner
A passionate work about the fragile and arid West that Stegner loves (Description from external book data)
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THOMAS
PHP is an open source, server-side HTML-embedded web-scripting language for creating dynamic web pages. Outside of being browser-independent... (Description from external book data)
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Kenneth S. Saladin, Dr.
Master the story of Anatomy & Physiology with Saladin's Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function! Saladin's A&P helps students m... (Description from external book data)
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Wendy Wood
A landmark book about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive change We spend a shocking 43 percent of o... (Description from external book data)
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Annalee Newitz
In its 4.5 billion “year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed ... (Description from external book data)
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John J. McKetta Jr
"Written by engineers for engineers (with over 150 International Editorial Advisory Board members),this highly lauded resource provides up-t... (Description from external book data)
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Lynn Margulis
Chronicles the evolution of life on Earth, focusing on the microcosm researchers believe life began with. (Description from external book data)
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Reinhard Renneberg
Biotechnology for Beginners, Second Edition, presents the latest information and developments from the field of biotechnology ”the applied s... (Description from external book data)
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Kenneth S. Saladin, Dr.
Read it, See it, Master it! Read it “ Ken Saladin explains human anatomy in an engaging, yet efficient way. He puts a premium on the words, ... (Description from external book data)
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Margaret Cargill
This text guides authors in how to write, as well as what to write, to improve their chances of having their articles accepted for publicati... (Description from external book data)
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Max Caspar
Definitive biography by foremost scholar offers fascinating erudite picture of great mathematician's scientific accomplishments: formulation... (Description from external book data)
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Sabine Hossenfelder
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us. ”The Wall Street Journal Stimulatin... (Description from external book data)
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TimothyJ. Havranek
Environmental remediation has brought significant improvements to industrial sites and surrounding communities throughout the nation. It's a... (Description from external book data)
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Benjamin Woolley
In Virtual Worlds, Benjamin Woolley examines the reality of virtual reality. He looks at the dramatic intellectual and cultural upheavals th... (Description from external book data)
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Richard Fortey
This ebook edition does not include illustrations. A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years... (Description from external book data)
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Michelle Nijhuis
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement ”told through the lives and ideas... (Description from external book data)
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Sunil Kumar Talapatra
Aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers working with natural products, Professors Sunil and Bani Talapatra pro... (Description from external book data)
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Matthew Syed
Everyone knows that David Beckham crosses the ball better than anyone else and that Tiger Woods never 'chokes'. But what are the hidden fact... (Description from external book data)
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Gary C. Schoenwolf
With a new chapter on zebrafish embryos and thoroughly updated terminology, Laboratory Studies is the most comprehensive book/laboratory gui... (Description from external book data)
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Sabina Leonelli
Abstract and conceptual models have become an indispensable tool for analyzing theflood of highly detailed empirical data generated in recen... (Description from external book data)
