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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths - Paperback

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by Michael Shermer (Author) The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. Using...

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution - Paperback

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by Cat Bohannon (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST - THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today "A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, Eve recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by pl...

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Report copyright infringementby Barry Goanda Golding (Author), Clive Willman (Author)Mountains can tell us much about our past. Six iconic peaks in Central Victoria, Australia: Mounts Kooroocheang, Beckworth, Greenock, Tarrengower, Alexander and Franklin, tower above the rich volcanic grasslands. Each has borne witness to dramatic changes in Dja Dja Wurrung Country over the past two centuries. Six Peaks Speak tells the unique stories and continuing legacies of these mountains from a multidisc...

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Author)Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar?The organization of time into hours, days, months, and years seems immutable and universal, but is actually far more artificial than most people realize. For example, the French Revolution resulted in a restructuring of the French calendar, and the Soviet Union experimented with five...

Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David DeGrazia (Author)This volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting modelsfor understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connec...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Baarda (Author)Yuendumu is an Aboriginal Community in Central Australia. Since Frank and Wendy Baarda arrived at Yuendumu Native Reserve, at the end of the 'Welfare Era', in 1973, they have witnessed enormous changes in both Aboriginal lifestyle and in the institutional management of their community. This story tells of those changes. It also tells of how the Warlpiri people of Yuendumu have retained their unique worldview, their language, identity, digni...

Popular Lectures On Scientific Subjects (1881)

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Report copyright infringementby Hermann Von Helmholtz (Author), Edmund Atkinson (Translator), John Tyndall (Introduction by)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, mode...

Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts - Paperback

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by Sarah Dry (Author)When Isaac Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left behind a wealth of papers that, when examined, gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly heretical and alchemically obsessed, hinting at a Newton altogether stranger and less palatable than the one enshrined in Westminster Abbey as the paragon of English rationality. These manuscripts had the potential to undermine not merely Newton's reputation, but that of the s...

At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity - Paperback

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by Stuart Kauffman (Author)A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of greatcivilizations. And more than anyone else, this revolution is the work of one man, Stuart Kauffman, a MacArthur Fellow and visionary pioneer of the new science of complexity. Now, in At...

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Paperback

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by Bill Bryson (Author)One of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail--well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to unders...

Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink - Paperback

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by Jane Goodall (Author), Thane Maynard (With), Gail Hudson (With)From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes an inspiring message about the future of the animal kingdom. With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall - along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard - shares fascinating survival stories about the American Crocodile, the California Condor, the Black-Footed...

Synthetic Biology: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Jamie A. Davies (Author)Synthetic biology is one of the 21st century's fastest growing fields of research, as important for technology as for basic science. Building on traditional genetic engineering, which was restricted to changing one or two genes, synthetic biology uses multi-gene modules and pathways to make very significant changes to what cells can do. Synthetic biologists aim to have an impact in fields as diverse as drug manufacture, biofuel production, tackling pollution, and me...

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton - Paperback

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by Aviva Rothman (Translator), Aviva Rothman (Editor), Aviva Rothman (Introduction by)New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about A Penguin Classic In the late fifteenth century, the earth stood motionless at the center of a small, ordered cosmos. Around us, it was believed, the moon, the sun, and the planets revolved in crystalline spheres, their orbits perfect, eternally unchanging...

A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet - Paperback

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by Jo Handelsman (Author), Kayla Cohen (Contribution by)A celebrated biologist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change "Jo Handelsman is a national treasure, and her clarion call warning of a looming soil-loss catastrophe must be heard. Add her clearly written alarm to other future-shocks: climate change, pandemics, and mass extinctions."--Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Disea...

National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky, 2nd Edition - Paperback

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by Andrew Fazekas (Author)Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher's guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing -- and understanding -- the wonders of space. Stargazing's too much fun to leave to astronomers. In these inviting pages, "Night Sky Guy" Andrew Fazekas takes an expert but easygoing approach that will delight would-be astronomers of all levels. Essential information, organized logically, brings the solar sy...

Thousand Years of Nonlinear History - Paperback

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by Manuel De Landa (Author)Following in the wake of his groundbreaking work War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a brilliant, radical synthesis of historical development of the last thousand years. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and F lix Guattari, while engaging -- in an entirely unprecedented manner -- the critical new understanding of ...

Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells - Paperback

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by Helen Scales (Author)A biological and cultural biography of the ubiquitous yet mystical seashell. Seashells, stretching from the deep past into the present day, are touchstones leading into fascinating realms of the natural world and cutting-edge science. In Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells, marine biologist Helen Scales shows how seashells have been sculpted by the fundamental rules of mathematics and evolution; how they gave us color, gems, food, and ne...

National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States and Canada--East, 2nd Edition - Paperback

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by Ted Floyd (Author)An entirely updated edition of the classic bestselling regional bird field guide from National Geographic, covering the U.S. and Canada east of the Rockies. Provides ID information, data-driven maps, and annotated illustrations of more than 800 bird species. Backyard beginners and dedicated life-listers alike will love the expanded new edition of this trusted guide to the birds of eastern United States and Canada. With new text, revised art, and data-derived range maps, ...

The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality - Paperback

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by Dalai Lama (Author)Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world, and in their wake have left an uneasy coexistence: science vs. religion, faith vs. empirical inquiry. Which is the keeper of truth? Which is the true path to understanding reality? After forty years of study with some of the greatest scientific minds, as well as a lifetime of meditative, spiritual, and philosophic study, the Dalai Lama pre...

The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Charles Darwin (Author), Julian Huxley (Introduction by)Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin's theory that species derive from other species by a gradual evolutionary process and that the average level of each species is heightened by the "survival of the fittest" stirred up popu...

Tides: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David George Bowers (Author), Emyr Martyn Roberts (Author)The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level that moves the edge of the sea up and down a beach or cliff-face. In some places, the tide is small but at others it can rise in a few hours by the height of a three storey building; it...

Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know - Hardcover

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by David Hone (Author)How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontology Our understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago and whose daily behaviors are rarely reflected by the fossil record. Today, with the discovery of new specimens and the development of new and cutting-edge techniques, paleontologists are making major advances in reconstruc...

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Report copyright infringementby Sirish Subash (Author)When Burger Bob arrives at his cousin SciKid's lab, he isn't very interested in SciKid's biochemistry business. However, biochemistry turns out to be much more interesting than Burger Bob thinks. Biochemistry studies all the weird and wonderful machines in the human body. Join Burger Bob, SciKid, and his robot assistant QBIT on their journey through the world of biochemistry! They will take you from the basics to the real-world application...

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Report copyright infringementby Kristine Larsen (Author)Stephen Hawking is arguably the most famous physicist since Albert Einstein. His decades-long struggle with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), combined with his singular brilliance as a cosmologist, has fascinated both the public and his colleagues in science. In this engagingly written biography, Kristine Larsen, a physicist and astronomer herself, presents a candid and insightful portrait of Hawking's personal and professional life. Avoiding ...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Kuper (Author)This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity's connection to them throughout the ages. Kuper's thrilling visual feast layers history and science, color and design, to tell the remarkable tales of dung beetles navigating by the stars, hawk-size prehistoric dragonflies hunting prey, and mosquitoes changing the...

The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science - Paperback

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by Marcus Du Sautoy (Author)"An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dream and The Accidental Universe "No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." --Bill Bryson Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science Book of the YearEvery week seems to throw up a new discovery, shaking the foundations of what we know. But are there questions we will never be able to answer--mysteries that lie beyond the pred...

Discovering Quarks: Remembering Feynman, Gell-Mann, and Tollestrup - Hardcover

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by George Zweig (Author)This book describes the development of our understanding of the strong interactions in particle physics, through its competing ideas and personalities, its false starts, blind alleys, and moments of glory - culminating with the author's discovery of quarks, real particles living in a deeper layer of reality. How were quarks discovered, what did physicists think they were, and what did they turn out to be? These questions are answered through a collection of personal re...

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Report copyright infringementby Misha Angrist (Author)In 2007, Misha Angrist became the fourth subject in the Personal Genome Project, George Church's ambitious plan to sequence the entire genomic catalog: every participant's twenty thousand-plus genes and the rest of his or her six billion base pairs. Unlocking the secrets of our genomes opens the door to understanding why we are the way we are and potentially fixing what ails us, from cancer and diabetes to obesity and male pattern baldness...

Follow Your Gut: A Story from the Microbes That Make You

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Report copyright infringementby Ailsa Wild (Author), Lisa Stinson (With), Ben Hutchings (Illustrator)Meet the ecosystem inside you ... A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the gut of a newborn human baby. Follow Your Gut is a comic that ate a biology textbook. It's an epic adventure set over the first three years of a new life, exploring one of the most important relationships you will ever have--the one with your gut micro...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Kunz (Author), Elizabeth Pich (Author)This bittersweet but lighthearted book from one of the funniest duos in webcomics roasts our human folly while also creating moments of wonder and appreciation for our beautiful, fragile, messed-up planet. The webcomics duo War and Peas presents a hilariously irreverent book of comics paying tribute to a subject near and dear to all of us: Planet Earth. Utilizing underrepresented points of view including those of a...

Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible - Paperback

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by Anthony Zee (Author)An exceptionally accessible introduction to quantum field theory Quantum field theory is by far the most spectacularly successful theory in physics, but also one of the most mystifying. This venerable subject provides the crucial bridge between the long established quantum mechanics and the still hypothetical string theory. Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible provides an essential primer on the subject, giving readers the conceptual foundations they need to wrap...

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Report copyright infringementby Saal Vander (Author)In a future where science has unlocked the hidden potential of the human mind, Crafters are individuals who have accessed the full capacity of their brains, granting them god-like abilities. Through their mastery, they can manipulate the very building blocks of the universe: atomic elements like hydrogen, carbon, titanium, and more. For one man on a relentless quest to become the greatest Crafter of all time, this power offers the chance to ...