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Reentry: Spacex, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Berger (Author)How did a shaky startup defy expectations and become the world's leading spaceflight company? Get the untold story of the team of game-changers, led by a well-known billionaire, who are sending NASA astronauts to space--and just might carry the human race to Mars. One company dominates the modern space industry: SpaceX, founded by controversial entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2002, now sending more payloads into orbit than the rest of the world co...

Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence - Paperback

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by Stefano Mancuso (Author), Alessandra Viola (Author), Michael Pollan (Foreword by)Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? Or are they passive, incapable of independent action or social behavior? Philosophers and scientists have pondered these questions since ancient Greece, most often concluding that plants are unthinking and inert: they are too silent, too sedentary -- just too different from us. Yet discoveries over the past fifty yea...

If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth Through Deep Waters of Faith and Science

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Report copyright infringementby Rachel G. Jordan (Author)The ocean is filled with scientific discoveries--and God's presence.For marine biologist Rachel Jordan, both science and Scripture are means of knowing creation and Creator. In If the Ocean Has a Soul, Rachel considers the natural world through a spiritual lens, meshing marine biology with biblical truths in a keen and current take on faith and science. With engaging storytelling and deep knowledge of the Bible, she asks and answers que...

Music Between Your Ears: How Musical Engagement Powers the Human Brain

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Markind (Author), Sheilah Rae (Foreword by), Scott C. Shuler (Afterword by)Explores the profound power of music to influence brain function and well-being.IPA 2026 Distinguished Favorite in the Music CategoryWhy does music influence how we feel so deeply--and what are the scientific mechanisms behind this phenomenon? In Music Between Your Ears, Dr. Samuel Markind explores the intriguing relationship between music and brain function. Using evolutionary th...

Iwigara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

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Report copyright infringementby Enrique Salmon (Author)"A beautiful catalogue of 80 plants, revered by indigenous people for their nourishing, healing, and symbolic properties." --Gardens Illustrated The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath--known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara--has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection a...

The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works - Paperback

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by Helen Czerski (Author)All of Earth's oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet, voyaging from the depths of the ocean floor to tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed into shallow coastal seas, and Arctic ice floes.Through stories of history, culture, and ani...

The 100 Best Astrophotography Targets: A Monthly Guide for CCD Imaging with Amateur Telescopes

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Report copyright infringementby Ruben Kier (Author)Any amateur astronomer who is interested in astrophotography, particularly if just getting started, needs to know what objects are best for imaging in each month of the year. These are not necessarily the same objects that are the most spectacular or intriguing visually. The camera reveals different things and has different requirements. What objects in the sky tonight are large enough, bright enough, and high enough to be photographed? This ...

The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking

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Report copyright infringementby César Vega (Editor), Job Ubbink (Editor), Erik Van Der Linden (Editor)Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to deconstruct food's components, setting the stage for science-based cooking. In this global collaboration of essays, chefs and scientists advance culinary knowledge by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical and chemical properties of food. Using traditional and cutting-edge tools, ingredients, and tech...

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by Charles Darwin (Author)These pages include the final edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work that introduced the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced the scientific theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a revolutionary idea at the time. Fiercely debated on its release, Darwin's famous work was revised several times over the following decade, partly to refute the scientific and r...

The Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science

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Report copyright infringementby Michael S. Schneider (Author)Discover how mathematical sequences abound in our natural world in this definitive exploration of the geography of the cosmosYou need not be a philosopher or a botanist, and certainly not a mathematician, to enjoy the bounty of the world around us. But is there some sort of order, a pattern, to the things that we see in the sky, on the ground, at the beach? In A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, Michael Schneider, an ed...

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Miodownik (Author)In this New York Times Notable Book, "Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist, explains the history and science behind things such as paper, glass, chocolate, and concrete with an infectious enthusiasm."--Scientific American Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science BooksWhy is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that renowned mate...

Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America

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Report copyright infringementby Eric R. Eaton (Author), Kenn Kaufman (Author)Comprehensive yet compact, authoritative yet easy to understand, this is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to know more about the fascinating and diverse insects of North America. Many insects are difficult even for the experts to identify, but here readers will find a wealth of information on the amazing observable behaviors of insects and their fascinating life histories. Naturalists Kenn Kaufman and Eric R. E...

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by Wesley R. Browne (Author)The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous, yet accessible, treatment of each subject area is ideal for those wanting a primer in a given topic to prepare them for more advanced study or research. Moreover, cutting-edge examples and applications throughout the...

What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Hardcover

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by Randall Munroe (Author)A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd--revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask.Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long w...

The Handbook Of Nature Study in Color - Fish, Reptiles, Amphibians, Invertebrates - Paperback

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by Anna Comstock (Author)Take The Handbook of Nature-Study with you wherever you go with these handy new editions from Living Book Press.This volume features the author's classic "Introduction to Nature-Study", an invaluable guide to help parents and teachers both understand the importance and benefits of studying nature and introduce this wonderful skill to their children. New full-color photos are included for those times that you're unable to see nature up close. This volume features Fish,...

Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution

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Report copyright infringementby Lynn Margulis (Author)Although Charles Darwin's theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the origins of species. Darwin and his modern successors have shown very convincingly how inherited variations are naturally selected, but they leave unanswered how variant organisms come to be in the first place. In Symbiotic Planet, renowned s...

Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region

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Report copyright infringementby Burton V. Barnes (Author), Warren H. Jr. Wagner (Author)Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North American region.In this new and updated edition, several new species have been added to the lineup, as well as sections on tree ecology and fall color. Written and illustrated in a style that appeals at once to...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

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Report copyright infringementby Richard P. Feynman (Author), Bill Gates (Introduction by), Ralph Leighton (Editor)Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets--and much more of an eyebrow-ra...

The Brilliant History of Color in Art - Hardcover

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by Victoria Finlay (Author)The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically acclaimed writer and popular journalist Victoria Finlay, who here takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on an unforgettable tour through the brilliant history of c...

Around the World in 80 Trees - Paperback

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by Jonathan Drori (Author)Beautiful to behold and to read - THE SUNDAY TIMES An arboreal odyssey - NATURE One of the most quietly beautiful books of the year - DAILY MAIL Jonathan Drori's deep-seated love of nature is contagious in this tree-by-tree journey across countries and continents. A book to take your time over - WIRED Jonathan Drori's number one bestseller, now available in paperback Bestselling author and environmentalist Jonathan Drori follows in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg as h...

Tapping Into the Total Power of the Universe: Time and Gravity Control Technologies for the 21st Century and Beyond - Paperback

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by Paul W. Lander (Author)Tapping into The Total Power of The Universe describes in a step by step fashion how a craft and its crew members can immediately enter any place on Earth or in the universe. Using color photos, taken from one of many experiments conducted by the author, the book carefully explains how a specially designed craft can be converted to a "confined energy form" or "light form", while gravity, time and distance are eliminated.Once this occurs, the author goes on to explain...

Ginger, Turmeric, and Indian Arrowroot: Growing Practices and Health Benefits - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Roby Jose Ciju (Author)This small book of 100-pages explains in detail the growing practices and the health benefits of three prominent members of Ginger family (i.e. Zingiberaceae) such as Ginger, Turmeric, and Indian arrowroot. Ginger is tropical and subtropical in its growth habit. It is grown for its aromatic rhizomes which are used as a vegetable, a spice and as a traditional medicine. Ginger rhizomes are often called 'ginger root' though it is not actuall...

American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American Csi - Paperback

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by Kate Winkler Dawson (Author)A gripping historical true crime narrative that "reads like the best of Conan Doyle himself" (Karen Abbott, author of The Ghosts of Eden Park), American Sherlock recounts the riveting true story of the birth of modern criminal investigation. Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-y...

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Report copyright infringementby George Lakoff (Author), Srini Narayanan (Author)Offers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics. What is an idea, and where does it come from? We experience thought as if it were abstract, but every thought is actually a physical thing, carried out by the neural systems of our brains. Thought does not occur neuron-by-neuron; it happens when neurons come together to f...

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs Third Edition - Hardcover

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by Gregory S. Paul (Author)A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed, bestselling dinosaur field guide The bestselling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format edition features nearly 100 new dinosaur species and hundreds of new and updated illustrations, bringing readers up to the minute on th...

Health Problems: Philosophical Puzzles about the Nature of Health - Hardcover

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by Elizabeth Barnes (Author)Health is weird. Health is weird in a way that resists simple explanations or elegant theorizing. This book is a philosophical explanation of that weirdness, and an argument that grappling with the distinctive weirdness of health can give us insight into how we might approach difficult questions about social reality. After examining extant theories of health - and finding them lacking - the book explores some particularly intractable puzzles about the nature of hea...

The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas D. Seeley (Author)How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee colonies Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley's captivating story of what scientists are learning about the behavior, social life, and survival strategies of honey bees living outside the be...

Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History

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Report copyright infringementby David L. Wagner (Author)This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking images. The giant silk moths, tiger moths, and many other species covered include forest pests, common garden guests, economically important species, and of course, the Mescal Worm and Mexica...

Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants

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Report copyright infringementby John Drury Clark (Author), Isaac Asimov (Foreword by)A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to tak...

Top Ten Ideas of Physics: Foundations for Understanding the Universe

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Zee (Author)The ten biggest ideas in theoretical physics that have withstood the test of time Could any discovery be more unexpected and shocking than the realization that the reality we were born into is but an approximation of an underlying quantum world that is barely within our grasp? This is just one of the foundational pillars of theoretical physics that A. Zee discusses in this book. Join him as he presents his Top Ten List of the biggest, most b...

The Handy Science Answer Book - Hardcover

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by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Compiled by), James Bobick (Editor), Naomi E. Balaban (Editor)Informative, easy-to-use guide to everyday science questions, concepts and fundamentals celebrates its twenty-fifth year and over one million copies sold! Science is everywhere, and it affects everything! DNA and CRISPR. Artificial sweeteners. Sea level changes caused by melting glaciers. Gravitational waves. Bees in a colony. The human body. Microplastics. The largest active volcano. Designer dog...

Spiders of the World: A Natural History - Hardcover

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by Norman I. Platnick (Author), Rudy Jocqué (Contribution by), Gustavo Hormiga (Contribution by)A stunningly illustrated natural history of spiders Spiders are among the most versatile creatures on the planet, inhabiting six of the seven continents and thriving in environments ranging from deserts and rain forests to Arctic tundra and cities. Spiders of the World is a captivating look at these wondrously adaptable and endlessly intriguing arachnids, written by six of the world's leading exper...