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Report copyright infringementby Albert Einstein (Author)Sidelights on Relativity is a book written by the famous physicist Albert Einstein. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of relativity and offers insights into the scientific and philosophical implications of this groundbreaking theory. Einstein presents the theory of relativity in a clear and accessible way, making it easy for readers to understand the key concepts and ideas behind this revolutionary theory. The book...

Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results - Paperback

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by David Peter Stroh (Author)"David Stroh has produced an elegant and cogent guide to what works. Research with early learners is showing that children are natural systems thinkers. This book will help to resuscitate these intuitive capabilities and strengthen them in the fire of facing our toughest problems."--Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline Concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning--for everyone! Donors,...

The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., Ll.D.: Late President of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the Royal Institute of France, &c.

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Report copyright infringementby John Ayrton Paris (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the wor...

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Simpson (Author)Joel Simpson's new book, Faces in the Rocks: Beyond Landscape to Psycho-Geological Photography, presents a generous collection of images that combine the natural world with the mental one, without sacrificing realistic capture. In fact, it is the mineral realism that makes these images so surreal. Beginning with an exploration of unusual landscapes, including cavescapes, frozen waterfalls, ominous atmospheres, and metaphorical scenes from ...

Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs

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Report copyright infringementby Alec Nevala-Lee (Author)To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of Hiroshima. In the decades that followed, he revolutionized particle physics with the hydrogen bubble chamber, developed an innovative X-ray method...

A Field Guide to the Subterranean: Reclaiming the Deep Earth and Our Deepest Selves

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Hocking (Author)A radically inventive excavation of one man's life and our relationship to the earth by the critically acclaimed author of The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld Justin Hocking grew up in a part of Colorado where so many things happened beneath the surface--mining exploits, underground nuclear testing just thirty miles from his family's home, and geothermal activity that heats one of the world's largest hot spring pools. His homelife, t...

Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin

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Report copyright infringementby Howard Markel (Author)By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the subject of discussion was Charles Darwin's new treatise: fact or fiction?Darwin, a simultaneously reclusive and intellectually audacious squire from Kent, claimed to have solved "that mystery of mysteri...

The Composer Embalmed: Relic Culture from Piety to Kitsch

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Report copyright infringementby Abigail Fine (Author)The first granular study of nineteenth-century composer devotion--a network of devotees who preserved tangible traces of composers through relics, rituals, pilgrimage, exhumation, and embalming. During the nineteenth century, music institutions promoted artworks they deemed timeless and made composers into figureheads of a lasting Western canon. Alongside this institutional face of the canon was a more intimate impulse to preserve, touch, ...

Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Milo (Author)A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo's collection of "Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century" is true history on the lighter side, a must for fans of Ken Davis and his...

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

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Report copyright infringementby Jordan Thomas (Author)A hotshot firefighter's gripping firsthand account of a record-setting fire season Eighteen of California's largest wildfires on record have burned in the past two decades. Scientists recently invented the term "megafire" to describe wildfires that behave in ways that would have been nearly impossible just a generation ago, burning through winter, exploding in the night, and devastating landscapes historically impervious to incendiary dest...

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Roberts (Author)An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth--a competition "with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective" (The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice). "[A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important, outrageous, enlightening, entertaining, enduring, and still evolving."--Dava Sobel, author of Lon...

The Bird Singers: How Two Boys Discovered the Magic of Birdsong

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Report copyright infringementby Jean Boucault (Author), Johnny Rasse (Author), Katia Grubisic (Translator)In the vein of H is for Hawk and The Book of Eels, this moving memoir shines a light on the transformative power of nature as it tells the story of two boys, Jean and Johnny, who learned the language of birds. "I read this book in one sitting. I loved the story of the two boys, of their relationships with the nature around them, their community, and their relationship with each other."--M...

A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change

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Report copyright infringementby John Glassie (Author)A Scientific American Best Science Book of 2012 An Atlantic Wire Best Book of 2012A New York Times Book Review "Editor's Choice" The "fascinating" (The New Yorker) story of Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric scholar-inventor who was either a great genius or a crackpot . . . or a bit of both. The interests of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist, knew no bounds. From optics to music to magnetism to medicine, ...

Christ, Science, and Reason: What We Can Know about Jesus, Mary, and Miracles - Paperback

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by Robert Spitzer (Author) This is currently the only volume that comprehensively presents the scientific evidence in support of Jesus, the Eucharist, and Mary. Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., closely examines the scientific evidence for: The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus from the Shroud of Turin The Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist from three recent scientifically investigated Eucharistic miracles The supernatural dimensions of the apparitions of Mary manifest in the Tilma...

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Report copyright infringementby Nikola Tesla Museum (Author)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, modern editions that are true to the original work. Num...

The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of Science, Philosophy, and Religion

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Report copyright infringementby Job Kozhamthadam (Author)Johannes Kepler's discovery of the basic quantitative laws that describe planetary motion placed the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus on a sound mathematic basis and proved the way for Newton's work in the next century. In this balanced, clearly written book, Job Kazhamthadam, S.J., examines for the first time the religious, philosophical, and empirical factors that informed Kepler's thought and works and made his discovery possible...

Silent Tears: The Life and Times of a Nuclear Test Cloud-Chaser

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Report copyright infringementby John Folkes (Author)John Folkes is one of my heroes, and a remarkable person with a remarkable story. He tells the story of Silent Tears movingly and with the sort of authority that only experience can bring. His first-hand account of flying into an atomic cloud following a bomb detonated during the Buffalo test series at Maralinga in South Australia in 1956 will live in my memory. His enduring bravery in speaking his truth to a resistant government is a lesson...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Louis Dugdale (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart

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Report copyright infringementby Anonymous (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

The Desideratum; Or, Electricity Made Plain and Useful

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Report copyright infringementby John Wesley (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important en...

The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia: Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Togither With the Manners and Customes of

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Henry Major (Author), William Strachey (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we con...

Strange, but True. Life and Adventures of Captain Thomas Crapo and Wife

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Crapo (Author), William J. Cowin (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, th...

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets Ofthe Heart - Paperback

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by James R. Doty (Author)The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor...

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

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Report copyright infringementby Manjula Martin (Author)H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it r...

The Blue Dawn: How Blue Origin is Rewriting Space History

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Report copyright infringementby Danish Ali Bajwa (Author)Step into the future of space with The Blue Dawn: How Blue Origin is Rewriting Space History. This compelling book explores the visionary mission of Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and its relentless pursuit to revolutionize space exploration. From reusable rockets to lunar landers and beyond, Blue Origin is reshaping what's possible in the cosmos.Through in-depth chapters and vivid storytelling, discover how the company overcame early challen...

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

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Report copyright infringementby Michael S. Gazzaniga (Author)Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the father of cognitive neuroscience," was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now foundational split-brain brain theory: the...

Wet and Salty: A Lifelong Journey Seeking Coral Conservation and Resilience

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Report copyright infringementby Rodney V. Salm (Author)Ready to get wet and salty discovering the fun and adventure in a lifelong science career? Expert marine conservationist Rod Salm shares his career highlights in this lighthearted, educational memoir.This book chronicles a 55-year scientific journey filled with field observations, adventurous research, and innovative approaches to coral reef conservation. It offers a firsthand account of author Rod Salm's development of a groundbreaking m...

From Apollo to Artemis: Stories from My 50 Years with NASA

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Report copyright infringementby Herb Baker (Author), Julie Adams (Cover Design by)The book is a collection of stories recalling the people that the author met and worked with at NASA - including many astronauts, some of whom walked on the Moon - and the many exciting and challenging jobs he had at NASA beginning with the Apollo lunar landing missions through his current position on the Board of Directors for the NASA Alumni League-JSC. The book includes historical context and includes stories...

Time: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Jenann Ismael (Author)What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work of Newton, these questions were purely topics of philosophical speculation. Since then we've learned a great deal about time, and its study has moved from a subject of philosophical reflection to instead became part of the subject matter of physics. This Very Short Introduction introduces readers to the current physical...

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time - Paperback

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by Jonathan Weiner (Author)PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book World). "Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner's triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves."--The New York Times Book ReviewOn a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first i...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles H. (Charles Hazeli Sternberg (Author), Henry Fairfield Osborn (Author)Embark on a journey through the fascinating world of paleontology with "The Life of a Fossil Hunter," the captivating autobiography of Charles H. Sternberg. Delve into the history of fossil collection and preservation in the United States as Sternberg recounts his remarkable life dedicated to the pursuit of natural history. This timeless account offers a unique perspective on the scie...

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Report copyright infringementby Donna Shirley (Author)Donna Shirley's 35-year career as an aerospace engineer reached a jubilant pinnacle in July 1997 when Sojourner--the solar-powered, self-guided, microwave-oven-sized rover--was seen exploring the Martian landscape in Pathfinder's spectacular images from the surface of the red planet. The event marked a milestone in space, but for Donna Shirley, the leader of the mostly male team that designed and built Sojourner--and the first woman ever t...