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Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin, and the Age of Enlightenment Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 96, P

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Ann Prince (Editor)In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentena...

The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction--And a Search for Relief

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Zeller Jr (Author)"Required reading for anyone with a head."--Mary Roach, New York Times bestselling author of Stiff and FuzzFor the many millions of headache sufferers, a deeply reported, sometimes harrowing, and frequently humorous journey into the author's own excruciating headaches, and the science behind these surprisingly mysterious disorders that may, finally, offer relief. Virtually everyone has experienced a headache--a nuisance arising from occas...

North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Weissenbach (Author)Hailed as a "worthy successor" to John McPhee (Kirkus Reviews), Ben Weissenbach --a digital native with little prior wilderness experience--embarks on a series of scientific adventures across the wilds of Alaska with some of the state's most distinguished and audacious researchers. At the age of twenty, college student Ben Weissenbach went north to Arctic Alaska armed with little more than inspiration from his literary heroes and a grow...

The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love

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Report copyright infringementby Michael D. Lemonick (Author)In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson--a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to all who knew her--lives in a "perpetual now." Lonni Sue has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. Remarkably, however, she retains much of the intellect and artistic skills from her previous life....

Flow: The Twists and Turns of a Life in Turbulence

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Report copyright infringementby Professor Henry Keith Moffatt (Author)"The life of an academic is in a constant state of flux and tension between work and family life. The work itself is in perpetual tension between teaching, administration and research. Research can at times be all-consuming, and it is the occasional breakthrough in scientific research that lends excitement and a great sense of worth and achievement to this activity." So writes Keith Moffatt in the foreword to this scientifi...

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Report copyright infringementby Oliver Lodge (Author)""Kepler And The Laws Of Planetary Motion"" is a book written by Sir Oliver Lodge that explores the life and work of Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer who made significant contributions to our understanding of the solar system. The book delves into Kepler's background, his struggles, and his breakthroughs in the field of astronomy. Lodge discusses Kepler's three laws of planetary motion, which describe the movement of planets around the ...

Space Age Renaissance Man: How a Brilliant NASA Visionary Overcame Great Obstacles to Invent a Critical System for the Apollo Moon Missions... Then Ke

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Report copyright infringementby Harold L. Finch (Author), Greg Finch (Author)Dr. Harold L. Finch - Great Man of Science/Man of Great Faith"Harold's unmatched story will inspire you to want to go out and live your own greatest dreams. As my friend, and someone who became a personal mentor, it was a privilege for me to have known Harold and to have produced the motion picture, UNLIMITED, based on his extraordinary life." -Chad Gundersen, Executive Producer of THE CHOSENDiscover how one of the w...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Darwin (Author)This classic work chronicles Charles Darwin's journey aboard HMS Beagle during its survey expedition from 1831 to 1836. Darwin's detailed observations of the diverse ecosystems, geology, and species he encountered laid the groundwork for his revolutionary theory of natural selection. The book offers a blend of scientific discovery, adventure, and personal reflections, providing readers with a glimpse into the formative experiences that sh...

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by James Gleick (Author)The million-copy bestseller and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award that reveals the science behind chaos theory A work of popular science in the tradition of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, this 20th-anniversary edition of James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller Chaos introduces a whole new readership to chaos theory, one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. From Edward Lorenz's discovery of the Butterfly Eff...

Rain God: The Highs and Lows of Clement Wragge, meteorologist with a mission

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Report copyright infringementby Ian James Frazer (Author)Clement Wragge is sometimes remembered as the colourful and combative Australasian meteorologist whose use of people's names to nickname cyclones and storms in the 1890s caught on around the world.Described at the height of his career as Australia's most famous man and also, derisively, as "The Rain God", "Inclement" Wragge set standards for a national weather service, pioneered long-range forecasting, and campaigned against massive lan...

The Paperclip Files The Untold Story of Nazi Scientists, War Criminals, And The Birth of NASA

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Report copyright infringementby Davis Truman (Author)In the shadowy aftermath of World War II, a secret operation launched by the U.S. government brought over 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians to American soil. Among them were men who had built weapons of terror for Hitler, now tasked with crafting the rockets that would carry humanity to the Moon.This is their story. Unredacted. Unforgiven. Unbelievable.The Paperclip Files pulls back the veil on Operation Paperclip, the cla...

Einstein for Anyone: A Quick Read - Second Revised Edition: A Concise But Up-To-Date Account of Albert Einstein's Life, Thought and Major Achievements

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Report copyright infringementby David Topper (Author)This book seeks to fill a gap: the need for a very short book on Albert Einstein that gives a brief but up-to-date story of his life and thoughts, with a short and simple explanation of what he contributed to 20th century physics. Here is the compact story of this famous scientist, from the smiling contrarian in his grade school picture to the nonconformist adult who refused to groom his hair. There is a chapter on his habitually thorny rel...

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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, ...

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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...