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Report copyright infringementby Paul de Kruif (Author)Step into the enthralling world of "Microbe Hunters" by Paul de Kruif, a book that not only educates but also entertains. Published in 1926, this non-fiction classic played a pivotal role in popularizing the germ theory of disease, transforming how we think about medicine. De Kruif's engaging style, filled with vivid descriptions and personal anecdotes, makes the scientific journey accessible for both adults and kids. You'll meet trailblaz...

Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Frank Close (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe. Frank Close takes us on a journey into the atom to examine known particles such as quarks, electrons, and the ghostly neutrino, and explains the key role and significance of the Higgs boson. Along the way he provides fascinating ins...

Selected Tesla Writings: a collection of scientific papers and articles about the work of one of the greatest geniuses of all time

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Report copyright infringementby Nikola Tesla (Author)Nikola Tesla's accomplishments are today still underrated. While Edison is credited with being the inventor of the light bulb, it is Tesla's alternating current that powers much of the world. Likewise, while Guglielmo Marconi is popularly credited with inventing the radio, Tesla's work was instrumental in its development. In fact, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi's patent in 1943, crediting Tesla with being the first to patent radio tec...

The Muleskinner and the Stars: The Life and Times of Milton La Salle Humason, Astronomer

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald L. Voller (Author)This is the story of the astronomer Milton La Salle Humason, whose career was integral to developing our understanding of stellar and universal evolution and who helped to build the analytical basis for the work of such notable astronomers and astrophysicists as Paul Merrill, Walter Adams, Alfred Joy, Frederick Seares, Fritz Zwicky, Walter Baade and Edwin Hubble. Humason's unlikely story began on the shores of the Mississippi River in ...

Alive: Our Bodies and the Richness and Brevity of Existence

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Report copyright infringementby Gabriel Weston (Author)A profound and provocative journey through the human body from a surgeon and award-winning writer. "Weston's evocative descriptions will change how readers see the body....This captivates."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. She'd forged an unconventional path, first studying humanities and gett...

The Other Ten Wolves: A Yellowstone Backstory

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Report copyright infringementby Carter Niemeyer (Author), Linwood Laughy (Editor), Jenny Niemeyer (Editor) Number of Pages: 166 Dimensions: 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 21, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Raboteau (Author)Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau crafts a powerfully moving meditation on race, climate, environmental justice--and what it takes to find shelter. Lessons for Survival is a probing series of pilgrimages from the perspective of a mother struggling to raise her children to thrive without coming undone in an era of turbulent intersecting crises. With camera in hand, Raboteau goes in search of birds, fluttering in the air or pa...

The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of Our Solar System

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Report copyright infringementby Dante Lauretta (Author)A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" (Sara Seager) of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story of the mission's leader, Dr. Dante Lauretta. Now in paperback with an EXCITING BONUS CHAPTER! On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense ...

A Hidden Legacy: The Life and Work of Esther Zimmer Lederberg

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas E. Schindler (Author)It's time to honor the significant scientific contributions of Esther Zimmer Lederberg. In A Hidden Legacy, Thomas E. Schindler shares the story of this remarkable microbiologist and offers insight into why her legacy has been obscured for so long. In the mid-20th century, microbiologist Esther Zimmer Lederberg and her then-husband, Joshua Lederberg, made a series of remarkable discoveries that contributed to the biochemical understa...

The Backyard Stargazer's Bible: Discover Constellations, Galaxies, Nebulae, Meteorites, and More - Hardcover

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by Ian Ridpath (Author), Mary McIntyre (Author), Rachel Federman (Author)A comprehensive and eye-catching resource for backyard stargazers of all levels packed with absolutely everything you need to follow the progress of constellations, night sky events, and celestial facts. Foreword by Dr. Stephen Maran A sumptuous aesthetic is paired with practical tips from experts on charting lunar phases and celestial events, notable astronomical anniversaries and facts, the best equipment for stargazi...

Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes: The Eccentric Life of Harrison G. Dyar, Jr.

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Epstein (Author)On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.C., revealing a mysterious underground labyrinth. In spite of wild speculations, the tunnel was not the work of German spies, but rather an aging, eccentric Smithsonian scientist named Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. While Dyar's covert tunneling habits may seem far-fetched, they were merely one of many oddities in Dyar's unbelievable life. For the first ti...

An Exposition Of The Thirty-Nine Articles V1: Historical And Doctrinal

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Harold Browne (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. Nu...

Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

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Report copyright infringementby Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Author)Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.Author BiographyHugh Aldersey-Williams studied natural sciences at Cambridge. He is the author of Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements from Arsenic to Zinc, Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body, and...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Holland (Author)"Magnetic Moments'" is the first publication to tell not only the story of its author and his contribution to the development of MRI, but also the intrigue and inside story of the competition, jealousy, and sometimes collaboration between competing research teams in the UK and the US. Follow the trail of discovery, beginning with an empty room and ending up with complex, multi-function racks of electronics and magnet systems, that have led ...

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald Clark (Author)First published in 1972, Ronald W. Clark's definitive biography of Einstein, the Promethean figure of our age, goes behind the phenomenal intellect to reveal the human side of the legendary absent-minded professor who confidently claimed that space and time were not what they seemed. Here is the classic portrait of the scientist and the man: the boy growing up in the Swiss Alps, the young man caught in an unhappy first marriage, the passion...

My Inventions: Nikola Tesla's Autobiography (Easy to Read Layout)

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Report copyright infringementby Nikola Tesla (Author)"As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies." - N. TMy Inventions, an autobiographical collection of essays by the brilliant electrical engineer Nikola Tesla, offers a rare personal insight into one of history's most enigmatic inventors. Organized into six chapters, each detailing a specific phase of his life and career, the book is based on a series of articles Tesla wrote for El...

Scientific Hat Finishing And Renovating: A Complete And Profusely Illustrated Course Of Instruction (1919)

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Report copyright infringementby Henry L. Ermatinger (Author)Scientific Hat Finishing and Renovating is a comprehensive guide to the art of hat making and repair, written by Henry L. Ermatinger and originally published in 1919. The book provides a step-by-step course of instruction on the various techniques and processes involved in finishing and renovating hats, including blocking, trimming, cleaning, and repairing. The text is accompanied by a wealth of detailed illustrations, which help to ...

Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidæ, or Parrots

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Lear (Author)"Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots," by Edward Lear, is a breathtaking collection of natural history illustrations, showcasing the vibrant beauty and diversity of parrots. This meticulously reproduced edition features forty-two lithographic plates, each drawn from life and rendered on stone by the author. The book focuses on species largely unfigured at the time of its original publication. A treasure for bird enthusiast...

Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History

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Report copyright infringementby Anika Burgess (Author)Today it's routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, or watch a movie or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things possible were experimental, revelatory, and sometimes dangerous--and many of the innovators, entrepreneurs, and inventors behind them were memorable eccentrics. In Flashes of Brilliance, New York Times photo editor Anika Burgess engagingly blend...

Art in Science Museums: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Camilla Rossi-Linnemann (Editor), Giulia de Martini (Editor)Art in Science Museums brings together perspectives from different practitioners to reflect on the status and meaning of art programmes in science centres and museums around the world. Author BiographyCamilla Rossi-Linnemann is currently International Partnership Coordinator at the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, where she focuses on international projects and coll...

Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Loveless (Editor), Tullis Rennie (Editor), Morten Søndergaard (Editor)Situated Listening sets forth a collection of novel methodologies and creative proposals for listening, advancing the framework of situated listening as both a theoretical concept and a methodological practice.Author BiographyStephanie Loveless is a media artist whose research centres on practices of listening. She is senior lecturer in Arts, Director of the Center for Deep Listenin...

$Newton's Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light$

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Report copyright infringementby Isaac Newton (Author)One of Isaac Newton's most influential works, this classic treatise on the principles of colour and light presents his groundbreaking experiments and discoveries regarding the colour spectrum and the nature of light. Opticks is a landmark publication that laid the foundation for modern colour science. First published in 1704, Newton details his experiments with light, prisms, and the colour spectrum, which led to the establishment of colour...

Scientist and the Forger, The: Insights Into the Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings

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Report copyright infringementby Jehane Ragai (Author)'The scientific techniques described encompass relevant examples of forgery detection and of authentication. The book deals, to name a few, with the Chagall, the Jackson Pollock and the Beltracchi affairs and discusses the Isleworth Mona Lisa as well as La Bella Principessa both thought to be a Leonardo creation. The authentication, amongst others, of two van Gogh paintings, of Vermeer's St Praxedis, of Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine and of...

Artifact Recovery: The material management field guide

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Report copyright infringementby Nichole Doub (Author)A resource long needed in CRM.Cultural contexts and artifact identification tend to be the focus of archaeological education, with comparatively little emphasis on the actual materials that were used in the fabrication of the objects we recover, or why that information might even be relevant.Artifact Recovery successfully provides a basic introduction to the chemistry of those artifacts and materials most commonly recovered from North Ameri...

Artistic Interpretations of Science: Exploring Microscopic Life and Quantum Wonders Through an Artistic Lens

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Report copyright infringementby Elysia Heartwood (Author)Prepare to embark on a mesmerizing journey where art and science intertwine, revealing the hidden wonders of the universe. Artistic Interpretations of Science: Exploring Microscopic Life and Quantum Wonders Through an Artistic Lens invites you to explore the invisible realms of microscopic life and the enigmatic world of quantum physics through the transformative power of art. This book bridges the gap between seemingly disparate discip...

The Bird Book: The Stories, Science, and History of Birds - Hardcover

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by DK (Author)Delve into the fascinating world of birds through astonishing photography and clear explanations in this absorbing global guide. Birds are dinosaurs with a history going back millions of years. Our fascination with them runs deep in history, and our close association is reflected in creation stories, myths, legends, songs, and children's stories. This book explores: Both the natural history of birds and that deep cultural connection. From their evolution and anatomy to their be...

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Report copyright infringementby Janice Baker (Author)Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approaches to objects and agency and the incommensurability of western and Indigenous ontologies.Drawing on Indigenous knowledge, humanities and museological literature, continental philosophy, contemporary art and popular culture, Baker acknowledges the autonomous agency of geological forms, including soils, minerals and fossil...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Campion (Editor)For millennia human beings have imagined a journey to the heavens. This dream finally became a reality on 12 April 1961 when Yuri Gagarin made his single, historic orbit of the Earth. This volume celebrates Gagarin's historic achievement and provides a valuable resource in the emerging discipline of Cultural Astronomy. Number of Pages: 410 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: Septemb...

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Bloch (Author)An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all. On a 90-degree day in Los Angeles, bus riders across the city line up behind the shadows cast by street signs and telephone poles, looking for a little relief from the sun's glaring heat. Every summer such scenes play out in cities across th...

Genes: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Jonathan Slack (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development. By explaining the nature of genetic variation in the human population, how hereditary factors were identified as molecules of DNA, and how certain specific mutations can lead to disease, Slack highlights how DNA variants are used to trace human ancestry and migration, ...

Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Petroski (Author)Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America's poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created-bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering's past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London's Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects,...

Life Cycle Assessment on Green Building Implementation

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Report copyright infringementby Vivian W. Y. Tam (Guest Editor), Khoa N. Le (Guest Editor), Liyin Shen (Guest Editor)Greenhouse-gas emissions have become one of the most impacting environmental issues in today's society. A rapidly increasing trend in global CO2emissions particularly since the early nineties (23.64% since 1990) has led to the generation of about 50,000 million tons of CO2-equivalent (eqv) worldwide in 2010. According to mainstream climate experts, the increasing concentration ...