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Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation - Hardcover

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by Robyn Arianrhod (Author)A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions--sparking both controversy and discovery. The stars of this book, vectors and tensors, are unlikely celebrities. If you ever took a physics course, the word "vector" might remind you of the mathematics needed to determine forces on an amusement park ride, a turbine, or a projectile. You might also remember that a vector is a quantity that has magnitude and (this is th...

Fold and Fly Paper Airplane Kit - Hardcover

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by Publications International Ltd (Author)Pick and build favorite paper airplane styles: from classic flyers and smooth-sailing gliders to wild rides and looping daredevils. Fold, customize, and launch! Colorful sheets to make 100 paper airplanes - camouflage prints, rally stripes, sci-fi themes, cartoon colors, polka dots, and more! Stickers to decorate your planes - letters, racing stripes, aviation insignia, eyes, numbers, and more! A 36-page booklet includes: Basic aerodynamics: learn ...

Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--And Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, Ocd, Pts - Hardcover

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by Christopher M. Palmer (Author)Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner in Psychology/Mental & Emotional Well-Bein Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in Health 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist This is the book that will forever change the way we understand and treat mental health. If you or someone you love is affected by mental illness, it might change your life. We are in the midst of a global mental health crisis, and mental illnesses are on the rise. But what causes ...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil B. Benson (Author)Do you suffer from allergies or autoimmune diseases? Dr. Benson also suffered from these afflictions and, not being happy with just treating the symptoms, he sought the cause of the problems. Ultimately, he succeeded in finding the solution to these complicated and disparate appearing diseases. This book discusses how and why allergies and autoimmune diseases occur. What he has discovered and shares in this book is a paradigm shift away f...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Hamblin Smith (Author)Elementary Algebra is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishe...

Gravity: What It Is and How It Works - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Albert W. McKinney III (Author)This book describes the physical processes which underlie the force of gravity. It lists several limitations of gravity. It shows that the mass of a star can block gravity. This property turns out to be the cause of the precession of the perihelion of every planet and asteroid that orbits the Sun. Number of Pages: 32 Dimensions: 0.07 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: July 27, 2016

Energy, Cold Fusion, & Antigravity: Znidarsic Science Books - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Znidarsic Pe (Author)Frank Znidarsic is a Professional Registered Electrical Engineer. He spent a life time working in energy related industries. He presents, from this background of experience, the technologies and problems with fossil fuels and conventional nuclear power. The environmental impact and the finite nature of these energy sources is reviewed in detail. Znidarsic has traveled to many laboratories to witness cold fusion and anti-gravitational ...

Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution - Paperback

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by Peter Kropotkin (Author), N. O. Bonzo (Illustrator), David Graeber (Introduction by)One hundred years after his death, Peter Kropotkin is still one of the most inspirational figures of the anarchist movement. It is often forgotten that Kropotkin was also a world-renowned geographer whose seminal critique of the hypothesis of competition promoted by Social Darwinism helped revolutionize modern evolutionary theory. An admirer of Darwin, he used his observations of life in Siberia as the basi...

The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry - Paperback

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by Larry Gonick (Author), Craig Criddle (Author)If you have ever suspected that "heavy water" is the title of a bootleg Pink Floyd album, believed that surface tension is an anxiety disorder, or imagined that a noble gas is the result of a heavy meal at Buckingham Palace, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry to set you on the road to chemical literacy.You don't need to be a scientist to grasp these and many other complex ideas, because The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry explains them all:...

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by Carl Sagan (Author)La obra de mayor ?xito del c?lebre divulgador de la ciencia.Este libro, que contiene m?s de doscientas cincuenta ilustraciones a todo color verdaderamente asombrosas, est? basado en un programa de trece cap?tulos que el profesor Carl Sagan realiz? para la televisi?n. Narrado con la proverbial habilidad que ten?a para conseguir que las ideas cient?ficas fueran comprensibles y apasionantes, Cosmos trata de la ciencia en su contexto humano m?s amplio y explica c?mo se desar...

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by Frank Decourten (Author), Norma Biggar (Author)Driving through Nevada, you may be miles from nowhere, but you are never far from an interesting rock, the shoreline of an ice age lake, or an active or historic mine. The Silver State has some of the most diverse geology in the United States, and much of it lies in plain sight thanks to the arid climate of the Great Basin. Geologic forces continue to shape Nevada, stretching it apart and bringing magma near the surface. Earthquakes periodical...

The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight - Hardcover

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by Valter Longo (Author)The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life. Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than you'd think. The culmination of 25 years of research on aging, nutrition, and disease across the globe, this unique program lays out a simple solution to living to a healthy old age th...

Traced: Human Dna's Big Surprise - Hardcover

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by Nathaniel T. Jeanson (Author) Number of Pages: 251 Dimensions: 1.4 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: March 10, 2022

Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior - Paperback

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by David Lees (Author), Alberto Zilli (Author)Author BiographyDAVID LEES is Curator of Microlepidoptera at the Natural History Museum, London. ALBERTO ZILLI is Curator of Lepidoptera at the Natural History Museum, London. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.9 x 7.5 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: October 29, 2019

The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge - Paperback

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by Jeremy Narby (Author)This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune said might herald "a Copernican revolution for the life sciences," leads the reader through unexplored jungles and uncharted aspects of mind to the heart of knowledge.In a first-person narrative of scientific discovery that opens new perspectives on biology, anthropology, and the limits of rationalism, The Cosmic Serpent reveals how startlingly different the world around us appears when we open our mi...

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will - Hardcover

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by Robert M. Sapolsky (Author)The instant New York Times bestseller One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences. “Determined is a sustained attempt at demonstrating that the decisions we make every day are products of complex factors of which we’re not in charge . . . This is an amiable, surprisingly access...

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by Valentin Matcas (Illustrator), Valentin Matcas (Author)It is meaningful to know everything about life everywhere, in all life forms and throughout all living realities. You want to learn more about nature and about organic life, about the true origins of life, about creating life and divine life, and about your own meaning in life and in the world. Because you are alive and you want to know everything about yourself, while you cannot know it without knowing everything about life, reality, ...

Climate Change: The Hoax of CO2 Revealed - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Marx (Author)The global warming debate has been expanded with a sprinkling of misinformation, exaggeration, and self-serving projections by the political media complex, leaving you and me without the factual information to make up our own minds. The central problem is that we have not completely understood nor brought into the discussion the main driving forces of global warming and sea level rise. Instead, we have "copped" out so to speak to attribut...

Heavy Metal: Earth's Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Philippe Tortell (Author)Heavy Metal: Earth's Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world.Minerals and metals - for batteries, circuit boards, wiring and other components - are essential to a digital, carbon-neutral economy. But how can we grapple with the environmental, social and geopolitical challenges caused ...

Tendencias emergentes: Biotecnología aplicada - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Naveen Sharma (Author), Madhu Rathore (Author)El libro Tendencias emergentes: Biotecnología Aplicada. Este libro está diseñado para servir a los científicos, investigadores, estudiantes de postgrado y de posgrado. La aplicación avanzada de la biotecnología implica el desarrollo de procesos ecológicos y el desarrollo de productos. El desarrollo de probióticos, el uso de enzimas y metabolitos microbianos, el desarrollo de formulaciones para controlar las plagas, ...

The Elements Magnet Set: With Complete Periodic Table! - Paperback

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by Theodore Gray (Author)Display and play with the building blocks of life with The Elements Magnet Set!Based on the iconic images from Theodore Gray's bestselling book The Elements, this beautiful magnet set is the perfect way to add a little atomic flair at work and home. Spell out a fun message or just display and inspire some awe for all the elements that make up the world around you. This miniature kit includes: 121 element magnets, each highlighting an important piece of the periodic ta...

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by Lawrence Newcomb (Author)An ingenious key system for quick, positive field identification of wildflowers, flowering shrubs and vines in Northeastern and North-central North America. Amateur and expert alike can quickly and accurately identify almost any wildflower using Lawrence Newcomb's system, which is based on natural structural features that are easily visible even to the untrained eye. Every time you see an unknown plant, ask yourself the same five questions (related to the type of ...

Murray-Darling Mysteries: Nature's Unique Strategies for Survival in the Murray and Darling Rivers in Australia - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Jensen (Author)The Murray River in south-eastern Australia, one of the world's oldest and slowest rivers, meanders more than 2000 km across a dry ancient landscape from the mountains to the sea, following a course evolved over millions of years. The Darling River winds over an even longer distance from the mountains on the east coast of Queensland to join the Murray River at Wentworth in the semi-arid western lowland plains. These river systems are full of...

Cultivating Culture: Global Tea Traditions - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ehsan Sheroy (Author)Tea, an old drink saturated with custom and social importance, rises above topographical limits, winding around a rich embroidery of worldwide traditions and ceremonies. From the quiet tea nurseries of Asia to the clamoring tea houses in the West, the world's different tea customs reflect a heap of flavors as well as the well established social legacy of every district.In Asia, especially in China and Japan, tea is a fundamental piece of da...

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Report copyright infringementby Thor Thordarson (Author), Ármann Höskuldsson (Author)A concise and authoritative field guide to an exceptional natural laboratory, this title in the Classic Geology in Europe series is an essential companion for those visiting Iceland to observe the Earth in action. Rifting of the crust, volcanic eruptions, and glacial activity are among a host of processes and features to be observed in this fascinating land. Nowhere else on Earth is the volcanic and tectonic...

Reign of the Beast: The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Adrian Desmond (Author)In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the anti-clerical Richard Carlile, the 'Devil's Chaplain' Robert Taylor, and socialist Robert Owen, Saull outraged polite society by putting humanity's a...

Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Aaron Sachs (Author)How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming We've all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, climate refugees. It feels overwhelming, like nothing can make a difference in combating this ongoing global catastrophe. How can we mobilize to save the world when we feel this depressed? Stay Cool enjoins us to laugh our way forward. Human beings have used comedy to cope with difficult realities si...

Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future - Paperback

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by Saul Griffith (Author)An optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify everything. Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now--but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint--optimistic but feasible--for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up sim...

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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...

A Dangerous Master: How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control - Paperback

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by Wendell Wallach (Author)There is no doubt that we're in an era of remarkable scientific advancement. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new developments are poised to radically transform the human experience. Yet, profound growth comes with profound risks: a drone can drop a bomb just as easily as it can deliver your groceries; 3D printers can make personal firearms as well as tools and medical devices, and powerful supercomputers can take down a major financial institution just a...

Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island - Paperback

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by James W. Skehan (Author)Connecticut and Rhode Island may be small, but they contain some of the most interesting geology on earth � 1.2-billion-year-old rocks, parts of at least six former continents, volcanic island chains, and the footprints of dinosaurs. James W. Skehan�s Roadside Geology of Connecticut and Rhode Island, the latest book in the acclaimed Roadside Geology series, now brings these ancient worlds to life.With twenty road guides, complete with maps, diagrams, and more than 1...

Quantum Physics for Beginners: An Easy Guide for Discovering the Hidden Side of Reality one Speck at a Time - Paperback

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by Darrell Ason (Author)Want to learn about the basics of quantum physics and impress your friends at cocktail parties with some "big brain" trivia about some of history's greatest scientific minds? Think you could be a theoretical physicist, but you need to brush up on your knowledge of relativity first? Want to carry a book on the subway that will make your fellow passengers think you're totally sophisticated? Great! Then Quantum Physics for Beginners is the book for you. Explore the field...