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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters - Paperback

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by Andrew H. Knoll (Author)Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP)"A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably...

Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present - Hardcover

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by Benjamin Lieberman (Author), Elizabeth Gordon (Author)Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how natural climate variability affected early human societies and how human activity is now leading to drastic changes to our climate. Taking a chronological approach the authors explain how clim...

Attention Is Discovery: The Life and Legacy of Astronomer Henrietta Leavitt - Hardcover

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by Anna Von Mertens (Author)A portrait of trailblazing astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and an illustrated exploration of the power of attention in scientific observation, artistic creation, and the making of meaning. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 100,000 light years--a figure we can calculate because of the work of Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921), who spent decades studying glass plate photographs of the night sky. Visual artist and researcher Anna Von Mertens's Attention Is D...

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by William Gurstelle (Author)This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple match-powered rocket to the more complex tabletop catapult and the offbeat Cincinnati fire kite. The classic pot...

Estiramientos (Science of Stretch) - Paperback

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by Leada Malek (Author)Relaja tu cuerpo reduciendo la tensi?n en los m?sculos y elimina la rigidez en las articulaciones con m?s de 100 estiramientos. El teletrabajo y el sobreuso de pantallas se ha convertido poco a poco en la nueva normalidad y corremos el riesgo de ser cada vez m?s sedentarios y perder la funcionalidad muscular. Buscas una soluci?n f?cil y eficiente para evitarlo? Con esta gu?a de estiramientos podr?s llevar a cabo una serie de ejercicios variados que te ayudar?n a recupe...

Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington's Cherry Trees - Hardcover

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by Diana P. Parsell (Author)'A wonderful connecting of two women writers' stories more than a century apart.' Julia Kuehn, The University of Hong Kong The first-ever biography of the pioneering female journalist who fought to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, DC Every age has strong, independent women who defy the gender conventions of their era to follow their hearts and minds. Eliza Scidmore was one such maverick. Born on the American frontier just before the Civil War, she rose fr...

Philosophy of Science and the Kyoto School: An Introduction to Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun - Hardcover

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by Dean Anthony Brink (Author), Georgina Stewart (Editor), James Madaio (Editor)This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945). Focusing on their contributions to thinking about place, space, and dialectics, this concise introduction brings these influential thinkers to life by connecting...

Our Fictional Minds: Moving Beyond Consciousness, Self, and Other Illusions - Paperback

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by David C. Fisher (Author)In Our Fictional Minds, David C. Fisher, Ph.D. challenges often-cherished convictions about ourselves and the world around us. By drawing on psychology, physics, neuroscience, as well as Western and Buddhist philosophies, he shows how common views of reality, consciousness, and the mind both serve and limit us. This revolutionary book helps readers: Identify mental shortcuts that limit our openness to new or opposing ideas. Become more comfortable with ambiguity,...

Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion: Tesla, Ufos, and Classified Aerospace Technology - Paperback

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by Paul A. LaViolette (Author)A complete investigation of the development and suppression of antigravity and field propulsion technologies - Reveals advanced aerospace technologies capable of controlling gravity that could revolutionize air travel and energy production - Reviews numerous field propulsion devices that have thrust-to-power ratios thousands of times greater than a jet engine - Shows how NASA participates in a cover-up to block adoption of advanced technologies under military dev...

Evolutionary Genetics: Concepts, Analysis, and Practice - Paperback

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by Glenn-Peter Saetre (Author), Mark Ravinet (Author)With recent technological advances, vast quantities of genetic and genomic data are being generated at an ever-increasing pace. The explosion in access to data has transformed the field of evolutionary genetics. A thorough understanding of evolutionary principles is essential for making sense of this, but new skill sets are also needed to handle and analyze big data. This contemporary textbook covers all the major components of modern evolu...

Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nagel (Author)This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with moral realism and with the resistance to subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality; and both are concerned with the historical development of moral knowledge. The second essay also proposes an account of the hi...

Bite, Sting, Kill: The Incredible Science of Toxins, Venom, Fangs, and Stingers - Hardcover

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by Julie Beer (Author)Explore the animal kingdom like never before in this thrilling roundup of animals that bite, sting ... and kill.A venomous lizard the size of a car. A snake that can take down an elephant. A stealthy scorpion ready to strike. Sound like the makings of the ultimate thriller movie? It's real life. And that's just the beginning. Discover how the bites and stings of black mambas, Komodo dragons, king cobras, black widow spiders, Gila monsters, pit vipers, rattlesnakes, scorp...

Energy and Civilization: A History - Paperback

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by Vaclav Smil (Author)A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization."I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations in humans' ability to turn energy into heat, light, and motion have been a driving force behind our cultural and econo...

Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Paperback

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by Brian Christian (Author), Tom Griffiths (Author) An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, s...

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by Paul E. Minnis (Author)This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture). Ethnobotany: A Reader is intended for use as a textbook in upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in economic botany, ethnobotany, and human ecol...

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by Camilla Toulmin (Author), Alcinda Honwana (Editor), Alex de Waal (Editor)Climate change is a major challenge for us all, but for African countries it represents a particular threat. This book outlines current thinking and evidence and the impact such change will have on Africa's development prospects. Global warming above the level of two degrees Celsius would be enormously damaging for poorer parts of the world, leading to crises with crops, livestock, water supplies and coastal areas. Wi...

Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World - Paperback

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by Denis Cosgrove (Author)Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images - including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, and photographs - to explore and elaborate upon the many and varied ways in which the vast and varied earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a p...

Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice - Hardcover

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by Rebecca Kormos (Author)A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change--floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures overwhelmingly affect women in the short and long term. In some cases, women make up almost 90 percent of casualties during dangerous climate events, and the majority of those displaced in the aftermath are women. Despite this disparity, women are...

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - Paperback

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by David Deutsch (Author)The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge"Dazzling." - Steven Pinker, The Guardian In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe--and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor. Taking us on a journey through every fundamental field of science, as well as the history of ci...

Interdisciplinary Environmental Solutions: Using Geospatial Technologies for Bridging Disciplines, Scale and Data - Hardcover

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by Barnali Dixon (Author)Back JacketThis textbook presents a clear and accessible argument for sustainable planning and development. The book discusses multiple environmental issues and examines how potential solutions can and should be addressed in the context of space and place. The book also offers an invaluable discussion on the need for a framework for system-based thinking where various disciplines should work together to find innovative solutions. Students are provided with an apprecia...

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by Megan Dennis (Author)"Intersex Diversity" by Megan Dennis is a comprehensive exploration of intersex conditions and their various manifestations. The book delves into the definition of intersex and highlights the wide diversity of intersex variations. It provides detailed insights into chromosomal intersex conditions, such as Klinefelter Syndrome, Turner Syndrome, Triple X Syndrome, and XYY Syndrome, shedding light on their unique characteristics.The author examines gonadal intersex condit...

The Illustrated a Brief History of Time: Updated and Expanded Edition - Hardcover

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by Stephen Hawking (Author)In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing. It has become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies. The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since that time there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of macrocosmic worlds. The...

A History of the Waco Mammoth Site: In Pursuit of a National Monument - Paperback

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by Calvin B. Smith (Author), David O. Lintz (Author)In paleontology there are certain encounters considered breakthroughs. Occasionally a unique event is discovered that permanently impacts our interpretation of an entire species.The Waco Mammoth Site represents one such landmark moment. At the edge of the city, mammoth skeletons were unearthed from twelve feet of overburden, a find that has since been called one of the most important ancient proboscidean sites in the world. The discovery was...

Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 - Paperback

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by Peter Dear (Author)This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe. Including coverage of the central scientific figures of the time, including Copernicus, Kelper, Galileo, Newton and Bacon, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Highlighting Europe's colonial and trade expansion in the sixteenth and 17th centuries, Peter Dear traces th...

An Explorer's Notebook: Essays on Life, History, and Climate - Paperback

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by Tim Flannery (Author)Best known for his #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn't come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past thirty years, An Explorer's Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations i...

Spatial Technology and Archaeology: The Archaeological Applications of GIS - Paperback

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by David Wheatley (Author), Mark Gillings (Author)Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and related spatial technologies have a new and powerful role to play in archaeological interpretation. Beginning with a conceptual approach to the representation of space adopted by GIS, this book examines spatial databases; the acquisition and compilation of data; the analytical compilation of data; the analytical functionality of GIS; and the creation and utilization of critical foundation data layers ...

Introduction to Energy: Resources, Technology, and Society - Paperback

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by Edward S. Cassedy (Author), Peter Z. Grossman (Author)Given the potential disruption of climate change, understanding energy issues and technologies is more important than ever if societies are to make informed choices on policy. Now in its third edition, Introduction to Energy explores the crucial issues connected to modern energy technology and its uses. Fully updated to respond to the substantial developments in the energy sector, the book expands on the relationships of energy use and ...

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by Harold Toliver (Author)Some books aren't what they seem at first, but this one is more devious than most in following up, in personal, episodic terms, what Mythic Worlds and Scanning and Sizing the Universe find true of natural history's powers and incredible extent. Number of Pages: 324 Dimensions: 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 16, 2024

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by Jessica Leigh O'Reilly (Author), Mark Vardy (Author), Kari de Pryck (Author)Inside the IPCC explores the institution of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by focusing on people's experiences as IPCC authors. While the budget and overall population of an IPCC report cycle is small, its influence on public views of climate change is outsized. Inside the IPCC analyzes the social and human sides of IPCC report writing look like, as a complement to understanding the authoritat...

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by Richard Rennie (Editor), Jonathan Law (Editor)Now with over 4,000 entries, this new eighth edition has been fully updated to reflect progress in physics and related fields. It sees expansion to the areas of cosmology, astrophysics, condensed matter, quantum technology, and nanotechnology, with 125 new entries including "Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment", "kilonova", "leptoquark", and "muscovium". The dictionary's range of appendices, updated for the new edition, includes the periodic t...

The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant? - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Lang (Editor), Karl Shuker (Foreword by), Michael Williams (Author)Does the Tasmanian Tiger still roam the island state, parts of the Australian mainland, and the northern land mass of Irian Jaya-Papua New Guinea? Despite being hunted to extinction in the early part of the 20th century, the Tasmanian Tiger continues to stalk the imaginations of people the world over. What's more, hundreds of reports of the striped dog-like marsupial with the fearsome ga...