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by Henry Kroll (Author)Warning!Thousands died seeking this technology! It was lost to mankind and locked up by secret societies for thousands of years. Only those who are pure of heart and spirit should embark on this journey! This book is about a science so advanced that is indistinguishable from magic and may be the greatest discovery of the human race since fire.The book examines advanced science, the Ark of the Covenant, life extension, levitation, bioengineering and the many ancient secr...

Definitions and Mathematical Knowledge - Hardcover

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by Andrea Sereni (Author)This Element discusses the philosophical roles of definitions in the attainment of mathematical knowledge. It first focuses on the role of definitions in foundational programs, and then examines their major varieties, both as regards their origins, their potential epistemic roles, and their formal constraints. It examines explicit definitions, implicit definitions, and implicit definitions of primitive terms, these latter being further divided into axiomatic and abstr...

Claws and Order goes Extreme: End Cat Rivalries: Build Trust, Create Harmony, and Enjoy a Peaceful Multi-Cat Home - Paperback

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by Christopher Williams (Author) Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 20, 2024

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by J. William Dawson (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 work.This work is in the public ...

Critical Qualitative Research Reader - Paperback

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by Gaile S. Cannella (Other), Shirley R. Steinberg (Other), Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor)This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. This volume of transformed research utilizes an activist approach to examine the notion that nothing is apolitical. Research projects themselves are critically examined for power orientations, even as they are used to address curricular problems and educational or societal issues. Philosophical perspectiv...

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by Erastus Buckrod (Author)"Splitting Creation" follows successful venture capitalist and family man John Mitchell on a personal journey of self-discovery and enlightenment. Following a horrific accident, John drifts in limbo between reality and a dream as he follows to separate paths; or does he? Basic scientific principles that reveal fundamental truths about creation and its creator help John navigate a familiar yet somehow strange world. With three engaging and unusual characters as guide...

Attraction, Love, Sex: The Inside Story - Paperback

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by Simon LeVay (Author)Sex, after hunger, may be the most powerful motivating force in our lives. It drives us to seek intimate contact with others and to form relationships that may be fleeting or lifelong, blissful or troubled. Yet many mysteries surround sex and sexuality: Why don't we reproduce by virgin birth? Why does so much of our sexual behavior have nothing to do with reproduction? Why isn't everyone heterosexual? How does the brain create sexual arousal? How do sexual kinks develop...

Atmospheres in Everyday Life: On Existential Spatiality - Paperback

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by Ola Sigurdson (Author)What kind of mood does a late-night walk in a city evoke? Is there a distinct ambiance of the desert or the city? How can we describe the uncanny feeling that our own home sometimes gives us? And what about the vibes of places like a train station, a football stadium, a temple, or of those boring spaces left behind at urban planning? Atmospheres in Everyday Life: On Existential Spatiality explores the experience of atmospheres in our daily life. Moving from the numino...

Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography - Paperback

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by A?da Hudson (Editor)Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds of Middle-earth, Earthsea, or Pacificus, from the semi-fantastic Wild Wood to real-world places like Canada's North, Chicago's World Fair, or the modern urban garden. What happens to young protagonists who explore new worlds, whether fantastic or realistic? What happens ...

The Phoenix, As An Essay: Being An Attempt To Prove From History And Astronomical Calculations (1781) - Paperback

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by John Goodridge (Author)The Phoenix, As An Essay: Being An Attempt To Prove From History And Astronomical Calculations (1781) is a book written by John Goodridge. The book is an essay that attempts to prove the existence of the mythical bird, the Phoenix, through historical and astronomical calculations. The author argues that the Phoenix is not just a myth, but a real bird that can be found in the world. The book is based on the author's research and analysis of various historical and astr...

Synthetic Biology: A Lab Manual (Second Edition) - Hardcover

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by Anthony C. Forster (Author), Letian Bao (Author), Josefine Liljeruhm (Author)The first edition of this book was the first manual for laboratory work in the rapidly expanding field of synthetic biology. Based upon a highly successful university course by one of the pioneers in synthetic biology, the manual became particularly popular with students of the enormous annual international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. Questions at the time included the scalability of BioBric...

We, Robots: Questioning the Neutrality of Technology, Ethical AI and Technological Determinism - Paperback

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by Lode Lauwaert (Author), Bartek Chomanski (Author)Back JacketThis book takes a philosophical look at traditional technological tools such as hammers and drills as well as the modern: autonomous cars, ChatGPT, smartphones, apps, steam engines, nuclear power plants, computers, and many other systems that surround us. The three main questions tackled are: Is technology neutral? Or is the design often intertwined with a Western or gendered perspective? What are the ethical risks of AI? Is it ...

Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s - Paperback

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by Michael D. Gordin (Editor), W. Patrick McCray (Editor)On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technological innovation. This collection of essays, edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray, examines how greed reshaped the global scientific community through the relentless pursuit of money, fame, and cele...

Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from Our DNA - Hardcover

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by Shoumita Dasgupta (Author)A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference. Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today often spread misinformation about what biology can and can't tell us about our bodies, minds, and identities. In this accessible, myth-busting book, geneticist Shoumita Dasgupta draws on the latest science to correct common misconceptions about how much ...

Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis: One Woman's Discovery of the Transformation of Butterflies and Insects - Paperback

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by Maria Sibylla Merian (Author), Emily Gillis (Editor)Discover the trailblazing work of artist-naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian in this beautifully illustrated volume on the life cycle of butterflies and moths. Maria Sibylla Merian is one of the greatest artist-naturalists of the seventeenth century. Her work documenting the life cycle and transformation of insects yielded a wealth of groundbreaking discoveries, captured vividly in beautiful illustrations. Originally published in 1705, Metamo...

Synthetic Biology: A Lab Manual (Second Edition) - Paperback

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On the Art and Craft of Doing Science - Paperback

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by Kenneth Catania (Author)A scientist's personal reflections on how to harness creativity and curiosity to generate new ideas and discover the unexpected Like any creative endeavor, science can be a messy and chaotic affair. On the Art and Craft of Doing Science shares the creative process of an innovative and accomplished scientist, taking readers behind the scenes of some of his most pioneering investigations and explaining why the practice of science, far from being an orderly exercise in...

Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality - Paperback

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by Venki Ramakrishnan (Author) Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.8 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: February 18, 2025

Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics - Hardcover

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by Steven Weinberg (Author)Steven Weinberg shares his candid thoughts, in his own words, on theoretical physics and cosmology, along with personal anecdotes and recollections of the people who helped shape his career. These memoirs of his life as a scientist and public figure cover his student days and early career, through the golden age of particle physics in the 1970s, his being awarded the Nobel prize, through to the end of the twentieth century. In addition to his research insights, Wein...

The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection - Paperback

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by Clifford a. Pickover (Author)This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of "quantum resurrection." This reissue includes four new entries: 2012 (Discovery...

Parenting in a Climate Crisis: A Handbook for Turning Fear Into Action - Paperback

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by Bridget Shirvell (Author)In this urgent parenting guide, learn how to navigate the uncertainty of the climate crisis and keep your kids informed, accountable, and hopeful-with simple actions you can take as a family to help the earth. Kids today are experiencing the climate crisis firsthand. Camp canceled because of wildfire smoke. Favorite beaches closed due to erosion. Recess held indoors due to extreme heat. How do parents help their children make sense of it all? And how can we keep o...

The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird - Hardcover

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by David Gessner (Author)The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world, with 32 pages of stunning color photographs.This is a parable of freedom, wildness, and our urban ecosystems. Flaco has been dubbed "the world's most famous bird." From the night in February of 2023 when vandals cut a hole in his cage until his death a year later in a courtyard on the Upper West Side, his is a...

Stronger Than The Storm: Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina - Paperback

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by Shelley McKechnie (Editor)In September 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, then roared hundreds of miles inland to the mountains of western North Carolina. Record-breaking winds, rain, and floods damaged or destroyed homes, businesses, roads, and forestland across the region. More than 100 neighbors lost their lives. Power and water were out for weeks. North Carolina's governor called it "the worst storm in our state's history."To start to process the devastation, more than tw...

The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness - Hardcover

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by William Von Hippel (Author)A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans' two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and how we can rebalance them to improve our lives.Why do people who have so much--leading comfortable lives filled with unprecedented freedom, choice, and abundance--often feel so unhappy and unfulfilled? This phenomenon ...

Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them - Hardcover

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by Lydia Kang (Author), Nate Pedersen (Author)From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science--it's a light-hearted look into why we insist on believing in things such as Big Foot, astrology, and the existence of aliens. Did you know, for example, that you can tell a...

American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice - Hardcover

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by Daniel Stone (Author)From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry--and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America. At noon on October 27, 1924, a factory worker was admitted to a hospital in New York City, suffering from hallucinations and convulsions. Before breakfast the next day, he was dead. Ali...

Igneous Rocks and Processes: A Practical Guide - Paperback

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by Robin Gill (Author), Godfrey Fitton (Author)IGNEOUS ROCKS AND PROCESSES A practical introduction to igneous petrology for students and practitioners The newly revised Second Edition of Igneous Rocks and Processes: A Practical Guide, delivers an authoritative introduction to igneous petrology and helps students to develop key skills and confidence in identifying igneous materials and in naming and interpreting unknown igneous rocks presented to them. It serves as both a conventional course ...

The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life - Paperback

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by Franklin M. Harold (Author)What is life? Fifty years after physicist Erwin Schrodinger posed this question in his celebrated and inspiring book, the answer remains elusive. In The Way of the Cell, one of the world's most respected microbiologists draws on his wide knowledge of contemporary science to provide fresh insight into this intriguing and all-important question. What is the relationship of living things to the inanimate realm of chemistry and physics? How do lifeless but special ch...

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by William Von Hippel (Author)"A rollicking tour through humanity's evolutionary past, and von Hippel is the consummate tour guide. With equal parts wisdom, humor, authority, and charm, he shows how our past explains the present and why our well-being rests on an understanding of how our minds evolved."--Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Drunk Tank Pink and IrresistibleHuman psychology is rife with contradictions: We work hard to achieve our goals, but happiness at our success ...

How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology - Hardcover

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by Philip Ball (Author)"Bold and intriguing."--Wall Street Journal - "Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) - "Offers plenty of food for thought."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Ball's marvelous book is both wide-ranging and deep. . . . I could not put it down."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what...

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses - Paperback

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by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Author)Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scient...

Patterns of Behavior: Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, and the Founding of Ethology - Paperback

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by Richard W. Burkhardt (Author)It is hard to imagine, by their very name, the life sciences not involving the study of living things, but until the twentieth century much of what was known in the field was based primarily on specimens that had long before taken their last breaths. Only in the last century has ethology--the study of animal behavior--emerged as a major field of the life sciences. In Patterns of Behavior, Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. traces the scientific theories, practices, subje...