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  • Biology Under the Influence
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    Biology Under the Influence

    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it...
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  • The State of Play
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    The State of Play

    The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy,...
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  • The State of Play
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    The State of Play

    The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy,...
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  • The State of Play
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    The State of Play

    The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy,...
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  • Science Rules
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    Science Rules

    Is there a universal set of rules for discovering and testing scientific hypotheses? Since the birth of modern science, philosophers, scientists, and other thinkers have wrestled with this fundamental question of scientific practice. Efforts to devise...
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  • Faster, Better, Cheaper
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    Faster, Better, Cheaper

    In Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money while improving mission frequency and performance. McCurdy details the sixteen missions undertaken during the 1990s...
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  • Single Stage to Orbit
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    Single Stage to Orbit

    Behind the glories and tragedies that make headlines and move the nation, the story of the space shuttle is inextricably bound to the lesser-known but no less engrossing drama of the search for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit rocket. In this book,...
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  • A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder
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    A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder

    For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful extent of war. The apparatus and materials used in World War...
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  • Elements of Physical Hydrology
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    Elements of Physical Hydrology

    The science of physical hydrology centers on the physical principles involved in the study of the occurrence and movement of water on and beneath the earth's surface. Because of its far-reaching implications for other disciplines, physical hydrology is...
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  • Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination
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    Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination

    How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism. The...
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  • the Heavens and the Earth
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    the Heavens and the Earth

    This highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on published literature, archival sources in both the United States and Europe, interviews with many of the key participants, and important...
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  • The Illusion of Separation
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    The Illusion of Separation

    Our modern patterns of thinking and learning are all based on observing a world of 'things', which we think of as separate building blocks. This worldview allows us to count and measure objects without their having any innate value; it provides neat...
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  • Women Scientists in America
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    Women Scientists in America

    ''Highly readable and exquisitely informative. Rossiter's documentation of this gloomy chapter in the history of women striving to make a place for themselves in science serves as a pungent antidote for questions concerning the fairness of affirmative...
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  • Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation
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    Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation

    Meeting today's environmental challenges requires a new way of thinking about the intricate dependencies between humans and nature. Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation provides students and other readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental...
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  • Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation
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    Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation

    Meeting today's environmental challenges requires a new way of thinking about the intricate dependencies between humans and nature. Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation provides students and other readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental...
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  • Gerotechnology
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    Gerotechnology

    Two ""megatrends"" of modern culture are rapid population aging and the inexorable advances in various technologies encountered by the population at large. This comprehensive volume explores the intersections of technology with aging and serves as both a...
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  • Inventing the 20th Century
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    Inventing the 20th Century

    Imagine your average day without zippers, airplanes or vacuum cleaners, without your clock radio or your personal stereo, without photocopiers. All of these devices were invented within the last hundred years and have since transformed our daily...
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  • Physics
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    Physics

    The new QuickStudy Booklets cover the key information on some of the toughest courses today, helping students boost their grades. The books are presented in the clear, concise format readers have come to expect from QuickStudy. Everything you need to...
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  • Chemistry
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    Chemistry

    The QuickStudy Books linecovers the key information on some of the toughest courses today, helping students boost their grades. The books are presented in the clear, concise format readers have come to expect from QuickStudy. Chemistry essentials for all...
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  • Kingdom of Ants
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    Kingdom of Ants

    One of the earliest New World naturalists, José Celestino Mutis began his professional life as a physician in Spain and ended it as a scientist and natural philosopher in modern—day Colombia. Drawing on new translations of Mutis's nearly forgotten...
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  • Reading ?ayy Ibn-Yaq?an
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    Reading ?ayy Ibn-Yaq?an

    Commonly translated as ''The Self—Taught Philosopher'' or ''The Improvement of Human Reason,'' Ibn—Tufayl's story Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan inspired debates about autodidacticism in a range of historical fields from classical Islamic philosophy through Renaissance...
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  • The Science Wars
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    The Science Wars

    Is science our most precious possession or has our culture elevated science into a false idol? Is technology a useful servant or a malign genie? These questions are at the centre of the 'science wars' currently being waged over the role and future of...
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  • Our Molecular Future
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    Our Molecular Future

    What Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" was to the 20th century, "Our Molecular Future" will be to the 21st century. What will happen to our jobs, health care, and investments when the molecular revolution hits? How might artificial intelligence transform...
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  • Matter and Motion
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    Matter and Motion

    This primer on physics, written in 1877 by the most eminent physicist of the 19th century, is intended as a brief introduction to Newtonian mechanics for students and educated lay readers. Einstein described Maxwell's influence on the scientific...
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  • The Practical Einstein
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    The Practical Einstein

    Albert Einstein may be best known as the wire-haired whacky physicist who gave us the theory of relativity, but that's just one facet of this geniuss contribution to human knowledge and modern science. As József Illy expertly shows in this book, Einstein...
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  • Data Cartels
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    Data Cartels

    In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels", demonstrating...
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  • The Age of Analogy
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    The Age of Analogy

    Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed...
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  • The Costs of Connection
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    The Costs of Connection

    Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free-it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to...
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  • What Is Real?
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    What Is Real?

    Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving...
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  • Shady Streams, Slippery Salamanders
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    Shady Streams, Slippery Salamanders

    Two boys, Jonathan and Christopher, live in the southern Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. These mountains are among the oldest on Earth and the highest can reach over 6,000 feet in elevation. Many streams and rivers are born in these...
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  • Shady Streams, Slippery Salamanders
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    Shady Streams, Slippery Salamanders

    Two boys, Jonathan and Christopher, live in the southern Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. These mountains are among the oldest on Earth and the highest can reach over 6,000 feet in elevation. Many streams and rivers are born in these...
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  • The Collectors of Lost Souls
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    The Collectors of Lost Souls

    Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of ScienceWinner, General History Award, New South Wales Premiers History Awards When whites first encountered the...
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  • The Physics of Krav Maga
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    The Physics of Krav Maga

    Krav Maga ("contact combat" in Hebrew) is a hard-hitting and efficient form of self-defense that was popularized by Israeli soldiers. Stressing practical, real-world fighting and a philosophy of self-defense, its popularity has grown worldwide...
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  • Nature Exposed
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    Nature Exposed

    In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between...
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  • Alien Universe:
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    Alien Universe:

    If extraterrestrials exist, where are they? What is the probability that somewhere out there in the universe an Earth-like planet supports an advanced culture? Why do so many people claim to have encountered aliens? In this gripping exploration,...
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  • Jews and Science
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    Jews and Science

    Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject...
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  • Jews and Science
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    Jews and Science

    Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject...
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  • Einstein's Berlin
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    Einstein's Berlin

    Lured by a top academic position sponsored by the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein moved from Zurich to Berlin in 1914 and lived there until 1932, just weeks before Hitler became chancellor of Germany. During this fraught economic and...
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  • Catastrophes!
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    Catastrophes!

    Devastating natural disasters have profoundly shaped human history, leaving us with a respect for the mighty power of the earth -- and a humbling view of our future. Paleontologist and geologist Donald R. Prothero tells the harrowing human stories behind...
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  • Reconfiguring the World
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    Reconfiguring the World

    Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged...
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  • Lights On!
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    Lights On!

    Power generation is a relatively recent concern because humans had little need for sustained power until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Today, modern civilization is wholly dependent on the production and distribution of power. Without it, our...
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  • Hessenberg and Tridiagonal Matrices
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    Hessenberg and Tridiagonal Matrices

    This is the only book devoted exclusively to Hessenberg and tridiagonal matrices. Hessenberg matrices are involved in Krylov methods for solving linear systems or computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors, in the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues, and...
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  • Pole-Swapping Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem
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    Pole-Swapping Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem

    Matrix eigenvalue problems arise in a wide variety of fields in science and engineering, so it is important to have reliable and efficient methods for solving them. Of the methods devised, bulge-chasing algorithms, such as the famous QR and QZ...
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  • Numerical Partial Differential Equations
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    Numerical Partial Differential Equations

    This comprehensive book focuses on numerical methods for approximating solutions to partial differential equations. Intended as a broad survey of methods, the aim is to introduce readers to the central concepts of various families of discretizations and...
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  • The Science of Doctor Who
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    The Science of Doctor Who

    Almost fifty years after he first crossed the small screen, Doctor Who remains a science fiction touchstone. His exploits are thrilling, his world is mind-boggling, and that time travel machine—known as the Tardis—is almost certainly an old-fashioned...
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