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    A Gentle Introduction to Computational Astronomy

    The amateur astronomer’s step-by-step guide to predicting and calculating the positions of stars, planets, the sun, the moon, and satellites using a personal computer and high school mathematics!Our knowledge of the universe is expanding rapidly, as space probes launched decades ago begin to send information back to earth. There has never been a better time to learn about how planets, stars, and ... Leer más

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  • Earthly Materials

    Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

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    An “UNEXPECTEDLY PROFOUND,” “DEEPLY STRANGE,” and “UTTERLY UNIQUE tour of the human body” (Publishers Weekly)"A must read for anyone who’s ever been amazed or aghast at what just came out." — Rachel Yoder, author of NightbitchTo live, our bodies must continuously shed materials. Stop urinating, stop defecating, stop expelling breath, and death is near. While we often think of these materials as ... Leer más

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  • So Very Small

    How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

    “An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.“Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field.” ... Leer más

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  • The Crown's Silence

    The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas

    For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to the United States.For centuries, Britain has told itself and the world that it is an abolitionist ... Leer más

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  • The Wrong Stuff

    How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned

    A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science.In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been over before it started. But the underdog Soviets scored a series of victories—starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik and ... Leer más

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  • The Math Book

    From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension

    Series series Union Square & Co. Milestones
    Math's infinite mysteries unfold in this updated edition of the award-winning The Math Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers,” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for higher dimensions, prolific polymath Clifford Pickover covers major milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous concepts readers will encounter as they dip into this inviting ... Leer más

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  • Slither

    How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

    In this "wise and wondrous" (David Quammen) exploration, a science writer reintroduces readers to The Snake, encouraging our initial reaction to the slithery creature to be one of awe rather than disgust.**For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond. From the foundational deities of ancient ... Leer más

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  • Citizenship

    Notes on an American Myth

    A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non ... Leer más

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  • A History of the Americas

    From Prehistory to the 21st Century

    A History of the Americas is an extraordinary narrative weaving together common threads of history of the two continents from the end of the ice ages until the present day.Covering the breadth of one of the world's largest and most important landmasses, A History of the Americas takes you from the emergence of the first civilizations of Norte Chico in Peru and the Olmecs in Mesoamerica to the rise ... Leer más

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  • Forget That!

    22 Lessons You Must Unlearn to Succeed

    Follow the guidance of motivational expert Dr. Roger Flax, author of No Stopping You!, and learn to be your best self.What if you were told that many of the common principles you’ve held onto since childhood are actually holding you back in your career and life? From simple adages we learned in grade school—“don’t talk to strangers,” “save it for a rainy day”—to well-intentioned ideas you learned ... Leer más

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  • Science Year by Year

    The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Discoveries that Changed the World

    de DK ...
    Series series DK Definitive Visual Histories
    This epic journey of scientific discovery starts in ancient times and travels through centuries of invention before fast forwarding into the future.From simple machines to modern-day marvels, you’ll follow incredible illustrated timelines that plot the entire history of science and highlight the most momentous discoveries. A jaw-dropping collection of more than 1,500 photographs, illustrations, ... Leer más

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  • Birds, Sex and Beauty

    The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea

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