Why the Universe Exists["How Particle Physics Unlocks the Secrets of Everything"] by New Scientist
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Category: SCIENCE | Series: Instant Expert Ser.
WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons. Following the recent discovery of the ...Show more
Inheritance How Genes Change our Lives and our Lives Change our Genes by Sharon Moalem
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Category: SCIENCE
Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives. INHERITANCE Conventional wisdom dictates that our genetic destiny is fixed at conception. But Dr. Moalem' ...Show more
Zealot - The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
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Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: good
From the internationally bestselling author of "No god but God" comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across ...Show more
The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything by Adrian Bejan (Duke University, North Carolina Duke Univ. Duke Univ. Duke Univ. Duke Univ., Durham, North Carolina Duke University, Durham, NC University of Colorado, Boulder University of Colorado, Boulder University of Colorado, Boulder Duke Univ. Duke Univ.)
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Category: SCIENCE
"The Physics of Life" explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issu ...Show more
Think Like an Engineer: Inside the Minds That are Changing Our Lives by Guruprasad Madhavan
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Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
Dubai's Burj Khalifa - the world's tallest building - looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn't work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats have much in common- they are the result of a unique thinking process combining abstract and stru ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems - The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli; Simon Carnell (Translator); Erica Segre (Translator)
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Category: SCIENCE
"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." --The Times Magazine From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are the elementary ingr ...Show more
What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown
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Category: SCIENCE
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In ...Show more
Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science, 1500-1630 by Florike Egmond
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Category: SCIENCE
Image-transforming techniques such as close-up, time lapse, and layering are generally associated with the age of photography, but as Florike Egmond shows in this book, they were already being used half a millennium ago. Exploring the world of natural history drawings from the Renaissance, Eye for Detai ...Show more
The Universe in Your Hand : A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
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Category: SCIENCE
"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic." --Jordan Ell ...Show more
A Guide to Australian Rocks Fossils Landscape: More than 200 amazing geo-sites and landforms, from meteor craters to fossil beds by Russell Ferrett
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Category: SCIENCE
This book contains information on hundreds of amazing and intriguing ‘geosites’ based around rocks and landscapes in Australia, from world-famous iconic places such as Uluru to lesser-known but no less impressive attractions. It is written in everyday English and lavishly illustrated with photos and dra ...Show more
The Story of Philosophy: A History of Western Thought by Jeremy Stangroom
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Category: SCIENCE
The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. It's a story with plot twists, a murder, accidental discoveries, disastrous love affairs, geniuses, idiots, monks, and vagabond ...Show more
Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidences by Joseph Mazur
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Category: SCIENCE
What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop far from home, you find your own childhood copy of Winnie-the-Pooh on the shelf. But the unlikely is more ...Show more