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Arthritis: What Exercises Workby Dava Sobel , Arthur C. Klein, John BlandISBN 0312130252 (0-312-13025-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthritis: What Exercises Work'Book summary:Based on a national survey conducted by the authors of Arthritis: What Works in which arthritis sufferers indicated exercises that helped them stop pain, this guide explains and diagrams these exercises, along with self-evaluation checklists and modifications for flare-ups. [via]
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Arthritis: What Worksby Dava Sobel , Arthur C. KleinISBN 0312053797 (0-312-05379-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthritis: What Works'Book summary:Provides new information for the thirty-seven-million Americans suffering from arthritis with dietary suggestions, a rating of practitioners, and evaluations of drugs and surgery. [via]
Backache Relief: The Ultimate Second Opinion from Back-Pain Sufferers Nationwide Who Share Their Successful Healing Experiencesby Dava Sobel , Arthur KleinISBN 0451144325 (0-451-14432-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Backache: What Exercises Workby Dava Sobel , Arthur C. Klein, Lauren JarrettISBN 0312142811 (0-312-14281-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Best American Science Writing 2004by Dava Sobel , Jesse CohenISBN 0060726393 (0-06-072639-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Science Writing 2004'Book summary:Jennifer Kahn's "Stripped for Parts" was selected as the lead story of this year's Best American Science Writing because, as Dava Sobel, best-selling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, reveals, "it begins with one of the most arresting openings I have ever read." In "Columbia's Last Flight," William Langewiesche recounts the February 1, 2003, space shuttle tragedy, along with the investigation into the nationwide complacency that brought the ship down. K. C. Cole's "Fun with Physics" is a profile of astrophysicist Janet Conrad that blends her personal life with professional activity. In "Desperate Measures," the doctor and writer Atul Gawande profiles the surgeon Francis Daniels Moore, whose experiments in the 1940s and '50s pushed medicine harder and farther than almost anyone had contemplated. Also included is a poem by the legendary John Updike, "Mars as Bright as Venus." The collection ends with Diane Ackerman's "ebullient" essay "We Are All a Part of Nature."
Together these twenty-three articles on a wide range of today's most current topics in science -- from biology, physics, biotechnology, and astronomy, to anthropology, genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition represent the full spectrum of scientific writing from America's most prominent science authors, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (Scientific American).
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Galileo's Daughterby Dava SobelISBN 0606202064 (0-606-20206-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Loveby Dava SobelISBN 0007635753 (0-00-763575-3)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love'Book summary:[via]Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has crafted a biography that dramatically recolors the personality and accomplishments of a mythic figure whose early-seventeenth-century clash with Catholic doctrine continues to define the schism between science and religion-the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics-indeed of modern science altogether." It is also a stunning portrait of Galileo's daughter, a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me."
Moving between Galileo's grand public life and Maria Celeste's sequestered world, Sobel illuminates the Florence of the Medicis and the papal court in Rome during the pivotal era when humanity's perception of its place in the cosmos was about to be overturned. During that same time, while the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and the Thirty Years' War tipped fortunes across Europe, Galileo sought to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope. Filled with human drama and scientific adventure, Galileo's Daughter is an unforgettable story.
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"[Sobel] shows herself a virtuoso at encapsulating the history and the politics of science. Her descriptions of Galileo's ideas&are pithy, vivid, and intelligible."-Wall Street Journal
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Loveby Dava SobelISBN 0140280553 (0-14-028055-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love'Book summary:Everyone knows that Galileo Galilei dropped cannonballs off the leaning tower of Pisa, developed the first reliable telescope, and was convicted by the Inquisition for holding a heretical belief--that the earth revolved around the sun. But did you know he had a daughter? In Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel (author of the bestselling Longitude) tells the story of the famous scientist and his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste. Sobel bases her book on 124 surviving letters to the scientist from the nun, whom Galileo described as "a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and tenderly attached to me." Their loving correspondence revealed much about their world: the agonies of the bubonic plague, the hardships of monastic life, even Galileo's occasional forgetfulness ("The little basket, which I sent you recently with several pastries, is not mine, and therefore I wish you to return it to me").
While Galileo tangled with the Church, Maria Celeste--whose adopted name was a tribute to her father's fascination with the heavens--provided moral and emotional support with her frequent letters, approving of his work because she knew the depth of his faith. As Sobel notes, "It is difficult today ... to see the Earth at the center of the Universe. Yet that is where Galileo found it." With her fluid prose and graceful turn of phrase, Sobel breathes life into Galileo, his daughter, and the earth-centered world in which they lived. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientifiby Dava SobelISBN 0143016253 (0-14-301625-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientifi'Book summary:Dava Sobel's Longitude tells the story of how 18th-century scientist and clockmaker William Harrison solved one of the most perplexing problems of history--determining east-west location at sea. This lush, colorfully illustrated edition adds lots of pictures to the story, giving readers a more satisfying sense of the times, the players, and the puzzle. This was no obscure, curious difficulty--without longitude, ships often found themselves so far off course that sailors would starve or die of scurvy before they could reach port. When a nationally-sponsored contest offered a hefty cash prize to the person who could develop a method to accurately determine longitude, the race was on. In the end, the battle of accuracy--and wills--fought between Harrison and arch-rival Maskelyne was ruthless and dramatic, worthy of a Hollywood feature film. Longitude's story is surprising and fascinating, offering a window into the past, before Global Positioning Satellites made it look easy. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Is Anyone Out There?by Frank Drake, Dava SobelISBN 0285631381 (0-285-63138-1)
Hardcover, Souvenir Press Limited
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Is Anyone Out There?: The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligenceby Dava Sobel , Frank DrakeISBN 0385311222 (0-385-31122-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Is Anyone Out There?: The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence'Book summary:In 1960, an intrepid astrophysicist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV, set out to tune an ear to the noise from the deepest points in the universe. Armed with a landmark paper in the scientific journal Nature and his own startling obsevations from his graduate school days at Harvard, Frank Drake wrangled many precious hours of the radio telescope's time to begin to search for extraterrestrial intelligence. [via]
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Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo (1623-1633)by Dava SobelISBN 0142437158 (0-14-243715-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633by Maria Celeste Galilei, Dava SobelISBN 0670043060 (0-670-04306-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Longitudeby Dava SobelISBN 0007214227 (0-00-721422-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Longitude'Book summary:Dava Sobel's Longitude tells the story of how 18th-century scientist and clockmaker William Harrison solved one of the most perplexing problems of history--determining east-west location at sea. This lush, colorfully illustrated edition adds lots of pictures to the story, giving readers a more satisfying sense of the times, the players, and the puzzle. This was no obscure, curious difficulty--without longitude, ships often found themselves so far off course that sailors would starve or die of scurvy before they could reach port. When a nationally-sponsored contest offered a hefty cash prize to the person who could develop a method to accurately determine longitude, the race was on. In the end, the battle of accuracy--and wills--fought between Harrison and arch-rival Maskelyne was ruthless and dramatic, worthy of a Hollywood feature film. Longitude's story is surprising and fascinating, offering a window into the past, before Global Positioning Satellites made it look easy. --Therese Littleton [via]
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- Longitude: ISBN 0007214464 (0-00-721446-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Longitude: ISBN 0140258795 (0-14-025879-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Longitude: ISBN 0613022203 (0-613-02220-3)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Longitude: ISBN 0007214227 (0-00-721422-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Longitude: ISBN 0007214464 (0-00-721446-4)
The Planetsby Dava SobelISBN 0142001163 (0-14-200116-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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