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Against the Dayby Thomas PychonISBN 159420120X (1-59420-120-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Day'Book summary:Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.[via]With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them. Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
-Thomas Pynchon
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Archimedes and the Door to Scienceby Jeanne BendickISBN 1883937124 (1-883937-12-4)
Softcover, Bethlehem Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archimedes and the Door to Science'Book summary:Jeanne Bendick, through text and pictures, admirably succeeds in bringing to life the ancient Greek mathematician who enriched mathematics and all branches of science. Against the backdrop of Archimedes' life and culture, the author discusses the man's work, his discoveries and the knowledge later based upon it. The simple, often humorous, illustrations and diagrams greatly enhance the text.
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Axiomaticby Greg EganISBN 1857982819 (1-85798-281-9)
Hardcover, Millennium
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Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into The Native American Universeby F. David PeatISBN 1578633710 (1-57863-371-0)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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A Brief History of Everythingby Ken Wilber, Dan Spinella, Tony SchwartzISBN 1570627401 (1-57062-740-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief History of Everything'Book summary:This account of men and women's place in a universe of sex and gender, self and society, spirit and soul is written in question-and-answer format, making it both readable and accessible. Wilber offers a series of original views on many topics of current controversy, including the gender wars, multiculturalism, modern liberation movements, and the conflict between various approaches to spirituality. [via]
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C# Core Language Little Black Bookby Bill WagnerISBN 158880058X (1-58880-058-X)
Hardcover, Coriolis Group, LLC, The
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The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward Godby Lee StrobelISBN 1594150753 (1-59415-075-3)
Softcover, Thomson Gale
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God'Book summary:Are Christianity and science incompatible? If there is a God, is he only an impersonal starter force? An introductory high school biology class first propelled Lee Strobel toward a life of atheism. God and science, he reasoned, were mutually exclusive. When the former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune converted to Christianity, he decided to investigate the science he had once accepted as truth. Did science point toward or away from God? As Strobel interviews a variety of scientists on everything from debunking evolutionary icons to the implications of the Big Bang to the existence of the human soul, he builds his case: scientific evidence points toward Intelligent Design.
Although the discussion often veers into the academic, Strobel works hard to make it accessible to those without scientific training. Throughout the book, he salts interview transcript information with interesting personal stories of his own spiritual and scientific quest for knowledge, as well as sometimes over-detailed descriptions of the actual interviews (right down to the type of beverages consumed). Each chapter contains suggestions for further reading on particular issues of science and faith.
Strobel concludes that, when correctly interpreted, science and biblical teaching support each other. He quotes physicist Paul Davies, "&science offers a surer path to God than religion." Open-minded readers will find that this book, and its questions for reflection and group study, invites conversation and investigation.--Cindy Crosby [via]
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Classical Mechanicsby T.W.B. Kibble, F. H. Berkshire, Frank H BerkshireISBN 1860944353 (1-86094-435-3)
Softcover, Imperial College Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Mechanics'Book summary:This is the fifth edition of a well-established textbook. It is intended to provide a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics, an old subject that is at the base of all of physics, but in which there has also in recent years been rapid development. The book is aimed at undergraduate students of physics and applied mathematics. It emphasizes the basic principles, and aims to progress rapidly to the point of being able to handle physically and mathematically interesting problems, without getting bogged down in excessive formalism. Lagrangian methods are introduced at a relatively early stage, to get students to appreciate their use in simple contexts. Later chapters use Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods extensively, but in a way that aims to be accessible to undergraduates, while including modern developments at the appropriate level of detail. The subject has been developed considerably recently while retaining a truly central role for all students of physics and applied mathematics. This edition retains all the main features of the fourth edition, including the two chapters on geometry of dynamical systems and on order and chaos. [via]
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einsteinby Gary MoringISBN 1592571859 (1-59257-185-9)
Softcover, Alpha Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein'Book summary:Demystifying physics-and the man who personified it.
Einstein's face is on T-shirts and posters and his name is synonymous with atomic energy and scientific genius. But to understand this individual who not only had great knowledge but great wisdom, we must examine his philosophy of life-and physics.
¬ New and updated information about Einstein's life
¬ Analysis of recent, ongoing challenges to Einstein's theories
¬ Streamlined information on the underpinnings of physics, electricity, magnetism, and other forms of energy
¬ High-profile museum exhibitions about Einstein are taking place across the U.S. in 2003, 2004, and 2005
¬ First edition has gained a solid reputation for helping students understand physics
¬ Einstein was named Time's "Man of the Century" [via]More editions of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein:
The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?by Victor J. StengerISBN 1591024242 (1-59102-424-2)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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Cranes Dump Trucks Bulldozers and Other Building Machinesby Terry JenningsISBN 1856978656 (1-85697-865-6)
Softcover, Kingfisher Books
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The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Latest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal Godby Hugh RossISBN 1576832880 (1-57683-288-0)
Softcover, Navpress Pub Group
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The Discovery of Timeby Stuart McCreadyISBN 1570716757 (1-57071-675-7)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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The Dot and the Lineby Norton JusterISBN 1587170663 (1-58717-066-3)
Hardcover, Seastar Books
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Dynamic Climatology: Basis in Mathematics and Physicsby John N. RaynerISBN 1577180151 (1-57718-015-1)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dynamic Climatology: Basis in Mathematics and Physics'Book summary:This book is an introduction to the concepts behind the popular understanding of climate and global warming. The author provides readers with a survey and reference to the subject to be used before, during and after they delve into the details of statistics, dynamics and thermodynamics.
Dynamic Climatology reviews the basic concepts in the study of dynamic climatology, their expression in the form of equations and the physics of models used to reproduce the weather phenomena of a specific location. It takes a historical approach concentrating on the development of ideas during the last four hundred years. Unlike most books in this field, which are devoted to a single aspect of dynamic climatology, the intent of this volume is to present a coherent narrative of the different components of climate thus providing a solid basis of understanding. [via]More editions of Dynamic Climatology: Basis in Mathematics and Physics:
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Einstein's Brainchild: Relativity Made Relatively Easy!by Barry R. Parker, Lori Scoffield-BeerISBN 1573928577 (1-57392-857-7)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Einstein's Brainchild: Relativity Made Relatively Easy!'Book summary:In his long-awaited new book, physicist and popular science writer Barry Parker speaks to the broadest possible audience in bringing Einstein's theories to life. Given the fervent renewed appreciation for the contributions Albert Einstein has bestowed on humanity, Parker thinks it only right to dedicate a book to explaining in the clearest possible terms the meaning and beauty of Einstein's theories.
While tracing the story of Einstein's life, Parker seizes on the crucial groundbreaking theories that Einstein envisioned. Not since Isaac Newton had anyone conceived the universe in such a revolutionary, startling new way. Through Parker's eloquence, eye for detail, and clever use of Einsteinian cartoons and vivid illustrations, he enables the reader to see and appreciate for perhaps the first time the full meaning and scope of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity.
Parker then guides the reader to the next step in Einstein's revelations: the possibility of time travel. In exploring the fascinating implications of Einstein's thought, Parker treats us to the experience of discovering a black hole, traversing curved spacetime, and greeting our much younger twin who has just returned from a long and arduous spaceflight.
Parker's incomparable gift for language captures Einstein's uniqueness, singular brilliance, and stunning theories. The clarity of the writing coupled with the many illustrations will drive home the point why so many consider Einstein to be the greatest scientist who ever lived and Time magazine named Albert Einstein "Person of the Century." [via]More editions of Einstein's Brainchild: Relativity Made Relatively Easy!:
Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Changeby Joesph EgerISBN 1585423882 (1-58542-388-2)
Hardcover, J P Tarcher
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Engines of Creationby K. Eric DrexlerISBN 1872180469 (1-872180-46-9)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation!: A Step by Step Guide to Planning and Writing Dissertations and Theses for Undergraduate and Graduate Science Studentsby Elizabeth Fisher, Daniel HoltomISBN 1860940900 (1-86094-090-0)
Hardcover, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Experiment With Magnetism and Electricityby Brian Murphy, Margaret WhalleyISBN 1587281155 (1-58728-115-5)
Softcover, Two-Can Pub Inc
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The Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Bookby John Cassidy, Exploratorium (Organization)ISBN 1878257145 (1-878257-14-5)
Softcover, Klutz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book'Book summary:A hands-on science museum squeezed between the covers of a book. Tons of experiments are featured and nearly all of them can be done right on the spot using the magnifying lens, magnet, agar and other bound-in apparatus.[via]Comes With: plastic magnet wand, mirror, moire spinner, diffraction grating, Fresnel lens, 2 packets of agar growth medium
? Create wonderful things ? Be good ? Have fun
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Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigmby Ken Wilber, Frances VaughanISBN 157062741X (1-57062-741-X)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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Fighting Science: The Laws of Physics for Martial Artistsby Martina SpragueISBN 1880336723 (1-880336-72-3)
Softcover, Turtle Pr
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The Final Theory: Rethinking Our Scientific Legacyby Mark McCutcheonISBN 1581126018 (1-58112-601-8)
Softcover, Universal Pub
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Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicineby J.E. LovelockISBN 185675040X (1-85675-040-X)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine'Book summary:James Lovelock's hypothesis, that the Earth is a living organism, has changed people's view of the world. This book addresses planetary health, the diagnosis of its sickness, prognosis for recovery and prescriptions for treatment. What is happening to our planet? Are the greenhouse fever and the ulcerated ozone layer early warning symptoms of a planetary illness? Is the human race a multiplying disease organism? Is the illness fatal? Can it be treated? These are some of the questions posed in this book by the originator of the Gaia hypothesis. Is there a science that can help us answer such questions? According to Lovelock, yes there is - the new science of geophysiology, or "planetary medicine". The planetary doctor's prescriptions are to be found in this book. [via]
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Gardner's Whys & Whereforesby Martin GardnerISBN 1573927449 (1-57392-744-9)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia To Modern Timesby Tobias ChurtonISBN 1594770352 (1-59477-035-2)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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God & the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science & Spiritualityby Daniel C. MattISBN 1879045893 (1-879045-89-3)
Softcover, Jewish Lights Pub
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Group Theory and General Relativity: Representations of the Lorentz Group and Their Applications to the Gravitational Fieldby Moshe CarmeliISBN 1860942342 (1-86094-234-2)
Hardcover, World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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Habitusby James FlintISBN 1857028325 (1-85702-832-5)
Softcover, Fourth Estate Classic House
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The Handy Science Answer Book: Revised & Expandedby James E. Bobick, Naomi E. BalabanISBN 1578591406 (1-57859-140-6)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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The Hidden Messages in Waterby Masaru EmotoISBN 1582701148 (1-58270-114-8)
Softcover, Beyond Words Pub Co
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How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The Worldby Francis WheenISBN 158648348X (1-58648-348-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World'Book summary:In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics with a combination of breezy charm and assertive "Victorian values." In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History.[via]
What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered The World:
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Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Senseby Francis WheenISBN 1586482475 (1-58648-247-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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What colonized the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason? Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of idiocy, the proof of which was to be found in every state, every work-place, and every library. In Idiot Proof, columnist Francis Wheen brilliantly evokes the key personalities of the post-political eraincluding Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama bin Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologerwhile lamenting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century.
In turn comic, indignant, outraged and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, Idiot Proof is a masterful depiction of the daftness of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.More editions of Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense:
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Dublin Seminars(1949-1955) and Other Unpublished Essaysby Erwin SchrodingerISBN 1881987094 (1-881987-09-4)
Softcover, Ox Bow Pr
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Introducing Newtonby William RankinISBN 1840461586 (1-84046-158-6)
Softcover, Icon Books, Limited
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Introducing Relativityby Ralph Edney, Bruce Bassett, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840463724 (1-84046-372-4)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Introducing Timeby Usha Sanyal, Craig Callender, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840465921 (1-84046-592-1)
Softcover, Totem Books
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The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universesby Richard PanekISBN 1841152773 (1-84115-277-3)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic Worldby Margaret J. WheatleyISBN 1576753441 (1-57675-344-1)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leadership And the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World'Book summary:When Margaret J. Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science was initially published in 1992, it outlined an unquestionably unique but extremely challenging view of change, leadership, and the structure of groups. Many readers immediately embraced its cutting-edge perspective, but others just could not understand how the complicated scientific tenets it described could be used to reshape institutions. Now Wheatley, an organizational specialist who has since coauthored A Simpler Way, updates the original by including additional material (such as an epilogue addressing her personal experiences during the past decade) and reconstructing some of her more challenging concepts. The result is a much clearer work that first explores the implications of quantum physics on organizational practice, then investigates ways that biology and chemistry affect living systems, and finally focuses on chaos theory, the creation of a new order, and the manner that scientific principles affect leadership. "Our old ways of relating to each other don't support us any longer," she writes. "It is up to us to journey forth in search of new practices and new ideas that will enable us to create lives and organizations worthy of human habitation." --Howard Rothman [via]
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The Leaky Establishmentby Terry Pratchett, David LangfordISBN 1592241255 (1-59224-125-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Liftport: The Space Elevator - Opening Space to Everyoneby Bill Fawcett, Tom Nugent, David MattinglyISBN 1592221092 (1-59222-109-2)
Softcover, Meisha Merlin Pub
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Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a Worldby Oliver MortonISBN 184115668X (1-84115-668-X)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World'Book summary:As Oliver Morton shows in his superb new book, Mapping Mars, Mars has clouds, winds and shorelines. It has river valleys, mountains, volcanoes and even glaciers. Even were it lifeless, it could support life, albeit of an almost unimaginably marginal kind. What Mars lacks is places. There are no "theres" there, nor will there be--until our feet impact its soil.
Oliver Morton has a sense of place and a hunger for Mars, and a thrilling manner of communicating both. His account of our nearest neighbour's history, geology and human potential is exhaustive. Morton touches on just about everything, from soil composition to survival techniques; from Martians to maps (maps, above all: they are his abiding subject, metaphor and organising principle). His artistry is to hide his daunting range of interests under a passionate and gripping human narrative: this book is about what Mars has meant, means and may one day mean for us. And he has a wide-ranging definition of who "we" are. Like a good military historian, Morton knows to pay attention to the poor bloody foot soldiers of science, as well as to the achievements of their celebrated masters. He understands how different the sciences are from each other, and how rivalries between them arise. Further, Morton understands where these people and their institutions sit in the general culture. He understands the crossover between science and science fiction, between space advocates and space fans.
All of which makes Morton's book something more than just "the story of Mars". It is, in addition, an astute study of how we go about exploring our world.--Simon Ings [via]
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Marbles, Roller Skates, Doorknobsby Christopher LamptonISBN 1878841459 (1-878841-45-9)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group
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The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormalby Lawrence LeshanISBN 1581152736 (1-58115-273-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Scienceby Edwin Arthur BurttISBN 1573924326 (1-57392-432-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Modern Cosmology & Philosophyby John LeslieISBN 1573922501 (1-57392-250-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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The Museum of Lost Wonderby Jeff HokeISBN 1578633648 (1-57863-364-8)
Hardcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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The Music of the Sun: The Story of Helioseismologyby William J. ChaplinISBN 1851684514 (1-85168-451-4)
Hardcover, Oneworld Pubns Ltd
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The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Knowby Jane RobertsISBN 1878424068 (1-878424-06-8)
Softcover, New World Library
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Newton and the Culture of Newtonianismby Margaret C. Jacob, Betty Jo Teeter DobbsISBN 1573925454 (1-57392-545-4)
Softcover, Humanity Books
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The Official M&m's Brand History of the Calendarby Karen E. Pellaton, Larry Dane BrimnerISBN 1570914311 (1-57091-431-1)
Hardcover, Charlesbridge Pub Inc
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On the Sensations of Toneby Hermann L. F. Helmholtz, Robert H. WozniakISBN 1855066645 (1-85506-664-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Pagan Logic and the Number Line Illusionby Vance CornellISBN 1882190157 (1-882190-15-7)
Softcover, Polar Bear & Co
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The Physics of Sailingby Bryon D. AndersonISBN 1574091700 (1-57409-170-0)
Softcover, Sheridan House Inc
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The Physics of Superheroesby James KakaliosISBN 1592402429 (1-59240-242-9)
Softcover, Gotham Books
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Practical Amateur Spectroscopyby Stephen F. TonkinISBN 1852334894 (1-85233-489-4)
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The Quantum Enigma: Finding the Hidden Keyby Wolfgang SmithISBN 1597310077 (1-59731-007-7)
Softcover, Sophia Perennis
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Quantum Legacy: The Discovery That Changed the Universeby Barry R. ParkerISBN 157392993X (1-57392-993-X)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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Quantum Technologyby G.J. MilburnISBN 1864481463 (1-86448-146-3)
Hardcover, Allen & Unwin
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Science And Creation: The Search for Understandingby J. C. PolkinghorneISBN 1599471000 (1-59947-100-0)
Softcover, Templeton Foundation Pr
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Science, Sense and Soul : The Mystical-Physical Nature of Human Existenceby Casey Blood, Pir Vilayat Inayat KhanISBN 158063219X (1-58063-219-X)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Airby Theodor SchwenkISBN 1855840553 (1-85584-055-3)
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Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Scienceby Rupert SheldrakeISBN 1573220140 (1-57322-014-0)
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Shadowlands: Quest for Mirror Matter in the Universeby Robert FootISBN 158112645X (1-58112-645-X)
Softcover, Upublish.Com
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A Short History Of Progressby Ronald WrightISBN 1841957119 (1-84195-711-9)
Hardcover, Canongate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of Progress'Book summary:No hope, just an awareness of what's being done now and what's been done in the past, is what Ronald Wright will permit in A Short History of Progress, his grim, ammoniacal Massey Lectures, the 43rd in the series. In five lucid, meticulously documented essays, Wright traces the rise and plummet of four regional civilizations--those of Sumer, Rome, Easter Island, and the Maya--and judges that most, perhaps all, of humanity is making and will continue to make mistakes equally disastrous as theirs. He gives general reasons first for not reckoning we'll pull back from the brink. Important among them is an anthropological observation. As individuals, we live long lives. We evolve more slowly than we should, given our lack of vision and our aggressive, selfish nature. We seem to lack the collective wisdom and the insight into cause and effect to realize the limits to what Wright calls the "experiment" of civilization. What Wright calls natural "subsidies" underwrite civilizations' successes. The squandering of those gifts presages inevitable failure, but with careful, canny stewardship, a civilization can manage to muddle through eons. Wright cites Egypt's submission to the limits set by the Nile's annual floods and China's windblown "lump-sum deposit" of topsoil, used for hillside paddies instead of being put to the plough. Wright observes with unrelenting eloquence that our planetary civilization lives precariously, far beyond its means. "Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes," he acknowledges, neither claiming nor wanting to be a prophet. We certainly have the tools for change and remediation; we also know what our ancestors did wrong and what happened to them. We're faced, our author observes, with two choices: either do nothing--what he calls "one of the biggest mistakes"--or try to effect "the transition from short-term to long-term thinking." His evidence suggests we're taking the first alternative, which will include a swift, final ride into the dark future on the runaway train of progress. Wright's account tempts one to bet on the rats and roaches. --Ted Whittaker [via]
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A Simpler Wayby Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron Kellner-RogersISBN 1576750507 (1-57675-050-7)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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While A Simpler Way may appear too New Age for some readers, this beautifully produced book hits the mark by bringing together an array of unexpected ideas as the authors look anew at established theories of human behavior to propose a decidedly unique way of promoting organization and achieving success. --Howard Rothman [via]
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicistby Neil De Grasse Tyson, Tyson Neil De GrasseISBN 159102188X (1-59102-188-X)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Sky Observer's Guideby R. Newton Mayall, Margaret W. Mayall, Jerome Wyckoff, John PolgreenISBN 1582381550 (1-58238-155-0)
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Space Mission Analysis and Designby Wiley J. Larson, James Richard WertzISBN 1881883108 (1-881883-10-8)
Softcover, Microcosm
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Special Relativityby N. M. J. WoodhouseISBN 1852334266 (1-85233-426-6)
Softcover, Springer Verlag
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Starsby Mark R. Chartrand, Herbert Spencer and Zim, Robert Horace BakerISBN 1582381577 (1-58238-157-7)
Softcover, Golden Books
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The Story of Lightby Ben BovaISBN 1570717850 (1-57071-785-0)
Hardcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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The Story Of Science: Aristotle Leads the Wayby Joy HakimISBN 1588341607 (1-58834-160-7)
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Tertium Organumby P. D. Uspenskii, Claude BragdonISBN 1596054476 (1-59605-447-6)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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Tertium Organum: El Tercer Canon del Pensamiento / Una Clave Para Los Enigmas Del Mundo / Or, The Third Canon of Thought and a Key to the Enigmas of the Worldby P.D. OuspenskyISBN 1594622051 (1-59462-205-1)
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The Tesseractby Alex GarlandISBN 1573227749 (1-57322-774-9)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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Garland shows a talent for finely crafted phrases that emboss an image and encapsulate a moment. One minor character's brief sensory flashback provides more human insight than the pages of descriptive overload in the usual thriller. The Tesseract is an exciting tale that never stoops to the level of popcorn storytelling. --Samantha Starmer [via]
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Mervyn PeakeISBN 1582341753 (1-58234-175-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Time, Distance, and Speedby Marion Smoothey, Ted EvansISBN 1854354671 (1-85435-467-1)
Hardcover, Marshall Cavendish Corp
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Timeless Reality: Symetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universesby Victor J. StengerISBN 1573928593 (1-57392-859-3)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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The Usborne Illustrated Dictionary of Science: Physics, Chemistry & Biology Factsby Corinne StockleyISBN 1580862241 (1-58086-224-1)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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The View from the Center of the Universe: An Insider's Look at Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmosby Nancy Ellen Abrams, Joel PrimackISBN 1594489149 (1-59448-914-9)
Hardcover, Riverhead Books
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The Way of All Flesh: A Celebration of Decayby Midas DekkersISBN 1860467628 (1-86046-762-8)
Hardcover, Harvill
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Where Science and Magic Meetby Serena Roney-DougalISBN 1843331306 (1-84333-130-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Scienceby Ervin LaszloISBN 1862043620 (1-86204-362-0)
Softcover, Element Books Ltd
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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions, More Questions and Answers from the Popular 'last Word' Columnby Mick O'HareISBN 1861978766 (1-86197-876-6)
Softcover, Gardners Books
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