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365 Simple Science Experiments With Everyday Materialsby Muriel Mandell, E. Richard Churchill, Louis V. Loeschnig, Frances W. ZweifelISBN 1884822673 (1-884822-67-3)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
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The Advancement of Learningby Francis BaconISBN 1404382259 (1-4043-8225-9)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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The Advancement of Learning: With a Brief Memoir of the Authorby Francis BaconISBN 156459436X (1-56459-436-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientistby Paul A. SchilppISBN 1567314325 (1-56731-432-5)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Arrowsmithby Sinclair LewisISBN 1417934549 (1-4179-3454-9)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Astronomyby Kristen LippincottISBN 1564586804 (1-56458-680-4)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Atlas of the Prehistoric Worldby Douglas PalmerISBN 1563318296 (1-56331-829-6)
Hardcover, Random House, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atlas of the Prehistoric World'Book summary:The earth is not the spring chicken it was 4.6 billion years ago. With the passing of the millennia, earth's face, weathered by heat and ice and subject to tectonic friction, has erupted, wrinkled, and sagged, as do all our faces ultimately, only more so. Continents have shifted, merged, and split apart. Seas have turned to land and land has been submerged by seas. And microorganisms have evolved into the vast diversity of flora and fauna that exists today. Douglas Palmer's Atlas is a digest of what is known so far about the history of the earth, enhanced with brilliant maps, photographs, and illustrations, and explained in lucid, enjoyable prose.
The Atlas starts off with "The Changing Globe," 36 beautiful pages of maps that chart the changing face of the earth from Vendian Times some 620 million years ago, when land was massed in two continents called Northern and Southern Gondwana. Flipping through the vivid pages, one sees how Siberia, during Early Cambrian Times, began to move north from its South Pole location, how in Odovician Times (460 million years ago) the Iapetus Ocean was beginning to close while the Rheic Ocean was starting to open, and how a volcano in what's now Virginia spewed volcanic ash as far away as what's now Minnesota, while in Carboniferous Times (a mere 354 million years ago), there were swampy forests in Nova Scotia that are the coal fields of today.
"Ancient Worlds," the next section of the atlas, charts life, from the aquatic microbes formed 3.5 billion years ago and the multicelled organisms of the Vendian Period, the early-Cambrian brachiopods and the Silurian spiny trilobites, on through to the Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs, the Tertiary mammals, and the entrance of hominids just 5 million years ago. The extinction of the dinosaurs is explained, the Ice Age is described, and, in the "Earth Fact File," 200 years of scientific discovery are chronicled.
Douglas Palmer, a professor of natural and earth sciences at Cambridge University, also writes science articles for Science and New Scientist, and is the author of many books on paleontology. His Atlas is an excellent layperson's reference for families and students, rendering a vast amount of history and science in a highly accessible, entertaining format. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Backyard Ballistics: Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devicesby William GurstelleISBN 1556523750 (1-55652-375-0)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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Batsby Celia BlandISBN 1561565997 (1-56156-599-7)
Hardcover, Kidsbooks
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The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preservedby P.V. Glob, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. BarberISBN 1590170903 (1-59017-090-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological history--a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years--is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.
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The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovoby Clea KoffISBN 1400060648 (1-4000-6064-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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In order to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity, the UN needs to know the answer to one question: Are the bodies those of noncombatants? To answer this, one must learn who the victims were, and how they were killed. Only one group of specialists in the world can make both those determinations: forensic anthropologists, trained to identify otherwise unidentifiable human remains by analyzing their skeletons. Forensic anthropologists unlock the stories of peoples lives, as well as of their last moments.
Koffs unflinching account of her years with the UNwhat she saw, how it affected her, who was prosecuted based on evidence she found, what she learned about the worldis alternately gripping, frightening, and miraculously hopeful. Readers join Koff as she comes face-to-face with the realities of genocide: nearly five hundred bodies exhumed from a single grave in Kibuye, Rwanda; the wire-bound wrists of Srebrenica massacre victims uncovered in Bosnia; the disinterment of the body of a young man in southwestern Kosovo as his grandfather looks on in silence.
Yet even as she recounts the hellish working conditions, the tangled bureaucracy of the UN, and the heartbreak of survivors, Koff imbues her story with purpose, humanity, and an unfailing sense of justice. This is a book only Clea Koff could have written, charting her journey from wide-eyed innocent to soul-weary veteran across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century. A tale of science in the service of human rights, The Bone Woman is, even more profoundly, a story of hope and enduring moral principles. [via]More editions of The Bone Woman : A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo:
Burp! : The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read about Eatingby Diane Swanson, Rose CowlesISBN 1550745999 (1-55074-599-9)
Hardcover, Kids Can Press, Limited
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Burp! the Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Eating: The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Eatingby Diane Swanson, Rose CowlesISBN 1550746014 (1-55074-601-4)
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Chemistryby Ann NewmarkISBN 1564582310 (1-56458-231-0)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reasonby Charles FreemanISBN 1400033802 (1-4000-3380-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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When the Emperor Contstantine converted to Christianity in 368 AD, he changed the course of European history in ways that continue to have repercussions to the present day. Adopting those aspects of the religion that suited his purposes, he turned Rome on a course from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilization of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority, whether that of the Bible, or the writings of Ptolemy in astronomy and of Galen and Hippocrates in medicine. Only a thousand years later, with the advent of the Renaissance and the emergence of modern science, did Europe begin to free itself from the effects of Constantine's decision, yet the effects of his establishment of Christianity as a state religion remain with us, in many respects, today. Brilliantly wide-ranging and ambitious, this is a major work of history. [via]More editions of The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason:
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Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method: More Than 100 Hands-On Science Experiments for Childrenby Sally Stenhouse KneidelISBN 1555911188 (1-55591-118-8)
Softcover, Fulcrum Pub
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Dance of Molecules: How Nantechnology Is Changing Our Livesby Ted SargentISBN 1560258950 (1-56025-895-0)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skillsby J. M. Fenton, Cynthia Gibas, Per JambeckISBN 1565926641 (1-56592-664-1)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Discourse on Method And Meditations on First Philosophyby Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson HaldaneISBN 1420926721 (1-4209-2672-1)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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Exploring PsychologyISBN 1572594160 (1-57259-416-0)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Exploring Psychologyby David G. MyersISBN 142880112X (1-4288-0112-X)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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Eyewitness Natural Worldby Steve ParkerISBN 1564587193 (1-56458-719-3)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mysteryby D. T. MaxISBN 1400062454 (1-4000-6245-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Force & Motionby Peter LaffertyISBN 1879431858 (1-879431-85-8)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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From Science to God: A Physicist's Journey into the Mystery of Consciousnessby Peter RussellISBN 1577314948 (1-57731-494-8)
Softcover, New World Library
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Gonzo Gizmos: Projects & Devices to Channel Your Inner Geekby Simon FieldISBN 1556525206 (1-55652-520-6)
Softcover, Chicago Review Pr
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The Handy Dinosaur Answer Bookby Thomas E. Svarney, Patricia Barnes-SvarneyISBN 1578590728 (1-57859-072-8)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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History of the Conflict Between Religion And Scienceby John William DraperISBN 1596057106 (1-59605-710-6)
Softcover, Cosimo Inc
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How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Ageby Theodore Schick, Lewis VaughnISBN 1559342544 (1-55934-254-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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How To Write And Publish A Scientific Paperby Robert A. DayISBN 1573561657 (1-57356-165-7)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How To Write And Publish A Scientific Paper'Book summary:This witty and practical guide to organizing, writing, and submitting scientific research for publication in a scholarly scientific journal is designed to help good scientists become good writers. Each edition of this popular work has quickly become an Oryx bestseller, and the new fifth edition has been extensively revised to reflect the significant impact of the Internet and other electronic resources on the writing and publishing of scientific papers.This new edition presents seven new chapters that cover the topics of equipment and software; electronic publishing formats; the Internet and the World Wide Web; publishing on the World Wide Web; electronic journals; e-mail and newsgroups; and searching for information on the Web. Many chapters from the previous edition have also been revised and updated. [via]
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Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethicsby Leon R. KassISBN 1586481762 (1-58648-176-2)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics'Book summary:Few avenues of scientific inquiry raise more thorny ethical questions than the cloning of human beings, a radical way to control our DNA. In August 2001, in conjunction with his decision to permit limited federal funding for stem-cell research, President George W. Bush created the President's Council on Bioethics to address the ethical ramifications of biomedical innovation. Over the past year the Council, whose members comprise an all-star team of leading scientists, doctors, ethicists, lawyers, humanists, and theologians, has discussed and debated the pros and cons of cloning, whether to produce children or to aid in scientific research. This book is its insightful and thought-provoking report.[via]The questions the Council members confronted do not have easy answers, and they did not seek to hide their differences behind an artificial consensus. Rather, the Council decided to allow each side to make its own best case, so that the American people can think about and debate these questions, which go to the heart of what it means to be a human being. Just as the dawn of the atomic age created ethical dilemmas for the United States, cloning presents us with similar quandaries that we are sure to wrestle with for decades to come.
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The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Ageby Edmund Blair BollesISBN 1582431019 (1-58243-101-9)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age'Book summary:It's accepted scientific fact that global climate cooling has taken place in the past. But just over 150 years ago, it was still being argued that there had been a major Ice Age with glaciers and ice sheets extending over much of Northern Europe and Canada.
The Ice Finders is the story of some of the discoveries and arguments behind the great Ice Age debate. The story is told by American popular science writer Edmund Blair Bolles who also wrote Galileo's Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing. He interweaves the separate lives of three main characters--an American naval surgeon turned Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, an English barrister turned geologist Sir Charles Lyell and a Swiss medic turned geologist Louis Agassiz. The connecting cloth is the gathering evidence for the existence of a great Ice Age which swept out of the Alps and Scandinavia and fundamentally altered the landscape of northern Europe.
Kane's two-year-long (1853-5) Greenland expedition was in search of Sir John Franklin and to check on the possibility of an open Arctic Ocean. Bolles uses the narrative of Kane's expedition to break up the more complicated technical arguments between Lyell, Agassiz and many other scientists about the nature of glacial phenomena such as erratics, parallel roads and scratched rock surfaces. Eventually the strands are pulled together when Kane returns to civilisation and publishes an account of travels and observations.
The result is an interesting read and good introduction for the general reader to many of the main characters of 19th-century earth science and their disputations. It also contains notes, a bibliography and index to assist the reader. Historians of science will doubtless argue that too much is factionalised in the interest of popularisation. --Douglas Palmer [via]
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Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworldby Sharon WeinbergerISBN 1560258497 (1-56025-849-7)
Hardcover, Nation Books
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In Code: A Mathematical Journeyby Sarah Flannery, David FlanneryISBN 1565123778 (1-56512-377-8)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Code: A Mathematical Journey'Book summary:In January 1999, Sarah Flannery, a sports-loving teenager from Blarney in County Cork, Ireland, was awarded Ireland's Young Scientist of the Year for her extraordinary research and discoveries in Internet cryptography. The following day, her story began appearing in Irish papers and soon after was splashed across the front page of the London Times, complete with a photo of Sarah and a caption calling her "brilliant." Just sixteen, she was a mathematician with an international reputation.
IN CODE is a heartwarming story that will have readers cheering Sarah on. Originally published in England and cowritten with her mathematician father, David Flannery, IN CODE is "a wonderfully moving story about the thrill of the mathematical chase" (Nature) and "a paean to intellectual adventure" (Times Educational Supplement). A memoir in mathematics, it is all about how a girl next door, nurtured by her family, moved from the simple math puzzles that were the staple of dinnertime conversation to prime numbers, the Sieve of Eratosthenes, Fermat's Little Theorem, googols-and finally into her breathtaking algorithm. Parallel with each step is a modest girl's own self-discovery-her values, her burning curiosity, the joy of persistence, and, above all, her love for her family. [via]
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Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthologyby Alfred Russel WallaceISBN 1859844782 (1-85984-478-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that, at age thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbled independently upon on the theory of natural selection. Andrew Berry's anthology rescue's Wallace's legacy, showing Wallace to be far more than just the co-discoverer of natural selection. Wallace was a brilliant and wide-ranging scientist, a passionate social reformer and a gifted writer. The eloquence that has made his The Malay Archipelago a classic of travel writing is a prominent feature too of his extraordinarily forward-thinking writing on socialism, imperialism and pacifism. Wallace's opinions on women's suffrage, on land reform, on the roles of the church and aristocracy in a parliamentary democracy, on publicly funded education to name a few of the issues he addressed remain as fresh and as topical today as they were when they were written. [via]More editions of Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology:
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Infinite Tropics : An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthologyby Andrew Berry, Stephen Jay Gould, Alfred R. WallaceISBN 1859846521 (1-85984-652-1)
Hardcover, Verso Books
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Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacyby Desmond MorrisISBN 1568361637 (1-56836-163-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Introducing Evolutionby Dylan Evans, Howard Selina, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840462655 (1-84046-265-5)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Introducing Relativityby Ralph Edney, Bruce Bassett, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840463724 (1-84046-372-4)
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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It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Scienceby Graham FarmeloISBN 1862075557 (1-86207-555-7)
Softcover, Granta Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science'Book summary:Through a study of celebrated examples, the collection of essays in It Must Be Beautiful sets out to reveal the true nature of an equation. What is an equation, after all? Why does it look the way it looks? Those lacking a scientific education can have only the vaguest idea. For a start, an equation is not one fixed thing. The same scribbles can be reinterpreted over time. (Frank Wilczek's chapter on the Dirac Equation offers fascinating insights into this process.) An equation's value can be contested, at one moment a mere "convenience", at the next, a profound expression of things. (Arthur I Miller, writing on Schrodinger's wave equation, beautifully captures the knives-drawn business of scientific interpretation.) An equation can even be a kind of political agenda. Take the Drake Equation--more properly, a formula, describing the likelihood of extra-terrestrial civilisations. Oliver Morton's acute account identifies in this equation "the classic technocratic lapse of mistaking the ability to state a question in the language of science with the ability to solve it using the practices of science". This problem haunts (as it should) the whole collection. As Farmelo writes in his introduction (paraphrasing Feynman) "... it may eventually turn out that fundamental laws of nature do not need to be stated mathematically and that they are better expressed in other ways".
Some essays here never really get to grips with the hieroglyphics, choosing instead to trace the evolution of their subject's thoughts. Others go to the other extreme. Roger Penrose's essay on General Relativity delivers the mathematical punches other science books normally pull. But by one route or another, according to your preference, you will come away from this book with a more-than-trivial insight into the power and beauty of equations. Indeed, the notion that the world could be "better expressed in other ways" is likely to be furthest from your mind. --Simon Ings [via]
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The Kingfisher Science Encyclopediaby Catherine HeadlamISBN 1856978427 (1-85697-842-7)
Hardcover, Larousse Kingfisher Chambers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia'Book summary:This one-volume encyclopedia with nearly 1000 entries offers detailed information about science. It contains practical advice for school projects and experiments, encouraging the natural creativity and curiosity of youngsters. Illustrated with full-color photos, drawings, charts, and graphs. [via]
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Let Them Eat Flax!: 70 All-new Commentaries on the Science of Everyday Food & Lifeby Joe SchwarczISBN 1550226983 (1-55022-698-3)
Softcover, E C W Pr
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Life on a Little-Known Planetby Howard Ensign EvansISBN 1558212493 (1-55821-249-3)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Looking at Earthby Priscilla L. StrainISBN 1570363730 (1-57036-373-0)
Softcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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Looking at Earth: The National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Instituteby Priscilla L. Strain, Frederick EngleISBN 1878685163 (1-878685-16-3)
Hardcover, Gage Learning Corporation
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Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, Dna, and the Mormon Churchby Simon G. SouthertonISBN 1560851813 (1-56085-181-3)
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Enter DNA. With the advent of molecular genealogy, scientists now have a tool to test hypotheses about Indian origins, previously based on skull shapes, blood types, linguistics, and cultural studies. By means of DNA genealogy, Native Americans have been traced to an area surrounding Lake Baikal in Siberia before their migration to the New World over 14,000 years ago. The evidence is definitive and unequivocal.
What do Latter-day Saint scientists have to say about this? Is it possible that a few, not all, Native Americans could be of Israelite origin? Could Polynesians represent an admixture of Southeast Asian and Israelite heritage? Professors at Brigham Young University are proposing a radical new reinterpretation of the Book of Mormon to accommodate this new field of science.
Explaining the scientific and theological issues in this debate is Dr. Simon Southerton, a molecular geneticist from Australia. He particularly responds to the issues raised by the BYU professors such as the implications of the mysterious lineage X, absent in Mesoamerica, and supposed anomalies in the genetic picture such as Kennewick Man and even the genetic history of the lowly sweet potato. Having been raised Mormon, Southerton knows the theological side of the issue as intimately as he knows the science. [via]
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Modern Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, and the Structure of Matter Vol. 3by Paul A. TiplerISBN 157259490X (1-57259-490-X)
Softcover, Worth Publishers, Incorporated
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The Moon Book: Fascinating Facts About the Magnificent, Mysterious Moonby Kim LongISBN 1555662307 (1-55566-230-7)
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Moon Book: The Meaning of Methodical Movements of the Magnificent Mysterious Moon and Other Interesting Facts About Earth's Nearest Neighborby Kim LongISBN 1555660282 (1-55566-028-2)
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Mythbusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Timeby Kent Zimmerman, Peter Rees, Adam Savage, Jamie HynemanISBN 141690929X (1-4169-0929-X)
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Could you kill someone by dropping a penny from a skyscraper? Can an unsuspecting scuba diver be sucked out of the water by a firefighting helicopter and get spit out in the middle of a forest fire? Can you save yourself in a plummeting elevator by jumping just before it hits bottom?
Special effects experts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of the Discovery Channel's top-rated "MythBusters, " use modern-day extreme science to show you what's real and what's fiction. With photographs, illustrations, blueprints, and exclusive interviews to document the mythbusting process, "MythBusters: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time" will examine dozens of urban legends, from exploding toilets to being buried alive -- these guys have tested them all. Eye-opening, jaw-dropping, and even laugh-inducing, this book will delight armchair scientists, curious readers, and fans of the show alike. Keith and Kent Zimmerman are the "New York Times" bestselling coauthors of Hell's Angel and The Best Damn Sports Book, Period, among others. [via]
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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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Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankindby Yves Coppens, Dominique Simonnet, Joel De Rosnay, Hubert ReevesISBN 1559704586 (1-55970-458-6)
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Out of the Everywhereby Isaac AsimovISBN 1558176012 (1-55817-601-2)
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Pandora's Breeches: Women, Science And Power In The Enlightenmentby Patricia FaraISBN 1844130827 (1-84413-082-7)
Softcover, Century
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Physicsby AristotleISBN 1419141465 (1-4191-4146-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Physics for Scientists and Engineersby Paul A. TiplerISBN 1572596732 (1-57259-673-2)
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Designby Jonathan WellsISBN 1596980133 (1-59698-013-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 62 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Lifeby Joe SchwarczISBN 1550223844 (1-55022-384-4)
Softcover, Independent Pub Group
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Rocks & Mineralsby Sue FullerISBN 1564586634 (1-56458-663-4)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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Rocks and Mineralsby Steve ParkerISBN 1564583945 (1-56458-394-5)
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Rocks, Gems, & Minerals: A Guide to Familiar Minerals, Gems, Ores, and Rocksby Paul R. Shaffer, Herbert Spencer Zim, Raymond PerlmanISBN 1582381321 (1-58238-132-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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- Origins and geologic significance
- Gems and semiprecious stones
- How to find and collect specimens
Illustrated in full color throughout, Rocks, Gems and Minerals is a gem of a guide for rockhounds and mineral collectors! [via]
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The Sandwalk Adventuresby Jay HoslerISBN 0967725518 (0-9677255-1-8)
Softcover, Active Synapse
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Science Fiction, Science Factby Isaac AsimovISBN 1555323235 (1-55532-323-5)
Hardcover, G. Stevens
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The Science Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxyby Michael HanlonISBN 1403997268 (1-4039-9726-8)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Scientific Style And Format: The Cse Manual for Authors, Editors, And Publishersby Council of Science EditorsISBN 097796650X (0-9779665-0-X)
Hardcover, Council of Science Editors
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Seashells of North Americaby Robert Tucker Abbott, Herbert Spencer Zim, George F. SandstromISBN 1582381259 (1-58238-125-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Seashells of North Americaby Theodore Rowland-Entwistle, Robert Tucker AbbottISBN 1850282641 (1-85028-264-1)
Hardcover, Advantage Pub Group
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Sparknotes Duneby Frank HerbertISBN 1586635107 (1-58663-510-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Starship Troopersby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 1568492871 (1-56849-287-1)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Study Guide to Accompany Exploring Psychologyby MyersISBN 1572590696 (1-57259-069-6)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Super Stormsby Seymour SimonISBN 1587171384 (1-58717-138-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spiritualityby Ken WilberISBN 1570628556 (1-57062-855-6)
Softcover, Shambhala Pubns
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Time Machines : Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fictionby Paul J. NahinISBN 156396371X (1-56396-371-X)
Softcover, Springer
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 1417642149 (1-4176-4214-9)
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A Today Show Book Club SelectionThis is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian. They met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true: Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder. Periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, disappearing spontaneously for experiences alternately harrowing and amusing.
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Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computerby Jon AgarISBN 1840462507 (1-84046-250-7)
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The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything: What We Know and How We Know Itby Richard MorrisISBN 1568581408 (1-56858-140-8)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceansby Ben DenneISBN 1580863809 (1-58086-380-9)
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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 Visual Dictionary of the Human BodyISBN 1879431181 (1-879431-18-1)
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 1568959508 (1-56895-950-8)
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Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
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The World of Mathematicsby James Roy NewmanISBN 1556151489 (1-55615-148-9)
Softcover, Microsoft Pr
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The World of Mathematics: A Small Library of the Literature of Mathematics from Ah-Mose the Scribe to Albert Einsteinby James Roy NewmanISBN 1556151497 (1-55615-149-7)
Hardcover, Tempus
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The World Record Paper Airplane Bookby Jeff Lammers, Ken BlackburnISBN 1563056313 (1-56305-631-3)
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Oceansby Lucy BakerISBN 1587285703 (1-58728-570-3)
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